December 2025 - Corpora

free Corpus MOOC - running right now
by Brezina, Vaclav 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

Dear all, There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free. The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing. You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course. The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish. For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu… Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC27B2.DE8CE5B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *Registration open* *Bari, Italy*15 – 19 September 2025 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to practice your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/upcoming-lexicom/>* I hope to meet you in Bari in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* sketchengine.eu <http://www.sketchengine.eu/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine>

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CfP DHOW: Workshop Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop - @ ACMMM 2025
by Thomas Mandl 15 Mar '26

15 Mar '26

The 2st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both *online* and in person. Submission deadline: *July 11 2025 AOE* *Workshop site*: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/ *Co-located with ACMMM 2025* https://acmmm2025.org/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 October 2024 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to *July 11, 2025* Notification of acceptance: August 01, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: August 11, 2025 Workshop date: October 27/28, 2025 *Workshop Description* With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. *Submissions Topics* •Studying different types of harmful content •Computational fact-checking & Misinformation Detection •Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content •Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection •Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis •Multimodal and Multilingual Harmful Content Detection such as fake news, spam, and troll detection. •Deepfake and Synthetic Media •Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation •Both Qualitative and Quantitative study on harmful content •Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health •Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large models on harmful content •User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings *Submissions* - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call> - Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW <https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW> ***Workshop organizers* •Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany) •Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) •Gautam Kishore Shahi(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) •Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ) •Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany) DHOW 2025

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Call for papers 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning
by Musi, Elena 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

Call for Papers: ArgMining 2026 – Workshop on Argument Mining The Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining) provides a regular forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a. argumentation mining) for academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of twelve successful previous workshops, the 2026 edition welcomes submissions of long papers, short papers, extended abstracts, and PhD proposals. Workshop Theme The 2026 edition of ArgMining places a special focus on understanding and evaluating arguments in both human and machine reasoning. With this theme, we broaden the workshop’s scope to include reasoning—a long-standing area of AI research that has recently gained renewed interest within the ACL community, driven by the latest generation of large language models (LLMs). Reasoning is tightly connected to argumentation, as it represents, analyzes, and evaluates the process of reaching conclusions based on available information. Viewing argumentation as a paradigm for capturing reasoning enables the evaluation of machines (particularly LLMs) based on their ability to address argument mining tasks. Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: * Automatic extraction of textual patterns describing argument components in human and machine argumentation * Cross-lingual, cross-cultural, and multi-perspective argument mining and reasoning * Argument mining and generation from multimodal and/or multilingual data * Explainability in argument mining through reasoning * Modeling, assessing, and critically reflecting on the argumentation capabilities of LLMs * Novel benchmarks in argument mining addressing recent developments in LLM reasoning * Guidelines for assessing and documenting reasoning processes reflected in benchmarks * Annotation guidelines, linguistic analysis, and argumentation corpora * Real-world applications (e.g., social sciences, education, law, scientific writing; misinformation detection) * Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models * Combining information retrieval with argument mining (e.g., argumentative search engines) * Ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining and LLM reasoning Submissions from all application areas are welcome. Submission Types The workshop accepts the following submission types: * Long Papers (archival) * Short Papers (archival) * Extended Abstracts (non-archival) * PhD Proposals (non-archival) Accepted contributions will be presented as oral or poster presentations. Archival Submissions * Long papers: * Substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work * Up to 8 pages (excluding references) * Unlimited references * Up to 2 appendix pages * 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments * Short papers: * Original, unpublished work with a focused contribution * Not shortened versions of long papers * Up to 4 pages (excluding references) * Unlimited references * Up to 1 appendix page * 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments Non-Archival Submissions * Extended abstracts: * Up to 2 pages including references * 1 additional appendix page for tables/figures * Selection based on workshop fit and the special theme * Priority given to abstracts with doctoral students as first authors unable to present at *CL conferences due to visa restrictions * PhD proposals: * Up to 4 pages * Description of PhD project, research challenges, contributions, and future directions * Presented in a dedicated poster session for feedback and discussion Multiple Submissions Policy ArgMining 2026 will not consider papers simultaneously under review elsewhere. Submissions overlapping significantly (>25%) with active ARR submissions will not be accepted. ARR-reviewed papers are allowed if reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline. Submission Format * Two-column ACL 2026 format * LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates * PDF submissions only * Submissions via OpenReview Important Dates * Direct paper submission deadline (archival): March 5, 2026 * ARR commitment deadline (archival): March 24, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline (non-archival): April 7, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 12, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 2–3, 2026 Review Policy Long and short papers will follow ACL double-blind review policies. Submissions must be anonymized, including self-references and links. Papers violating anonymity requirements will be rejected without review. Demo descriptions are exempt from anonymization. Best Paper Award ArgMining 2026 will present a Best Paper Award to recognize significant contributions to argument mining research. All accepted papers are eligible. Contact and Information Website: https://argminingorg.github.io/2026/ Email: argmining.org [at] gmail.com Workshop Organizers Mohamed Elaraby (University of Pittsburgh) Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau) John Lawrence (University of Dundee) Elena Musi (University of Liverpool) Julia Romberg (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Federico Ruggeri (University of Bologna)

