December 2025 - Corpora

CfP Translation in Transition Conference 8
by Neumann, Stella 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

### Apologies for multiple postings ### <https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve…> Translation in Transition Conference 8[1] RWTH Aachen University, Germany | 9-11 September 2026 Second Call for Papers The Translation in Transition conference series has served as a meeting site for empirical translation scholars for over ten years now. After seven successful editions of this conference series, the tradition will be continued with the 8th edition taking place in 2026 in Aachen, where a special focus will be on translation and interpreting at the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts. In keeping with tradition, the conference will make room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in translation and interpreting studies (TIS). In addition to this, the 2026 edition will host a workshop on the topic of transfer from TIS into other fields both within and outside of academia in cooperation with the newly founded <https://institut-translatologie.de/institute/> Institute of Translatology (see below for submission guidelines). Keynote speakers Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) Jean Nitzke (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway) Conference Topics We invite submissions reporting original empirical studies (including multi-methods approaches) on one or more of the topics below, though the following list is by no means exhaustive: * Different types of bilingual text production (including AI-based language generation) * Constrained communication * Directionality and L2 writing * Indirect translation and interpreting * Cognitive processing during translation and interpreting * Translationese and specific properties of translation and interpreting * MT post-editing types, practices, ethics * Audiovisual translation * Register or genre variation * Quality assessment * Workflow studies * The role of external agents (e.g. editors, GenAI-based agents) We also welcome methodological contributions that reflect on (established) research paradigms or that make proposals towards the establishment of reproducible paradigms in empirical TIS. The official language of the conference is English. Abstract submission Submission is now open! Please visit <https://openreview.net/group?id=TT%2F2026%2FConference> the conference venue on OpenReview[2] to submit your abstract as a PDF by January 5. If you do not yet have an account, it is advised to register in advance of submitting. Note that OpenReview requires you to fill in the ‘Abstract’ text field. Your extended abstract, however, should be in the form of a submitted PDF. Main conference Submissions should be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words (excluding references), which include a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study as well as (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1-inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centered, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should appear below the table or figure in 10pt Arial font. References must be in 9pt Arial font, following the APA7 citation style. Transfer workshop Submissions should follow above guidelines but be limited to max. 500 words describing the outline of a transfer activity or project to a field outside of TIS (either within or outside of academia). The abstract should give a clear idea of the type of activity or project, should describe the transfer target audience and should highlight how the audience and potentially the field of TIS benefits from the transfer activity or project. Program The conference will be held in person at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. A round table discussion will be organised on the conference theme. Important dates * Submission of abstracts: 12 January 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2026 * Registration TBA * Conference: 9-11 September 2026 Publication We plan to publish selected papers, such as on the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts, in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Organizing committee Celina Brost Kurt Derichs Zoë Miljanović Stella Neumann in cooperation with the private TIS research and transfer institute ‘ <https://institut-translatologie.de/institute/> Institut für Translatologie’ IfTra. Scientific committee Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University) Alina Karakanta (Universiteit Leiden) Andrea Wurm (Saarland University) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Bogdan Babych (University of Heidelberg) Bogusława Whyatt (Adam Mickiewicz University) Callum Walker (University of Leeds) Chantal Gagnon (Université de Montréal) Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Verona) Defeng Li (University of Macau) Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) Dragoș Ciobanu (University of Vienna) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) Éric Poirier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) Evy Woumans (Ghent University) Fabio Alves (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain) Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University) Heike Przybyl (Saarland University) Isabel Lacruz (Kent State University) Jean Nitzke (University of Agder) Jelena Vranjes (University of Ghent) Joke Daems (Ghent University) Josep Marco Borillo (Universitat Jaume I) Katrin Menzel (Saarland University) Kerstin Kunz (University of Heidelberg) Khatuna Beridze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University) Koen Plevoets (Ghent University) Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund (University of Copenhagen) Krzysztof Łoboda (Jagiellonian University Kraków) Laura Ivaska (University of Turku) Lieve Macken (Ghent University) Lorenzo Mastropierro (University of Nottingham) Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Maja Popović (Dublin City University) Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) Marie Aude Lefer (UCLouvain) Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (University of Poznan) Maryam Foradi (Institut für Translatologie) Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) Michael Carl (Kent State University) Natalie Kübler (Université Paris-Diderot) Olga Nádvorníková (Charles University in Prague) Oliver Czulo (Institut für Translatologie) Patricia Rodríguez Inés (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Pawel Korpal (University of Poznan) Ralph Krüger (TH Köln) Sandra Halverson (University of Agder) Sara Castagnoli (Università di Macerata) Silvana Deilen (University of Hildesheim) Silvia Bernardini (Università di Bologna) Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Tatiana Serbina (Saint Louis University Madrid) Vahram Atayan (University of Heidelberg) Website and contact [1] https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve… [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=TT%2F2026%2FConference <mailto:events@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de> events(a)ifaar.rwth-aachen.de Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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New release: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0
by jeon.sangwan2311＠gmail.com 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the release of the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0. The MIGR-TWIT Corpus is a multilingual corpus of tweets developed within the framework of OLiNDiNUM — the Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate. With the aim of documenting and analyzing online public discourse on (im)migration in contemporary European politics, this corpus makes it possible to observe diachronic evolution over the past decade (2011–2022) and linguistic variation across the political spectrum and in two national contexts: France and the UK. The corpus has previously been published through the following modules: • Tweets of right and far-right politics in Europe (Battaglia, Blandino, Jeon & Pietrandrea, 2022) o UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2012-2022 o FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 • Tweets of French left-wing politics (Pietrandrea & Jeon, 2023) o FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Taken together, the published corpora have attracted research interest from, among others, corpus linguistics, discourse studies, and communication and information sciences, reaching more than 2K downloads on Zenodo by 2025. Compiled from the FR-R and FR-L modules, the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus comprises 17,395 tweets posted by 39 French political figures and parties (16 right-wing and 23 left-wing) between 2011 and 2022. Tweets containing migr- derivatives were retrieved via the Twitter API v2 Academic Research, and truncated retweets (>140 characters) were restored through targeted verification. The FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 offers: • multilayer linguistic annotations associated with each occurrence of a migr- derivative (MIGR-LEXICON), including semantic roles (ROLE_SEM), syntactic functions (FUNC_SYN), lemmatised forms (LEMMA), as well as features and collocational items related to modification (MODIFICATION, LEMMA_MODIF_*, LEMMA_NOUN-1) and list/parallelism constructions (LIST_PAR, LENGTH-1, #forme#_MIGR-LIST_PAR) (Non-exhaustive list); • tweet URLs (tweet_url) and 44 types of data retrieved through the Full Archive Search endpoints of the Twitter API v2, such as the textual content of tweets, posting date, user ID, number of retweets, likes, replies, and quotes. (Non-exhaustive list) The corpus is available in CSV and TEI-XML formats, with TEI files providing the text layer and CSV files providing stand-off linguistic annotations. Following version 1.0 (Jeon, Battaglia & Pietrandrea), FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 was developed by Sangwan Jeon (Université de Lille) and Paola Pietrandrea (Université de Lille, IUF). Changelog version 2.0 (© 2025 Jeon & Pietrandrea) – Added multilayer linguistic annotations – Corrected delimiter-related errors – Added TEI-XML format – Added a basic Python query script – Added README.md The creation of the corpus and the inter-annotator agreement process were funded by Université de Lille, Campus France, and the Institut Universitaire de France. The corpus is accessible through Zenodo and is scheduled to be archived in Ortolang. Sangwan Jeon (University of Lille) & Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, Institut Universitaire de France)

