December 2025 - Corpora

CFP | EvaHan2026 Ancient Chinese OCR Shared Tasks
by 李斌 21 Dec '25

21 Dec '25

Dear editor, I am Bin Li, one of the organizers of EvaHan2026. Would you spread this CFP to the corpora list? Thank you so much! -- Best wishes! Bin Li Phone: (86)13813878144 Homepage: http://cognitivebase.com/lib/ School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University,China CFP | EvaHan2026 Ancient Chinese OCR Shared Tasks EvaHan 2026 https://github.com/GoThereGit/EvaHan EvaHan 2026 is the Fifth International Evaluation of Ancient Chinese Information Processing, focusing on OCR tasks for multimodal large language models in ancient Chinese. Co-organized with LT4HALA 2026@LREC 2026, which will be held from May 11 to 16, 2026, in Mallorca, Spain. EvaHan 2026 is organized by Dongbo Wang, Bin Li, Minuxan Feng, Chao Xu, Weiguang Qu, Liu Liu, Si Shen. Previous Tasks: EvaHan 2022 The First Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was successfully held in Marseille, France, in 2022, with a focus on automatic word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2023 The Second Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was successfully held in Macau, China, in 2023, with a focus on machine translation of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2024 The Third Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was held in Turin, Italy, in 2024, with a focus on automatic sentence segmentation and punctuation of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2025 The Fourth Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was held in New Mexico, USA, in 2025, with a focus on named entity recognition in ancient Chinese. Important Dates for EvaHan 2026: Registration deadline: January 30, 2026 Training data release: January 1, 2026 Test data release: February 1, 2026 Running results submission: February 6, 2026 Technical report submission deadline: February 28, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2026 Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2026 Participation To participate in EvaHan 2026, you must complete the following steps: Registration: Submit a registration form to officially register your team for the task. Registration is open from December 1, 2025, to January 30, 2026. Only registered participants will gain access to the training dataset. Accessing the Training Data: After completing the registration process, participants will receive instructions for downloading the training dataset, which includes image--text pairs from ancient Chinese texts for OCR. Submitting Results and Reports: Participants must use the provided test data to generate results and submit their system outputs and a technical report as per the shared task schedule. For inquiries or to request the registration form, please contact us at evahan2026(a)gmail.com. Data The Evahan 2026 dataset comprises three datasets, covering image-text pairs: plain text images, mixed image-text images, and handwritten images-text. The data underwent initial automatic annotation, followed by meticulous correction and refinement by experts in classical Chinese language and history to ensure the highest quality of the training materials and gold-standard texts. ● Dataset A （ Printed Texts） consists of data selected from the Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Treasuries), including classics, history, philosophy, and literature, as well as various other ancient books. ● Dataset B （Mixed Layouts） contains mixed image-text data selected from the Siku Quanshu and other ancient books. ● Dataset C （Handwritten Texts） includes handwritten ancient books, primarily the Chinese Buddhist canon, including the Chinese Buddhist canon (TKH) dataset, and the Chinese Buddhist canon (MTH) dataset. Training Data The training set consists of designated portions of subsets A, B, and C. All training samples are provided in image-text pair format, with text in Traditional Chinese (UTF-8), approximately 5000-10000 image-text pairs per subset. Registered participants will receive the training data via email. Test Data The test set includes the remaining unseen portions of subsets A, B, and C to ensure comprehensive evaluation of all three challenge types. The data is also provided in image-text pair format, approximately 200-500 image-text pairs per subset. Detailed information and a download link for the test data will be provided to participants before the start of the formal evaluation period. Task This section offers a detailed description of the tasks encompassed in EvaHan 2026. OCR In many Chinese language processing systems,OCR is a critical task, often performed in parallel with other processing functions. The accuracy and speed of OCR directly determine the overall system's performance and user experience in downstream applications such as document digitization, information extraction, and intelligent retrieval. Evaluation Metrics Each team will only have access to the training data. Later, unlabeled test data will also be released. After the evaluation is complete, the labels for the test data will also be released. Tables 2,3 and 4 provide examples of the scorer output. The evaluation will align the system-generated text with the gold standard. Next, OCR will be evaluated: precision, recall, and F1 score will be calculated. BLEU ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L will also be evaluated, bringing the competition's evaluation to multiple metrics. This evaluation adds layout analysis metrics: mAP and IoU. T he team's final ranking will be based on the overall score. The final ranking of teams will be based on the combined scores. Two Modalities Each participant can submit results for both modes. In the closed mode, each team has limited resources. Each team can only use training data and a pre-trained model. This model is a word embedding pre-trained on a large Traditional Chinese corpus. No other resources are allowed in the closed mode. In the open mode, there are no restrictions on resources, data, or models. Annotated external data, such as processed images or text, may be used. However, each team must disclose all resources, data, and models used in each system in the final report. How to Participate Registration time is mentioned above. Participants will be required to submit their runs and to provide a technical report for the task they participated in. Submitting Runs Each team can submit runs for two tasks. A run should be produced according to the closed modality. The second run will be produced according to the open modality. The closed run is compulsory, while the open run is optional. Once the system has produced the results for the task over the test set, participants have to follow these instructions to complete their submission: The annotated results should be submitted as three plain text files encoded in UTF-8 (four-byte encoding). The specific submission format will be released along with the pre-trained dataset. Organizers Dongbo Wang, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Bin Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Minxuan Feng, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Chao Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Weiguang Qu, School of Computer and Electronic Information /School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Normal University, China Liu Liu, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Si Shen, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China Student Members Dongmei Zhu, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Jieqiong Li, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Ruifeng Wu,College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Junyi Yang，College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Zhixing Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Junjie Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Yue Zhu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Mengting Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China

