September 2025 - Corpora

Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025: Full Program & Book of Abstracts Now Available
by Cansu Akan 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the full program for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25) is now available. This online conference, organized by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, will take place from October 22-24, 2025. View the full program here: https://tinyurl.com/3v8vkxwu Access the official Book of Abstracts here: https://tinyurl.com/u34nd4tw Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the Zoom links. Please complete your registration via the form below: https://tinyurl.com/yfvsjhww We look forward to welcoming you to the conference. Best regards, Cansu Akan LCRGrad25 Website: https://lcrgrad2025.tu-chemnitz.de

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Call for Papers - 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 URL - https://loreslm.github.io/specialissue Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. This special issue aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 We invite submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. - Building language models for low-resource languages. - Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. - Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. - Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. - Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.) 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 Paper submission: December 31, 2025 First decision: March 31, 2026- April 30, 2026 Revised version submission: May 1, 2026- June 1, 2026 Final decision: August 30, 2026 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 Submissions should be formatted according to the journal guidelines available - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-processing/informa… and submitted through the manuscript submission system - https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlp. To ensure your manuscript is considered for this special issue, please select “Language Models for Low-Resource Languages” under Special Issue Designation when uploading your manuscript. Guest Editors Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Guest Editorial Board Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Ana-Maria Bucur - University of Bucharest, Romania Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Damith Premasiri - Lancaster University, UK Guokan Shang - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, France Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe on behalf of the Guest Editors

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Internship: A computational socio-linguistic exploration of the Ethics of AI landscape
by Maria Boritchev 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Hi everyone, (apologies for cross-postings) Tiphaine Viard and Maria Boritchev are offering a master 2 internship at Télécom Paris. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the offer or the project, the details on the offer are below: Advisors: Maria Boritchev, Tiphaine Viard Duration: 5-6 months, starting from February 1st (negociable) Location: Télécom Paris, 19 Pl. Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau Gratification: Approximately 600 euros per month (more or less 20 euros per month, the precise amount will depend on changes in the French labor code in 2026) Requirements: Applicants must be enrolled in a Master’s 2 program at the time of application and through the duration of the internship. We are looking for applications from students with solid skills (and ideally experience) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Computa- tional Social Sciences. Knowledge of English is necessary Context: The recent years have seen a surge of initiatives with the goal of defining what “ethical” artificial intelligence would or should entail, resulting in the publication of various charters and manifestos discussing AI ethics; these documents originate from academia, AI industry companies, non-profits, regulatory institutions, and the civil society. The contents of such documents vary wildly, from short, vague position statements to verbatims of democratic debates or impact assessment studies. As such, they are a marker of the social world of artificial intelligence, outlining the tenets of different actors, the consensus and dissensus on important goals, and so on [Gornet et al., 2024]. We have assembled a corpus of charters and manifestos of Ethics of AI, in English, written by different actors of the current AI landscape. This corpus is called MapAIE: [ https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ | https://mapaie.telecom-paris.fr/ ] . We are conducting research on data from MapAIE both from a sociological and linguistic perspectives: • Sociologically, who are the groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? • Linguistically, what type of vocabulary or semantic constructions do people use to write about Ethics of AI? • Socio-linguistically, is there a difference in linguistic usage between different groups of people who write about Ethics of AI? To conduct these investigations, we would like to go further than traditional tools: we intend to develop graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches making better use of mod- ern NLP methods to explore our data. In particular, we could to exploit word sense induction approaches to automatically extract different linguistic usages. Objectives: The goal of this internship is to investigate MapAIE by using and developing graph-based natural language processing and computational sociology approaches. The internship will proceed in three steps: 1. Conduct a state of the art exploration on existing graph-based natural language processing and com- putational sociology techniques, starting from Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR, [ https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md | https://github.com/amrisi/amr-guidelines/blob/master/amr.md ] ) and Cortext (https://www.cortext.net/). 2. Re-implement existing techniques identified in (1), in particular [Eyal et al., 2022], and analyse the obtained results sociologically and linguistically in view of the research questions of the project. 3. Propose new research questions and new graph-based data exploration approaches relevant to MapAIE. Application: Deadline: October 25th, 2025. Application: To apply for this position, please send an email with your CV and a few words explaining your interest in this project to Maria Boritchev and Tiphaine Viard. References [Becker, 1976] Becker, H. S. (1976). Art worlds and social types. American behavioral scientist, 19(6):703– 718. [Cefa¨ı, 2016] Cefa¨ı, D. (2016). Publics, probl`emes publics, ar`enes publiques.... Questions de communication, 30(2):25–64. [Eyal et al., 2022] Eyal, M., Sadde, S., Taub-Tabib, H., and Goldberg, Y. (2022). Large scale substitution- based word sense induction. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computa- tional Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4738–4752. [Gornet et al., 2024] Gornet, M., Delarue, S., Boritchev, M., and Viard, T. (2024). Mapping ai ethics: a mesoscale analysis of its charters and manifestos. In Proceedings of the 2024 FAccT conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning. [Roth and Hellsten, 2023] Roth, C. and Hellsten, I. (2023). Socio-semantic configuration of an online con- versation space: The case of twitter users discussing the# ipcc reports. Social Networks, 75:186–196.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Posters and Demos
by Announce 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

*** First Call for Posters and Demos The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Full paper: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Publication and Open Access The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: • $250 APC for ACM/SIG members • $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

