January 2026 - Corpora

Second CFP *SEM2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, San Diego, CA. (Co-located with ACL)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear corpora-list members, We are pleased to announce the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), co-located with ACL 2026. The call for papers can be found here<https://starsem2026.github.io/calls/> and below. *SEM 2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics [San Diego, CA (Co-located with ACL 2026)] Website: https://starsem2026.github.io/ Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=STARSEM/2026/Conference *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation, and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here. Please fill out this form<https://forms.gle/634oW3yvtTkur6qL9> if you would like to volunteer as a reviewer or as an Area Chair. Questions may be directed to: startsem-2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com> New for *SEM 2026 1. One Day Conference: Unlike past iterations, *Sem 2026 will be a one-day conference. (ACL has informed us that this is due to venue size limitations.) 2. Centering Research Questions: Research questions in *Sem, and NLP generally, can be roughly categorized into those that address: * new findings about language (linguistic phenomena, semantic patterns), * new findings about people (language use, behavior, health, ethics, etc.), * new findings about automatic language processing (advancing language understanding through ML/AI and other approaches). Centering and explicitly articulating the research question helps authors frame and present their contribution more clearly. It also helps reviewers and Area Chairs evaluate the work within the appropriate context. For example, a paper that centers a compelling linguistic or behavioral research question and offers meaningful new insights need not also introduce methodological novelty or rely on the latest models (including LLMs). A simple and interpretable approach may make good sense. To support this, the *SEM 2026 submission form asks authors to explicitly identify the predominant research question type for their work, as well as any additional categories that apply. There are no quotas for accepted papers of different types, and submissions will not receive preferential treatment based on category selection. Including this information also allows *SEM to track the kinds of research questions authors pursue and how the conference’s focus evolves over time. 3. Lasting Impact Modern NLP and ML papers have often been criticized for being overly incremental or becoming obsolete shortly after publication. To encourage work with broader scientific value and longer-term relevance, reviewers of *Sem 2026 will be asked to explicitly assess the potential lasting impact of each submission. This assessment will be included as a short-written justification and will factor into the overall recommendation. Importantly, a healthy research ecosystem requires diversity in the time horizons of research contributions. Some papers offer immediate practical value; others generate insights or resources whose importance unfolds over years. *Sem 2026 welcomes this full spectrum. Reviewers should evaluate the potential for lasting influence—not only immediate performance gains. Work can have a lasting impact in many ways. See our blog post<https://starsem2026.github.io/blog/> on this. Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Sentiment Analysis, Computational Affective Science, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Analytics * Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations * Entity linking, pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Abusive language detection, Fact verification and related tasks * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor processing * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Psycholinguistics * Interpretability and Explainability * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * NLP Applications * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained, and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits direct submissions (not through ARR). The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 13, 2026, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. Submissions are made through OpenReview. Multiple submission policy *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): Feb 13, 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: May 26, 2026 Conference date: July 6, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) Following the ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Best regards, The *SEM 2026 Program Chairs

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Miscelanea Journal_New editorial team_Open submissions
by Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am writing in my capacity as the newly appointed Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics at_ Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies_: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en. _Miscelanea_, with 72 volumes published to date, is one of the longest-running international journals on English Studies in Spain. It is published and produced at the University of Zaragoza, and more specifically, by the Department of English and German Philology. _Miscelanea _is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (in December and June), and publishes articles on English language and linguistics, on literatures written in English, on thought, cinema and cultural studies from the English-speaking world. We welcome submissions all year round. As Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics, I will welcome any submission that draws upon any of the following areas and/or methodological approaches (to name but a few): * Descriptive linguistics; * Applied linguistics; * Discourse analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; * Sociolinguistics; * Systemic-Functional Linguistics; * Translation Studies; Etc. I hope you will consider our publication as a potential outlet for your research. Looking forward to receiving and reading your work. With all my best wishes, Miguel-Angel -- Dr. Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) C/ Atarazanas, 4, 44003, Teruel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5943 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Angel-Benitez-Castro https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [1] Member of: _IUI Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) [2]_ Universidad de Zaragoza Language and Linguistics Editor _- Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [3]_ Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [2] https://bifi.es/ [3] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/index

