November 2025 - Corpora

Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026</h2> <h4><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 </h4> <h5 class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025</h5> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Conference site: <a href="https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz">https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz</a> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Key dates: Submission deadline: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 January 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> Notification of acceptance: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Prague <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">on <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16–19 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference, titled <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Call description </h2> We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Language for Academic and Specific Purposes</li> <li>Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing</li> <li>Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies</li> <li>Corpora as Pedagogical Resources</li> <li>Multimodal Learner Corpora</li> <li>Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis</li> <li>Corpus-Based Translation Studies</li> <li>English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)</li> <li>English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)</li> <li>Data Mining and Exploratory Methods</li> <li>Statistical and Quantitative Approaches</li> <li>Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics</li> <li>NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research</li> <li>Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures</li> </ul> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Presentation formats</h3> We invite submissions for the following formats: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)</li> <li>Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)</li> <li>Corpus/Software demonstration</li> <li>Poster presentation</li> <li>Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) </li> </ul> The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Abstract submission</h2> We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research</li> <li>A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used</li> <li>A summary of the main results and their interpretation </li> </ul> Submissions must be made via <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confe…">OpenReview</a> (registration necessary). The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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Universal Dependencies, release 2.17
by Dan Zeman 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are very happy to announce the twenty-third release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.17, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *339* treebanks in v2.17 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *186* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish, Chinese, Chintang, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, Khunsari, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Nayini, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, Soi, South Levantine Arabic, Southern Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish English, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik and Zaar. The 186 languages belong to *35* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Na-Dene, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in May 2026. The size of the following 44 treebanks changed significantly since the last release (note that UD_Occitan-CorAG has been recategorized under another language code as UD_Old_Occitan-CorAG; also, the Kurmanji language has been renamed to Northern Kurdish, and UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji is just a new name for UD_Kurmanji-MG): Alemannic DIVITAL : 0 → 19743 Ancient Hebrew PTNK : 90770 → 145866 Armenian ArmTDP : 52585 → 104293 Armenian BSUT : 41805 → 46168 Central Kurdish Mukri : 0 → 765 Chintang CTNTB : 0 → 14631 Egyptian UJaen : 21927 → 24375 English CHILDES : 226470 → 302740 English LittlePrince : 0 → 6852 Esperanto Prago : 839 → 3165 French ALTS : 43832 → 68088 French PoitevinDIVITAL : 0 → 5484 Georgian GNC : 18747 → 22547 Greek Lesbian : 3333 → 5926 Greek Messinian : 0 → 899 Hausa WesternAutogramm : 0 → 13888 Ika ChibErgIS : 3706 → 5307 Italian KIParlaForest : 0 → 9348 Korean KSL : 108072 → 137122 Middle French ALTM : 0 → 7084 Middle French PROFITEROLE: 68454 → 89809 Nenets Tundra : 651 → 1272 Nheengatu CompLin : 21813 → 26033 Northern Kurdish Kurmanji: 0 → 10259 Occitan CorAG : 37585 → 0 Old East Slavic Ruthenian: 111502 → 137333 Old French ALTM : 0 → 15285 Old Occitan CorAG : 0 → 45389 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 10287 → 17125 Pashto Sikaram : 2515 → 4067 Polish MPDT : 0 → 47273 Romanian MolDoRo : 0 → 241 Shanghainese ShUD : 0 → 8584 Sicilian STB : 0 → 11204 Sindhi Isra : 15741 → 95227 Southern Kurdish Garrusi : 0 → 1685 Swedish Old : 0 → 507 Swedish SweLL : 0 → 8644 Thai TUD : 0 → 77215 Ukrainian ParlaMint : 84189 → 109166 Umbrian IKUVINA : 786 → 1162 Uzbek UzUDT : 0 → 7542 Yiddish YiTB : 0 → 27879 Zaar Autogramm : 17682 → 20758 In total, the new release contains 2313529 sentences, 37133071 surface tokens and 37877213 syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Hamid Aghaei, Željko Agić, Amir Ahmadi, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Erik Andersen, Kirk Andrews, Matthew Andrews, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Hiwa Asadpour, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Elena Badmaeva, Jana Bajorat, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Bryan Khelven da Silva Barbosa, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Shabnam Behzad, Nathanaël Beiner, Juan Belieni, Alevtina Bémová, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Marie Benzerrak, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Delphine Bernhard, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Helin Binici, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Théo Brillet, Kristina Brokaitė, Lanni Bu, Eva Buráňová, Aljoscha Burchardt, Carmen Cabeza, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Olesea Caftanatov, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Caterina Maria Cappello, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Anila Çepani, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Claudine Chamoreau, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Esther Cocco, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Netanel Dahan, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Sabrina D'Alì, Philemon Daniel, Khensa Daoudi, Bijayalaxmi Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ahmet Demir, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Ariani Di Felippo, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Louise Esher, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Ján Faryad, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Barbara Francioni, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, José María García-Miguel, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Gili Goldin, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Mathieu Goux, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Mario Guglielmetti, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Vladimir Gurevich, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Michael Hahn, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Eva Hajičová, Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Jiří Havelka, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Barbara Hoff, Petter Hohle, Nick Howell, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Jessica K. Ivani, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee, Katharine Jiang, Sylvanus Job, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Zhuoxuan Ju, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Jiří Kárník, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Veronika Kolářová, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Nelda Kote, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Emmanuelle Kowner, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Lucie Kučová, Adrian Kuqi, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Israel Landau, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Pierre Larrivée, Kusum Lata, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Wei Qi Leong, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Lori Levin, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yang Janet Liu, Zoey Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Markéta Lopatková, Lucelene Lopes, Edita Luftiu, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Punyanuch Maitreenukul, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Arianna Masciolini, Jan Mašek, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Caterina Mauri, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Hilla Merhav, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Marie Mikulová, Emilia Milano, Aleksandra Miletić, Aaron Miller, Junghyun Min, Yael Minerbi, Jiří Mírovský, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, Biswakalpita Mohapatra, AmirHossein Mojiri Foroushani, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Katerina Mouzou, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Nikolett Mus, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Minoo Nassajian, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Michal Novák, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Masanori Oya, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Petr Pajas, Thomas Palakapilly, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Jarmila Panevová, Ludovica Pannitto, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Shantipriya Parida, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Oggi Peeters, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Eva Pettersson, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Charin Polpanumas, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Clamença Poujade, Rangga Prangwedana Prangwedana, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Ella Rabinovich, Alexandre Rademaker, Mutee-u Rahman, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Norton Trevisan Roman, Mykhailo Romanenko, Natalia Romanova, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Paulette Roulon, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Rozana Rushiti, Attapol T. Rutherford, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Saraswati Sahoo, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Robert Schikowski, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Jean Sibille, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Dolores Sollberger, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Nina Speransky, Rachele Sprugnoli, Panyut Sriwirote, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Omer Strass, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Sara Stymne, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Jack Sun, Hakyung Sung, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Maria Irena Szawerna, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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D&I Subsidies + Mentorship for IJCNLP-AACL 2025: Application deadline extended to Nov 20
by Tirthankar Ghosal 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