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[CFP] Final Call for Full Papers – ECIR 2026 (ddl in 2 days)
by Yifei Yuan 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, This is the Final Call for FULL Papers for the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), one of the leading conferences in the field of Information Retrieval, covering topics at the intersection of IR, NLP, recommender systems, conversational search, and generative AI. 📌 Important Dates Full Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper submission: October 2, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: December 16, 2025 Conference Dates: Delft, The Netherlands 🌟 Why submit to ECIR? A premier forum for presenting cutting-edge research in Information Retrieval and related fields. Opportunity to connect with an international community of researchers and practitioners. 🔗 Conference Website: https://ecir2026.eu/ We warmly invite you to submit your latest research and join us at ECIR 2026. Please feel free to share this call with colleagues and students who may be interested. Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, ECIR 2026 Organizing Committee

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LREC 2026 Third Call for Papers
by info＠elda.org 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are pleased to announce that the *Third Call for Papers* for LREC 2026 has just been published. The Author’s Kit and the templates have been updated. * LREC 2026 Third Call for Papers <https://lrec2026.info/third-call-for-papers/> * Author's Kit <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>, including the downloadable templates * Check the FAQ <https://lrec2026.info/faq/> *Important dates* **Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026 * Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026 * LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) * * Best regards, Management and Programme Chairs *----------* *More information* on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/ *Contact the Programme Chairs*: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com *General LREC 2026 contact:* info(a)lrec2026.info

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[Last CfP] SHROOM-CAP 🦙 👒 Shared Task at CHOMPS Workshop @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Aman Sinha 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

TL;DR [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | SHROOM-CAP ] is an Indic-centric shared task co-located with [ https://chomps2025.github.io/ | CHOMPS-2025 ] to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for scientific content generated with LLMs. We have annotated hallucinated content in 5 high-resource languages and surprisal 4 low-resource Indic languages using top-tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you like by accurately detecting the presence of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group ] ! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-CAP shared task on cross-lingual hallucination detection for scientific publication (link to [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2025a | website ] ). We invite participants to detect whether or not there is hallucination in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs within a cross-lingual scientific context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, [ https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024 | SHROOM ] , with three key highlights: LLM-centered, cross-lingual annotations & hallucination and fluency prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With SHROOM-CAP, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated scientific content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a cross-lingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 5+4 different high and low resource languages (English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and to-be-later-revealed Indic languages). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify hallucinations in generated scientific content. Additionally, participants will also be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in oral/poster format during the CHOMPS workshop (collocated with [ https://2025.aaclnet.org/ | IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India ] ). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author). Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Train set available by: 31.07.2025 * Validation set available by: 05.09.2025 * Test set available by: 05.10.2025 * Test phase ends: 12.10.2025 * Leaderboard release: 15.10.2025 * System description papers due: 25.10.2025 * Notification of acceptance: 05.11.2025 * Camera-ready due: 11.11.2025 * Proceedings due: 01.12.2025 * CHOMPS workshop: 23/ [ https://mail.ufal.mff.cuni.cz/calendar/day/1766568272945 | 24th December 2025 ] (co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two criteria: 1. factuality mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted; 2. fluency mistakes measured via macro-F1 gold reference vs. predicted based on our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team [ https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 | https://forms.gle/hWR9jwTBjZQmFKAE7 ] and join our google group: [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap ] * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 12.10.2025. The submission platform is now available at: [ https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ | https://shroomcap.pythonanywhere.com/submission/ ] * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 25.10.2025. Want to be kept in the loop? Join our [ https://groups.google.com/g/shroomcap | Google group mailing list ] ! We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, SHROOM-CAP organizers

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Postdoc in NLP/AI for health emergency triage at ITU Copenhagen
by Christian Hardmeier 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Postdoc opportunity at the IT University of Copenhagen in an exciting project on improving citizens’ experience in emergency triage https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… Application deadline: 24 September 2025 We are looking to hire a postdoc in data science/natural language processing to contribute to an innovative research project aimed at streamlining citizens’ encounters with emergency medical services using AI technology. The project stands out by using public data for public good with access to one of the largest real-world healthcare dialogue datasets in Europe and by exploring novel approaches to human-AI alignment, where both citizens and AI systems adapt to each other through dynamic interaction. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will be a part of the NLPnorth natural language processing group at the IT University of Copenhagen, and work closely with human-computer interaction experts at the University of Copenhagen and the Emergency Medical Services of the Capital Region of Denmark. Your primary role in the project will involve: * Research on exploiting large language models to facilitate effective communication with citizens in medical emergency scenarios, leading to academic publications in top-tier venues. * Research on countering and mitigating LLM uncertainty and overconfidence to achieve human-AI alignment in emergency care. * Deploying and evaluating automatic speech recognition models to transcribe emergency hotline calls in Danish with high accuracy. * Implementing RAG-based LLM solutions for reliable and factual interaction with citizens in emergency situations. The postdoc will be a part of the NLPnorth research group at the IT University of Copenhagen (https://nlpnorth.github.io/). -- Christian Hardmeier Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/

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IVACS 2026 - Malta - Call for Papers
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Call for Papers IVACS 2026 – Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 1–3 July 2026 | University of Malta, Valletta, Malta https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/ 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 are excited to announce our plenary speakers<https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/speakers/>: Dr Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University Prof. Phil Durrant, University of Exeter Dr Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University 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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AAMAS 2026: First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

*** First Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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