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3rd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) 2026: 2nd CFP
by Georg Rehm 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

3rd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP 2026) 12 May 2026 – Co-located with LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) NSLP 2026 features two shared tasks: * ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims * SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution NSLP 2026 – important dates: * Submission deadline: 20 February 2026 * Notifications: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 NSLP 2026 website (including the shared tasks): * https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026 Scientific research has witnessed a steep growth rate over the last decades. The number of scholarly publications is growing exponentially, and doubles every 15-17 years. Consequently, both general and specialised repositories, databases, knowledge graphs, and digital libraries have been developed to publish and manage scientific artifacts. Examples include the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph (S2AG), PubMed Central and also the ACL Anthology. These resources enable the collection, reuse, tracking, and expansion of scientific findings, and facilitate downstream applications such as scientific search engines. However, in order to develop robust systems that deal with scholarly text, various challenges need to be addressed. The current status quo of scientific communication mostly includes scholarly articles as unstructured PDF documents, which are not machine-readable in the sense that relevant scientific information can be extracted easily, thus making extracting and utilising this information as part of the scientific process a laborious and time-consuming task. Developing methods for converting unstructured information into structured formats is one of the major challenges in the field of Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP). This goal encompasses related challenges such as detecting, disambiguating, and linking mentions of scientific artifacts (e.g., software tools or specific datasets or language resources), and tracking state-of-the-art models and their evaluation scores (including new versions of existing models). Extracting and managing heterogeneous scientific knowledge effectively remains a challenging ongoing research area. Existing efforts are often fragmented, addressing separate issues with distinct datasets and conceptual approaches. NSLP 2026 addresses current topics and issues in Natural Scientific Language Processing. It is proposed and organised with the support of NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DS), a long-term project with approx. 20 partners who work towards building a German national research data infrastructure for DS and AI. The workshop aims to further bring together the international community of researchers who work on NSLP and related topics (including research knowledge graphs), to discuss current issues and possible solutions. NSLP 2026 includes two keynote speakers and presentations of accepted papers (oral and poster presentations), as well as three shared tasks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Scientific LLMs – LLMs for NSLP * Language resources (LRs) and Language technologies (LTs) for NSLP beyond LLMs * Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs), Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and other forms of structured representation of research-related knowledge * Information extraction from scholarly articles * Extraction of research information from texts * Detection and disambiguation of mentions of datasets, tasks, software or other methods * Classification of scholarly articles (collections, single documents, parts of documents) * Information extraction for RKGs * Summarisation of scholarly articles * Scholarly IR and scientific search engines * Question answering over scientific knowledge * Metadata and cataloging * Cross-lingual and multilingual natural scientific language processing * Adaptation of NLP methods for NSLP purposes Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 20 February 2026 (not to be extended) * Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready submission: 30 March 2026 * Workshop: 12 May 2026 Submission Guidelines The NSLP 2026 workshop invites submissions of: regular long papers; short papers; position papers. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. * Note that we will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. * The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix); short papers as well as position papers (up to 4 pages without references and appendix) presenting, for example, negative results, in-progress projects, or demos. * Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix and all papers must be self-contained. * Reviewing will be performed double-blind, i.e., submissions must be anonymous. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. * Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the LREC 2026 style. * The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the ACL Anthology (full Open Access) as part of the LREC 2026 proceedings. * At least one author per contribution must register for the workshop for presentation. * All submissions are done via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NSLP2026/ When submitting a paper through START, the authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Speakers * Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Yufang Hou, ITU Austria, Austria Shared Tasks 1. ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), offering the following subtasks: Subtask 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification: given a claim and corpus of publications, retrieve the top 10 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information. Subtask 2: Disinformation narrative classification: given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy. New training data will be released for both tasks, with task 1 having triple the amount of the last iteration. The new iteration will focus on sustainability, emphasising the need to build climate-friendly NLP systems with minimal environmental impact. Shared task co-organisers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova, Max Upravitelev, Georg Rehm 2. SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution Understanding software mentions is crucial for reproducibility and to interpret experimental results. Citations of software are often informal, lacking the use of persistent identifiers, making it hard to infer and disambiguate knowledge about software efficiently. This task will build on SOMD 2025 (run at SDP 2025, co-located with ACL 2025) and focus on entity disambiguation as an under-investigated problem in this context. More precisely, we address the task of coreference resolution of software mentions across multiple documents, i.e. given a set of software mentions extracted from multiple scientific publications, cluster these mentions so that all software mentions in a particular cluster refer to the same real world software. We define three subtasks with varying challenges: Subtask 1: Software coreference resolution over gold standard mentions. Addresses the task based on high-quality (gold standard) mentions of software that are expert-annotated in multiple publications. Subtask 2: Software coreference resolution over predicted mentions. Addresses the task on software mentions that are automatically extracted using a baseline model, i.e. reflecting a typical information extraction scenario, where upstream pipelines (such as entity and metadata extraction) are imperfect. Subtask 3: Software coreference resolution at scale. Addresses the task using predicted mentions of software and metadata at a larger scale. This challenges models to scale effectively, maintain accuracy, and distinguish among an increasingly dense field of similar or overlapping software mentions. Shared task co-organisers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Stefan Dietze, Frank Krüger, Wolfgang Otto Organisers * Georg Rehm (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) – main contact: <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de> * Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany) * Danilo Dessí (University of Sharjah, UAE) * Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK) * Sonja Schimmler (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Programme Committee * Marcel Ackermann, Lernzentrum Informatik (LZI), DBLP, Germany * Raia Abu Ahmad, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, University of Hamburg, Germany * Ekaterina Borisova, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, CNRS, University Paris 13, France * Leyla Jael Castro, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany * Mathieu d’Aquin, Université de Lorraine, France * Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany * Catherine Faron, Université Côte d’Azur, France * Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA * Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, TheNetherlands * Leonhard Hennig, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Inma Hernandez, University of Seville, Spain * Robert Jäschke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany * Petr Knoth, Open University, UK * Frank Krüger, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, USA * Andrea Mannocci, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece * Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy * Philipp Mayr-Schlegel, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation, USA * Wolfgang Otto, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Haris Papageorgiou, R.C. Athena, Greece * Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Simone Ponzetto, Univ. of Mannheim, Germany * Diego Reforgiato Recupero, University of Cagliari, Italy * Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany * Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK * Philipp Schaer, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany * Atsuhiro Takasu, University of Tokyo, Japan * Stefani Tsaneva, WU Wien, Austria * Ricardo Usbeck, Leuphana University, Germany * Thanasis Vergoulis, R.C. Athena, Greece