Hello all, The application deadline for Diversity and Inclusion subsidies to attend IJCNLP-AACL 2025 is extended until November 20, 2025. https://2025.aaclnet.org/calls/subsidies/ Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar Ghosal (D&I Co-chair, IJCNLP-AACL 2025) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Phrasenet Database Toolbox
by JLDLME 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are glad to announce the release and availability of the PhraseNET Database Toolbox v3, a web app for mobile phones & tablets with an icon menu with 29 resources. PhraseNET Database Toolbox for Mobile Devices (https://www.phrasenet.com/webapp/index.html) is part of an integrated cross-platform package that works across all Windows and Android environments. However, here the focus is only on the reduced version, which has an icon menu for mobile devices and allows desktop use. The user interface contains open dialogues related to the extraction and loading of n-grams, collocations, phraseology, phrasal verbs, keywords, and storage of corpus in databases and concordancers based on web corpus and database corpus, which line up a list of words to the right and left that can vary on either side, providing an easily identifiable view of the keywords that are in the center, representing a small sample of the context in which they are found or of the complete sentence. The CHADES (Corpus Hispanoamericano del Español) is integrated into PhraseNET in such a way that it allows the extraction of phraseological units, searching by keywords. And the linear text is available online at https://chades.com.br/chades/chades.html. Without hypertextualization, the same corpus with hypertextualization is available at http://dhytex.com/dhytex.html in a non-linear way. It’s a set of compiled texts, written by native speakers of Spanish in many varieties, extracted from literature and newspapers, and based on both printed and digital sources. Sincerely, J. L. De LUCCA Universidad Politècnica de Valencia, PhD, 2011 Sao Paulo University, PhD, 2001

