January 2026 - Corpora

CFP for the DHOW-MiLLA: Joint Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web and Countering Misinformation in the Age of LLMs and Agents
by Thomas Mandl 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

CFP for the DHOW-MiLLA: Joint Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web and Countering Misinformation in the Age of LLMs and Agents Submission deadline: January 10, 2026 AOE Workshop website: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/ <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026> Co-located with WWW 2026 <https://www2026.thewebconf.org/> Dubai, UAE, April 13-14, 2026 Workshop Description With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also spreads. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s perspective, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share the latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful content spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of a safer internet. In addition to attracting high-quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. Submissions Topics * Studying different types of harmful content * Improving Factual Reliability in LLMs * Computational fact-checking & Misinformation * Detection Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis * Agentic AI Systems and Misinformation * Detection methods for LLM/VLM-generated text, audio, and imagery * Deepfake and Synthetic Media * Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation * Both Qualitative and Quantitative studies on harmful content * Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health * Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large models on harmful content * User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings * Human-AI Collaboration and Defenses Submissions - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/#call <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/#call> - Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2026/Workshop/DHOW-MiLLA <https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2026/Workshop/DHOW-MiLLA> Important Dates Submission deadline: extended to January 7, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2026 Camera-ready papers due: February 2, 2026 Workshop date: April 13-14, 2026 Workshop organizers * Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK * Gautam Kishore Shahi, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India * Durgesh Nandini, University of Bayreuth, Germany * Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, University of Southampton, UK * Junichi Suga, Fujitsu Research, Japan * Dai Yamamoto, Fujitsu Research, Japan * Rahul Mishra, Fujitsu Research, India * Rajakrishnan P Rajkumar, IIIT Hyderabad, India * Sagar Uprety, University College London, UK * Bornali Phukon, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA * Sujit Kumar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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2nd CFP: Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication
by Constantin Orasan 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026 Second call for papers https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 The conference Building on the success of the first Convergence conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023> in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies at University of Surrey, UK, is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. The conference will be preceded by a Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication between 15th and 17th June 2026. More details about the summer school will be added to the website soon. Conference themes Theme 1: Ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting Theme 2: AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion Theme 3: Which creative turn? Language mediation in the era of GenAI Theme 4: The evolving role of language professionals in the era of AI Theme 5: LLMs supporting multilingual communication Theme 6: Responsible use of language AI in the public sector Full description of the themes is available on the conference website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#themes Submissions and publications Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes: * Long papers - describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices * Short papers - describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices The conference aims to be a platform for in-depth discussion of prevalent themes while also offering contributors the opportunity for swift publication of their work. The event will provide the wide community of Translation and Interpreting Studies and the disciplines it intersects with, a space for networking, collective brainstorming and looking into the future of communication, all sustained by a robust set of papers published in the conference proceedings. Both long and short papers can be associated with rigorous empirical work or conceptual approaches to the themes of the conference. PhD students are also invited to submit papers regardless of the stage of their PhD journey. If accepted, their papers may be selected to any of the sessions of the conference, including a dynamic poster session, in which students may receive feedback and consider new developments for their work. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Full details about paper submission are available on the conference website at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#submis… Invited speakers * Horacio Saggion<https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion>, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the TALN Group and Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. * John Anthony O'Shea<https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanthonyoshea/>, LL.B, LL.M, Founder of Jurtrans, Chairperson of FIT-Europe, member of EU's Language Industry Expert Group Important dates * 23rd Feb 2026: Registration of intention to submit a paper (optional) * 2nd March 2026: Submissions of full papers * 6th April 2026: Notification of acceptance * 22nd May 2026: Camera ready papers for the draft proceedings * 15th - 17th June 2026: Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication * 17th - 19th June 2026: The Convergence conference * 1st Sept 2026: Camera ready papers for final proceedings Venue The conference will take place in Guildford at University of Surrey. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us on cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_enquiries@surrey.ac.uk> Conference organisers Conference chair: Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Programme chairs: Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> and Dr Diana Singureanu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/diana-singureanu> Proceedings chairs: Dr Felix do Carmo<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/felix-do-carmo> and Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> Summer school chairs: Dr Elena Davitti<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/elena-davitti> and Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Sponsorship chairs: Sara Palmer<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sara-palmer> and Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> Local organisers: Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> and Dr Yuan Zou<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yuan-zou> --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey, UK Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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LREC 2026 Workshops and Tutorials Schedule now available
by info＠elda.org 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] LREC 2026 will feature a series of *workshops and tutorials* covering a wide range of topics in Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshops and Tutorials will be held on the *pre- and post-conference days*: * *11–12 May 2026*(pre-conference) * *16 May 2026*(post-conference) Paper submission is *open* for authors who wish to contribute to workshops. Most workshops already issued a CfP and/or published their dedicated website. Check the full schedule: https://lrec2026.info/workshops-and-tutorials/schedule/ Contact: info(a)elda.org