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CfP: FLAIRS-39 Track on Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA)
by Davide LIGA 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Dear Colleagues, We invite submissions for the Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA) special track at the 39th International FLAIRS Conference, to be held 17-20 May 2026 in Marco Island, Florida. The goal of the NORA special track is to advance research on how norms can shape, guide, and explain agentic behavior in AI systems. It aims to bring together scholars exploring formal models of norms and deontic reasoning with those developing applied approaches to norm-aware, agent-based, collaborative, and responsible AI. By fostering dialogue between logic-based, data-driven, and human-centered perspectives, the track seeks to bridge theoretical foundations and practical implementations of normative reasoning across diverse domains such as multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, robotics, security, law, and AI ethics. The track welcomes both established scholars and early-career researchers from diverse AI domains who wish to explore how normative approaches can enrich and support contemporary AI research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Formal and computational models of normative reasoning * Norm-aware and norm-adaptive agents (including agents for coordination, negotiation, and institution design) * Normative alignment and behavioral conformity in agentic and adaptive AI systems * Normative reasoning in multi-agent interaction, collaboration, and collective decision-making * Dialogue and interaction protocols for proposing, contesting, and revising norms * Learning, planning, and control under normative constraints (reinforcement learning, safe exploration, and compliance by design) * Automated normative reasoning for verification, monitoring, and compliance checking * Normative reasoning in robotics, embodied and hybrid agents, and practical decision making * Causal reasoning and norms (responsibility, accountability, blame/credit assignment, and trust) * Normative explainability and interpretability (e.g., argumentation- or deontic-based explanations) * Translation of natural-language norms into formal or executable specifications * Applications of normative reasoning in law, security, machine ethics, and AI governance For full details on the track and how to submit see the track website: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-nora/ Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: January 19, 2026 (Abstract is required to submit full paper.) * Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2026 * Paper acceptance notifications: March 9, 2026 * Camera ready version due: April 6, 2026 Types of submissions The track is accepting three types of paper submissions: * Full papers (up to 6 pages excluding references) * Short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references) * Posters (up to 2 pages excluding references) Proceedings The proceedings of FLAIRS-39 will be published by Florida Online Journals (https://journals.flvc.org/) which is indexed in DBLP and Scopus. Paper submission Papers must use the <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view> FLAIRS-39 template<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view> and must be submitted as a PDF. We look forward to your contributions! The NORA Track Chairs Réka Markovich, University of Luxembourg, reka.markovich(a)uni.lu<mailto:reka.markovich@uni.lu> Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, leon.vandertorre(a)uni.lu Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg, davide.liga(a)uni.lu Luca Pasetto, University of Luxembourg, luca.pasetto(a)uni.lu Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, liuwen.yu(a)list.lu