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[CfP] Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 - Dubai
by ddessi＠sharjah.ac.ae 21 Dec '25

21 Dec '25

Call for Papers 4th Int. Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE https://semtech4stld.github.io/ ----------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions: January 5th, 2026 Paper Submissions: January 12th, 2026 Notifications: January 25th, 2026 Camera-Ready Contributions: February 2nd, 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Aims and Scope ------------------------------------------------------ The SemTech 2026 workshop focuses on methods that combine Semantic Web technologies, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs), and other AI technologies to model knowledge across scientific, technical, and legal domains. The workshop invites research on knowledge graph creation, semantic annotation, LLM–KG hybrid reasoning, and trustworthy AI pipelines that enhance the reliability, interpretability, and reuse of Web data. This is particularly timely as the Web community seeks robust approaches to integrate symbolic and sub-symbolic methods for managing and understanding the growing body of domain-specific knowledge on the Web ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Topics ------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions on topics related to Semantic Web technologies and deep learning, particularly in the context of scientific, technical, and legal data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Data Collection - Leveraging LLMs for generating scientific, technical, and legal data. - New tools and systems for capturing scientific, technical, and legal data, such as scientific articles, patent publications, etc. - Procedures and tools for storing, sharing, and preserving data on the Web. - Collecting and sharing data sets such as benchmarks, etc. - Pipelines and protocols to capture peculiarities from Web data. - Employing Semantic Web Technologies to represent and preserve sensitive data in terms of ethics, privacy, security, and trust on the Web. Novel Semantic Technologies for scientific, technical, and legal web: - Ontologies and annotation schemas to model such data. - Annotation, linking, and disambiguation of the data. - Knowledge graph construction. - LLMs to generate metadata, vocabularies, ontologies, and semantic models for specific data. Applications for patents, scientific, technical, and legal web: - Applications based on Generative AI and LLMs. - Exploiting knowledge graphs for document similarity, question answering, search, etc. - Semantic content-based retrieval. - Natural language processing techniques for classification, summarization, etc. - Exploratory search using semantic technologies on scientific, technical, and legal data. - Key enabling tools (also based on LLMs) for accessing and using data on the Web. - Lessons learned and use cases from both academia and industry around semantic models and LLMs for data in specific domains. ------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ------------------------------------------------------- Formatting Requirements. Submissions must be written in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). The review process will follow a single-blind protocol. Key Participation Requirement: At least one author per paper must be registered for the workshop, attend in person, and present their work. - Full Research Papers (6-8 pages maximum) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature is encouraged. - Replicability/Reproducibility papers (4 pages) should involve repeating prior experiments using the source code and datasets to analyze existing methods and their limitations. Alternatively, authors may assess the robustness of previous work by applying the original code in new contexts, such as different domains or datasets. - Short Papers (4 pages) should describe significant novel work in progress. Compared to full papers, their contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging areas of legal data are encouraged. Submissions should not exceed the indicated number of pages, including any diagrams and references. PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Due to conference policy, papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2026, which are archived in the ACM Digital Library, subject to meeting the ACM open-access, formatting guidelines, and camera-ready timeline as provided and observed by the ACM Web Conference. See the section Important update on ACM's new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! on the conference website. --------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs --------------------------------------------------------- Rima Dessi´ Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hidir Aras FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Jeenu Joy FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Danilo Dessi´ Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Francesco Osborne The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------------------- Contacts ----------------------------------------------------------- For general inquiries on the workshop, please send an email to ddessi(a)sharjah.ac.ae