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CfP LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities ; Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

First Call for Papers LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities 16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http:<http://lanlp>https://sites.google.com/view/lanlp2026/home Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Description and Goals We organise a Networking Symposium on Latin American NLP (LANLP), focusing on natural language processing for the diverse languages of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. This region includes major world languages (e.g. Spanish (~558M speakers), Portuguese (~267M) as well as regional and indigenous languages. For example, Latin America alone hosts tens of millions of speakers of Quechua (~10M), Guaraní (>6M), Nahuatl (~2M), Aymara (~2M), among many others. Such languages are highly under‐resourced: over 88% of the world’s languages remain largely unsupported by language technologies. This networking event addresses that gap by promoting collaboration on ethically and culturally sensitive resource creation, evaluation, and novel methods for low-resource multilingual NLP in Iberian and Latin American languages and varieties. Our goal is to bring together communities (SEPLN<http://www.sepln.org/>, CLARIAH-ES<https://www.clariah.es/>, PROPOR<https://propor2024.citius.gal/>, AmericasNLP<https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/index.html>, and SomosNLP<https://somosnlp.org/>) to share cutting-edge research, language resources, and best practices. LANLP focuses on community-driven resource development and evaluation for Iberian languages, and diverse Latin American languages (including indigenous and minority languages). We aim to bridge regional communities: for instance, past forums like OpenCor note that “Latin American and Iberian communities... did not have an established event” to share initiatives, corpora and tools. LANLP fills this gap, fostering new contacts between Iberian and Latin American NLP research groups. The goals are to (1) highlight challenges in processing these languages, (2) share novel datasets and models, and (3) catalyze future collaborations and shared tasks. We emphasize both academic rigor and community inclusivity, encouraging contributions from established researchers and grassroots language advocates alike. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on topics including (but not limited to): * Language resource creation: Corpora, lexicons, and annotations for Iberian and Latin American languages (text, speech, multimodal). * LLMs opportunities and challenges: Small Language Models, synthetic data, mitigating biases, linguistic inequalities, data scarcity, language domination. * Multilingual transfer & modeling: Cross-lingual and multilingual representations, transfer learning, and embedding methods that bridge Spanish, Portuguese, varieties and minority languages. * Machine translation & generation: MT, summarization, and language generation for Spanish, Portuguese, and low-resource languages (e.g., Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl). * Speech and audio processing: ASR, TTS, and spoken language resources for under-resourced languages and regional dialects (e.g. indigenous languages, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish). * Dialectal and code-switching NLP: Identification and handling of dialectal variation and code-switching (e.g. Spanish–Portuguese code-mixing, Spanish–indigenous language contact). * Morphology and syntax: Analysis and tagging for morphologically rich or under-documented languages (e.g. Basque, Mapudungun, Bribri) using universal dependencies or other frameworks. * Domain-specific NLP: Social media, sentiment, hate-speech detection, and other tasks in Iberian and Latin American language contexts (e.g. Latin American social media analysis). * Digital humanities & cultural heritage: NLP for historical texts, literature, and cultural content in Spanish, Portuguese, and regional languages. * Community-driven methods: Crowdsourcing, citizen science, and participatory approaches for data collection and annotation in these languages. * Evaluation and benchmarks: Development of evaluation metrics and benchmarks tailored to low-resource Iberian/Latin languages. * Ethical and social issues: Fairness, bias, and indigenous language rights in NLP; collaboration with native speaker communities; data governance and sustainability of resources. Important dates * February 18, 2026: Paper submission deadline * March 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline * May 16, 2026: Networking Symposium Date Submission Instructions We invite non anonymous submissions in English, Spanish or Portuguese on the 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/). Any submissions which are 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. Organizing Committee * Luis Chiruzzo Inco (AmericasNLP, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy<mailto:luischir@fing.edu.uy>) * Pablo Gamallo (PROPOR, CiTIUS, pablo.gamallo(a)usc.gal<mailto:pablo.gamallo@usc.gal>) * María Grandury (SomosNLP, EPFL, mariagrandury(a)gmail.com<mailto:mariagrandury@gmail.com>) * Rafael Muñoz Guillena (SEPLN, CENID, UA, rafael(a)dlsi.ua.es<mailto:rafael@dlsi.ua.es>) * German Rigau Claramunt (CLARIAH-ES. HiTZ Center, EHU, german.rigau(a)ehu.eus<mailto:german.rigau@ehu.eus>)