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New Release of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM)
by Stefanie Dipper 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the new Version 2 of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM), which is available for download via the project website: https://linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German (1050–1350) consists of more than two million tokens, providing a mostly complete collection of written records from Early Middle High German (1050–1200) as well as a careful selection of Middle High German texts from 1200 to 1350. The corpus was compiled in the context of a series of projects at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Bochum, beginning in the mid-1980s. This new version of the corpus contains numerous corrections and improvements, both to the tokenization and to the linguistic annotations, as well as several new documents that were added to the corpus. In addition to CorA-XML, various new formats are available for download, including TEI XML and GraphML, which, among other things, is usable with a local ANNIS 4 instance. There is also a JSON-based format that contains all available annotations and provides easy access for data analysis scripts. The new version of the corpus can be accessed via ANNIS 4 at the following URL: https://newannis.linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). -- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dipper (she/her) - Professur fuer Computerlinguistik Sprachwiss. Institut - Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum - 44780 Bochum - Germany Email: stefanie.dipper(a)rub.de - https://www.linguistics.rub.de/~dipper/

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Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) - new submission deadline: December 27
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

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. NEW Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, December 27, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, January 5, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: *March 28*, 2026, All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* 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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Apply to MATS Summer 2026 research fellowship by Jan. 18
by Eric Dhan 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

MATS Summer 2026 applications are now open! <https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…> We believe reducing risks from unaligned AI is one of the world's most urgent and talent-constrained challenges, and that ambitious people from a wide range of backgrounds can meaningfully contribute to this work. That's why we're training the next generation of AI alignment, interpretability, security, and governance researchers. Running June-August 2026, MATS’ 12-week research program provides everything you need to launch your career in AI safety. This includes field-leading research mentorship, funding ($15k stipend + $12k compute), Berkeley/London offices (depending on mentor preference), housing, talks/workshops with AI experts, and a global network of peers. MATS has accelerated 450+ researchers so far. Among alumni who graduated before 2025, 80% are working directly in AI safety/security and 10% have co-founded active AI safety startups. Participants have coauthored 150+ papers, with 7,800+ citations <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VgJaUK4AAAAJ&hl=en>, and rate our program 9.4/10. Our mentors include world-class researchers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, UK AISI, GovAI, Redwood, METR, Apollo Research, Goodfire, RAND, AI Futures Project, and more. *Apply by January 18 AoE to be considered!* Visit our website <https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…> for details. Help us spread the word with people you know who'd be a good fit, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Best, Eric -- Eric Dhan Operations Generalist, MATS LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-dhan/>

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Registration Open – Shared Tasks at AbjadNLP 2026
by El-Haj, Mo 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Dear all, Registration is now open for the shared tasks at AbjadNLP 2026, which will run at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. The workshop will host four shared tasks covering Arabic and other Abjad languages. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the AbjadNLP 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. Shared Tasks 1. AbjadGenEval AI-generated text detection for languages using Arabic script https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadGenEval/ 2. AbjadStyleTransfer Authorship style transfer while preserving meaning https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadStyleTransfer/ 3. AbjadAuthorID Authorship identification across genres and historical periods https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadAuthorID/ 4. Medical Text Classification in Arabic Multi-class classification task in the medical domain https://balajinaga.github.io/EACL2026-Abjad-NLP-SharedTask/ We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including data, evaluation, and timelines, are available on the task websites. Best regards, Mo - AbjadNLP 2026 https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ ———— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk https://arabicnlp.uk<https://arabicnlp.uk/> https://vinnlp.com

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Two 2-years Postdoc positions in NLP at Bocconi University (Italy)
by Debora Nozza 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

We are seeking highly motivated and talented individuals to join our MilaNLP research team as Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing. The positions offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research with a focus on two interdisciplinary projects that explore socially aware language technologies (SALMON) and innovative speech-based data collection frameworks (TOLD). To learn more about the two research projects, please visit: https://milanlproc.github.io/open_positions/postdoc_tef/. Your profile: - A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields. - Excellent programming skills in Python. - Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Italian is not required. - Familiarity with modern neural network models and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch). - A strong publication record in NLP or related areas. Position Details: - Starting date: March 1st, 2026 (flexible) - Duration: 2 years (renewable) - Deadline: January 31st, 2026 - Competitive Salary How to apply: Submit your application via the Bocconi job market portal: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=889 Candidates should upload a CV, a cover letter, a research statement, and the required documentation listed on the application page. Online interviews will take place during February 2026. Please contact debora.nozza(at)unibocconi.it and dirk.hovy(at)unibocconi.it if you have any questions.