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[CFP]-DravidianLangTech-at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Call for Participation for *DravidianLangTech-2026 Workshop and Sharedtaks @ ACL-2026 *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *CFP for the Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages- * *DravidianLangTech-2026 (**Theme: Multilingual Multicultural Multimodal LLMs)* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *DravidianLangTech-2026 @ The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026* *Venue: San Diego, California, United States* *Conference Date: July 02 - 07, 2026* *Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026>* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and language technologies, internet usage has continued to surge globally, enabling many widely spoken languages to adapt successfully to the digital age. However, regional and underresourced languages still face significant challenges due to limited computational resources, annotated datasets, and specialized tools. One such group is the Dravidian language family, primarily spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with communities across Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, London, and other parts of the world. The Dravidian languages, with a history spanning more than 4,500 years and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. Despite growing research interest, gaps persist in areas such as speech recognition, multimodal processing, and generative AI applications for Dravidian languages. This is the sixth workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages, building upon the success of the previous editions. DravidianLangTech-2026 continues to serve as a collaborative forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to share insights and advance computational methods for Dravidian languages. The main objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 are as follows, The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 will be - To explore challenges and innovations in developing speech and language resources for Dravidian languages. - To design and adapt language technologies for multilingual, multimodal, and code-mixed Dravidian contexts. - To facilitate collaboration between the global Dravidian language community and international scholars across computational linguistics, AI, and digital humanities. - To address ethical, cultural, and inclusivity aspects in the creation of language technologies for under-represented communities. - To encourage the integration of Agentic AI frameworks for building interactive, explainable, and collaborative language systems in Dravidian contexts. *Call for Papers :* DravidianLangTech-2026 welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application driven contributions on any Dravidian languages (e.g., Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, etc.) that advance language processing, speech technologies, multimodality, or resource development. Submissions can address challenges in monolingual, bilingual, and code-mixed settings as well as crosslingual and low-resource transfer approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - Corpus(Data) development, annotation tools, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies - Detecting Hate Speech, Offensive Language, Misinformation, Fake News, Spam, and Rumor - Generative AI and Prompt Engineering for Dravidian languages - Agentic AI and Multi-agent Systems: workflow orchestration, reasoning agents, and collaborative agents for Dravidian language processing - Multimodal processing: Text, Speech, Image, Video, and Memes in Dravidian contexts - Speech Technology: Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion - Impaired/Normal Speech Recognition and Assistive Technologies for Dravidian speech - Accent Recognition, Verification, and Dialect Modeling - Emotion and Sentiment Recognition from Dravidian Speech and Text - Machine Translation and Cross-lingual Transfer in Dravidian languages - Language Resources for Generative and Instruction-Tuned LLMs - Document Analysis and Understanding for Dravidian texts and scripts - Object Detection and Recognition in multimodal Dravidian datasets - Ethical and Fair AI for Low-resource Language Communities - Healthcare and Mental Health Applications (e.g., depression detection, doctor-patient communication) in Dravidian speech - Educational Applications: Digital literacy, inclusive tools for rural Dravidian language communities *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Workshop Paper Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/DravidianLangT…>* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Important Dates* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026* *Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026* with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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Internship in Machine Learning and Semantic Web for Dataset Discovery
by Anaïs Ollagnier UNICA 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