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LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day
by info＠elda.org 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] Call for Industry Day @ LREC 2026 LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day. The Industry Day will take place on 14th May, 2026 in Palma, Mallorca (Spain). The objective of the Industry Day is to: * provide a unique forum for researchers, industry players, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss challenges, achievements and synergies, * bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices, including resource development and evaluation methodologies, * provide a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster international collaborations, * connect researchers and industry leaders in order to identify employment or internship opportunities. The events of the day will include: * presentations by industry participants on their applications and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing, * a panel session where participants will gain insights on both challenges and initiatives that relate to today’s AI advancements, * a networking lunch with a student poster session. Topics of interest include: Language Resource Development Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability Language Resource Use Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing Evaluation Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools Language Resources and Large Language Models Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) (Semi-)automatic generation of training data Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models Policy and Organizational Considerations International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies Language coverage and diversity Replicability and reproducibility Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues Proposal Format Only an abstract submission is required for a presentation proposal (not a full paper) and it will not be included in the conference proceedings or ACL Anthology. We also welcome abstracts based on previously published work, or papers submitted to LREC’s main conference or workshops. Please submit your abstract proposal via the following form https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7 <https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7> Applications require an abstract of 150-200 words along with a short bio. Submission Deadline: February 16, 2024 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2024 For more information, please send an email to lrec2026-industry-track-chairs(a)googlegroups.com referring to LREC 2026 Industry Day in the subject line. Industry Chairs Natalie Schluter, Apple and IT University of Copenhagen Teresa Lynn, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #19
by Costas Gabrielatos 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 February 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: Discourse Oriented Corpus Studies Speaker: Dan Malone<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Malone> (Edge Hill University, UK) Title: From Global Uncertainty to Domestic Danger: The lone wolf terrorist as a topos of threat in (poly)crisis discourses The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 February. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Final Call: WebSci'26 Workshops & Tutorials (Jan 9) + Additional Upcoming Deadlines
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, This is a final reminder that the submission deadline for Workshops and Tutorials at the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026<https://websci26.org/> (WebSci’26) is January 9, 2026. WebSci’26 will take place May 26–29, 2026, in Braunschweig, Germany, celebrating the theme “20 Years of Web Science.” Workshops and tutorials will be held on May 26, 2026, the first day of the conference. We invite interdisciplinary workshop and tutorial proposals addressing any topic relevant to the Web Science community, including (but not limited to) the Web and AI, society, methods, ethics, sustainability, misinformation, and emerging research areas. Workshops & Tutorials – Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Proposal submission deadline: January 9, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2026 * Workshops & Tutorials Day: May 26, 2026 For questions regarding workshops and tutorials, please contact the chairs: * Eelco Herder (e.herder(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.herder@uu.nl>) * Lydia Manikonda (manikl(a)rpi.edu<mailto:manikl@rpi.edu>) In addition, the following submission options remain open: WebSci Posters - Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Final version due: April 1, 2026 WebSci PhD Symposium - Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Final version due: April 1, 2026 * PhD Symposium date: May 26, 2026 We encourage you—and your students and colleagues—to contribute and help shape the discussions at WebSci’26. Best regards, The WebSci’26 Organizing Committee Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | BlueSky<https://bsky.app/profile/unistuttgartiris.bsky.social> |X<https://x.com/WebSciConf>

