December 2025 - Corpora

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: 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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IVACS 2026 (MALTA) - CfP
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers<https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/callforpapers/> for the Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference in Malta (13 July 2026) is open. The IVACS Association is pleased to announce that the 12th Biennial IVACS Conference will be hosted by the University of Malta, Valletta Campus, from 1–3 July 2026. The IVACS Conference series is a leading international forum for corpus-based research into linguistic varieties and applications of corpus linguistics in professional, pedagogical, and social contexts. Following the successful series of conferences, IVACS 2026 will continue to build on this tradition of collaboration and innovation. We welcome proposals related to (but not limited to): * Corpus Design & Methodology: compilation, annotation, and representativeness * Applied Contexts: workplace and professional discourse, minority and endangered languages, translation, interpreting, multilingual communication, stylistics * Innovations & Emerging Directions: GenAI tools and platforms, multimodal corpora * Teaching & Learning: corpus applications in pedagogy, data-driven learning, assessment, teacher education, learner corpora, genre-based approaches * Corpus-Informed Materials: pedagogic grammars, textbooks, syllabi design * Theoretical Perspectives: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication * Corpus Linguistics and Ethical Practice: Ethical, transparent, and inclusive methods in corpus-based research Submission Details * Individual Papers: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion * Colloquia: 90 minutes, consisting of 3 thematically linked papers * Posters: especially suitable for work-in-progress or early-stage projects * Paper, colloquia and poster abstracts should be submitted to ivacs2026(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:ivacs2026@um.edu.mt>. The language of the conference is English. We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers. Abstract specifications for Individual Papers and Posters: * 250 – 350 words in length (including references, if any) * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Title; Presenter(s); Affiliation(s); Email address(es), plus abstract * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Title and abstract only Abstract specifications for Colloquia: * A maximum of 1,000 words in length (not including list of references) * A single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Theme for the panel; Title of each contribution; Presenters; Affiliations; Email addresses, plus abstracts * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Titles and abstracts only Important Dates * Abstract submission opens: 1 October 2025 * Abstract submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: Early March 2026 * Early-bird registration deadline: April 2026 * Conference dates: 1–3 July 2026 Séanadh Ríomhphoist / Email Disclaimer https://www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/college-services/ict-services?index=5

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Call for Participation: Conference “Historical Languages & AI”
by daidalos-projekt＠hu-berlin.de 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, the Daidalos team warmly invites you to take part in the two-day conference “Historical Languages and AI” in Berlin. When: 5 - 6 March, 2026 Where: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin We look forward to an interdisciplinary exchange with researchers who bring a deep interest in digital methods for text analysis. Contributions from several disciplines, including computational literary studies, Digital Classics, and computational linguistics, will address topics such as the application of Natural Language Processing methods, the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs), their evaluation for historical languages, and additional tasks such as LLM-based translation. While the Daidalos project primarily focuses on Classics, we are excited to welcome contributions that reach beyond Latin and Ancient Greek as part of this enriching exchange, for example on Old and Middle French or Old Church Slavonic. The formats are not only aimed at advanced researchers: The hands-on workshops are particularly suitable for those looking to get started with scholarly work using AI. For more information and the program, please visit our website: https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/ We look forward to receiving your registration via the form soon. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested. Kind regards, Konstantin Schulz and the Daidalos team

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Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science
by Thorsten Trippel 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science Palma de Mallorca Call for Papers The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions. This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital humanities, and language technology. We invite contributions from the community that address practical experiences, challenges, and solutions related to: * The creation and processing of DTF * Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data * Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus linguistics, or NLP * Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows * Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards) The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date will be communicated in due time. Submission Format Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and the programme committee. Important Dates * Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 * Reviewing period: 21 February 2026 – 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Submission Submissions will be handled via the conference Softconf/START system. The link will be provided here when it becomes available. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Workshop Organisers * Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library * Keli Du, University of Trier * José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library * Philippe Genêt, German National Library * Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities * Christof Schöch University of Trier * Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Programme Committee tba Contact For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com <mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com> Updates For updates, see https://text-plus.org/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-11/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ///////// Dr. Thorsten Trippelthorsten.trippel(a)uni-tuebingen.de // Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft // // Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen // // Keplerstr. 2 #162 // Phone: +49 7071-29-77352 ///////// Federal Republic of Germany -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026
by Yifei Yuan 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

🎖️ Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026 The KvR Award honours outstanding researchers who have advanced the theoretical foundations of Information Retrieval — those whose work has shaped new models, paradigms, or metrics that deepen our understanding of IR. The award was first presented at ECIR 2024 to Prof. Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam). The second KvR Award will be awarded at ECIR 2026 in Delft! 🔹 Eligibility: active IR researchers with ≥10 years since PhD 🔹 Deadline for nominations: 15 January 2026 🔹 Submit nominations via the form provided below Read more about the award, nomination process, and find the form to submit your nominations here: https://lnkd.in/emecdsXm, https://ecir2026.eu/calls/keith-van-rijsbergen-award

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