October 2026 - Corpora

WebSci’27: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials and PhD Symposium
by Wan Li Wendy Poh 06 Oct '26

06 Oct '26

📣 Call for Contributions | WebSci’27 The 19th ACM Web Science Conference 2027 📍 Singapore 🗓️ 25–28 May 2027 🌐 https://websci27.webscience.org/ The 19th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’27) invites researchers, practitioners and students to contribute to the global conversation on the future of the Web. Under the theme “Towards a Healthy, Safe, Flourishing and Equitable Web: Shaping our Digital Futures,” WebSci’27 brings together perspectives from computing, artificial intelligence, information science, communication, sociology, economics, psychology, policy, design and beyond to understand the Web as a sociotechnical system. 📄 Call for Papers Share original interdisciplinary research on topics including AI and the Web, online communities and information ecosystems, governance and policy, inclusion and fairness, privacy, security and trust, Web data and methods, information retrieval and recommendation, and related areas. Submission deadline: 15 December 2026 More details: https://websci27.webscience.org/call-for-papers Co-Chairs: Jürgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich), Jussara M. Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Subhayan Mukerjee (National University of Singapore) 🧩 Call for Workshops & Tutorials Propose a workshop or tutorial around an emerging research area, new methodology or timely challenge, creating opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange, practical learning and new collaborations. Submission deadline: 15 November 2026 Workshops & Tutorials Day: 25 May 2027 More details: https://websci27.webscience.org/workshops-and-tutorials Co-Chairs: Yingdan Lu (Northwestern University) and Haiming Liu (University of Southampton) 🎓 Call for PhD Symposium PhD students are invited to present and discuss their research, receive feedback and connect with the international Web Science community. Submission deadline: 16 February 2027 PhD Symposium Day: 25 May 2027 More Details: https://websci27.webscience.org/call-for-phd-symposium Co-Chairs: Dominic DiFranzo (Lehigh University) and Marlon Twyman (University of Southern California) We look forward to welcoming your contributions to WebSci’27 in Singapore! Warm regards, Wendy Poh (On behalf of the Organizing Committee of WebSci'27) Wendy POH (Ms) :: Manager, Centre for Trusted Internet and Community :: National University of Singapore :: Innovation 4.0, #04-04 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 :: +65 9298 8779 (HP) :: wendy.p(a)nus.edu.sg (E) :: ctic.nus.edu.sg (W) :: Company Registration No: 200604346E ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.

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Last Call for Participation: FEL XXX 2026, Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 - Registration closes on 15 Oct (in person) and 1 Nov (virtual)
by Steven Krauwer 04 Oct '26

04 Oct '26

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * /The 30th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXX (2026) "Endangered Languages and Innovative Technologies: Documentation, Processing and Revitalisation" Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL), the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains Américains et Asiatiques (CESSMA), l'Équipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme (ERTIM) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 / *About the conference* The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and promote the maintenance and revitalisation of endangered languages. More about the theme: https://ogmios.org/conferences/2026/theme.php A provisional list of accepted abstracts can be found on: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2026/FEL_XXX_2026-abstracts.pdf Registration is still open at: https://vonweber.nl/fel/registration_form.html (earlier problems with credit card payment have been solved!) *Important dates* 15 October 2026: Registration for in person participation closes 01 November 2026: Registration for virtual participation closes 03-05 November 2026: Conference dates 06 November 2026: Excursion (to be confirmed) *More information* Conference website: https://ogmios.org/conferences/2026 Email: fel2026(a)ogmios.org -- _______________________________________________________________ Foundation for Endangered Languages - https://ogmios.org - fel(a)ogmios.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/TLC, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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CfP: Asia Pacific Journal of Language, Culture, and Education (APJLCE), Vol. 1, No. 2 – Deadline: 15 October 2026
by Asia Pacific Journal of Language, Culture, and Education (APJLCE) 02 Oct '26

02 Oct '26

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Job ads: 2x Researcher (m/f/d/x) – Agentic AI and Generative Models for Compliance Analysis – Participation in the EU COMBO (Compliance Bot) Project
by Georg Rehm 01 Oct '26