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IVACS 2026 - Malta - CfP deadline extension
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Call for Papers extended to January 23rd IVACS 2026 – Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 1–3 July 2026 | University of Malta, Valletta, Malta 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: 23 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 Papers: Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP
by Neele Falk 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Dear all, We are organizing a workshop co-located with LREC 2026 on Identity Aware NLP. The details are as follows: ===================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP Workshop at LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16, 2026 https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/ ===================================================================== *Workshop Theme:* What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and technical challenges does this imply? *OVERVIEW* What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority. This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to raise the question of "what makes each of us unique?" to the NLP community. *WORKSHOP GOALS* - The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of identities and how identity is treated in AI - The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level *TOPICS OF INTEREST* We invite submissions on the following topics: *Modeling subjective phenomena and disagreement: *Personalization and perspectivist methods that challenge one-size-fits-all approaches by leveraging disaggregated data and annotator metadata. Methods that learn from disagreements rather than forcing consensus that erases unique perspectives. *Auditing and evaluating identity representation:* Techniques to measure how well models represent diverse identities, diagnose failures in capturing marginalized perspectives, and assess whether systems treat all identities equitably. Frameworks for identity-aware performance evaluation beyond aggregate metrics. *Bias detection and fairness interventions: *Methods to identify when models fail marginalized groups due to over-generalization, and techniques to mitigate such harms while preserving model utility. *Identity representation in LLMs: *How language models encode (or erase) diverse identities, embody particular perspectives, and either reproduce or challenge stereotypes. Measuring LLMs' capacity for reasoning about identities beyond majority groups. *Socio-political applications: *Modeling polarization, opinion formation, and deliberation in ways that account for identity rather than assuming homogeneous populations. How identity-aware approaches improve accuracy for politically sensitive tasks. *Methodological foundations from social sciences:* Best practices from psychology and survey science for measuring identity constructs (values, morals, narratives). Addressing challenges of using LLMs to model diverse populations while avoiding erasure through aggregation. *Accountability and responsible development: *Ethical responsibilities when building systems that represent (or exclude) identities. Making AI development processes accountable to marginalized communities most affected by over-generalization. *SUBMISSION TYPES* We welcome the following types of submissions: * Long papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references) * Short papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media submissions For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including: - Art, poetry, music - Blog posts - Jupyter notebooks - Teaching materials - Videos - Findings papers - Late-breaking papers - Extended abstracts For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing: - A summary or abstract of your work - A link to your work (if hosted externally) - Any additional context or documentation *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES * * All submissions will be double-blind reviewed * Submissions should follow LREC 2026 formatting guidelines available at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ * Papers must be 4-8 pages in length (excluding references) * Papers must include ethics and limitations sections * NO appendices are allowed * Submission link will be provided in the Second Call for Papers * Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings *WORKSHOP FORMAT* The workshop will be a half-day event featuring: - Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field - Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks) - Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and design a vision for collecting new datasets We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. *IMPORTANT DATES* All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) * Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: March 30, 2026 * Workshop Date: 16 May 2026 (exact date TBA) *DIVERSITY & INCLUSION * We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers. * ORGANIZERS* Pranav A (University of Hamburg) Valerio Basile (University of Turin) Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) David Jurgens (University of Michigan) Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf) Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg) Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin) *CONTACT* For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com

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[CFP] Sci-ImageMiner Competition 2026: Scientific Figure Understanding -- 1st call
by D'Souza, Jennifer 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

The 1st Sci-ImageMiner Competition: Information Extraction from Scientific Figures in Materials Science Focus: Quantitative plots from Atomic Layer Deposition and Etching (ALD/E) research Organized as part of the ICDAR 2026 Competition track <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/> https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/ <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> ICDAR 2026 - The 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 30 Aug - 04 Sep 2026 | Vienna, Austria Sci-ImageMiner Competition Website: <https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/> https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/ Overview Scientific figures often contain critical results that never appear explicitly in the text. Despite recent advances in multimodal large language models, most existing benchmarks rely on generic or synthetic visuals. Sci-ImageMiner addresses this gap by introducing a curated benchmark grounded in authentic scientific figures from a specialized scientific domain. Tasks The competition hosts four tasks: 1. Figure Classification - identify the chart or figure type 2. Data Table Extraction - reconstruct the underlying tabular data from quantitative plots 3. Figure Summarization - generate concise, factual summaries of key trends 4. Visual Question Answering (VQA) - answer scientific questions requiring reasoning over figure content Teams may participate in any subset of tasks (including all four). Data & Evaluation * A trial dataset is available now to familiarize participants with the data and annotations. * The full dataset will be released in stages (training, development, blind test). * All evaluations will be conducted on Codabench, with per-task leaderboards. Important Dates (selected) * Trial data release: 8 December 2025 * Evaluation start: 3 March 2026 * Evaluation end: 3 April 2026 * Paper submission deadline: 17 April 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: 4 May 2026

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