December 2025 - Corpora

CIRCE Online Seminar | 15/12/2025 | Dr. Julia Swan | "Accent Bias Experienced by Instructors at Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education "
by Claudia Soria 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next and last 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. Julia Swan* /San José State University, USA/ */Accent Bias Experienced by Instructors at Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education /* 📅 *December 15, 2025* 🕓 *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent bias and linguistic discrimination shape outcomes in housing, the legal system, hiring, and higher education, where students’ perceptions of instructor accents strongly influence teaching evaluations and disproportionately disadvantage faculty with non-native or non-standard accents. This study examines faculty at three minority-serving Bay Area universities, comparing native English speakers, early bilinguals, and non-native speakers through survey data on belonging and linguistic bias. While non-native and early bilingual faculty reported similar levels of collegial support as native speakers, non-native speakers felt significantly more self-conscious about their accents, perceived their accents as hindering professional potential, and were less likely to see their accents as advantageous. Both non-native speakers and early bilinguals believed their accents negatively influenced evaluations from students and peers, and early bilinguals anticipated that newcomers with similar accents would struggle to adjust. These findings highlight the need for accent-bias training in faculty recruitment, evaluation, and promotion to enhance faculty diversity and reduce educational inequities. *Bio: *Julia Swan is a sociolinguist interested in topics related to language and social identity. She has made broad contributions to American dialectology and sound change in the Western U.S. Her current projects investigate the role of multilingual speakers, often immigrants and their children, as leaders of sound change in the emergence of regional dialects. In other collaborations, she has explored cognitive aspects of processing "accented" speech, the role of perception in sound change, and individuals' experiences of accent bias. Register at the seminar registration page: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/74ced700-e24e-4dcf-8dc4-aca98b51f1… Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The recording of the last CIRCE seminar by Samantha Jackson 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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CfP: 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026), 27–28 August 2026, University of Oulu, Finland
by Steven Coats 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Call for Papers 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026) Date: 27–28 August 2026 Location: University of Oulu, Finland Website: https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their unprecedented popularity, “the question of how meaning is produced in these videos is becoming increasingly important… However, systematic approaches to the analysis of these meanings are still scarce” (Grzenkowicz & Wildfeuer, 2025, p. 1143). At the same time, AI techniques are opening novel avenues for analysis of digital discourse. Social media provides “a massive repository of real-time data” that demands “advanced tools capable of understanding complex language, context, and framing”, and “LLMs offer potential in this domain, with their ability to process large amounts of text and extract meaningful insights” (Nguyen et al., 2025, p. 1331). We adhere to a broad definition of CMC and social media, encompassing a wide range of digital communication media – including email, forums, chats and messenger apps (e.g. WhatsApp, Discord), social networks (Facebook, 𝕏/Twitter, Instagram), short-video and streaming platforms (TikTok, YouTube), online gaming and virtual worlds, and other emerging channels. Submission Types Short Papers (Oral Presentations): 3–5 pages, anonymized short papers for researchers who wish to give a talk. These submissions should follow the conference template and report completed or well-advanced research. Authors of accepted short papers will be allotted a 30-minute slot (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes Q&A) to present their work. All accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Abstracts (Poster Presentations): up to 300 words (excluding references), anonymized abstracts for work-in-progress, early-stage research, software or corpus demonstrations to be presented as posters. Authors of accepted abstracts will present their work during the poster session at the conference, allowing one-on-one discussion and feedback. Review & Presentation All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least two members of the scientific committee. Each submission will be evaluated for relevance to the conference's themes, methodological soundness, and contribution to the field. Based on the reviews, submissions may be accepted for oral talk or poster presentation as appropriate. Authors of accepted short papers will give oral presentations in themed panels (each talk 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted poster abstracts will present their work during a dedicated poster and demo session, where interactive discussion is encouraged. At the start of the conference, all accepted short papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, authors of select top papers may be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue or edited volume, showcasing significant advances in CMC and social media corpus research. