December 2025 - Corpora

1st CfP for CMCL at LREC 2026: 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on May 16, 2026. CMCL 2026: 1st Call for Papers<https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp> Deadline: Feb. 25; Workshop: May 16 (co-located with LREC) We invite submissions to the 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026). CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process linguistic data to yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Presentation and/or analysis of language resources that can yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Aligning computational models with human subject data to understand what computations underlie language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Modeling conditions and pressures that shape the emergence of human-like communicative systems. * Forward-looking positions about what and how the cognitive science, linguistics, and NLP fields can (or should) contribute to one another. CMCL will only accept direct submissions through the START platform (submission link TBA). We invite three types of submissions, formatted according to the LREC guidelines<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>: 1. Archival, regular workshop submissions that present original, unpublished research that are between 4 to 8 pages in length. 2. Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). 3. Non-archival cross-submissions of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere. Only archival papers will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will be presented at the workshop. Important Dates: * February 25, 2026: Paper submission deadline * March 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready paper due * May 16, 2026: Workshop date * Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The CMCL workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)<https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/>. For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com>

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CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation
by Julia Maria Struß 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2026 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2026. This year, we feature three tasks ---two follow-up and one new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims: Given a social media post that contains a scientific claim and an implicit reference to a scientific paper (mentions it without a URL), retrieve the mentioned paper from a pool of candidate papers. Available in English, German, and French. Task 2 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims:Given claims, potential evidences, and possible reasoning paths, rank the reasoning paths and provide an output of verdict. Available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Task 3 Generating Full Fact-Checking Articles:Given a claim, its veracity, and a set of evidence documents consulted for fact-checking the claim, generate a full fact-checking article. Register and participate:https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ <https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/> Further information:https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ <https://checkthat.gitlab.io/> Datasets:https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab <https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab> Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV <https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV> Important Dates --------------------- - November 2025: Lab registration opens - December 2025: Release of the sample materials - December - February 2026: Release of training materials - 23 April 2026: Lab registration closes - April 2026: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 7 May 2026 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 28 May 2026: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 June 2026: Notification of Acceptance for working notes [CEUR-WS] - 6 July 2026: Camera Ready Copy of working note papers [CEUR-WS] - 10 July 2026: Regular Registration Ends - 31 August 2026: Late Registration Ends - 21-24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Best regards, The CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften/ Department of Information Sciences Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam phone: +49 331 580 4532

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1st CFP-GITT-2026 at EAMT 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2026 15 June 2026, Tilburg, The Netherlands https://sites.google.com/view/gitt2026/ @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 20 April, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 13 May, 2026 Camera Ready Copy due: 20 May, 2026 Workshop: 15 June, 2026 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2025 and 2026. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2026 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eamt2026) **Workshop organizers** Manuel Lardelli, University of Padova Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eleni Gkovedarou, University of Ghent

