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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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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - London, 25-26 November
by Udo Kruschwitz 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Search Solutions 2025 is the UK’s premier forum for presenting the latest innovations in search and information retrieval, organised by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Tutorial Day: Tuesday 25 November 2025 Conference Day: Wednesday 26 November 2025 Location: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, EC2R 7BP The conference brings together practitioners, researchers, and end-users to share insights between research and practice. This year’s programme features sessions on Evaluation, User-Centred Search, Search Effectiveness, and Professional Search, with contributions from academic and industry leaders including Sease, University of Glasgow, City St George’s, France Labs, Zuva, Trip Database, and others. The day concludes with the BCS Search Industry Awards, drinks reception, and AGM. Ticket prices (incl. VAT & fees) * BCS/ISKO members – £92 * Non-members – £110 * Students – £80 Full agenda and registration: * Conference – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025 <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025> * Tutorials – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial… <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial…> We look forward to welcoming you to another inspiring event showcasing the latest innovations in search and information retrieval.

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1st call Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) External Inbox
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

**2nd CALL FOR PAPERS** 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*EACL 2026*, https://2026.eacl.org/), *Rabat, Morocco*. Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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WSDM Cup 2026 - Call for Participation
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

WSDM Cup 2026 - MULTILINGUAL RETRIEVAL https://wsdmcup-2026.github.io *** CHALLENGE FEATURES *** Why you should care about this Cup! * Multilingual: Search with queries and documents in different languages is difficult. * For Better RAG: Incorporating information in different languages is critical for effective RAG. * Informational Queries: We prepare rich information queries instead of factoid QA questions. *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems provide an opportunity to expand the scope of available information to users, since they are able to retrieve and synthesize information from documents in languages that the user does not necessarily understand. The ability to retrieve documents only based on their relevance, regardless of language, is crucial for modern retrieval models to support better coverage of perspectives from different parts of the world. Thus, WSDM Cup 2026 features a multilingual retrieval task. The participants will develop systems that receive English queries and search a collection of about 10 million documents (https://huggingface.co/datasets/neuclir/neuclir1) in Chinese (3.1M), Persian (2.2M), and Russian (4.6M). For each query, the system must produce a ranked list of 1,000 documents selected from the entire multilingual collection, ordered by likelihood and relevance to the topic. All systems should operate automatically without human intervention. Submissions must be in the TREC run file format. Each team may submit up to 5 submissions and will be evaluated using nDCG@20. *** PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS *** There are 41 development queries that the participants can use in system development. Participants are free to use other data, such as MIRACL. However, using the TREC NeuCLIR Track data besides the development queries provided by the organizers is strongly prohibited. The participants should not use the publicly available relevance assessments on this specific collection (NeuCLIR) besides the development queries and labels provided by the Cup. Participants will be asked to provide code for their training and inference process either through a tarball submission or a publicly available repository. All participants are expected to submit a short write-up about their submissions (similar to the TREC system paper). Selected teams (including the winner of the Cup) will receive a slot at WSDM for oral presentation. Submissions will also be made to the submission Google Form. All test queries should have at least 20 retrieved documents in each submission file. The following is an example of the submission format (the TREC run format). *** IMPORTANT DATES *** * November 17, 2025: Document collection, development/test queries, and the submission portal are available. * December 1, 2025: Online Q&A session if needed * February 2, 2025: Submission due * February 22-26, 2026: WSDM Conference; winner and evaluation result announcement. An overview technical report will be released along with the final results. *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** * Dawn Lawrie (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Sean Macavaney (University of Glasgow) * James Mayfield (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Luca Soldaini (Allen Institute for AI) * Eugene Yang (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Andrew Yates (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)

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WSDM 2026 - Call for WSDM Day Presentations
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