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Third CFP: The 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2026)
by Priya Rani 20 Dec '25

20 Dec '25

*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)* *Workshop description* The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology. In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological research. *SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):* - *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,” what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML algorithms? - *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse languages. - *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging approaches. - *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual data generation/selection, and annotate texts. - *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of cross-linguistic variation and universals. - *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic generalisations? - - *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to typology, and automated approaches to etymology. *Important Dates (23:59 AoE)* - *Direct submission deadline: December 26, 2025* - *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026* - *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026* - *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026* - *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)* *Submissions* We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. *Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person.* *Format: * Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/SIGTYP *SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/ *Organizing Committee* Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova *Anti-harassment policy* The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. *Contact* For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com Regards, Priya.

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Re: New release: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (links)
by Sangwan Jeon 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, Apologies for the omission in our previous announcement. Here are the relevant key links: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/17828433 OLiNDiNUM — Linguistic Observatory of Online/Digital Debate: https://olindinum.huma-num.fr/en/research/research-projects/ FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 1.0 (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/17652658 ____________________________________________________________________ We are pleased to announce the release of the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0: https://zenodo.org/records/17828433 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) https://zenodo.org/records/7347479 o UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2012-2022 o FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 • Tweets of French left-wing politics (Pietrandrea & Jeon, 2023) https://zenodo.org/records/7871602 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. This second version provides multilayer linguistic annotations of all occurrences of forms derived from the Latin root migr-. 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 FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 1.0 (Jeon, Battaglia & Pietrandrea), FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (https://zenodo.org/records/17828433) 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. Best regards, Sangwan Jeon (University of Lille) Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, Institut Universitaire de France)

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by ahmet güneri 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear Colleagues, If you have the link to this event, could you please share it with me?

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Call for Papers – LLMs4SSH Workshop at LREC 2026 (11 May 2026)
by Arturo Montejo-Ráez 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