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CFP: ClimateCheck 2026 Shared Task (12 May 2026, hosted by NSLP 2026, co-located with LREC 2026)
by Georg Rehm 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

ClimateCheck 2026: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims Hosted as part of the NSLP 2026 Workshop at LREC 2026 12 May 2026 Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026/docs/climatecheck_shared_task.html Competition on Codabench: to be announced Task Overview The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives in climate discourse, and a focus on sustainable solutions. We offer two tasks: * Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification Given a claim and a corpus of publications, retrieve the top 5 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information. Evaluation: Recall@K (K=2, 5) and B-Pref (for retrieval) + Weighted F1 (for verification) based on gold data; additional unannotated documents will be evaluated automatically. In addition, we will ask participants to use CodeCarbon<https://codecarbon.io/> to assess emissions and energy consumption at test inference. * Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification Given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy. Evaluation: Macro-, micro-, and weighted-F1 scores based on annotated documents. Important dates * Release of datasets: December 15, 2025 (task 1); December 19, 2025 (task 2) * Testing phase begins: January 15, 2026 (Codabench link TBA) * Deadline for system submissions: February 16, 2026 * Deadline for paper submissions: February 20, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: March 30, 2026 * Workshop: May 12, 2026 We encourage and invite participation from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Participants are also highly encouraged to submit a paper describing their systems to the NSLP 2026 workshop. Datasets, Evaluation, and Rankings Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification The dataset for task 1 will follow the same structure as the 2025 iteration, but with triple the amount of available training data. We will evaluate systems on both abstract retrieval and claim verification tasks in an end-to-end manner. Abstracts retrieval will be evaluated using Recall@K and B-Pref, while claim verification will be evaluated using weighted F1 scores. Gold annotations will be used for both, with an automatic evaluation approach to evaluate incomplete judgments iteratively (more details will be announced soon). In addition, this year’s iteration will focus on coming up with sustainable solutions, encouraging the development of systems that can potentially be used in real-world scenarios. Thus, we will ask participants to use the CodeCarbon library when running the test inference to measure emission rates and energy consumption. This will not, however, be counted towards the final rankings. Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification The dataset for task 2 will consist of the same claims used for task 1, each annotated with labels denoting whether the claim is an example of a known climate disinformation narrative, and if so, which one(s). We follow the CARDS taxonomy (levels 1 and 2) to annotate our claims in a multi-label manner. Results will be evaluated using macro-, micro- and weighted-F1 scores. Participants can take part in task 1, task 2, or both tasks (better yet – think of ways to incorporate task 2 into the task 1 pipeline!). Organisers * Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Germany) * Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University, Germany) * Max Upravitelev (XplaiNLP Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) * Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)