WSDM 2026: 19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Feb 22, 2026 - Feb 26, 2026 Boise, Idaho, USA Call for WSDM Day Presentations Submission deadline: November 18, 2025 Notification: December 2, 2025 WSDM Day Date: February 26, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth. -------------------------------------------------------- Artificial intelligence has become a critical enabler of scientific discovery, amplifying and accelerating research through massive literature analysis, hypotheses generation, design and control of experiments, collection and interpretation of large datasets, and scalable verification and validation. Autonomous science is an emerging field that uses artificial intelligence, robotics, and automated systems to conduct scientific experiments and discovery, enhancing human capabilities. This year, the WSDM Day will be held on February 26th, 2026, aiming to promote WSDM-aligned topics relevant to autonomous science and discuss the “State of Data Mining & Web Search in Scientific Discovery.” The organizing committee invites submissions for oral/poster presentation on topics aligned with those set forth in the call for papers of the main conference, focusing on issues relevant to autonomous science. We welcome all submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: * Agentic models for reasoning in science * Agentic AI and LLM-based systems are increasingly being used to support hypothesis generation and reasoning over complex models. Integrating web search and data mining allows these agents to continuously draw upon open scientific resources, digital libraries, and web knowledge graphs, thereby grounding hypotheses in the latest accessible evidence. Such integration accelerates workflows in fundamental sciences as well as user facility operations wherein researchers must make data-driven decisions regarding experimental and simulation design and control. By embedding reasoning into agents with web-mined knowledge, autonomous systems can help scientists frame and test ideas quickly and efficiently. Topics in this area include: ** LLMs and agentic models for hypothesis generation and knowledge extraction that leverage large-scale web-mined corpora and open-access repositories. ** Query formulation and expansion using scientific knowledge bases and web-scale search engines. ** Multi-agent systems for problem solving in scientific workflows enriched by open data and community-contributed resources. ** Foundation models for single and multiple scientific domains, trained and evaluated on mined web and literature data. ** Privacy, trust, and interpretability in autonomous reasoning systems that rely on heterogeneous, web-sourced knowledge. -------------------------------------------------------- * Embodied intelligence for autonomous experiments * Laboratories increasingly integrate robotics and AI for high-throughput experimentation and autonomous sample handling. Embodied intelligence can enable closed-loop operation of particle accelerator beamlines, synthesis robots, and advanced microscopes, reducing human intervention and increasing reproducibility. Web search and data mining provide complementary resources by enabling embodied systems to draw on prior experimental data, shared lab protocols, and open-access knowledge to guide adaptive control. There is also strong interest in developing digital twins of experimental systems that integrate web-accessible datasets to guide exploration of large parameter spaces. Topics in this area include: ** Robotics and mechatronics for operating experiments, informed by mined online design repositories and shared experimental logs. ** Closed-loop control in complex laboratory settings that leverages streaming data and searchable metadata collections. ** Benchmarking and validation through open science datasets, test collections, and evaluation methodologies made discoverable via data mining. ** Digital twins and online data streaming for linking simulation to experiment, enriched by knowledge integration from web and community datasets. -------------------------------------------------------- * Search and planning algorithms for scientific discovery * Search and planning algorithms play a central role in scientific discovery pipelines, from designing materials with desired properties to planning experiments. When integrated with web search and data mining, such algorithms can exploit open repositories of molecular structures, experimental data, or prior results to guide decision-making. In laboratories, adaptive planning algorithms can maximize information gain from limited resources, such as beam time and sample availability, while leveraging web-accessible experiment registries. This area also includes the operational task of optimal planning and scheduling of experiments at scientific facilities, aided by searchable databases of facility usage and constraints. Topics in this area include: ** Tree search, graph algorithms, and combinatorial methods that integrate mined data from scientific publications and web repositories. ** Filtering and re-ranking results based on relevance and criticality using web-scale knowledge graphs and citation networks. ** Reinforcement learning and adaptive experimental design augmented with external data mined from past studies. ** Planning and scheduling under uncertainty in constrained environments, supported by searchable facility schedules and open metadata. -------------------------------------------------------- * Data reduction at scale * Science experiments and simulations often generate petabytes of multi-modal data. Example data sources include particle collisions, climate simulations, or high-resolution microscopy images and spectra. In-situ and edge computing strategies must be used to perform reduction and compression at the source. Web search and data mining play an essential role in discovering, indexing, and linking these massive datasets with open-access resources, enabling cross-facility comparisons and meta-analysis. These capabilities are crucial for processing data from user facilities and making large-scale simulation models usable in practice. Topics in this area include: ** In-situ and edge computing for real-time reduction of experimental data, linked to searchable web repositories for downstream use. ** Streaming analytics for large-scale experimental datasets integrated with data mining for anomaly detection and trend discovery. ** Compression, summarization, and representation learning for scientific data, with searchable embeddings accessible via open web interfaces. -------------------------------------------------------- *** Submission Guidelines *** Submissions are invited in the form of 4-page papers (with an additional one page for references) or a 2-page abstract for poster and demonstration proposals. All submissions must adhere to the formatting requirements specified in the conference’s author guidelines, available at https://wsdm-conference.org/2026/index.php/call-for-short-papers/. Submissions are now open via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026, select WSDM Day Presentations Track). Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner by at least two reviewers and must include all authors’ names and affiliations. Papers that fail to adhere to the submission guidelines or fall outside the scope of relevant topics will be rejected without review. The papers will go through a peer reviewed process, and the accepted papers would be presented as an oral or poster presentation during the WSDM Day. Accepted papers will be featured in the WSDM Day program and included in the conference proceedings with the ACM Digital Library, with a strict 2-page limit for all content. Dual-submission policy: We welcome ongoing and unpublished work. We also welcome papers that are under review at the time of submission. Presentation: The presentation format will include short oral presentations (e.g., talks ranging from 10 to 15 minutes) and poster session. At least one author of each accepted presentation must register in the conference and be able to present the work during WSDM Day 2026. We look forward to your submissions and participation in this exciting event! -------------------------------------------------------- *** Contact *** For questions or additional information, please contact the organizing committee at WSDM2026-day(a)easychair.org: Organizing Committee: * Mahantesh Halappanavar (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) * Natalie Isenberg (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) * Nathan Urban (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 1st Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Submissions
by Alba Bisante 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities. Interactive Experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers, and artists. Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields. Please notice that: The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs before submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above require online submission. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) is available on the AVI website. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive, and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Tanja Döring, TU Berlin, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Mehdi Rizvi, Heriot Watt University, UK Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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[IberLEF 2026] Call for Task Proposals
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