English version below Bonjour, Dans le cadre du projet DataLens, nous proposons un stage de M2 en Machine Learning et Web sémantique visant à améliorer la complétion et la structuration des métadonnées de jeux de données pour faciliter la fédération de sources hétérogènes. Plus d’informations et candidature : https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, As part of the DataLens project, we are offering a Master’s internship in Machine Learning and the Semantic Web focused on improving the completion and structuring of dataset metadata to support the federation of heterogeneous sources. More information and application: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. Best regards, -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Assistant Professor at Université Côte d'Azur | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 417, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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[CFP] Sci-ImageMiner Competition 2026: Scientific Figure Understanding -- 1st call
by D'Souza, Jennifer 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

The 1st Sci-ImageMiner Competition: Information Extraction from Scientific Figures in Materials Science Focus: Quantitative plots from Atomic Layer Deposition and Etching (ALD/E) research Organized as part of the ICDAR 2026 Competition track <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/> https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/ <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> ICDAR 2026 - The 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 30 Aug - 04 Sep 2026 | Vienna, Austria Sci-ImageMiner Competition Website: <https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/> https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/ Overview Scientific figures often contain critical results that never appear explicitly in the text. Despite recent advances in multimodal large language models, most existing benchmarks rely on generic or synthetic visuals. Sci-ImageMiner addresses this gap by introducing a curated benchmark grounded in authentic scientific figures from a specialized scientific domain. Tasks The competition hosts four tasks: 1. Figure Classification - identify the chart or figure type 2. Data Table Extraction - reconstruct the underlying tabular data from quantitative plots 3. Figure Summarization - generate concise, factual summaries of key trends 4. Visual Question Answering (VQA) - answer scientific questions requiring reasoning over figure content Teams may participate in any subset of tasks (including all four). Data & Evaluation * A trial dataset is available now to familiarize participants with the data and annotations. * The full dataset will be released in stages (training, development, blind test). * All evaluations will be conducted on Codabench, with per-task leaderboards. Important Dates (selected) * Trial data release: 8 December 2025 * Evaluation start: 3 March 2026 * Evaluation end: 3 April 2026 * Paper submission deadline: 17 April 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: 4 May 2026

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EACL 2026 Call For Volunteers
by Ekaterina Kochmar 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Join us as a student volunteer at the prestigious 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026). We're seeking dedicated students, both for in-person and online roles, to contribute to the success of this event. What You Gain: Selected volunteers will receive complimentary registration to the main conference, workshops, tutorials, and social events. Shifts are designed to optimize your access to conference events. Roles and Responsibilities: Volunteer tasks encompass various aspects such as assisting at the registration desk, on-boarding briefs to delegates checking in, problem solving, providing directional support at the conference venue, organizing delegate packs, overseeing poster sessions, coordinating volunteers, and providing AV/technical support, including social media management and aiding with conference events. If you apply and are selected as a virtual volunteer your roles and responsibilities will be monitoring content on platforms such as RocketChat; Underline, MiniConf etc. As a virtual attendee you will report content issues on publications and escalate issue to the on-site technical support team. With this knowledge, please make sure you possess the skills to handle such requirements during the conference. Selection Criteria: Candidates will be assessed based on their application package (details below). Preference will be given to students presenting papers at the main conference or affiliated workshops without alternative travel support. Application Process: * Applicants must be full-time students. * Submission requires a completed application form at https://forms.gle/FQsaESw61dZGCcyX8 with a few questions and a concise one-page CV (resume). * Travel and accommodations should be arranged independently, regardless of the application outcome. Special Rate Lodging is secured by ACL Months in advance to the conference. The discounted rates can be seen and secured by going to the Conference website, Participant Info, Accommodations. Application Instructions: Please refrain from registering for the ACL Conference until you receive a confirmation of acceptance into the Volunteer Service. Upon acceptance, you'll receive a dedicated registration link. Additionally, access will be provided to a Volunteer Website with essential information, FAQs, training materials, and a scheduling system to choose volunteer days and roles. To receive a complimentary registration for the ACL Event, it's crucial to note that a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer work at the event is mandatory. These hours can be divided across several shifts on different days or completed in a single shift. Failure to meet the volunteer commitment will result in being charged the in-person conference fee. In the event of non-acceptance, the Registrar will assist in securing early registration fee rates. For late volunteer registration reimbursements, students need to provide receipts for paid registration fees to the 2026 ACL Reimbursement Link which will be provided to you by the Volunteer Chairs. Additional Financial Support: Once more, volunteering grants you complimentary registration solely for the ACL Conference. If you require further financial assistance for lodging, airfare, or daily expenses, it's advisable to apply for Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies. You have the liberty to seek both a Volunteer subsidy and a D&I subsidy simultaneously, as there are no restrictions against receiving both. To review the criteria for D&I Subsidies, please refer to the Call for D&I Post, which includes selection criteria. Important Dates: * Application Opens: December 22, 2025 * Application Deadline: January 23, 2026 * Acceptance Notifications: February 9, 2026