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WG: CfP First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026)
by Wissik, Tanja 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Dear all, this is the cfp for the first Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026) on 16 May 2026. see details below. Apologies for cross-posting! ------------ First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026) Call for Papers Date: 16 May 2026, half-day workshop Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PressMint/ Workshop Website: https://www.clarin.eu/PressMint-LREC2026 ________________________________ Workshop description Historical newspapers are of interest to historians and historical linguists, as well as to social and political scientists, ethnologists, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, and researchers in cultural studies. All of these are fields where contemporary digital resources, tools and methods (e.g. “distant reading”) are still underutilised. On the other hand, corpora of historical newspapers already exist for a number of languages and countries to a large extent, as they are out of copyright. Also, the images, and often OCR, are available through the national libraries. Also, in recent years these data started to be of big interest to the researchers since they preserve the historical, cultural, political, societal past. However, these corpora are not interoperable, which precludes methods for their comparison, as well as any translingual and transnational research, an especially important consideration, as statehood and nationhood are highly dynamic in Europe in the period to be covered by the project corpora. An initial joint attempt towards the creation of a corpus of historical newspapers from the beginning of 20. century on, is the CLARIN flagship project PressMint<https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint>. The project features data from 20 partners at the moment, aiming to develop a standard for interoperable resources of newspapers in diachronic timespans. The final goal is to provide structured and high quality multilingual data in a common format, with the same type of linguistic annotation that covers (at least partially) the same time period. The workshop is supported by CLARIN <https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/ou…> and the PressMint project. Objective The PressMint workshop aims to gather experts interested in creating, processing and analyzing interoperable corpora of historical data in general, but especially with a focus on newspapers. Another very important objective is to consider also the perspective of the communities who use historical data - their purposes, requirements, feedback. We encourage the interested colleagues to present their work on both types of levels – national and pan-European; monolingual and multilingual as well as task-specific and multidisciplinary. We view this workshop as a venue to exchange research ideas and start collaboration on this topic. The workshop will feature one invited speaker: Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, CH We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to) on the following topics: * compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical newspaper corpora of the period relevant to PressMint (ideally around the start of the 20th century but not constrained by this period) * harmonisation of the existing multilingual historical newspaper corpora that contain either synchronic or diachronic data, or both * linking or comparing historical newspaper corpora with other datasets, including sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets * enrichment of historical newspaper corpora (with e.g. sentiment annotation, etc.) * machine translation of historical newspaper corpora * employment of LLMs as stand alone tools or as parts of architectures for historical data processing, maintenance and knowledge deployment. * various scenarios of usage of historical data ________________________________ Submission & Publication We accept submission of long papers (from 6 to 8 pages), short papers (4 pages) and demo papers (4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation or poster presentations at the workshop. To support double-blind reviewing, all submissions must be fully anonymized and should be formatted according to the stylesheet available on the LREC 2026 website<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. At the time of submission, authors are also offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides metadata for the resources. Please note that the LREC style guide should be followed. The formatting guidelines can be found here: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026 * Camera-ready paper: 30 March 2026 * Workshop date: TBA ________________________________ Organizing Committee * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL * Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT * Petya Osenova, Sofia University ”St. Kl. Ohridski” & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG To contact the organisers, please email maciej.ogrodniczuk(a)gmail.com<mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com>. Programme Committee (in alphabetical order) * Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI * Maria Gavriilidou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, GR * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, LV * Matyáš Kopp, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. Charles University, CZ * Taja Kuzman, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI * Nikola Ljubešic, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI ́ * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL * Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski" and IICT-BAS, BG * Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław, PL * Stelios Piperidis, Athena Research Centre, GR * German Rigau, HiTZ Basque Research Center for Language Technology, EHU, ES * Claudia Resch, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT * Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, LV * Steinþór Steingrímsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, IS * Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT Dr. Tanja Wissik ACDH- Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, A-1010 Vienna E-mail: Tanja.Wissik(a)oeaw.ac.at Tel: + 43 1 51581 - 2206 http://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/ CLARIN National Coordinator for Austria https://www.clarin.eu/governance/national-coordinators-forum Editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.…>

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cfp: Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026) at LREC2026
by Martin Wynne 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026), a pre-conference workshop at LREC2026 Date: 11 May 2026 Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Workshop web page: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026 Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/HTRes2026/ Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describes the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived from these data. The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how various theories, techniques, and tools from corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and digital humanities can contribute to the examination, analysis, dissemination, and preservation of Holocaust testimonies and other Holocaust-related documents. The workshop is supported by CLARIN and EHRI. Please find full details of the call for papers at the workshop web page at https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026. The main conference website is at https://lrec2026.info/ . IMPORTANT DATES Final date for paper submission: 12 February 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 Camera-ready version submission: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 11 May 2026 To contact the organisers, please email holocausttlr(a)gmail.com From Martin Wynne on behalf of the organizing committee. -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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