*** Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial
submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around
50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS.
The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track is intended to present and provoke visionary ideas, long-
term challenges, new research opportunities, and debate. It serves as an incubator for
innovative, risky, and provocative research directions, and aims to provide a forum for
publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented
standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research
visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new directions relevant for Agents and
advancing Multi-Agent Systems research through interdisciplinary viewpoints.
We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its community
within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite submissions that focus on
novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may
contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other
AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for
agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve
in the coming years a leading position within AI and computing research.
Evaluation Criteria
Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria:
Relevance and Advancement (level of future-thinking)
• Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS research
communities?
• Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into the future?
Novelty and Vision (level of “Blue Sky”-ness)
• How much the ideas are visionary (vs. next step w.r.t. state of the art), novel, or out of
the box.
Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness)
• Are the ideas motivated and grounded in a solid understanding of the existing state-of-
the-art and older foundational research/theory?
• Do the ideas consider relatively new research ideas (e.g. published in the last 3 years)?
Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability)
• How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the research agenda in the
Agents and MAS communities?
• How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended beneficiaries of the ideas
presented, including practical considerations?
Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution)
• Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way?
• How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the exploration of these ideas?
Submission
Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS 2026 format, with any
additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are
the same as for the AAMAS 2026 main track. Accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference.
The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions
must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted
paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with
the intention of presenting the paper at the conference. See the Call for Papers (Main
Technical Track) and Submission Instructions for details (information on the conference
website).
Important Dates
• Abstract Submission: December 3, 2025
• Paper Submission: December 8, 2025
• Rebuttal Period: January 10-15, 2026
• Author Notification: January 31, 2026
• Camera-Ready Submission: February 19, 2026
• Author Registration: March 31, 2026
All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).
Contact
AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs
• Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
ann.nowe(a)ai.vub.ac.be
• Michael Winikoff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
michael.winikoff(a)vuw.ac.nz
Organizing Committee
AAMAS 2026 General Chairs
• Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
• John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs
• Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America
• Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)
• Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission to CASLL 2026 (1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to School Learner Language) has been extended until **15 December 2025.
We invite proposals on topics related to school corpora of language learners. Other topics are also welcome as long as they relate to corpora in language education.
The conference will be held at Universitat de València, Spain from 14 to 15 May 2026. Please visit our website for further information:
https://esdeveniments.uv.es/137403/detail/1st-international-conference-on-c…
**Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15th December, 2025 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: 15th December to 10th January, 2026
Early bird registration closes: 15th January, 2026
Conference dates: 14th and 15th May, 2026
Please send your abstract through the conference website.
**Plenary speakers:
• Prof. Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catolique de Louvain)
• Prof. Hildegunn Dirdal (University of Oslo)
Please feel free to circulate this information to other colleagues in your network.
Best wishes,
The organising committee
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The Machine Translation Unit <http://mt.fbk.eu> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
(FBK) <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy, is hiring three researchers
to work on multilingual and multimodal LLMs and Responsible and Trustworthy
NLP. For full announcements and to apply, see:
- Researcher in Multimodal Large Language Models
<https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Multimodal_La…>
- Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP
<https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Responsible_a…>
- Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal Large Language Models
<https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Junior_Research_Engineer_in…>
*Application Details:*
- Deadline: December 10, 2025 (positions remain open until filled)
- PhD not required at the time of application
- Expected start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
*About the MT Unit:*
The MT Unit is a competitive research team of ~12 researchers and students
with a long tradition in machine translation, speech translation, and
inclusivity research. The group is involved in several international
projects and offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible
workweek, full reimbursement for conferences, and a competitive salary.
The unit is located in Trento, Italy, in the beautiful Alps.
We encourage talented researchers and engineers interested in multimodal
LLMs or responsible NLP to apply.
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
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Von: Agnieszka Faleńska <agnieszka.falenska(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2025 10:29
An: Roth, Michael (UTN)
Betreff: Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
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Dear colleagues,
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the interdisciplinary project "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" (APHIC) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] and Prof. Judith Tonhauser [2] under the IRIS-HISIT initiative.
Project
APHIC is part of the "Human-Intelligent Systems Interaction and Teaming" (IRIS-HISIT) programme [3] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg [4]. The project investigates authority presuppositions—implicit assumptions that an AI system has the expertise to deliver high-stakes advice (e.g., medical or legal). The project aims to (1) develop a theoretically grounded taxonomy of authority presuppositions, and (2) design and evaluate conversational repair strategies that maintain trust and informativeness while ensuring user safety.
Position
• Duration: 18 months
• Start: February 2026 (latest starting date: July 2026)
• Salary: TV-L 13 (100%), see [5] for details
• Environment: The researcher will be embedded in the IRIS community [6] and collaborate closely with colleagues at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [7] and the Institute of Linguistics [8].