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on CMC and social media, including but not limited to the following topics of interest: Development of CMC Corpora / Social Media Corpora * Building and curating CMC corpora: from data collection (APIs, web scraping) to publication and sharing * Open access data for CMC research: addressing ethical challenges and GDPR compliance in data sharing * Annotating CMC data: frameworks for labeling genres, linguistic features, metadata (including novel phenomena like emojis, memes) * Multimodal and multimedia corpora: handling texts, images, audio, video (e.g. short video content) in unified corpora * Big data and streaming corpora: managing large-scale social media datasets, real-time data collection, and data sampling strategies * Legal issues in social media data: copyright, terms-of-service limitations, and long-term archiving of corpora from platforms (including new platforms like TikTok or Discord) Analysis of CMC Corpora / Social Media Communication * Sociolinguistic studies of online communication (language variation, stylistic adaptation, community norms in CMC) * Discourse analysis of digital interactions (conversation structures, politeness, argumentation in forums, comment threads, group chats, etc.) * Linguistic characteristics of CMC (slang, abbreviations, emojis, code-switching, vernaculars across different platforms) * Multimodal communication in social media (integration of text with visuals, videos, GIFs; meaning-making through memes, hashtags, and trends) * Multilingualism and code-switching in online contexts (cross-lingual communication, translation in user-generated content) * CMC in language education and digital literacy (use of social media corpora for language learning, teaching communication skills online) * Platform-specific communication practices (e.g. discourse patterns unique to TikTok, Instagram stories, or Discord communities, and how they evolve) Computational Processing (NLP) of CMC / Social Media Data * Text normalization for noisy CMC data (handling misspellings, abbreviations, emoji to text, spoken-to-written style) * Part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization for social media text (adapting NLP tools to non-standard grammar and orthography) * Anonymization and pseudonymization techniques (protecting user privacy in corpora while preserving analytical value) * Syntactic parsing and semantic analysis of informal or ungrammatical CMC text (challenges for parser models on tweets, chats, etc.) * Transformer and LLM-based approaches for CMC analysis (applying large language models to classify content, summarize discussions, or generate synthetic data for under-resourced CMC domains) * Detection of harmful content and misinformation (e.g. hate speech identification, toxicity filtering, fact-checking and misinformation detection in social media corpora using AI/NLP methods) * Multimodal NLP techniques for social media (e.g. analyzing text in conjunction with images or videos, OCR on memes, speech-to-text in voice chats) Important Dates (EEST where specified) * Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15 April 2026, 23:59 EEST * Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026 * Deadline revised paper/abstract submission: 15 July 2026, 23:59 EEST * Deadline registration for participation: 1 August 2026 * Conference: Thursday 27 – Friday 28 August 2026 Templates & Submission Guidelines * Language & Anonymity: Submissions must be written in English and formatted for anonymous review (please remove author names and any identifying information). * Length Requirements: Short paper submissions should not exceed 5 pages (excluding references) following the provided template. Poster abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). References for poster abstracts are not counted in the word limit. * Templates: To ensure a uniform appearance, authors must use the official conference templates. Templates are available for both Microsoft Word and LaTeX (stand-alone and Overleaf template) on the conference website. Please do not alter margins, font sizes, or other format settings in the templates. Submissions not adhering to the template format may be returned for revision. Word template (.docx)<https://cmc2026.org/assets/cmc-2026-word-template.docx>LaTeX template (.zip)<https://cmc2026.org/assets/CMC2026_Template.zip>Open in Overleaf (template)<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cmc2026-template/pthnqkkzpyss> How to Submit All submissions should be made electronically through the conference’s online submission system (https://conftool.net/cmc2026). A dedicated submission link will be provided on the conference website when submissions open. If you do not already have an account on the chosen platform, you will need to create one prior to submission. When submitting, please select the appropriate track for your contribution (short paper or poster/demo abstract). You will be asked to enter title, abstract, author information (for camera-ready version), and keywords. Ensure that the PDF of your submission is anonymized for review. For any questions regarding the submission process or topic suitability, please contact the organizers at cmc2026(a)oulu.fi<mailto:cmc2026@oulu.fi>. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to the conference! The organizing committee * Steven Coats * Maarit Siromaa * Jarkko Toikkanen * Hanne Juntunen References * Grzenkowicz, M., & Wildfeuer, J. (2025). Addressing TikTok’s multimodal complexity: A multi-level annotation scheme for the audio-visual design of short video content. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 40(4), 1143–1166. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf047 * Nguyen, V. C., Jain, M., Chauhan, A., Soled, H. J., Lesmes, S. A., Li, Z., Birnbaum, M. L., Tang, S. X., Kumar, S., & De Choudhury, M. (2025). Supporters and Skeptics: LLM-Based Analysis of Engagement with Mental Health (Mis)Information Content on Video-Sharing Platforms. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19, 1329–1345. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35875 © 2025 CMC-Corpora Conference Committee (CC BY 4.0 license for this Call for Papers)