01 Oct '26

2 Researchers (m/f/d/x) – Agentic AI and Generative Models for Compliance Analysis – Participation in the EU Project COMBO (Compliance Bot) The Speech and Language Technology Lab at DFKI Berlin is involved in numerous national as well as international research programmes and networks. We offer an interesting and flexible work environment as part of an innovative, international and enthusiastic team which coordinates and participates in national as well as European projects in the wider area of Language Technology. Your tasks * Research and development work in the areas of generative AI, language models, natural language processing (NLP) * Active participation in the specification and development of the COMBO system * Publication of research findings (at academic conferences and workshops, in journals) and documentation Your qualifications * Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, NLP, AI, Computer Science, or Software Engineering (or equivalent) * Excellent programming skills (especially in Python) * Excellent NLP skills, including practical experience – particularly in the areas of machine learning and neural networks – as well as the further development, use, and evaluation of language models in specific systems (e.g., RAG), and proficiency in working with the latest GenAI models and libraries * Ideally, experience in the development, orchestration, and evaluation of agent-based AI systems * Ability to work well in a team, results-oriented, highly self-motivated * Very good English skills and, ideally, German skills as well Your benefits * An innovative, agile, and professional work environment * Opportunity to participate in a startup spin-off (as outlined in the project plan) * An attractive salary, flexible working hours, and the option to work from home * Close collaboration with partners from the application and industry sectors * Diverse and challenging tasks * A motivated and interdisciplinary project team from many European countries * Opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. on a topic related to the project The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 35 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. DFKI encourages applications from people with disability; DFKI intends to increase the proportion of female employees in the field of science and encourages women to apply for this position. In case of questions please reach out to Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de>. We look forward to your application via https://jobs.dfki.de. -- Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm<http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Deputy Site Director DFKI Lab Berlin Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [DFKI]<https://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH<https://www.dfki.de/>, Salzufer 15/16, 10587 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de<mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de> Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Oscar-Werner Reif Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Two weeks left to apply: Open PhD student position at Leipzig University in Interpretability for Protein Language Models
by Leonie Weissweiler 01 Oct '26

01 Oct '26

There is an open PhD student position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models at the LION Lab, the research group of Leonie Weissweiler at the Institute for Computer Science at Leipzig University. * One fully funded PhD student (TVL-13 100%) for 3 years * Ideal candidates have a master's degree in computational linguistics, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, or a related discipline * Topic: Interpretability for Protein Language Models * Advised by Leonie Weissweiler together with Clara Schoeder * Leipzig, Germany * Application Deadline: Oct 15 2026 * Find out more and apply here: https://lionlabnlp.github.io/jobs/ai4pf/

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PhD Studentship on paradigm predictability in Romance at the Surrey Morphology Group
by Sacha Beniamine 01 Oct '26

01 Oct '26

The Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey is inviting applications for a PhD studentship that offers 3.5 years (42 months) of funding and extensive associated resources. The topic is the comparative predictability of Romance verbal inflection, and forms part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project `Scaling predictability in Morphological paradigms`. The project seeks to measure the amount of information available to speakers when they make inferences about the shape of inflected words. For example, English speakers can guess that the past tense of a new verb like "glorp" might be "glorped", following the same pattern as "jump" / "jumped". This raises fundamental questions about how languages work: How hard it is to make these predictions across languages? What language structures help, and how do they vary? Do languages become more predictable over time? To answer these questions, the project will innovate new computational tools able to measure the information available to speakers when they predict forms and apply them to comparable datasets. The PhD position is focused on Romance languages, for which ample data already exists, and the diachrony of which is well known. This will allow for a deep dive into the synchronic and diachronic properties of predictability. The PhD candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with members of the project involved in developing the methodology and data and answering the questions in other families. The position is based at the University of Surrey, within the Surrey Morphology Group (SMG). In addition to the collaborative activities within the project, the successful candidate will benefit from the research environment of the SMG, a world leading centre for research on morphological theory, typology and description. Supervisors: Dr Sacha Beniamine<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…>, Dr Oliver Bond<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…> and Dr Matteo Pellegrini<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…> Entry requirements Open to any UK or international candidates. Starting in April 2027. Later start dates may be possible, please contact Dr Sacha Beniamine<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…> once the deadline passes. You will have to meet the minimum entry requirements for our PhD programme<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…>. The successful candidates will be selected on the basis of the following criteria: * Excellent overall performance at undergraduate level; * Expertise in morphological description and analysis * Familiarity with Romance linguistics; * Ability to meet the English language entry requirements for the PhD Linguistics; * Willingness to learn the technical aspects of the computational methodology (but no prior expertise needed). How to apply Applications should be submitted via the Linguistics PhD<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=199081&type=184&DID=6…> programme page. In addition, please send a CV along with a one-page statement of interest to Alison Stubley - a.stubley(a)surrey.ac.uk, specifying the title of the project and name of the supervisors. Funding Notes UK or international fees covered, plus UKRI standard stipend (£21,805 for 2026-27 academic year) and support for conference travel. Sacha Beniamine Surrey Morphology Group University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom

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First Call for Abstracts: Special Issue on Preserving the Privacy of Language Data
by Maria Irena Szawerna 01 Oct '26