================================= IberLEF 2026 -- Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in León, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2026. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2026). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2026. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 23, 2026. Proceedings IberLEF 2026 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JIF: 1,22), CiteScore (Scopus): 7,3 and SJR: 0,57) in its September 2026 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 19, 2026, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2026. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2026. - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19, 2026. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026. - IberLEF Workshop: September 22, 2026. IberLEF general chairs Alba Bonet Jover, GPLSI, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com =================================

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Call for Posters – FoIKS 2026 (Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026)
by Yasir mahmood 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

** *CALL FOR POSTERS14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026https://foiks2026.github.io/ <https://foiks2026.github.io/>**.* <https://foiks2026.github.io/> *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *FoIKS 2026 invites poster contributions presenting fresh research ideas in the broad area of information and knowledge systems. Poster papers need not report mature scientific results; they can also describe early-stage work, starting points for discussions, or novel perspectives on known problems.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IMPORTANT DATES* * * Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Notification: January 19, 2026 * Final version due: January 26, 2026 * Conference: March 23–26, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: discrete structures, algorithms, graphs, formal languages * Database Design and Management: formal models, dependencies, transactions, concurrency control * Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial/temporal logics, argumentation, probability and fuzzy logic * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: logical and non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning under inconsistency, vagueness, or uncertainty * Foundations of Neuro-symbolic Reasoning: embeddings for structured information (knowledge graphs, logical theories, etc.) * Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, formal models of interaction, coalition formation, epistemic reasoning * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis, association rules, information extraction * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: privacy, trust, access control, secure services, inference control, risk management * Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Knowledge Graphs and Semi-structured Data: data modelling, processing, compression, and exchange ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Poster papers must use the Springer LNCS LaTeX style (seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings… <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).Submissions that deviate substantially from the guidelines may be rejected without review. * Review process: single-blind (submissions are not anonymous). * Length: up to 5 pages including all material, i.e. including references and no additional resources. * Submissions: PDF format only (final versions require LaTeX sources). * Submission link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026> Poster papers will undergo a rather lightweight review process. A good poster paper should include motivation, a clear problem statement, and initial results or report on work in progress. Preliminary ideas and modest extensions of previous work are welcome. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for the conference. Each accepted poster will be presented in a lightning talk and a poster session at FoIKS 2026. For inquiries, contact: foiks2026(a)easychair.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLICATION Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS * Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION Program Committee Chairs:Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Paderborn University, Germany)Jonni Virtema (University of Glasgow, UK) Local Chair:Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) Publicity Chair:Yasir Mahmood (Paderborn University, Germany) Local Organizers:Timon Barlag, Nicolas Fröhlich, Vivian Holzapfel, Rahel Kluge,Laura Strieker, Heribert Vollmer (all Leibniz Universität Hannover) Program Committee:Ringo Baumann, Meghyn Bienvenu, Thomas Bolander, Stefan Borgwardt,Elena Botoeva, Willem Conradie, Fabio Cozman, Thomas Eiter,Flavio Ferrarotti, Johannes K. Fichte, Valentin Goranko,Guido Governatori, Marc Gyssens, Miika Hannula, Jelle Hellings,Andreas Herzig, Martin Homola, Tomi Janhunen, Matti Järvisalo,Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Sébastien Konieczny, Juha Kontinen,Mena Leemhuis, Joao Leite, Sebastian Link, Maria Vanina Martinez,Arne Meier, Thomas Meyer, Daniel Neider, Magdalena Ortiz,Nina Pardal, Elena Ravve, Sebastian Rudolph, Katsuhiko Sano,Konstantin Schekotihin, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Guillermo R. Simari,Jan Van den Bussche, Stefan Woltran, Thomas Ågotnes, Mantas Šimkus *

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2nd Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Dear all, This is the second CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting): — VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA) VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks - Training data release: November 30, 2025 - Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025 - System submission deadline: January 10, 2025 - System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025 Workshop Organizers Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de

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