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Second Call for Papers: DELITE 2026
The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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OVERVIEW
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Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation.
The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes.
The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology.
While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models.
We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Deliberation theory in NLP models
* In-domain versus across domain resources
* Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and
interfaces
* Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale
* Argument mining for deliberation scenarios
* Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking
* Empirical foundations for evaluation
* Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for
deliberation scenarios
* Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale
* Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making
* Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias
APPLICATION AREAS
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We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse.
SUBMISSION
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DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences).
* Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers.
* Extended Abstracts (non-archival): A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences).
* PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication.
* Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building.
Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures.
Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Submission link:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DELITE2026/
The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative
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When submitting a paper from the START page, 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)".
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Archival paper submission: 19 February 2026
* Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026
* Camera-ready: 30 March 2026
* Workshop day: 16 May 2026
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK
* Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
* Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK
* Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany
* Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf,
Germany
* Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,
Germany
CONTACT
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e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/
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2nd Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca
https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…>
Important Dates
* February 27: Paper submission
* March 20: Notification of acceptance
* March 30: Camera-ready papers due
* May 12, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at LREC
NLPerspectives
Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024).
Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025).
In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios.
In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline.
The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026.
Submissions
When submitting a paper from the START page, 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). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers.
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>.
We accept three types of submissions:
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Regular research papers;
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Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings;
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(Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere.
NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop.
Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLPerspectives
Topics
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
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Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
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Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
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Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models
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Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
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Fairness and inclusive modelling
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Perspectivist approaches for social good
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Applications of multi-perspective modelling
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Computing with (dis)agreement
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Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
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Perspectivism in multimodal AI
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Foundational aspects of perspectivism
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Participatory approaches and human label variation
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Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP
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Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems
Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation.
Attendance
The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference.
Workshop organisers:
Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/
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Joint Call for Papers
Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study
Social Interactions (NLPSI)
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Workshop day: May 12, 2026
Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026
Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io
Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de
OVERVIEW
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Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the
modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics
include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social
context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI
workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while
addressing distinct challenges.
The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use,
seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology
and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional
crowdsourcing.
The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human
communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce
language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social
Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale
studies.
TOPICS
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This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors
should choose the track that best matches their contribution.
SoCon Track
"Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community
Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with
pragmatics and social sciences
* Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of
practice and speech communities
* Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory
design involving relevant communities
* Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social
attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events
Contact for SoCon track: social-context-workshop(a)googlegroups.com
NLPSI Track
"Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a
deeper understanding of social interactions."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
*Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality)
*Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction
*Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution
*The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion
contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation
Contact for NLPSI track: nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de
SUBMISSION TYPES
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* Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from
preliminary to established contributions
* Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage
research
* Extended abstracts(non-archival, up to 2 pages): a new format designed
to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are
not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). Extended abstracts are not
included in conference proceedings.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submissions will be double-blind reviewed.
Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf).
Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics,
acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count.
Submission via Softconf: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SoConNLPSI/
Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools,
technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language
resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow
ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
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The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy.
It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations
(oral and lightning talks).
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026
Workshop day: May 12, 2026
ORGANIZERS
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SoCon
Marco Antonio Stranisci, Turin University
Soda Marem Lo, Turin University
Sabine Weber, Bamberg University
Rossana Damiano, Turin University
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Viviana Patti, Turin University
Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University
Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg
NLPSI
Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg
Sofie Labat, Ghent University
Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Véronique Hoste, Ghent University
Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg University
LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted
Collections for Open Science
Palma de Mallorca
2nd Call for Papers
The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted
Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026).
Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a
promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be
shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions.
This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and
infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal
framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital
humanities, and language technology.
We invite contributions from the community that address practical
experiences, challenges, and solutions related to:
* The creation and processing of DTF
* Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data
* Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus
linguistics, or NLP
* Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows
* Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards)
The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date
will be communicated in due time.
Submission Format
Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and
potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC
stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page
<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> at
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions will be reviewed by the
workshop organizers and the programme committee.
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
* Reviewing period: 21 February 2026 – 10 March 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026
* Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026
* Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026
Submission
Submissions will be handled via the submission system Softconf
<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF> at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF.
When submitting a paper from the START page, 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)
Workshop Organisers
* Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library
* Keli Du, University of Trier
* José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library
* Philippe Genêt, German National Library
* Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
* Christof Schöch University of Trier
* Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für
Deutsche Sprache
Programme Committee
tba
Contact
For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com
<mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com>
Updates
For updates, see
https://text-plus.org/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-12-lrec-dtf/
*Call for papers:* *NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on
Natural Language & Information Systems*
17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Trondheim, Norway
Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/
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/Objectives:/*
Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it
comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage
with information using natural language instead of artificial query
languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also
ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB
has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection
of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and
practitioners to contribute.