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Join Us for the First-Ever TCeXcellerate online Session – 9 December 2025
by Amal Haddad 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Ready to experience the future of multilingual communication? We're excited to launch TCeXcellerate, a brand-new online series spotlighting innovation at the intersection of language, AI, and professional practice. Our very first session is just around the corner--free and open to all! First Session of TCeXcellerate Tuesday, 9 December 2025 16:00-18:00 CET Online | Free access (registration required) Topic: _Multilingual AI technologies at WIPO - Practical examples_ Speaker: _Daniel Torregrosa, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)_ From machine translation and speech-to-text to the newest large language model applications, this inaugural session will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how WIPO is transforming its multilingual services through cutting-edge AI. Expect: * Practical demonstrations of real-world AI tools * Expert insights into what works today--and what's still evolving * Reflections on where human expertise remains essential * A live Q&A and open discussion Whether you're a language professional, researcher, technology developer, or simply AI-curious, this session is for you. Let's kick off this new knowledge-sharing journey together--one that keeps people, purpose, and professionalism at the center of language innovation. 👉 Register here: https://asling.org/tc47/tcex_reg/ We look forward to seeing you there! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" ===============

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Call For Participation HIPE 2026 – CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
by Juri Alexander Opitz 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Call For Participation HIPE 2026 – CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts *(apologies for cross-postings)* ------------------------------ *HIPE:* Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities. *Website:* https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ *Tasks:* Person-Location Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts. *Registration:* https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ (until 23 April 2026) *Training data releases:* 19 Dec 2025 (partial); 19 Jan 2026 (full) *Evaluation period:* 5–7 May 2026 *Workshop venue:* during CLEF conference, 21–24 September 2026, Jena, Germany. *LinkedIn:* @ImpressoProject / #HIPE2026 / @clef_initiative / #clef2026 ------------------------------ "Who was where when?" We invite participation in the third edition of the HIPE shared task, dedicated to the extraction of person–place relations in multilingual historical documents. Building on the success of HIPE-2020 and HIPE-2022, which focused on entity recognition and linking, HIPE-2026 aims to enable finer-grained analysis of entities and support the accurate reconstruction of individuals’ geographical and temporal trajectories. The objective of HIPE-2026 is to *build systems capable of determining whether a relation holds between a person and a location (place) mentioned in a document*, and classify its temporal scope. Participants are asked to develop systems that determine, for each (person, location) pair associated with a historical document, whether the text implies that the person is at that location within the document’s temporal horizon (isAt relation), or that the person was there at some earlier moment in their life (a more general At relation), or that no such link can be established. Can large language models take up the challenges? Simple co-occurrences of entity mentions in a text are not sufficient to uncover the implicit and explicit, temporally anchored relations between person and locations. Addressing this challenge requires temporal reasoning, geographical inference, and the interpretation of noisy historical texts (often with only fragmentary contextual cues) to classify person–location relations with varying degrees of certainty. The task is designed to be tackled by generative AI systems/LLMs as well as by more traditional classification approaches. HIPE-2026 features two evaluation profiles - *Accuracy Profile*: Focusing on system performance in relation classification. - *Efficiency Profile*: Rewarding scalable, lightweight approaches considering model size and compute cost. - *Generalization Profile*: An unseen dataset from a different domain will be included to evaluate systems’ ability to generalise beyond the newspaper domain data. For the accuracy and efficiency profile, training and test data originate from historical newspapers in English, German, French and Luxembourgish. Entity pairs will be provided. For further information on data, tasks, and evaluation settings - HIPE-2026 website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ - Participation Guidelines: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17800136 - HIPE-2026-data GitHub repository: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-2026-data On HIPE shared tasks HIPE evaluation lab series is part of the ongoing efforts of the natural language processing and digital humanities communities to adapt and develop technologies to efficiently retrieving and exploring information from historical texts. Important dates - 17 Nov 2025: Lab registration opens. - 03 Dec 2025: Release of example data. - 19 Dec 2025: Release of partial training data. - 19 Jan 2026: Release of final training data. - 23 Apr 2026: Lab registration closes. - 05 May 2026: Test data release (10:00 CEST). - 07 May 2026: Participant run submission deadline. - 13 May 2026: Publication of results and release of test data. - 28 May 2026: Submission of participant notebook paper. - 10 Jul 2026 / 31 Aug 2026: CLEF conference regular/late registration DL. - 21 Sep 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference. Best regards, *HIPE-2026 Shared Task Organizers* https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/

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Updated Third CFP (Corrected Date): HEALING Workshop on Health-Related Discourse and Language (EACL 2025)
by murathan.kurfali＠ri.se 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

***Apologies for the earlier oversight. This updated CFP now corrects the HeaLing workshop date, which is during the afternoon session on March 28, 2026.*** The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. 📌 Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Tentative Timeline Event Date 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 date **March 28 (afternoon session)** 🧠 Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. 🧩 Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) - Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). - Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. - Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. - Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). - Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. - Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). - Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. - Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. 📝 Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. 👥 Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy

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Updated: 1st CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
by Amal Haddad 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Nakba-NLP 2026 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the LREC-2026 Conference Palma de Mallorca, Spain May 11-16, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: - Digitisation of oral and written narratives - Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets - Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up - Annotation tools and annotation guidelines - Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval - Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events - Entity linking and relationship extraction - Event detection and event argument extraction - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data - Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies - Data visualization - Knowledge representation - Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing - Natural Language Generation - Large Language Models - Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction - Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). * Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 * Reviewing Period: 21 February 2026 - 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Hard Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Organizing Committee: ===================== * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University * Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity * Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University * Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University * Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals * Amal Haddad, University of Granada -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.palestine-studies.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/palmuseum.org/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3Oo… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nakba-archive.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [6] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.alhaq.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA… [7] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ichr.ps/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA…

