January 2026 - Corpora

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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Call for papers and participation: the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) @ ACL 2026
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

The 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) (formerly CASE) @ ACL 2026 Also, this year the EEUCA workshop continues the tradition of the eight previous editions of our workshop on challenges and applications of event extraction. Website: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/EEUCA Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: April 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 Shared tasks and shared task papers: Start of the Competition: Dec 10, 2025 Eval Phase Start: Dec 10, 2025 Test Phase Start: Jan 15, 2026 Test Phase End: March 15, 2026 Paper Submission Deadline: March 28, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 We invite work on all aspects of automated coding and analysis of events from mono- or multi-lingual text sources. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events and their arguments in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) New datasets, training data collection and annotation for event information. 3) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatiotemporal relations, causal relations. 4) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 5) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 6) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 7) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 8) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 9) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, and policymaking. 10) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 11) Detection of new event types, e.g. creative protests, cyber activism, COVID-19 related, terrorism, food safety, food security, climate change, extreme weather events, disasters. 12) Release of new event datasets, 13) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 14) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 15) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 16) Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 17) Exploiting LLMs in Event Extraction. 18) Generative AI and event reports: detecting AI-generated news, exploiting generative AI for creating event corpora, etc. Shared Task 1: Multimodal Identification of Vaccine Critical Content on Social Media This shared task focuses on detecting vaccine-critical stance in multimodal social media memes. Using the VaxMeme dataset of over 10,000 annotated memes, participants will develop models that jointly leverage visual and textual signals to classify a meme’s stance as pro-vaccine, vaccine-critical, or neutral. The task encourages research on cross-modal understanding, sarcasm, implicit messaging, and misinformation dynamics in public health discourse. External data and transfer learning are permitted, and submissions will be evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-vaccine Shared Task 2: Understanding Toxic Behavioral Intent in Gaming Chat Logs for Healthy Online Interaction This shared task tackles intent-level toxicity detection in online gaming communities using the GameTox dataset of 53,000 annotated chat utterances from World of Tanks. Participants will develop models that classify a player’s message into six fine-grained intent categories, including hate, threats, insults, extremism, and non-toxic communication. The challenge highlights contextual nuance, gaming slang, implicit aggression, and varied severity levels of toxicity. External datasets are allowed, and submissions are evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-toxicity Keep an eye on the workshop page that is being updated: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 and contact us for any inquiries (submission, collaboration, contribution, or just saying Hi! ). EEUCA Organization Committee

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

*** Call for Participation *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 *** Early Registration Deadline: 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems. The event explores innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system renewal and program understanding. INVITED SPEAKERS Nicole Novielli and Alexander Serebrenik are the keynote speakers of SANER 2026. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/info/saner-2026/keynotes REGISTRATION Registration is open. Please visit: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/saner-2026/registration+ *** Early registration till 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** If you have not yet registered, there is still time to register at the reduced rate. Special rates for IEEE members and for students. The conference organisation is able to provide visa support letters to attendees that require visa. VENUE SANER 2026 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. St. Raphael Resort is located on one of the most renowned beaches in Limassol, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away. PROGRAM OVERVIEW SANER 2026 workshops take place on 17th March and the main conference between 18th and 20th of March. SANER 2026 features many tracks with talks in different areas of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. • Research Track (47 papers) • Industrial Track (19 papers) • Early Research Achievement Track (15 papers) • Short Papers and Posters Track (19 papers) • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results Track (4 papers) • Tool Demo Track (13 papers) • Journal First Papers (18 papers) • Registered Report Track (5 papers) • Workshops (7 workshops) • Tutorials (1 tutorial) WORKSHOPS - SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Workshop https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io/ - Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io/ - Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io/ - F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ - IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ - VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ - MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io/ ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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Second CFP: Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages @LREC 2026
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

===apologies for cross-postings=== *CHiPSAL: **Second Call For Papers* *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages* We are pleased to announce the *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)*, to be held in *hybrid mode on 16 May 2026*, co-located with *LREC 2026*. CHiPSAL 2026 invites *substantial, original, and unpublished research* on all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for *South Asian languages*. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Encoding and Unicode issues - Orthographic complexities - Morphology and generation - Dialectal variation and standardisation - Code-mixing and multilingualism - Building linguistic resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Technology for linguistic heritage preservation - Benchmarking models - Large language models for South Asian languages ------------------------------ *Important Dates (AoE)* - Submission Deadline: *20 February 2026* - Notification of Acceptance: *20 March 2026* - Camera-ready Papers:* 30 March 2026* - Workshop (Hybrid): *16 May 2026* ------------------------------ *Submission Guidelines* CHiPSAL 2026 accepts *oral*, *poster*, and *poster+demo* papers. - Short papers: 4 pages - Long papers: 8 pages (Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and data/code availability statements) All submissions must: - Follow the *LREC 2026 stylesheet*: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ - Be *fully anonymised* for double-blind review - Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability statements - Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission) - *Be relevant to South Asian language processing* Papers must report *original, unpublished work*. Concurrent submissions must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. *Speakers* - *Monojit Choudhury*, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi - *Usman Naseem*, School of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia *More Information* Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/> *Associated Shared Tasks* CHiPSAL 2026 also hosts two shared tasks: *Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-1 *Multilingual ASR for South Asian Languages* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-2 *Workshop Organising Committee* - Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. - Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. - Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal. - Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA. - Tafseer Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan. Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions. We look forward to your contributions. Best regards, *The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee* -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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