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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Daniela FOGLI 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '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 - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held either on June 8 or 9, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue in Venice. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form, which also contains relevant information for the workshop organisers: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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Postdoc position at the University of Malta
by Claudia Borg 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

Applications are invited for a *postdoctoral researcher (Research Support Officer III)* to work full-time on the project *“3M-XL – Maltese-centric Multilingual Model using Cross-lingual Transfer”* at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta. The post focuses on multilingual language modelling and transfer learning for low-resource languages, with a particular emphasis on Maltese, including corpus preparation, model development, and benchmarking/evaluation. The position is funded for up to 18 months, starting 1st February 2026. The successful candidate will be required to reside in Malta for the duration of the contract. Full details of the post (duties, requirements, salary, and application procedure) are available in the call text: https://www.um.edu.mt/media/um/docs/directorates/hrmd/workatum/projects/FTR… While the call formally allows appointments at RSO I/II level, our primary aim is to recruit at postdoctoral (RSO III) level. The application deadline is *Friday, 19 December 2025*. Informal enquiries are welcome at claudia.borg(a)um.edu.mt. Tislijiet, Claudia -- <https://www.um.edu.mt/> *Claudia Borg **(she/her)* B.Sc.I.T.(Hons),M.Sc.,Ph.D. *Associate Professor* Department of Artificial Intelligence | Faculty of ICT *Associate Member* Institute of Linguistics and Language Technologies Level 1, Blk A, Rm 8, ICT Building +356 9960 0498 https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/claudiaborg <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/facebook> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/x> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/linkedin> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/instagram> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/youtube> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/tiktok> *National Coordinator* *DARIAH-MT* Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities https://dariah.eu/ -- *The contents of this email are subject to *these terms <https://www.um.edu.mt/disclaimer/email/>.**

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A PostDoc position at IICT-BAS
by Petya Osenova 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

A PostDoc position There is an open PostDoc position in NLP for Bulgarian. Please see the details below. RESEARCH AREAS * Natural Language Processing for Bulgarian * LLM training and evaluation of Bulgarian academic texts * AI and Natural Language Processing * AI and epistemological development REQUIREMENTS * PhD in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Informatics or related areas * Excellent knowledge of Bulgarian * Excellent programming and LLM-related skills * Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team, including early stage and experienced linguists as well as pedagogical specialists OPTIONAL * Previous experience with Digital Humanities tasks is an advantage * Previous experience with combining SOTA methods in NLP with LLMs is an advantage SELECTION The selection will be performed on the basis of: * Matching applicant’s education and skills to the position requirements * Scholarly excellence of the applicant * The relation of the previous applicant’s experience to the position requirements EMPLOYMENT DETAILS The position falls within the project “Exploring the Triad of Academic Writing, Critical thinking and AI Literacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Undergraduate Thesis Writing (TRAI)”, a Multilateral Academic Projects Programme (MAPS), financed by Swiss National Science Foundation and co-financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. The partners are from Switzerland, Romania and Bulgaria. A full-time commitment is expected, starting in 2026. The contract is envisaged for approximately 3 years with year-by-year assessment. ABOUT THE INSTITUTION The project is in the AI and Language Technology division of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-BAS), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. IICT-BAS is a leader in a variety of contemporary technologies, among which are NLP for Bulgarian, large-scale computer models, supercomputer applications, big data, intelligent interfaces, optimization and intelligent management. More about the activities in IICT-BAS can be found here: https://www.iict.bas.bg/EN/ APPLICATION DOCUMENTS * a CV * Motivation Letter (max. 1 page) * List of Publications (especially in the last 2 years) HOW TO APPLY If you are interested, please send an email with your questions and/or all the required application documents to Petya Osenova: petya(a)bultreebank.org<mailto:petya@bultreebank.org> Deadline: ongoing until fulfilled

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Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at University of Geneva
by miren.olasagasti＠unige.ch 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics. Important: please refer to https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=… for the official version in French and application submission. Job Description The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics. DUTIES: Integrated into the new Department of Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Humanities, this full-time position is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Evolving Language” (https://evolvinglanguage.ch). The successful candidate will be expected to develop national and international research in computational linguistics and will contribute, through active participation in the NCCR team, to the achievement of its scientific objectives. The candidate will also take part in the development of the Department of Digital Humanities by creating cross-disciplinary links among the various fields within the Faculty of Humanities and by contributing to the establishment of the Department’s study programs, within which they will teach at the bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate levels. They will supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. They will also be required to take on administrative and organizational duties within the Department of Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities, and the University of Geneva. Subject to a positive evaluation, the position is converted to a tenured associate or full professorship after six years. DESIRED PROFILE: The ideal candidate will have a recognized expertise in computational linguistics and computational modelling of language, based on rigorous analytical and quantitative approach to modelling language, from speech production and comprehension, to sentence processing, to language impairments. The selected candidate will lead a strong computational research programme on language in tight connection with theoretical linguistics research, and interfacing with cognitive neuroscience of language and/or psycholinguistics. Of special interest are the research areas of parsing and of modelling of real-time language processing as applied to sentence production or comprehension, with an interest into past, present or future evolution of such processes. Required Degree and Skills • Doctorate in the humanities or an equivalent qualification. • A record of high-quality publications. • Experience in university-level teaching. • Basic knowledge of the French language is desirable (teaching in French is required no later than two years after appointment). Start Date 01.08.2026 or to be agreed upon Contact Faculty Staff Office: monika.starouch(a)unige.ch Additional Information Applications must be submitted exclusively online before 15 January 2026 (11:59 p.m. Geneva time) by clicking the “Apply now” button in the official site (https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=…). NO PAPER APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS SENT BY E-MAIL WILL BE ACCEPTED. The University of Geneva offers attractive employment conditions within a stimulating work environment. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills and personality and to contribute actively to the reputation of an institution founded in 1559. In the interest of gender balance, the University encourages applications from the underrepresented sex.

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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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