*Apologies for cross-posting* *LLMs4SSH: Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities* Workshop at LREC 2026 – 11 May 2026 📍 Location: LREC 2026, Mallorca, Spain 🗓 Date: 11 May 2026 🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home <https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home> ------------------------------ Description Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing in terms of multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these developments have transformed language and data processing, their potential remains insufficiently aligned with the specific research needs, methodologies, and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The LLMs4SSH workshop aims to bridge the gap between Language Technologies (LT) and SSH, bringing together researchers from AI, NLP, Digital Humanities, linguistics, social sciences, cultural heritage, and related fields. The workshop will provide a forum to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-oriented LLMs can support SSH research tasks, while critically examining their methodological, ethical, and societal implications. ------------------------------ Topics We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: Multilinguality and Cultural Diversity - Multilingual LLMs for low-resource and underrepresented languages - Cross-lingual transfer and cultural adaptation - Bias, fairness, and inclusivity - Translation, code-switching, and cross-cultural communication Multimodality in SSH Research - Integration of text, image, audio, and speech modalities - LLMs for multimodal archives, museum collections, and heritage data - Generative and interpretive multimodal applications in humanities research Reasoning and Agentic LLMs - Reasoning and interpretive capacities for SSH tasks (e.g. argumentation, causality, hermeneutics) - Agentic LLMs as autonomous or collaborative research assistants - Tool use, planning, and hypothesis generation - Epistemological and ethical implications of reasoning and agency Methodologies and Evaluation - SSH-oriented datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics - Explainability, transparency, and reproducibility - Human–AI co-creation and qualitative evaluation methods - Comparative studies across languages, domains, and modalities Applications in SSH Domains - Digital humanities and cultural analytics - Political science, sociology, and media studies - History, philosophy, law, psychology, education, and ethics FAIR, Ethics, and Governance - Responsible and participatory design of LLMs - Ethical challenges in data use, authorship, and accountability - Policy frameworks for open and inclusive AI infrastructures Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Infrastructure - Co-design of tools and workflows between LT and SSH - Integration of LLMs into research infrastructures and curricula - Open science initiatives and community building ------------------------------ Submission Types We welcome: - Short research papers - Position papers - Case studies - Posters and demos ------------------------------ Submission Information Submissions must be made electronically through the START Conference Manager (Softconf) system: 🔗 Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH> All submissions should follow the official LREC 2026 workshop guidelines regarding format, length, and anonymity. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and details regarding proceedings publication will be announced on the workshop website. ------------------------------ Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 23 February 2026 - Review Period: 2–23 March 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2026 - Workshop Date: 11 May 2026 ------------------------------ Workshop Format The full-day workshop will include: - An invited keynote from the Language Technologies community - Oral paper sessions on foundations, methodologies, and applications - Poster and demo sessions - Breakout groups and roundtable discussions - A closing panel to summarize insights and outline future research directions Hybrid participation options will be available to foster inclusivity. ------------------------------ Organizing committee Jeremy Barnes (HiTZ Center, EHU) Elena Battaner (URJC) Joanna Blochowiak (University of Zurich) Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich) Arturo Montejo-Ráez (University of Jaén) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute) Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) German Rigau (HiTZ Center, EHU) Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb) Friedel Wolff (SADiLaR, North-West University) ------------------------------ Diversity and Inclusion The workshop actively supports: - Underrepresented languages and research communities - Geographic and gender diversity - Interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, LT, and SSH [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Arturo Montejo Ráez Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured) amontejo(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Departamento de Informática, A3-114 Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 - Jaén (Spain) +34 953 212 882 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714 Researcher ID: D-3387-2009 SINAI Research Group <https://sinai.ujaen.es> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Antes de imprimir este mensaje, piense si es necesario. Proteger el medio ambiente es cosa de todos.* *** 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 recipient and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL. 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 by mistake, please let us know immediately via e-mail and delete it.

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Call for Papers – LLMs4SSH Workshop at LREC 2026 (11 May 2026)
by Arturo Montejo-Ráez 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