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SPEAKABLE Co-located with LREC2026: 2nd CFP
by Davide LIGA 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** 2nd CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026 [??]Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) [??] Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space. Workshop Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities - Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models - Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings --> SPEAKABLE will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout> Invited Speaker Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/ Further details will be posted on the workshop website. Info for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026 Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026 Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026) All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Workshop Organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) [??] Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:speakable2026@gmail.com> Best regards, Davide Liga (on behalf of the organizers)

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3rd CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 Third Call for Papers # The conference The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology 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: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speaker Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC (more names will be announced in future calls) # Submissions and publication NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Submission link – Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available on the conference website. The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. # Important dates - Submissions due: 23 March 2026 - Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 - Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee - Khetam Al Sharou, Dublin City University, Ireland - Lama Al-oqili, University of Liverpool, UK - Abdelalah Alsolami, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy - Alba Bonet Jover, University of Alicante, Spain - Pierrette Bouillon, University of Geneve, Switzerland - Vicent Briva-Iglesias, Dublin City University, Ireland - Elena Calzada, ONCALL Language Services, London and Madrid Open University, Spain - Parthena Charalampidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Helle Dam Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark - Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado, University of Galway - Michael Farrell, University Institute of Modern Languages, Italy - Maria Fernandez-Parra, Swansea University, UK - Ɫukasz Grabowski, University of Opole, Poland - Manuel Herranz , Pangeanic, Spain - Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK - Kristian Hvelplund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Miguel A Jimenez Crespo, Rutgers University, USA - Valentini Kalfadopoulou, Ionian University, Greece - Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland - Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski , Hildesheim University, Germany - Raquel Lazaro Gutierrez, Alcalá University, Spain - Todor Lazarov, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria - Defeng Li, University of Macau, Macau - Elpida Loupaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Elizabeth Marshman, Ottawa University, Canada - Khadidja Merakchi, Heriot Watt University, UK - Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland - Núria Molines Galarza, Valencia University, Spain - Johanna Monti, Naples University, Italy - Ricardo Muñoz Martín, Bologna University, Italy - Jean Nitzke, University of Adger, Norway - Laura Noriega, University of Malaga, Spain - Lucas Nunes Vieira, Bristol University, UK - David Orrego-Carmona, Warwick University, UK - John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, USA - Timea Palotai-Torzsas, Juremy - Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK - Ming Qian, Charles River Analytics, USA - Rozane Rebechi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Natália Resende, Dublin City University, Ireland - Matt Riemland, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Serge Sharoff, Leeds University, UK - Mark Shuttleworth, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Elena Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania - Shiyi Tan, University of Surrey, UK - Irina Temnikova, "Big Data for Smart Society" Institute, Bulgaria - Eleni Tziafa, University of Athens, Greece - Cecilia Yalangozian, Machine Translate, USA - Han Xu , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Sudhansu Bala Das, University of Galway, Ireland - Coco Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Shuyin Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website (https://nettt-conference.com/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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