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Third and last Call for Papers - deadline extension 7 February 2026 - NooJ 2026 International Conference
by petra.giommarelli＠phd.unipi.it 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Third Call for Papers ***************** NooJ 2026 International Conference Naples, Italy June 24-26, 2026 https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2 ******************* Important dates: ******************* Abstract submission (extended deadline): 7 February 2026 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026 Registration: until 13 April 2026 Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026 *********************************************** University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism. NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc. NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr ****************************** The conference intends to: ****************************** * give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; * present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; * offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts. ******************* Topics of interest: ******************* * Lexical resources * Computational morphology * Syntactic analysis * Semantic analysis * Linguistic-based NLP applications *************** Submission: *************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 7 February 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to nooj2026(a)gmail.com. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026. Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at nooj2026(a)gmail.com for any additional information. ************************ Scientific Committee: ************************ Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France ************************** Organizing Committee: ************************** * Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France

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1st Call for Papers: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026)
by Barbara McGillivray 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Call for papers ************************************************************** Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026) Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 16, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NeoLLM2026/ Workshop website: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/ Main conference website: <https://lrec2026.info/> https://lrec2026.info/ ************************************************************** Motivation and Topics of Interest Understanding how LLMs capture, propagate, or even invent semantic shifts raises fundamental questions for lexicography, language modeling, and semantic resources. Addressing these questions requires close collaboration between computational linguistics, lexicography, and lexical resource development. Such interdisciplinary work can shed light on how large language models both reflect and reshape linguistic creativity, an inquiry that lies at the core of the proposed workshop. The goal is to examine methodological, theoretical, and applied questions: How can LLMs help identify, track, and categorize new lexical items and senses across languages? To what extent do LLMs replicate or amplify human neologisms and semantic shifts, and when do they generate artificial or spurious ones? What are the implications for lexicographic practice, language documentation, NLP applications, and cultural studies of language change? We invite researchers from computational linguistics, lexicography, digital humanities, and language technology to explore the intersection of LLMs and neology. We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: * Linguistic Innovation in the Age of AI * Neology detection and tracking using LLMs * How LLMs absorb, generate, and disseminate new lexical items * Benchmarks for LLM-driven neology detection * Legitimacy and authority in AI-generated neologisms * Language Resources and Inequality * High-resource vs. low-resource languages in neology * Integration of neologisms in dominant languages * LLMs and neology for low-resource languages * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Dimensions * Cultural appropriateness and contextual limitations of AI-driven neologisms * Sociolinguistic perspectives on LLMs and neology * LLMs as participants in language innovation * Opportunities for language revitalization and documentation * Future Considerations for Linguistic Research * AI’s role in shaping language futures * Strategies to ensure linguistic equity and diversity * Cross-disciplinary approaches: linguistics, AI, education, and sociology We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes the project is created. Projects that are still in their early stages and seek advice from the broader scientific community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of study. We particularly welcome work on under-resourced and endangered languages. Submissions can be made via: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr<https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/>/<https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/> Papers should be formatted according to the LREC guidelines, please see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>/<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. 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. Important Dates Paper Submission: 20 February 2026 Notification: 15 March 2026 Camera-ready Copy: 30 March 2026 Workshop: 16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”). Workshop organisers Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene (Mykolas Romeris University) Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London) Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg) Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology) Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | <https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> @BarbaraMcGilli<https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Open Research<https://emckclac.sharepoint.com/sites/artshums/SitePages/Open-Research.aspx…> Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/>

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Call for Participation [Shared Task CLPsych 2026] The 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology @ ACL 2026
by Talia Tseriotou 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