/*Important Dates:*/
Paper Submission: 6 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth
Author Notification: 20 March 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026
/*Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):*/
- Multimodality
- AI safety and ethics
- Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces
- Social Media and Web Data
- eXplainable AI
- Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP
- Generative models, Large Language Models
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining
- Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems
- NLP Applications
- Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
- Big Data and Scalability
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/Paper Submission/*
Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and
all relevant requirements are available on the conference website.
Submission system: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via
Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/
Author guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format. Submissions
that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected.
Paper categories and length limits:
- Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices
- Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices
- Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references
Dear colleagues,
The Social Media Access Days are concerned with sustainable archiving, indexing and access to social media data for research and infrastructure.
Registration for the Social Media Access Days is now open: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-access-days-tickets-1973758115656…
The conference, entitled ‘Social Media Data between Research and Infrastructure – Sustainable Archiving, Indexing and Provision’, will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Keynote:
Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) “Nearly a decade after the APIcalypse: Where are we now on social media access?"
All information and the full program are available here: https://www.dnb.de/EN/smad
We look forward to your participation.
Warm regards on behalf of the programme committee
Tatjana Scheffler
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Tatjana Scheffler (she/her)
GB 5/157
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Digital Forensic Linguistics
Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut
Universitätsstraße 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de
Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/
Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr
Tel.: +49 234 32-21471
Dear all,
The University of Manitoba's Department of Computer Science invites
international applications for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in
Artificial Intelligence, to be appointed to the rank of Full Professor
or Associate Professor. Chairholders will awarded up to $8 million over
eight years ($1 million per year), with the potential for a four-year
extension at 50% of the initial award value per year.
The focus of this position is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,
specifically systems and methods that are designed, evaluated, and
deployed with a focus on human values, needs, behaviours, and social
contexts. Applications from those in natural language processing,
provided their research aligns with this focus, are welcome.
The full posting is reproduced below, and is also available on the UM
Careers Portal at
<https://viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX?REQ_ID=43775>. For
more information, please contact Kellee Strom: Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca
Sincerely,
Tristan Miller
Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence
Full Time, Tenured
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Position #: 37369 and 37370
Expected start date of appointment: Within 12 months of the award date
(September 2026).
The Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science at the
University of Manitoba invites applications for a Canada Impact+
Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. A Canada Impact+ Research
Chair is one of the most prestigious international awards globally,
providing Chairholders and their research teams with an award of up to
$8 million over eight years ($1 million per year). In addition, there is
potential for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value
per year. This extension will be determined by an external review in
Year 7 of the award.
Successful nominees will be expected to start their position at the
University of Manitoba within 12 months of accepting the award. The
successful candidate will be appointed to a full-time tenured position
at the rank of Full Professor, or at the rank of Associate Professor
with an opportunity to apply for promotion to Full Professor within two
years of starting their appointment. Salary and tenure status will be
based on the candidate's qualifications and experience, in accordance
with the University of Manitoba Faculty Association collective
agreement. The position will be provided with a start-up package and
opportunities to compete for additional equipment funding through the
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
The Canada Impact+ Research Chair Program
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is a new initiative
funded by the Government of Canada to attract world-leading researchers
to Canadian universities whose work addresses critical national and
global challenges. Impact+ chairholders must advance ambitious and
transformative projects in one or more of Canada's strategic priority
areas, build and maintain exceptional research teams, and collaborate
with partners across sectors and borders. Canada's strategic priority
areas are: Advanced digital technologies (including artificial
intelligence, quantum and cybersecurity); Health, including
biotechnology; Clean technology and resource value chains; Environment,
climate resilience and the Arctic; Food and water security; Democratic
and community resilience; Manufacturing and advanced materials; and
Defence and dual-use technologies. Impact+ chairholders are expected to
drive the translation of discoveries into applications,
commercialization and social and economic benefits for Canada and the
world, while also developing the next generation of highly qualified
personnel. Please consult the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs website
<https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs/program-details/competition/202…>
for full program information, including further details on eligibility
criteria and application requirements.