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PsyDefDetect shared task (co-located with BioNLP @ ACL 2026) - call for participation
by Paul Thompson 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

PsyDefDetect invites researchers to tackle a novel challenge at the intersection of Clinical Psychology and Natural Language Processing: detecting and classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues. Grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework, this shared task aims to advance the understanding of unconscious defensive functioning in text. Shared task website: https://psydefdetect-shared-task.github.io/ Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/AhuspeXNkM Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/psydefdetect RedNote: https://xhslink.com/m/34ddMoz7E4L Evaluation Platform (Codabench): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/ Task Overview Psychological defenses are the “immune system” of the mind, shaping what speakers disclose and how they accept or resist help. Despite their critical role in mental health and counseling, defensive functioning remains largely unmodeled in current emotional support conversation systems. This shared task invites participants to bridge the gap between clinical theory and NLP by analyzing the PSYDEFCONV dataset. Participants will work with multi-turn dialogues to identify the specific defense level of a target utterance given its context. The goal is to develop models that can recognize subtle, context-dependent defensive maneuvers—ranging from adaptive coping to immature distortion. Data and Labels PSYDEFCONV is the first conversational dataset annotated with defense levels based on the DMRS. The dataset is constructed from a stratified subset of the ESConv corpus to ensure diverse coverage of problem types and emotions. The corpus contains 200 dialogues and 4,709 total utterances, including 2,336 help-seeker turns annotated for defense levels. Participants must classify utterances into 9 categories, comprising seven hierarchical levels of defensive maturity and two auxiliary labels. Key Challenge Capturing subtle linguistic cues of deep-seated psychological mechanisms within highly informal and context-dependent emotional dialogues. Timeline This preliminary timeline is subject to change. Follow our website and channels for updates. Dec 15 2025: Task announced. Dec 20 2025: Task Launch on CodaBench. Mar 15 2026: Start of evaluation period. Apr 05 2026: End of evaluation period. TBA: Paper submission. TBA: Author notifications. TBA: Camera ready due. Baseline and Evaluation Metrics Baseline runs and official metrics are published on our CodaBench Page (https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/) Organizers Hongbin Na, University of Technology Sydney Zimu Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Zhaoming Chen, University of Utah Yining Hua, Harvard University Rena Gao, The University of Melbourne Kailai Yang, The University of Manchester Ling Chen, University of Technology Sydney Wei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Shaoxiong Ji, ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku John Torous, Harvard University Sophia Ananiadou, The University of Manchester & ELLIS Manchester -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round)
by Announce 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

*** First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CFP: Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026) at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

*Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026)* at The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 Place: San Diego, California, United States Link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2026/home Tagline: Towards Fair and Inclusive Language Technologies for All. Call for Papers: Following the success of the first five editions of the LTEDI 2026 workshop (LDK 2025, EACL 2024, RANLP 2023, ACL 2022. EACL 2021), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with social scientists and interdisciplinary researchers. LT-EDI-2026 invites theoretical, empirical, and applied papers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and interdisciplinary communities particularly those focusing on bias in language technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Datasets, and Benchmarks for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - - - - Construction and annotation of datasets for EDI, including benchmarks for bias detection and mitigation. - Compilation of resources curated for fairness, inclusivity, and accessibility. - Methodologies for annotating intersectional identities (gender, race, disability, religion, sexual orientation, etc.). - Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs - - - - Techniques for identifying, measuring, and mediating gender, racial, disability, and other societal biases in NLP and LLMs. - The impact of bias in deployed NLP/LLM systems - Gender-neutral modeling and representational fairness in LLMs - Detection and mitigation of intersectional biases including gender, racial, gender identity, disability, and other societal biases. - Advances in bias mitigation in large language models: in-context learning, prompt engineering, conditional text generation, and adversarial training. - Inclusive Language and Counter-Narratives for LLMs - - - - Algorithms and resources for inclusive language generation with LLMs. - Counter-narrative modeling for combating toxicity, hate speech, and misinformation targeting marginalized communities. - Dialogue systems and multi-agent approaches that align with inclusivity goals. - Human-in-the-loop and participatory strategies for enhancing inclusiveness. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches for LLMs - - - - Multicultural and multilingual LLMs and approaches - Speech and language recognition for minority and under-resourced groups - Code-mixed and cross-lingual approaches for inclusive technologies - Responsible, Explainable, and Trustworthy LLMs for EDI - - - - Detecting and mitigating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity in LLM systems - Explainable and trustworthy LLMs - Evaluation frameworks incorporating ethics, accountability, and transparency - Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 - Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026

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CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026) (Deadline extended)
by Amal Haddad 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/eacl2026/AbjadNLP2026/ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 15 January 2026 ARR submissions: 15 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 15 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [1]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [2] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Demos & DC & T
by Announce 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

*** Last Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** 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…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, is available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Important Dates (AoE) Demo Track • Submission Deadline: January 9, 2026 • Author Notification: February 6, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: February 25, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 • Demonstrations: May 27-29, 2026 Doctoral Consortium • Abstract Deadline: January 19, 2026 • Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026 • Author Notification: February 23, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: March 2, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 Tutorials • Proposal Submission: January 16, 2026 • Organiser Notifications: January 30, 2026 • Tutorial Site Online: March 4, 2026 • Tutorial Forum: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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Call for Participation: CLEF eRisk 2026: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
by ACL Announcements 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Call for Participation: CLEF eRisk 2026: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet _Are you passionate about leveraging AI for societal good? We are pleased to announce that registration and submissions are now open for eRisk 2026, the tenth edition of the CLEF associated evaluation lab of early risk prediction on the Internet!!. Full details are available on the eRisk website._ _Tasks for eRisk 2026 (All the info available at https://erisk.irlab.org/)_ _*Task 1: Conversational Depression Detection with LLMs_ _Participants will interact with fine-tuned LLM personas that will be released on Hugging Face. Each persona simulates a different depression severity. Systems must decide whether the persona is depressed, estimate its overall depression level, and detect active depressive symptoms._ _*Task 2: Contextualised Early Detection of Depression _ _A continuation of last year's contextual detection task: systems analyze full multi-participant conversational contexts arriving sequentially, and make early predictions about depression risk, balancing timeliness and accuracy._ _*Task 3: ADHD Symptom Sentence Ranking (ASRS-v1.1) _ _A novel task expanding beyond depression. Participants will rank sentences by their relevance to each of the 18 symptoms in the ASRS-v1.1 scale. The setup follows the classical ranking-task format, offering no annotated training set at launch (zero-shot setup)._ _ _ _- Why Participate?_ _Publication & Visibility: Accepted contributions will be featured in CEUR-WS (Workshop Proceedings) and acknowledged at CLEF 2026 (Jena, Germany, 21-24 September 2026), offering wide academic and community exposure._ _Interdisciplinary Impact: eRisk blends information retrieval, NLP, computational psychiatry, and social data science: a unique opportunity for collaboration._ _Leading-Edge Challenges: With conversational agents and symptom-level retrieval, eRisk 2026 targets more realistic, fine-grained, and clinically relevant tasks than ever before._ _ _ _- Key Dates _ _ _ _- Datasets Release:_ _ -T1 and T2: 19th December 2026 for training collection and 9th February 2026 beginning of test stage (servers are open)_ _ -T3: no training data, 19th December 2026 release of test collection, and 9th February 2026 beginning of test stage (servers are open)_ _ _ _ _ _- Submission Deadlines:_ _ -T1: 20th April 2026 end of test stage_ _ -T2: 13th April 2026 end of test stage (server closes)_ _ -T3: 1st April 2026 for submitting participants' results to FTP_ _ _ _ _ _- CLEF 2026 Conference: 21-24 September 2026, Jena, Germany. _ _ _ _How to Sign Up & Contribute_ _1. Register: Sign up through the [CLEF 2026 Labs Registration site](https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ [1])_ _2. Submit Agreements: Complete the user agreement form to access datasets. _ _3. Join the Community: Join our Google Groups https://groups.google.com/g/erisk-clef [2] !_ _After evaluation, submit a workshop paper describing your approach and results for publication in CEUR-WS._ _ _ _ _ _We encourage you (and your research group) to join us in advancing the state of early risk detection. Please feel free to forward this message to any colleagues who may be interested._ _Best regards,_ _Javier Parapar, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani_ _eRisk organizers"_ Links: ------ [1] https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ [2] https://groups.google.com/g/erisk-clef