01 Oct '26

---Apologies for cross-posting!--- First Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue Preserving the Privacy of Language Data: Emerging Technologies, Evolving Standards and Beyond at the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal Guest editors and contact information: * Elena Volodina<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, < elena dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se > * Maria Irena Szawerna<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/maria-szawerna>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, < maria dot szawerna at gu dot se > Call for submissions In the age of GDPR and heightened awareness about data privacy, incorporating de-identification techniques when working with language data has become increasingly important. In academic contexts, de-identification is employed e.g. when using examples in publications (Heaton, 2022; Wang et al., 2024) or in dataset collection and sharing (Megyesi et al., 2018; Eder et al., 2019). It is also relevant for public uses, such as redacting legal documents (Cabrera-Diego and Gheewala, 2024) or varied industry applications (Gardiner et al., 2024; Hou et al., 2025). Manual de-identification is a costly and time-consuming process, which is why various automatic methods for detecting and replacing personal information, ranging from rule-based systems to Large Language Model (LLM) approaches, have been developed in recent years (Deußer et al., 2025). While rule-based approaches allow for processing the data locally, reducing the risk of the data falling into the wrong hands, they lack the ability to take semantic context and world knowledge into account; LLMs, on the other hand, can handle these challenges to a certain degree, but present ethical concerns when it comes to data leakage, environmental costs, or over-relying on encoded social and gender biases (Bender et al., 2021; Volodina et al. 2025, Szawerna and Suchardt, 2026). This special issue will cover several aspects related to the problem of using technology for effective and ethical de-identification of linguistic data, including (but not limited to) the following topics: * Detection and classification of personal information (PI): Automatic identification of PI in text, speech, and multimodal data; context-dependent and indirect indicators of identity. Which information you are replacing, including how and why this is done. * Replacement and transformation of PI: Context-sensitive pseudonymization and anonymization methods; substitution, masking, obfuscation; maintaining coherence across discourse and modalities. * Utility and bias after de-identification: Effects of de-identification on downstream task performance, linguistic research validity, readability, and bias amplification or reduction. * Approaches to evaluation and adversarial testing: Metrics and frameworks for assessing de-identification quality; adversarial re-identification attempts; robustness and failure-mode analysis. * Dataset creation for de-identification research: Methodological, ethical, and annotation-related considerations in building corpora for training or evaluating de-identification systems. * Low-resource scenarios: Techniques for de-identification in settings with limited data, scarce annotations, or underrepresented languages; transfer and multilingual approaches. * Speech-specific challenges: Removing speaker identity cues in audio; voice anonymization; cross-modal leakage between text, transcripts, and acoustic features. * Cross-disciplinary applications and challenges: Integrating de-identification techniques into real-world workflows in areas such as linguistics, social sciences, digital humanities, healthcare, and other private- or public-sector data environments. Submission information * Abstracts should be around 500 words excluding references and statements. The submission link can be found here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/gBuU6Wih9Z>. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of November and invited to submit a full article by 1st March 2027. * Full Articles should follow the LRE journal guidelines<https://link.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines>. Each submission should include an AI disclosure statement<https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/LREJ-special-issue/ai-disclosure-state…>. The submission link will be shared later. The full call can be found here<https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/LREJ-special-issue/>. Best regards, Maria Irena Szawerna ____________________ PhD student Språkbanken<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi<https://www.gu.se/svenska-spraket> UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG<https://www.gu.se/> https://spraakbanken.gu.se/om/personal/maria-szawerna ORCID: 0009-0005-1426-0318<https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1426-0318>

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[cfp] Deadline Extended October 16 - Special Track KNLP @ ACM SAC 2027
by Patrizio Bellan 01 Oct '26

01 Oct '26

Special Track on Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM SAC 2027 *Deadline Extended* *paper submission deadline has been extended to October 16, 2026.* The Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing investigates methods and applications at the intersection of *Knowledge Engineering* and *Natural Language Processing*, with particular emphasis on approaches that combine these two areas. KNLP is an emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field at the core of Artificial Intelligence. It brings together and complements scientific advances in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and related disciplines. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - NLP for knowledge extraction, ontology learning and population - Knowledge-enhanced NLP and information retrieval - Knowledge graphs, ontologies, and Linked Data for NLP - Interaction between language models and structured knowledge - Knowledge-enhanced agentic reasoning - Language-model-based methods for knowledge extraction, engineering, reasoning, and management - Retrieval-Augmented Generation, question answering, fact-checking, explainability, and bias mitigation - Knowledge and NLP applications in domains such as healthcare, digital humanities, public administration, media, and Big Data Paper Submission We invite original research papers and experience reports addressing the topics listed above. - Submissions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. - All submissions will undergo a *double-blind peer-review process*. - Submissions to the *Student Research Competition (SRC)* are also welcome. Prospective authors should consult the SAC 2027 SRC page for eligibility requirements and submission instructions. - *Regular papers and SRC abstracts:* submission links are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> - *Author kit and templates:* formatting instructions and official templates are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> Important Dates - *October 16, 2026:* Regular paper and SRC abstract submission — *extended deadline* - *November 20, 2026:* Author notification - *Camera-ready submission and author registration:* please refer to the official ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> for the updated schedule - *April 5–9, 2027:* Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track at ACM SAC 2027 For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track website <https://knlp-sac.github.io/2027/> and the ACM SAC 2027 conference website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/>. Questions may be addressed to the KNLP Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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