July 2025 - Corpora - ELRA lists

Senior lecturer position at the University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University of Technology
by Richard Johansson 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

We are hiring a Senior Lecturer (comparable to an associate professor) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a joint department at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. This is a broad call open to anyone with a background in data science and AI, but we are particularly interested in candidates with an NLP background. This is a senior faculty position but we will also consider strong junior candidates. You can find more details on the application page: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… If you are thinking of applying and would like to discuss about the position, please contact me (richard.johansson(a)cse.gu.se) or Gerardo Schneider, head of the division (gerardo(a)chalmers.se). The deadline for applying is August 15. Best regards, Richard Johansson

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ACL 2025 Conference - Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events
by Horacio Saggion 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website <https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/>. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef Dear ACL 2025 Attendees: ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference! The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website <https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/>. Session titles and times are listed below: Mon, Jul 28 SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma Tue, Jul 29 Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang Wed, Jul 30 Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia. Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef

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Public webinar: Using mixed methods to analyze stance: A variationist approach
by Robert Fuchs 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Bonn Talks on Recent Trends in Applied Linguistics *Using mixed methods to analyze stance: A variationist approach * Dr. Katharina Pabst, Radboud University Nijmegen Friday, July 18, 2.15 pm - 3.45 pm CEST Sign up here: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/7zWSRP69R8SZWZptF6wfMA In this talk, I will introduce a framework for coding speaker stance (i.e., the way individuals position themselves towards an interaction) that I developed with colleagues from the University of Toronto. Our framework, which combines insights from variationist sociolinguistics and pragmatics, is based on pragmatic tests that offer a replicable way of capturing an interactional phenomenon such as stance quantitatively. Drawing on two case studies of complementizer (that) – i.e., the variation between overt that and zero in sentences such as I think (that) linguistic variation is fun – I discuss challenges and opportunities of using this framework, as well as its implications for the study of language and social meaning. Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Job: PhD in NLP in Zurich, Application Deadline on August 10, 2025
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a fully funded PhD position in NLP. The position is for three years, starting on October 1, 2025, or per agreement. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad here: https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/phd-position-empowering-ai-to-explore-the…. The position is part of Project AI-R that aims to bring together cutting-edge methods in NLP with recent developments in the philosophy of language and logic. To apply, please follow the guidelines in the ad. All best, Reto

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Free webinar: 22 July 2-3pm UK time
by Brezina, Vaclav 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Dear all, We would like to invite you to a free webinar Corpus Linguistics: Skills for the Future from our Lancaster webinar series. In this webinar, we will focus on two domains that have used corpus methods to develop and improve their practice. Prof Elena Semino will talk about the use of corpus methods in healthcare communication and Dr Dana Gablasova will look at the role played by corpus methods in development and evaluation of GenAI tools for language learning and teaching. ⏲️ Time: 22 July 2025, 2-3pm UK time 🔗 Link for free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image001.jpg@01DBF65D.4028AAC0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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New book - Automatic Question Generation
by Flor, Michael 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, I am happy to announce the availability of the new book, Automatic Question Generation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-92072-1 Published by Springer, in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Many thanks to Graeme Hirst, the series editor! The book describes a variety of approaches, including generating questions from syntactic analyses, semantic resources, neural architectures, ontologies and knowledge graphs, and large language models. Also covers evaluation and some fundamentals of questions. Hopefully, the book might be useful for NLP/AI researchers, students, educators, test-developers, and anyone interested in this topic. Michael Flor Senior Research Scientist ETS Research Institute Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ, USA mflor(a)ets.org ________________________________ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain privileged or confidential information. It is solely for use by the individual for whom it is intended, even if addressed incorrectly. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender; do not disclose, copy, distribute, or take any action in reliance on the contents of this information; and delete it from your system. Any other use of this e-mail is prohibited. Thank you for your compliance. ________________________________

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July 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