*LLMs4SSH: Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities* Workshop at LREC 2026 – 11 May 2026 📍 Location: LREC 2026, Mallorca, Spain 🗓 Date: 11 May 2026 🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home ------------------------------ Description Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing in terms of multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these developments have transformed language and data processing, their potential remains insufficiently aligned with the specific research needs, methodologies, and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The LLMs4SSH workshop aims to bridge the gap between Language Technologies (LT) and SSH, bringing together researchers from AI, NLP, Digital Humanities, linguistics, social sciences, cultural heritage, and related fields. The workshop will provide a forum to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-oriented LLMs can support SSH research tasks, while critically examining their methodological, ethical, and societal implications. ------------------------------ Topics We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: Multilinguality and Cultural Diversity - Multilingual LLMs for low-resource and underrepresented languages - Cross-lingual transfer and cultural adaptation - Bias, fairness, and inclusivity - Translation, code-switching, and cross-cultural communication Multimodality in SSH Research - Integration of text, image, audio, and speech modalities - LLMs for multimodal archives, museum collections, and heritage data - Generative and interpretive multimodal applications in humanities research Reasoning and Agentic LLMs - Reasoning and interpretive capacities for SSH tasks (e.g. argumentation, causality, hermeneutics) - Agentic LLMs as autonomous or collaborative research assistants - Tool use, planning, and hypothesis generation - Epistemological and ethical implications of reasoning and agency Methodologies and Evaluation - SSH-oriented datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics - Explainability, transparency, and reproducibility - Human–AI co-creation and qualitative evaluation methods - Comparative studies across languages, domains, and modalities Applications in SSH Domains - Digital humanities and cultural analytics - Political science, sociology, and media studies - History, philosophy, law, psychology, education, and ethics FAIR, Ethics, and Governance - Responsible and participatory design of LLMs - Ethical challenges in data use, authorship, and accountability - Policy frameworks for open and inclusive AI infrastructures Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Infrastructure - Co-design of tools and workflows between LT and SSH - Integration of LLMs into research infrastructures and curricula - Open science initiatives and community building ------------------------------ Submission Types We welcome: - Short research papers - Position papers - Case studies - Posters and demos ------------------------------ Submission Information Submissions must be made electronically through the START Conference Manager (Softconf) system: 🔗 Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH All submissions should follow the official LREC 2026 workshop guidelines regarding format, length, and anonymity. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and details regarding proceedings publication will be announced on the workshop website. ------------------------------ Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 23 February 2026 - Review Period: 2–23 March 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2026 - Workshop Date: 11 May 2026 ------------------------------ Workshop Format The full-day workshop will include: - An invited keynote from the Language Technologies community - Oral paper sessions on foundations, methodologies, and applications - Poster and demo sessions - Breakout groups and roundtable discussions - A closing panel to summarize insights and outline future research directions Hybrid participation options will be available to foster inclusivity. ------------------------------ Organizing committee Jeremy Barnes (HiTZ Center, EHU) Elena Battaner (URJC) Joanna Blochowiak (University of Zurich) Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich) Arturo Montejo-Ráez (University of Jaén) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute) Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) German Rigau (HiTZ Center, EHU) Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb) Friedel Wolff (SADiLaR, North-West University) ------------------------------ Diversity and Inclusion The workshop actively supports: - Underrepresented languages and research communities - Geographic and gender diversity - Interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, LT, and SSH [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Arturo Montejo Ráez Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured) amontejo(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Departamento de Informática, A3-114 Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 - Jaén (Spain) +34 953 212 882 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714 Researcher ID: D-3387-2009 SINAI Research Group <https://sinai.ujaen.es> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Antes de imprimir este mensaje, piense si es necesario. Proteger el medio ambiente es cosa de todos.* *** 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 recipient and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL. 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 by mistake, please let us know immediately via e-mail and delete it.

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *Shared Tasks: * We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian, Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please visit to LoResMT website. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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New Book: Understanding Conversational AI Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models
by Thierry Poibeau 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share the publication of my last book: Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, fully open access, downloadable as a whole book or chapter by chapter, paperback version on demand. Bets regards, Thierry Poibeau --- Understanding Conversational AI Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models Thierry Poibeau 270 pages, Ubiquity Press, fully open access, downloadable as a whole book or chapter by chapter, paperback version on demand. What do large language models really know—and what does it mean to live alongside them? This book offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of large language models (LLMs), examining how they reshape our understanding of language, cognition, and society. Drawing on philosophy of language, linguistics, cognitive science, and AI ethics, it investigates how these models generate meaning, simulate reasoning, and perform tasks that once seemed uniquely human—from translation to moral judgment and literary creation. Rather than offering a purely technical account, the book interrogates the epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions of LLMs. It explores their limitations, their embedded biases, and their role in processes of automation, misinformation, and platform enclosure. At the same time, it reflects on how LLMs prompt us to revisit fundamental questions: What is understanding? What is creativity? How do we ascribe agency or trust in a world of synthetic language? Written for scholars, students, and curious readers across the humanities, social sciences, and computer science, this is both a philosophical inquiry and a practical guide to navigating the era of generative AI. It invites readers to think critically about the promises and perils of language technologies—and about the kind of future we are shaping with them. Feel free to read it and share it widely! https://www.ubiquitypress.com/chapters/m/10.5334/bde.d Table of content: • Introduction. Speaking machines, thinking humans • Latent linguistics: the conception of language in large language models • From the design of large language models to a reassessment of linguistic theory • Large language models and the future of writing • Large language models and reasoning, the boundaries of mind and consciousness • Large language models and creativity • Moral reasoning and synthetic judgment in large language models • Large language models and critical thinking: bias, social impact, and political implications • Disinformation, misinformation, and the crisis of trust in AI-generated content • Ethics at scale • Conclusion. Thinking with machines • Annex. The architecture and training of large language models

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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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