Applicants must have a recent track record of research accomplishments
and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada. Only
candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing
outside of Canada) at the time of the first intake application deadline
(March 24, 2026) are eligible to apply. The focus of this position is
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, specifically systems and methods
that are designed, evaluated, and deployed with a focus on human values,
needs, behaviours, and social contexts. Areas of interest include, but
are not limited to: explainability, accountability, trust, and
transparency; health, education, and civic engagement; embodied,
robotic, and social intelligence; human-robot interaction, human-AI
collaboration, and decision support systems; AI for science and
scientific discovery. While this is a research-intensive position, the
successful candidate will also contribute to educating undergraduate and
graduate students through teaching and mentorship in the Department of
Computer Science, and participate in academic service activities to the
Department, Faculty, or University. Teaching experience in Machine
Learning, Language Models, Digital Systems, and related areas is an asset.
The successful applicant will have access to core resources within the
faculty, including Grex, the University of Manitoba high-performance
computing system, as well as collaboration opportunities with research
institutes including the Institute for Global Public Health and the
Manitoba Institute for Materials. Within the department, the successful
applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with established
research clusters including the CORE AI group; the GADA lab, HCI and
HRI, Digital Agriculture, Security, Software Engineering, and others.
Interdisciplinary collaborators across Engineering, Medicine, Law,
Ethics, and Arts provide the potential for broad-reaching investigations.
The appointment is dependent on a successful Canada Impact+ Research
Chair Award, and the two-stage process of this appointment is:
1. Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement
for review and endorsement, and
2. The successful candidate will then prepare the required nomination
package, with the support of the Office of the Vice President (Research
& International) at the University of Manitoba. Completed nomination
packages will be submitted to the Tri-agency Institutional Programs
Secretariat (TIPS) as part of the national Impact+ Program's application
process. An academic appointment at UM is dependent on a successful
review by the multidisciplinary selection committee and approval by the
TIPS Steering Committee.
Computer Science and the University of Manitoba
The Department of Computer Science currently has 26 full-time tenured
and tenure track research faculty and 10 full-time instructors. We offer
a full range of both undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer
Science, including Joint Honours programs with Mathematics, Physics and
Astronomy, Statistics, and Data Science. Further information about the
Department is available at umanitoba.ca/science/computer-science
Join us in advancing the fight against cancer, rare diseases, and
infectious diseases, leading global public health efforts at scale in
Asia and Africa, connecting to the Arctic, opening a new maritime trade
route, working alongside Indigenous partners, enhancing defence and
security in the North, developing materials for green energy and the
digital economy, and making Canadian agriculture more globally
competitive and sustainable.
UM's Strategic Research Themes
<https://umanitoba.ca/research/strategic-research-plan> are:
* Foundations
* Social Justice and Human Rights
* Research by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples
* Water and Food Security
* Health and Well-being
* Climate Action and Sustainability
* Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Arctic, and the World
Please consult the Change Trough Research University of Manitoba
Strategic Research Plan 2024-2024
<https://umanitoba.ca/research/sites/research/files/2024-07/university-of-ma…>
for further information about these Research Themes.
The Application Process
Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement
through the UM Careers portal <https://umanitoba.ca/careers/> for review
and endorsement and clearly state the application position number in the
cover letter. Applicants should upload their cover letter separately,
their curriculum vitae separately, and then combine their research plan,
teaching statement, personal statement and a list of three referees into
a single PDF file and upload it under ‘Additional Documentation' when
applying in UM Careers. If you experience any difficulties accessing UM
Careers, please contact Kellee Strom Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca, for
assistance. Further details on the application materials are:
* a concise cover letter describing suitability for the position
* a curriculum vitae (including examples of significant research
contributions)
* a research plan (3 page maximum) outlining an independent, innovative
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Conference: GEM at ACL 2026, special Comic-Con edition!
Date: July 3nd or July 4rd, 2026
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Website: https://gem-workshop.com/
*Submission deadline: *March 19th (via Open Review
<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/GEM#tab-your-c…>
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Contact: gem-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com
Evaluation of language models has grown to be a central theme in NLP
research, while remaining far from solved. As LMs have become more
powerful, errors have become tougher to spot and systems harder to
distinguish. Evaluation practices are evolving rapidly—from living
benchmarks like Chatbot Arena to LMs being used as evaluators themselves
(e.g., LM as judge, autoraters). Further research is needed to understand
the interplay between metrics, benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop
evaluation, and their impact in real-world settings. We will welcome
submissions on a variety of topics and encourage themed presentations and
posters! See Website <https://gem-workshop.com/> for more information.