====================== Call for Participation ====================== CLPsych 2026 Shared Task: Capturing and Characterizing Mental Health Changes through Social Media Timeline Dynamics, 📍 ACL 2026 in San Diego, USA (July 2-7 2026) Overview: The 2026 shared task further advances work from previous years tasks by integrating dynamic mental health modeling, emphasizing the identification of key self-state elements leading up to mental state changes over time. Participants will analyze temporally ordered sequences of social media posts to characterize detailed psychological processes, key changes, as well as the interplay of such self-state processes leading up to the changes. Grounded in the MIND framework that conceptualizes self-states as combinations of Affect, Behavior, Cognition, and Desire (ABCD) components, it aims to further explore the fine-grained elements contributing to changes. The core objective of the shared task is to develop computational models that can identify adaptive and maladaptive self-state dimensions as well as changes over time across social media timelines aiming to characterize and summarize self-state sequences leading to such changes. Task description: Participants will develop systems that emulate a structured human annotation process to model mental health dynamics over time: * Predict adaptive and maladaptive ABCD element combinations for each individual post. * Identify moments of change in mental health social media trajectories using longitudinal signals. * Generate concise, interpretable self-state summaries leveraging the identified ABCD elements and contextual information leading up to changes in the user timeline. Registration: * One team registration<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKp0JeE9CfBd59gFGF9YePKEFC6JXmKC8…> form * One individual registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftD9EbFFHMW_canwvXBYk87va6snnkpX9…> per team member Researchers seeking collaborators are encouraged to contact the organizers. Website: https://clpsych.org/shared-task/ Important dates: * Registration deadline (Feb 15) * Receiving guidelines on accessing sample data (Mar 1) * Receiving instructions on the task and training data (Mar 11) * System submissions on test set (Apr 18) * Shared Task Paper submissions (May 1) * Camera-ready papers due (May 15) Short Papers (one per team) up to 4 pages - with extra pages for references, limitations, ethics and appendices. Contact: clpsych-2026-shared-task(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:clpsych-2026-shared-task@googlegroups.com>, or any of the organizers directly.

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[IEEE FG2026] Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology
by Arianna De Vecchi 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Wearable movement and physiology sensors offer lightweight, non-invasive, and ecologically valid means to monitor human activity, affective state, and social behavior. With the rise of commercially deployed devices and new wearable foundation models, opportunities for scalable human behavior analysis continue to grow. However, challenges such as personalized modeling, on-device integration, or multimodal fusion prevail, limiting in-the-wild deployment of wearable devices. The 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT) aims to foster collaboration between researchers from various backgrounds (ML, HCI, biomedical engineering) around the topic of wearable devices for human behavioral analysis. The workshop will be held in Kyoto as part of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2026), taking place on May 25–29, 2026. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Machine Learning and computational models for movement and physiological wearables * Resource efficient and lightweight models * Multimodal fusion and synchronization strategies * Methods for irregularly sampled or missing data * Individual differences, personalization, and context-awareness * Ethical and privacy-preserving AI in wearable systems * Novel wearables and applications * Experimental methods for validation of wearable systems * Lab-controlled experiments and In-the-wild deployment * Datasets and Benchmarks * Responsible data management and user consent * Applications in Affective Computing / Mobile Health / Action Recognition / Social Interaction / HRI Submission Details: (1) Main Track (Original Research): 4 up to 8-pages work (2) Non-Archival Track (Published Work): 1-page summary Important Dates: Main track: * Paper registration deadline: March 30, 2026 * Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 * Camera-ready paper deadline: April 20, 2026 Non-archival track: * Summary submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 For more details, please visit our website: https://beat-workshop.github.io/ For further questions, contact us via beat-workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:beat-workshop@googlegroups.com> General Chairs: Louis Simon, Arianna de Vecchi, Cristina Palmero, Felix Dollack, Ting Dang, Mohamed Chetouani (modificato) beat-workshop.github.io Behavior and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT)<https://beat-workshop.github.io/> Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2026, Kyoto, Japan

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FoIKS-2026 Call for Participation
by Yasir mahmood 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