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Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1)
by ACL Announcements 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA - Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA, which stands for Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate, is SemEval 2026's Task 1 [1] and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The task is organized into two subtasks: * Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. * Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a free-form humorous caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026 Links: ------ [1] https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/

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PROPOR 2026: Deadline extended
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We gladly inform that *PROPOR 2026*, the17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 has extended the submission date to *7 December 2025*. Check the website for more details: https://propor2026.ufba.br/#cfp Larissa Freitas and Diana Santos, Program Chairs

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High- Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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Two Postdoctoral opportunities in Latin and Computational Linguistics at King’s College London
by Barbara McGillivray 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

(apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, We are looking for two Postdoctoral Research Associates (in Latin Linguistics and in computational linguistics) for theERC-selected project “Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics” (COALA) at King’s College London. Led by Dr Barbara McGillivray, the project is funded by UKRI under the ERC Guarantee scheme and explores Latin semantics through large-scale corpus annotation and computational analysis, combining NLP with historical linguistics. Location: Strand Campus, London Fixed-term: 3 years Closing date for applications: 2 December 2025 1. Post-doctoral research associate in Latin Linguistics The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation. Fixed-term: 3 years Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130725-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-latin… 2. Post-doctoral research associate in Computational Linguistics The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation. Fixed-term: 2 years and 11 months Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130705-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-compu… Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | <https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> @BarbaraMcGilli<https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Open Research Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/>

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Second Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by t.ranasinghe＠lancaster.ac.uk 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here - Latex - https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 Word - https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ The conference will feature a student workshop, and awards will be offered to the authors of the best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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Reminder: CIRCE Online Seminar | 24/11/2025 | Dr. Samantha Jackson | "Biased ears: Investigating and reducing accent discrimination in hiring evaluations"
by Claudia Soria 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Samantha Jackson* /University of Toronto, Canada/ */Biased ears: Investigating and reducing accent discrimination in hiring evaluations/* 📅 *November 24, 2025* 🕓 *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *As international migration continues to increase (IOM 2024), the last few years have seen a growth in nationalist politics (Bieber 2018) and anti-immigrant sentiments, despite economic reliance on immigrants in many Global North countries. Immigrants bring not only their skills and experience, but also their multifaceted identities, which are partly reflected in their accents. A listener’s language attitudes often reflect broader social attitudes (Lippi-Green 2012), influencing their valuation of their interlocutor’s words. In the workplace, such biases can influence decisions in hiring, promotion and conflict resolution, creating pressures for immigrants to assimilate linguistically. In the current climate, it is therefore important that equitable workplace practices are engrained. This talk uses Canada as a case study to explore accent discrimination against immigrants in the job interview, a key “gatekeeping encounter” (Erickson 1976). Canada’s laws promote mutual acceptance of all cultures and identities. The project involved 96 Human Resources students trained in recruitment and selection, who evaluated scripted interview responses from women born and raised in Canada, China, England, Germany, India, Jamaica, and Nigeria. Participants were unaware the responses were scripted. A mixed methods analysis of scores and comments indicates significant bias against non-Canadian accents. The standard Canadian accent was associated with greater competence, comprehensibility, desirability and aesthetic appeal. The talk concludes with an introduction to a new cross-disciplinary project aimed at mitigating the biases that were uncovered. *Bio: *Samantha Jackson is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Linguistics and the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication. Her research interests stem from the need to address societal issues such as accent discrimination, bias in large language models and under-documented language acquisition norms. Her pedagogical interests focus on student engagement and research-informed teaching. Register at the seminar registration page: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5322572e-6caf-42f4-826b-24e9a13fa9… Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. Upcoming webinars: - Julia Swan (Monday, 15 December 2025) The recording of the last CIRCE seminar by Onur Özkaynak is now available on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/en/login>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu. All the best, Claudia Soria CIRCE Project

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