*Submissions* through Open Review
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- Archival Papers: Original and unpublished work, for all the following
tracks—Main, ReproNLP, and Opinion/Statement.
- *Non-Archival Extended Abstracts*: Work already presented or under
review at a peer-reviewed venue. This is an excellent opportunity to share
recent or ongoing work with the GEM community without precluding future
publication.
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date.
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- July 3–4, 2026: Workshop at ACL in San Diego
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Call for Papers
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19th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online)
May 11, 2026
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026
Workshop website: https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/
Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/
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MOTIVATION
In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research
in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In
language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by
the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven
NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries
and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that
comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content
and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages.
Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, and unrelated
corpora are on the other. Increasingly, these resources are not only
collected, but also augmented or even created synthetically, which
raises new questions about how to define and measure comparability.
In recent years, the use of comparable corpora for pre-training Large
Language Models (LLMs) has led to their impressive multilingual and
cross-lingual abilities, which are relevant to a range of applications,
including information retrieval, machine translation, cross-lingual text
classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related
to comparable corpora are crucial to improve methods to mine such corpora,
to assess and document synthetic data, and to improve cross-lingual transfer
of LLMs. Therefore, it is of great interest to bring together builders and
users of such corpora.
PANEL DISCUSSION
The panel discusses the impact of synthetic data on comparable corpora
research. Fundamental questions about how LLMs transform our understanding
and use of multilingual data are addressed.
TOPICS
We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel)
corpora, including but not limited to the following:
Building Comparable Corpora
- Automatic and semi-automatic methods, including generating
comparable corpora using LLMs
- Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web
- Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
- Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
- Rare and minority languages, within and across language families
- Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
Synthetic Data for Comparable Corpora
- LLM generation of comparable/parallel data
- Improving comparability of synthetic data
- Incidental bilingualism & pre-training use of comparable data
- Comparability & cross-lingual consistency
- Detection & attribution of synthetic vs. human text
- English-centric effects & fairness across languages/scripts
- Evaluation & reproducibility for downstream tasks
Applications of Comparable Corpora
- Human translation
- Language learning
- Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
- Bilingual and multilingual projections
- (Unsupervised) machine translation
- Writing assistance
- Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
Mining from Comparable Corpora
- Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and
pre-trained multilingual transformer models
- Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
- Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide
for low-resource languages in neural machine translation)
- Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words,
multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences,
paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora.
- Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from
comparable corpora
- Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
Comparable Corpora in the Humanities
- Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics
- Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies
- Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics
- Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics
- Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis
- Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics
- Analyzing language universals in typological research
IMPORTANT DATES
28 Feb 2026: Paper Submission deadline
22 Mar 2026: Notification of acceptance
29 Mar 2026: Camera-ready final papers
14 Apr 2026: Workshop Programme final version
11 May 2026: Workshop date
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”).
For updates of the schedule, please see the workshop website.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The workshop is a hybrid event, both in-person and online. Workshop
registration is via the main conference registration site, see
https://lrec2026.info/
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology
(https://aclanthology.org/).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and
MS-Word) provided for the main conference at
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference
manager at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/BUCC2026/
Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4
to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so
the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will
be published in the workshop proceedings.
Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be notified to the workshop organizers
by e-mail immediately upon submission to another venue.
For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2026 web page
at https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
- Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany)
- Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal, Mila, Canada)
- Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
- Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)
Contact: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
- Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran)
- Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI, Germany)
- Gabriel Bernier-Colborne (National Research Council, Canada)
- Kenneth Church (VecML.com, USA)
- Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada)
- Alex Fraser (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Natalia Grabar (CNRS, University of Lille, France)
- Amal Haddad Haddad (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
- Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France)
- Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
- Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan)
- Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA)
- Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA)
- Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France)
- Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA)
- Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, United Arab Emirates)
- Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA)
- Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany)
- Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal & Mila, Canada)
- Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France)
- Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
- Richard Sproat (Sakana.ai, Tokyo, Japan)
- Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- François Yvon (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France)
- Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE LRE 2026 MAP AND THE "SHARE YOUR LRs!" INITIATIVE
When submitting a paper from the START page, 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 the 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).
The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 February 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
Topic: Discourse Oriented Corpus Studies
Speaker: Dan Malone<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Malone> (Edge Hill University, UK)
Title: From Global Uncertainty to Domestic Danger: The lone wolf terrorist as a topos of threat in (poly)crisis discourses
The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next
Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 February.
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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