====================== Call for Participation ====================== 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) 📅 March 23–26, 2026 | Hannover, Germany 🌐 https://foiks2026.github.io We cordially invite you to participate in FoIKS 2026, the 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, which takes place from March 23 to 26, 2026, in Hannover, Germany. FoIKS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the formal foundations, design, and analysis of information and knowledge systems. The symposium fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration spanning areas such as databases, logic, knowledge representation, and computational complexity. ============ Registration ============ • Early registration deadline: February 15, 2026 • Late registration deadline: March 08, 2026 • Conference dates: March 23–26, 2026 The on-site registration (upon arrival) will not be possible. ==================== Program and Keynotes ==================== The list of accepted papers and keynote speakers is now available online. The full conference program will be published on our website soon. We are excited to announce the following keynotes for FoIKS 2026: - Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Keynote Title: Reactive Program Synthesis in AI - Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Keynote Title: Relational Neural Networks - Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Keynote Title: Reasoning for LLM-based Agents - Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) * Keynote Title: Semiring Provenance for Ontology-based data access 👉 https://foiks2026.github.io/program.html ======= Contact ======= For any further information or inquiries, please contact us at: 📧 foiks26-thi(a)listserv.uni-hannover.de We look forward to welcoming you to Hannover for FoIKS 2026!

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 2nd Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Papers
by Alba Bisante 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster papers: March 9, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. See AVI 2026 themes and topics: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16532/topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities. Interactive experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers and artists. Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields. See AVI 2026 themes and topics: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16532/topics Please notice that: The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs BEFORE submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Submission information (e.g., submission language and format) is available on the AVI 2026 website: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16575/interactive-experiences-demo-and-poster-p… All submissions must use the Easy Chair system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND ACM OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING MODEL All accepted papers are included in the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for AVI 2026 by the early registration deadline and present the paper at the conference. **Important note to authors about ACM’s new open access publishing model** ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the ICPS Series. Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows: Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info(a)acm.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRS AND CONTACTS Poster Chairs: Alba Bisante, La Sapienza University, Italy Tanja Doering [DEU], TU Berlin, Germany Contact: avi2026poster(a)easychair.org Interactive Experience and Demo Chairs: Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Contact: avi2026IEdemo(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See https://www.unive.it/web/en/16533/committees

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Open PhD position -- Argument Mining on Scientific Publications -- Université Côte d’Azur, France
by elena_cabrio 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Open PhD Position "Argument Mining on Scientific Publications" at Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France. -- Context -- The CRITICS project (ERA-NET CHIST-ERA) on “Critical Science Without Borders: LLMs for Translation of Scientific Knowledge in Multilingual Contexts” proposes to transform the future of science accessibility and literacy through the convergence of advanced Machine Translation based on Large Language Models (LLMs) and educational technology. In this context, this PhD position aims at tailoring Argument mining approaches to address domain-specific features of scientific argumentation in multilingual educational texts. -- Research fields -- Natural Language Processing, Argument Mining and Generation -- Research group -- MARIANNE (https://www.inria.fr/en/marianne) is a research team of Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Inria, CNRS (France). The research fields of the team are argument mining, argumentation-based reasoning, counter-argument generation, and argumentation quality. -- Candidate profile -- • Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science or Computational Linguistics is required. • Programming skills are required. • Knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Argumentation is preferred. • Fluent English required, both oral and written. French is appreciated but not mandatory. -- Application process -- Apply by sending an email directly to the supervisors (Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio(a)univ-cotedazur.fr> and Serena Villata <serena.villata(a)univ-cotedazur.fr>). Deadline for applications: *** February 16th, 2026 *** The application must include: - Curriculum vitæ. - Motivation Letter. - Academic transcripts of a master’s degree(s) or equivalent. - At least one letter of recommendation

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Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS 2026 will accept archival (long and short papers) as well as non-archival (extended abstracts) submissions. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology,, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and affective science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ Submission deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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