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Third Call for Papers at the HEALING Workshop on Health-Related Discourse and Language (EACL 2025)
by murathan.kurfali＠ri.se 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. 📌 Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Tentative Timeline Event Date 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 🧠 Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. 🧩 Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. 📝 Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. 👥 Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy

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MSCA PhD position – La Rochelle Université (France) and South-East Technological University (Ireland)
by Antoine Doucet 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in La Rochelle and South East Technological University --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have an open PhD position at La Rochelle Université, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme (please take note of tight deadline): *- Topic*: "Towards Fair and Explainable Lightweight Multimodal Learning Models for Effective Document Understanding". *- *Keywords: Document Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Analysis - Context: The PhD is a *joint degree* with the South-East Technological University (SETU, *Ireland*), with dedicated mobility support for a cumulated total stay of 6 months. - Main joint supervisors: Antoine Doucet (La Rochelle Univ), Rejwanul Haque (SETU) - Conditions: The PhD is funded by a *Marie Skłodowska-Curie* Actions (MSCA) and includes *competitive salary*, as well generous mobility allowance and budget lines to cover expenses related to research, training and professional travel. *Key eligiblity rules: *- You must hold a masters degree (or equivalent) by the application deadline - You are not eligible if you spent more then 12 months in France between December 2022 and December 2025 ***Full details* are available here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/382079 *Important dates: * - *Q&A* *session* on Monday 8 December 10am CEST (register by emailing the PhD supervisors) - Application *deadline: 12 December 2025 *11pm CET** **

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1st CFP: Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026
by Paul Thompson 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2026/ LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to, accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data, and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) February 18, 2026 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 13, 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 20, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due April 10, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 16, 2026 - Workshop SHARED TASKS Detecting Dosing Errors from Clinical Trials. Medication errors constitute a significant threat to public health worldwide. Although various types of errors may occur, dosing errors have been identified as one of the most frequent types. The objective of the shared task is to develop and evaluate machine learning methods capable of analyzing clinical trial data (including structured metadata and free-text protocol descriptions) to identify trials that are likely to experience unusually high rates of dosing errors. Such predictive tools could serve as early-warning systems, supporting more reliable trial design and enhancing medication safety. A human-annotated dataset comprising 40,000 clinical trials will be used for the training and validation set. Submissions will be evaluated primarily using the F1-score, with AUROC and AUPRC reported as complementary metrics. To avoid participants using unauthorized data for training, only submissions of fully reproducible, open methods will be considered. Automatic Case Report Form (CRF) Filling from Clinical Notes. Case Report Forms are standardized instruments in medical research used to collect patient data consistently and reliably. They consist of predefined items to be filled with patient information. Automating CRF filling from clinical notes would accelerate clinical research, reduce manual burden on healthcare professionals, and create structured representations that can be directly leveraged to produce accessible, patient-friendly, and practitioner-friendly summaries. The shared task focuses on developing systems that take clinical narratives as input and automatically populate the relevant slots in a CRF. Two different (synthetic and real clinical data) multilingual datasets covering English and Italian will be shared with the participants to develop the system. The evaluation will be performed in terms of F1-score by comparing the system's outputs with ground truth labels. Grounded Question Answering from Electronic Health Records. While there have been studies on answering general health-related queries, few have focused on their own medical records. Furthermore, grounding (linking responses to specific evidence) is critical in medicine. Yet, despite extensive studies in open domains, its application in the clinical domain remains underexplored. To foster research in these sparsely studied areas of clinical natural language processing, the ArchEHR-QA (“Archer”) shared task was introduced as part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025. Given a patient-posed natural language question, the corresponding clinician-interpreted question, and the patient's clinical note excerpt, the task is to produce a natural language answer with citations to the specific note sentences. The ArchEHR-QA dataset is based on real-life patients' questions from public health forums aligned with clinical notes from publicly accessible EHR databases (MIMIC-III/IV) to form a cohesive question-answer source case. Submissions will be evaluated for evidence use (“Factuality”) and answer quality (“Relevance”). Factuality is measured via Precision, Recall, and F1 Scores between the cited evidence sentences in systems' answers and ground truth labels. Relevance is measured against ground truth answers using BLEU, ROUGE, SARI, BERTScore, AlignScore, and MEDCON. SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting. LREC provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CL4Health/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. Share your LRs: When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Last call for papers - Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026 ) - 28 March, Rabat, Morocco
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

**Last 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 date: *March 28, 2026, 9:00-12:30* 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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