Candidate Profile
• PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field
• Background in formal pragmatics is an advantage
• Strong programming skills
• Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research
• Proficiency in English (German not required)
How to Apply
Please submit one PDF containing:
• a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests,
• your CV with publication list
• contact information for one to two references.
Applications should be sent to: Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>). Applications received before 15th December 2025 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after 15th of December.
The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field and is therefore particularly interested in applications from women. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability.
University of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally.
The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours).
Links
[1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska>
[2] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/>
[3] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interaction-an…<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interac…>
[4] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite<http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite>
[5] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025<http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025>
[6] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>
[7] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>
[8] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/>
Special Issue on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the
analysis of online social behavior.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J
Natural language processing has seen tremendous progress in recent years
and many technologies can be applied and adopted to social media
discourse. This Special Issue will collect contributions from diverse
domains that leverage NLP technologies for relevant questions regarding
human behavior.
Potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue include
the following:
1. How can NLP be used to analyze social media posts and comments
related to social issues like climate change? What insights can be
gained into public opinion and sentiment on these topics?
2. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to everyday
life, such as conversations about food, travel, or hobbies? What can
be learned about human behavior and preferences through this type of
analysis?
3. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to
political attitudes and behaviors? What insights can be gained into
how people engage with politics online?
4. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to
discourse behavior, such as online debates, discussions, and
arguments? What can be learned about how people engage with each
other online and how this relates to offline interactions?
5. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to negative
impacts, such as hate speech, cyberbullying, online harassment, or
the spread of misinformation? What insights can be gained into the
causes and consequences of these phenomena?
These are just a few examples of the many potential topics that could be
explored in this Special Issue. I am sure there are many more exciting
areas of research that could be explored through the application of NLP
technologies to social media discourse.
What are some of the specific research questions or topics that you'd
like to see explored in this Special Issue?
Some discounts for the APC are available
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl
/Guest Editor/
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J
*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
=== CALL FOR PAPERS & SHARED TASKS ===
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The 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA ’26) held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '26), April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026
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Dear colleagues,
You are invited to submit your contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026), following SCOLIA 2025 and the successful BIR workshop series (https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/), to be held as part of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) in Delft, The Netherlands.
https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026
The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Delft (NL).
=== Important Dates ===
All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone
- Submissions: 19th January 2026
- Notifications: 1st March 2026
- Camera Ready Contributions: 15th March 2026
- Workshop: 2nd April 2026
=== tl;dr ===
The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop.
=== Keywords ===
Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing
=== Workshop Topics ===
SCOLIA 2026 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics:
* Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g.,
* Chatting with papers via chatbots
* Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR
* Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review
* Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission
* Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature
* Recommendation of citations based on the context
* Discourse modelling and argument mining
* Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation
* Agent-based scholarly search and recommendation
* Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs.
* Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g.,
* Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM
* Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references
* Simulated users.
* User Models and Collections, e.g.,
* Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search
* Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction
* Building test collections.
* Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g.,
* Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers
* Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour
* Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers, scientific fact checking and claim verification
* Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper
* Flagging predatory conferences and journals.
We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome.
=== Submission Details ===
All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair.
In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2026 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2027 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program.
* CEURART: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip,
Overleaf template of CEURART: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…
* Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2026
Page limits:
* Full paper: 12 pages excluding references
* Short paper: 6 pages excluding references
* Shared task proposal: 4 pages excluding references
Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation).
=== Workshop Chairs ===
Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria
Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany
Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France
For any enquiries please email scolia2026(a)easychair.org.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA
Professor and Head of School of Applied Data Science
Modul University Vienna, Austria
Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Chair, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, UK
Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org
Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social
The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 19 December 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
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Topic: Philosophies of Language and Corpus Linguistics
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Speaker: Alan Partington (SiBol Group / CoLiTec)
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Title: Language Distrusted, Language Ignored, Language Recovered: From Plato to Corpus Linguistics and Beyond
The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next
Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 17 December.
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set:
https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day.
If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics.
Kelly Elizabeth Wright
NARNiHS Convenor
on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale
NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM
development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space
for discussion by the following invited speakers:
- Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl
- Max Idahl, ellamind
- Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs
- other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school
web page for updates)
The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic
Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project
OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/).
It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening
interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and
advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using
high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This
2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP
researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium
(https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en)
and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U
university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/).
The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway.
For additional information, please see:
https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training
There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers
will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the
conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities
just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own
travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights
in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities).
We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter
school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the
above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a
first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance.
In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school.
Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28,
another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for
registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025.
Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026!
Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team)
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Andrey
Language Technology Group (LTG)
University of Oslo