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From: AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Dear all We’re excited to invite you to take part in AdabEval 2026, a shared task on politeness classification in Arabic social media posts, hosted at OSACT7 and co-located with LREC 2026. The website for the shared task is: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home Description: Participants will develop systems to perform one of the following two subtasks, which investigate politeness in Arabic social media posts: Politeness Classification (Subtask A): This subtask focuses on building and evaluating models that automatically assess the politeness level of Arabic social-media posts. Given a post’s text, participants must classify it into one of three categories: Polite, Neutral, or Impolite. Systems will be compared using accuracy as well as macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score on the test data. Subtask A Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: One of 3 predefined category labels (polite, neutral or impolite) - Metric: Accuracy, macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score Category Prediction (Subtask B): In this subtask, the objective is to assess systems’ ability to identify multiple pragmatic functions in Arabic social-media posts. Each text may express one or more categories drawn from nine culturally grounded functions, including criticism, insult, respect, prayer, greeting, and hospitality. The task is formulated as a multi-label classification problem, requiring systems to predict all applicable categories for each instance. The official evaluation metric is the macro-averaged F1 score computed across the nine categories. Subtask B Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: All applicable categories for each instance. - Metric:Macro-averaged F1-score Dataset Information: The dataset is an annotated corpus of Arabic social‑media posts. Each record contains an identifier, raw text, a primary label (polite, neutral or impolite), and up to three category-keyword pairs. Categories capture pragmatic functions such as Criticism, Insult, Disparagement, Prayers, Greetings, Admiration, Respect, Felicitation and Hospitality & generosity. Keywords highlight words or phrases that motivated the annotation. EXAMPLE 1: --------------- Sentence: مبدعون ومميزين بطرحكم وضيوفكم. جزاكم الله خير الجزاء Source: YouTube Label: Polite Criteria 1: Appreciation & Love (الإعجاب والحب) — Keywords: مبدعون، مميزين Criteria 2: Thanks & Gratitude (الشكر والامتنان) — Keywords: جزاكم الله خير الجزاء EXAMPLE 2: --------------- Sentence: من كان بتخيل دكتور معتز ومقالاته قبل ثوره ٢٥ يناير يتحول لحذاء في أيدي العسكر ويصبح مجرد دلدول ويتبع اُسلوب منحط ووضيع كده Source: Tweet Label: Impolite Criteria 1: Insult (شتيمة) — Keywords: منحط، وضيع How to Participate? 1. Registration is required, please complete the registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezmjuMBJBi6KHxk6hdEF5JQwX8w3TwdXq…>. 2. Join the AdabEval2026 at slack<https://adabeval2026.slack.com/?redir=%2Farchives%2FC09TZFH47FZ%3Fname%3DC0…>. System Description Papers All participating teams are encouraged to submit a short system description paper. Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and do not require high leaderboard ranking. We welcome creative approaches, analysis, and lessons learned. Contact For questions or clarifications, please contact the organising team at adabeval2026(a)gmail.com. We look forward to your participation and contributions! Best regards, The AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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[CFP]-DravidianLangTech-at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 13 Dec '25

13 Dec '25

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

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CfP: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – 2nd Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 13 Dec '25

13 Dec '25

Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026 The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025 Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková, Iva Hubáčková Conference site: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz Key dates: Submission deadline: 16 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026 The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague on 16–19 September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. Call description We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Language for Academic and Specific Purposes Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies Corpora as Pedagogical Resources Multimodal Learner Corpora Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis Corpus-Based Translation Studies English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Data Mining and Exploratory Methods Statistical and Quantitative Approaches Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures Presentation formats We invite submissions for the following formats: Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) Corpus/Software demonstration Poster presentation Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. Abstract submission We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used A summary of the main results and their interpretation Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary). https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confer... The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Workshops
by Gualtiero Volpe 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy, between 5-9 Oct 2026. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshop topics include: * Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents * Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction * Eye Tracking for Multimodal Human-Centric Computing * Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI * Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior * Automated Assessment of Pain * Multimodal e-Coaches * Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data * Insights on Group & Team Dynamics * Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI) We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. If you are a representative of an institution or company that may be interested in sponsoring a workshop on a particular topic, or sending a speaker to a relevant workshop, please contact the workshop chairs, who can act as a liaison. -> Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). The proposal should include the following: * Workshop title * List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies * Workshop motivation (and history), expected outcomes and impact * Tentative list of keynote speakers * Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.) and anticipated number of talks/posters * Workshop duration (half-day or full-day), including tentative program * Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation * Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) * Paper submission and acceptance deadlines * Special space and equipment requests, if any -> Important Dates and Contact Details * Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: February 13th, 2026 * Workshop Dates: October 5th and 9th, 2026 Proposals should be submitted via PCS at this link https://new.precisionconference.com/icmi26/. ICMI organization will provide the rooms, coffee and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer to each workshop. Feel free to contact the workshop chairs for any further questions. ============================================ TUTORIALS ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 will host half-day tutorials on context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction as well as on emerging topics within the scopes of multimodal AI and social interaction. A formal call for tutorial proposals will be issued in March, but for the first time, we invite the community to indicate which tutorial topics they would most like to see. This will help prospective proposers understand what the community considers most relevant. Please complete this short form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQfyR6rHijr25CCBUP5tA4LhgEC4IoBfN… Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik (icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org), if they have any questions.