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EACL 2026 Call For Volunteers
by Ekaterina Kochmar 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Join us as a student volunteer at the prestigious 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026). We're seeking dedicated students, both for in-person and online roles, to contribute to the success of this event. What You Gain: Selected volunteers will receive complimentary registration to the main conference, workshops, tutorials, and social events. Shifts are designed to optimize your access to conference events. Roles and Responsibilities: Volunteer tasks encompass various aspects such as assisting at the registration desk, on-boarding briefs to delegates checking in, problem solving, providing directional support at the conference venue, organizing delegate packs, overseeing poster sessions, coordinating volunteers, and providing AV/technical support, including social media management and aiding with conference events. If you apply and are selected as a virtual volunteer your roles and responsibilities will be monitoring content on platforms such as RocketChat; Underline, MiniConf etc. As a virtual attendee you will report content issues on publications and escalate issue to the on-site technical support team. With this knowledge, please make sure you possess the skills to handle such requirements during the conference. Selection Criteria: Candidates will be assessed based on their application package (details below). Preference will be given to students presenting papers at the main conference or affiliated workshops without alternative travel support. Application Process: * Applicants must be full-time students. * Submission requires a completed application form at https://forms.gle/FQsaESw61dZGCcyX8 with a few questions and a concise one-page CV (resume). * Travel and accommodations should be arranged independently, regardless of the application outcome. Special Rate Lodging is secured by ACL Months in advance to the conference. The discounted rates can be seen and secured by going to the Conference website, Participant Info, Accommodations. Application Instructions: Please refrain from registering for the ACL Conference until you receive a confirmation of acceptance into the Volunteer Service. Upon acceptance, you'll receive a dedicated registration link. Additionally, access will be provided to a Volunteer Website with essential information, FAQs, training materials, and a scheduling system to choose volunteer days and roles. To receive a complimentary registration for the ACL Event, it's crucial to note that a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer work at the event is mandatory. These hours can be divided across several shifts on different days or completed in a single shift. Failure to meet the volunteer commitment will result in being charged the in-person conference fee. In the event of non-acceptance, the Registrar will assist in securing early registration fee rates. For late volunteer registration reimbursements, students need to provide receipts for paid registration fees to the 2026 ACL Reimbursement Link which will be provided to you by the Volunteer Chairs. Additional Financial Support: Once more, volunteering grants you complimentary registration solely for the ACL Conference. If you require further financial assistance for lodging, airfare, or daily expenses, it's advisable to apply for Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies. You have the liberty to seek both a Volunteer subsidy and a D&I subsidy simultaneously, as there are no restrictions against receiving both. To review the criteria for D&I Subsidies, please refer to the Call for D&I Post, which includes selection criteria. Important Dates: * Application Opens: December 22, 2025 * Application Deadline: January 23, 2026 * Acceptance Notifications: February 9, 2026

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Indusrey Track)
by Announce 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

*** First Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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