In this newsletter: Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program New publications: AnnoDIFP Session Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S06> Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English Second Release<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T09> LoReHLT Uzbek Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T08> ________________________________ Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2025. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: AnnoDIFP (Annotated Data for the Investigation of Facets of Personality) Session Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S06> was developed by LDC, the Florida Institute of Technology <https://www.fit.edu/> (FIT), and the University of New Haven<https://www.newhaven.edu/index.php> (UNH) to support algorithm development for predicting personality traits. It contains 438.34 hours of English audio and transcripts from in-person interviews of 366 participants paired with scores from two self-reported personality assessments, HEXACO Personality Inventory (Revised) (HEXACO-PI-R) and Short Dark Triad (SD3). In-person interviews were recorded at LDC, FIT, and UNH. In each session, the participant and interviewer were in separate sound-isolated rooms with communication between them supplied by audio/video hardware. Sessions consisted of the following tasks: rapport building, a YouTube task, a map task, and a business task. Further details on collection methodology and session tasks are contained in the documentation accompanying this release. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English Second Release<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T09> was developed at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of running texts and text samples of British English prose from the earliest Middle English documents (1100 CE) up to the period of the First World War (1914 CE). This second release corrects errors and inconsistencies in Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (LDC2020T16<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T16>), further streamlines annotation, simplifies the directory structure, and includes updated documentation. This data set contains three corpora covering traditionally recognized periods of English: * The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition * The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English * The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English, second edition The texts are in two forms: part-of-speech tagged text and syntactically annotated text. Annotations were manually reviewed for accuracy and consistency. Included in this release are updated annotation guidelines, philological information for each corpus, and the CorpusSearch 2 program, which allows users to search the data for words, word sequences, and syntactic structure. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LoReHLT Uzbek Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T08> was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 47 million words of Uzbek monolingual text, 563,000 words of found Uzbek-English parallel text, 100,000 Uzbek words translated from English data, and 6.4 hours of Uzbek broadcast news and amateur web audio recordings. Approximately 151, 000 words were annotated for named entities and over 28,000 words were annotated for full entity including nominals and pronouns. Noun-phrase chunking was applied to more than 13,000 words. Over 20,890 words were labeled with simple semantic annotation. Topic annotation was applied to the audio recordings. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, broadcast news, web audio recordings, and weblogs. LoReHLT was a companion project of the DARPA LORELEI program. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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LREC 2026 - First Call for Tutorials
by Sara Goggi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*LREC 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR TUTORIALS* *Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association * *Palma, Mallorca, Spain* *11-16 May 2026* The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. The tutorials will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11, 12, or 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission due * 17November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC 2026 conference** *SUBMISSION DETAILS* We invite proposals for three types of tutorials: *Cutting-edge:*tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. *Introductory to computational linguistics (CL)/ natural language processing (NLP) topics:*tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the LREC communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. *Introductory to adjacent areas:*tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and its relevance for the CL/NLP domains. In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only of the teachers of the tutorial. Proposals should be prepared according to the style files that will be available from the LREC website (https://lrec2026.info/). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), and they should be submitted as PDF documents. Tutorial proposals do not have to be anonymized. They should contain: * A title that helps potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. * An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC website). * A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community, and in general. * A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. * A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. * A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. * A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? * A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. * A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. * A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. Tutorials can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, and (3) if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *INSTRUCTOR RESPONSIBILITIES* Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Finally, at least one tutorial presenter must attend the event in person to organise the tutorial. *CONTACT* * Tutorial Chairs: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:lrec2026-tutorial-chairs@googlegroups.com> * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ <https://lrec2026.info/>

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LREC 2026 - First Call for Workshops
by Sara Goggi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

*LREC 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR WORKSHOPS* *Organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association * *Palma, Mallorca, Spain* *11-16 May 2026* The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. The workshops will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. *IMPORTANT DATES* (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * 17 October 2025: Proposal submission deadline * 17 November 2025: Notification of acceptance * 11-16 May 2026: LREC2026 conference *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents using the START system (URL will soon be available on the conference website). Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification of acceptance (see Important dates above). The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal + at most two additional pages for information about organisers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than FOUR pages long, excluding references. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Workshops can be half-day (morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 14:00 to 18:00) or full-day (9:00 to 18:00) and must follow fixed hours for breaks (morning coffee break 10.30-11.00, lunch break: 13:00-14:00, afternoon coffee break: 16.00-16.30). * A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. * An estimate of the number of attendees. * A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. * A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about the workshop, the organisers and the program committee must include: * A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. *EVALUATION CRITERIA* The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee, and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. *DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION* We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in language resources and language technology, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of workshops. Workshop proposals are evaluated on a range of aspects, including diversity, such as (1) how the topic of the workshop contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. *WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES* At least one of the accepted organisers must attend the workshop in person. The organisers of the accepted proposals are responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the workshop program and the camera-ready workshop proceedings according to LREC requirements, organising the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of LREC’s anti-harassment policy and code of conduct (see https://lrec2026.info/lrec-2026-code-of-conduct/ ). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings in the correct format on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations *CONTACT* * Workshop Chairs: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com * General contact: mailto:info@lrec2026.info <mailto:info@lrec2026.info> * More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/

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CfP — Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models @ IWSDS 2026
by Giuseppe Riccardi 14 Jul '25

14 Jul '25

Dear all, We’re excited to announce IWSDS 2026, The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. It will take place on Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026 in Trento, the gateway to the Dolomites following the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The theme of this year is "Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models" IWSDS 2026 aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations, systems and methods, and applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. The Call for Papers is now open for long papers (up to 8 pages + references), as well as short papers, position papers, demos (up to 4 pages + references) Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published in the ACL Anthology. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: October 12, 2025 Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026 📌 Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ 🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting 🌿 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social We look forward to welcoming you to Trento in 2026! On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Giuseppe Riccardi IWSDS'26 General Chair University of Trento <https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/> <https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=OYqE3uAAAAAJ&hl=en> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahedmousavi/> <https://twitter.com/mahedmousavi>

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