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2nd CfP for 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26): submission deadline extended to December 28
by Andrey Kutuzov 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** This is the second Call for Papers for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26). Most important news: - Direct paper submission deadline extended to December 28, 2025, AoE - Direct submissions should be made via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LChange Note: We have chosen to extended the deadline with the maximum amount of time, while still being able to meet the deadlines set by the EACL. As organizers, we regretfully recognize that this falls into holiday season. We wish you all a relaxing holiday season and do not encourage working holidays. ================== The workshop will be co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online Dates: March 24–29, 2026 📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/ 📧 Contact: lchange(a)changeiskey.org == About the Workshop == The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in computational modeling of language change — both historical and synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop at EACL 2026 conference in Rabat. We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language. In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. == Important Dates == Direct Submission deadline: December 28, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop itself: March 28, 2026 == Submission Information == URL for submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LChange We accept the following types of submissions: - Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) - Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model release papers should be submitted as short papers. Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. == Review Process == Papers must be submitted anonymously. 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. Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please email us at lchange(a)changeiskey.org! == Topics of Interest == We invite original research papers on (but not limited to): - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language == Organizers == Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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1st CfP: OSACT 7 Workshop @ LREC 2026
by Saad Ezzini 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

OSACT 2026 Workshop, First Call for Papers 11 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://osact-lrec.github.io Hosted by LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Workshop Description The Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) workshop series provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students in computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), and information retrieval (IR) to share and discuss ongoing work on Arabic language resources and technologies. While Arabic remains comparatively resource-poor in relation to English, recent years have seen the emergence of large, freely available classical and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpora, as well as dialectical corpora and processing tools. Now in its seventh edition, OSACT7 takes an important step forward by celebrating this milestone with seven shared tasks, each addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP and reflecting broader themes relevant to NLP research in general. OSACT7 builds on its long-standing commitment to open-source contributions that advance accessibility, reproducibility, and fairness, and this year it places inclusivity at the heart of its mission. A key focus is to recognize and support minority dialects and underrepresented varieties of Arabic, ensuring that diverse linguistic voices and resources are not only acknowledged but actively valued within the community. The workshop will cover general topics in CL, NLP, and IR, with special emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, including pre-trained Arabic language models, corpus design and evaluation, and annotated corpora for tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text classification. Additional areas of focus include crowdsourcing for data annotation, tools for language education, tokenization, normalisation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, dialect identification and translation, fake news detection, and web and social media analytics. Methodologies for resource creation and annotation, knowledge extraction, ontologies, terminology, knowledge representation, and integration with the Semantic Web (e.g. Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs) will also be explored. Workshop Topics The workshop welcomes (including but not limited to) topics in the following areas: A) Language Resources: · Pre-trained Arabic language models. · Surveys and evaluations of existing Arabic corpora and their associated processing tools. · Development and release of new annotated corpora for NLP and IR tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text classification, and language learning. · Assessing the effectiveness of crowdsourcing platforms for Arabic data annotation. · Arabic text and speech processing toolkits. B) Tools and Technologies: · Language education, including first (L1) and second (L2) language learning applications. · Pre-training & fine-tuning approaches for Arabic. · Tokenization, normalisation, segmentation, morphology, and POS tagging. · Sentiment analysis, dialect ID, \& classification. · Web and social media analytics. · Arabic LRs for text, speech, sign, gesture, image, & multimodal data. · Best practices for LR interoperability. · Construction and annotation of LRs. · Knowledge extraction, acquisition, and representation. · Ontologies, terminology, and frameworks. · LRs and the Semantic Web (Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs). · Data contamination, synthetic data, and quality issues. Important Dates · February 18, 2026: Paper submission deadline · March 12, 2026 Notification of acceptance · March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline · May 11, 2026: Workshop Date Submission Instructions We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are 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 resource. 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Third Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – **Third** Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper and demo submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference *Evaluation* The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track, Model compression track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. *Conference* IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. *Demo Session* We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to participate in an engaging demo session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation. The session will include live and interactive system demonstrations to foster discussion and knowledge exchange among participants across the field. For more information, please see our Call for Demos <https://iwslt.org/2025/call-for-demos>. *Contact* Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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