===apologies for cross-postings===
*Third Call for Papers*
*CHiPSAL 2026: Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian
Languages*
Extended submission date: *28 February 2026.*
*Submit here: *https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CHiPSAL2026/
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CHiPSAL 2026 invites substantial, original, and unpublished research on all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: 28 February 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026
- Camera-ready Papers: 29 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Papers must report original, unpublished work.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.
CHiPSAL will also accept submissions that were not selected by ACL Rolling
Review, the LREC main conference, and EACL 2026, provided they are
accompanied by their reviews and are related to South Asian languages. Such
submissions must be uploaded as a ZIP file in the submission system,
including the review decision email and all reviews in a text file. Each
submission will be reviewed again by the programme committee.
*More Information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/
<https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/>*
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
Join Our Team at the Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen!
We are seeking a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher to join a pioneering Nordic project at the forefront of Natural Language Processing. This role focuses on the linguistic and cultural alignment of Large Language Models. As part of the CAALLM Consortium, you will collaborate with research groups in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, and the Faroe Islands. You will also contribute to the Danish AI initiative, Danish Foundation Models, working closely with Alexandra Institutet and top Danish universities.
Application deadline: March 10th, 2026
Start date: 1st of July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter
Duration: 30 months
Application link: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=156687
Best regards,
Ali Basirat<https://nors.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/776431>
Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing
University of Copenhagen
Center for Language Technology (CST)<https://cst.ku.dk/english/>
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics<https://nors.ku.dk/>
Emil Holms Kanal 2
2300 København S
Email:alib@hum.ku.dk
Room: 22.3.34
Dear colleagues,
The European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU) invites
proposals for workshops for the upcoming 16th edition in Université
Marie-et-Louis-Pasteur, Besançon, France from July 6 – July 18, 2026.
Workshop areas. We are particularly looking for proposals covering:
- Audiovisual analysis and cultural analytics;
- Computational & digital philology;
- Statistics for humanities;
- Design and construction of databases and corpora;
- Large Language Models and critical AI.
All digital humanities scholars and practitioners, GLAM professionals,
interdisciplinary teams at the intersection of humanities, social science
and computer science are welcome to submit.
Workshop formats
1. Two week course (15 + 15 teaching hours, + 1.5h (x2) open teaser session);
2. One week course (15 teaching hours + 1.5h teaser);
Two week workshops will be prioritized in evaluation as they are the core
teaching units of the ESU. They run in parallel across the schedule and are
designed as comprehensive, intensive hands-on training in key areas of
Digital Humanities. Each workshop’s optimal audience is 10-12 participants
for efficient learning; a workshop may be cancelled if it has less than 5
registered participants.
Submission & timeline. To submit a proposal, please prepare:
- Instructors' CV (max. 2 pages) and short bio (max. 250 words);
- Title and short abstract (max. 250 words);
- Extended description and syllabus (800–1200 words), including a day-by-day outline
- Please include intended outcomes, any prerequisites, description of datasets and materials, technical requirements
Proposals should be submitted by March 1 via the form here
<https://framaforms.org/european-summer-university-in-digital-humanities-wor…>.
The Steering Committee will review the applications and announce results on March 6.
Evaluation. Workshops will be evaluated according to their 1) scientific
and pedagogical quality; 2) fit to the school’s scope; 3) feasibility; 4)
diversity and inclusiveness; 5) sustainability and openness.
Practicalities. Accommodation and most meals (with some evenings and Sunday
possibly excluded) will be provided for all instructors during their stay
in Besançon. Travel costs within Europe will be fully covered;
reimbursement of travel costs from outside Europe will be partial and must
be agreed upon with the local organizers prior to the start of the ESU. A
small teaching honorarium can be expected. Further information will be
provided by the local organizers once the workshop’s financial arrangements
are secured.
We usually avoid significant thematic overlap in the workshop offer, so there
will be less priority given to proposals on distant reading, mapping and
GIS, stylometry, TEI-XML and digital archives.
Feel free to write to esudhsteering [@] gmail.com if you wish to inquire
about the fit of your workshop or have any other questions.
With best wishes,
Chairs of the ESU Steering Committee
Artjoms Šeļa & Jeremi Ochab
Dr. Artjoms Šeļa
Institute of Czech Literature, Сzech Academy of Sciences
Website<https://artjomsh.github.io/web/> | Scholar
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4eYapmIAAAAJ&hl=en> | PoeTree
<https://versologie.cz/poetree/>
______________________________
Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr
Französische, frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft
Gründerin und Direktorin der European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T) 2009-2022 (https://esu.fdhl.info/)
Präsidentin der European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) 2016-2023 (https://eadh.org/)
(Vize-)Präsidentin des Constituent Organisations Board der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) 2019-2021 (https://adho.org/)
Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftlichen Programmkomitees von EADH2020-2021, Krasnoyarsk (https://eadh2020-2021.org/)
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/
LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted
Collections for Open Science
Palma de Mallorca
Final 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
* Extended submission Deadline: 2 March 2026 (AoE)
* Reviewing period: – 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
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/
The deadline for the CAWL workshop has been extended to February 23! Please
see the workshop website at https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2026/ for
submission details. The call for papers follows.
The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be
held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in
Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an
invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and
posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are
organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing
Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).
We welcome submissions of scientific papers to be presented at the workshop
and archived in the ACL Anthology. Please see the submission guidelines
below and see the workshop webpage (https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2026/)
for additional relevant information.
For the first time ever, CAWL will also feature a cash prize of $500 USD for
the best student submission.
Topics
Most work in NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form. This
has often led researchers to ignore the differences between written and
spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two. Furthermore, methods for
dealing with written language issues (e.g., various kinds of normalization
or conversion) or for recognizing text input (e.g. OCR & handwriting
recognition or text entry methods) are often regarded as precursors to NLP
rather than as fundamental parts of the enterprise, despite the fact that
most NLP methods rely centrally on representations derived from text rather
than (spoken) language. This general lack of consideration of writing has
led to much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL
venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as speech
technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer interaction (e.g.,
text entry).
This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in the
relationship between written and spoken language, the properties of written
language, the ways in which writing systems encode language, and
applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-
Writing systems for less-resourced, Indigenous, and minoritized languages
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Multi-writing system models
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Text entry and tokenization
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Processing abbreviations and homographs
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Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization
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Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres of
text
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Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to decipherment
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Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical
document processing
-
Orthography for unwritten languages
-
Spelling error detection and correction
-
Script normalization and encoding
-
Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language
processing
-
Properties of written language
-
Applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems
Important dates (all deadlines anywhere-on-earth time):
Paper submission deadline: February 23, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: March 30, 2026
Workshop date: May 12, 2026
Submission Guidelines
Please submit short (4 page) or long (8 page) submissions in PDF format.
Both short and long paper submissions will be reviewed in the same process.
Authors should follow the formatting guidelines of LREC 2026, available in
the authors’ kit (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Note that, as with
the main conference, reviewing is double-anonymous, i.e., reviewers will
not know author identity and vice versa, hence no author information should
be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors
should be avoided or anonymised. Accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology.
Submissions will be accepted at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAWL/ between
now and February 23, 2026.
For questions about the submission guidelines, please contact workshop
organizers at cawl-2026-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.
[Sorry for cross-posting]
HISEMOTIONS 2026 focuses on emotion detection in Early Modern Spanish
epistolary texts (16th–17th centuries). Unlike most existing emotion
detection tasks that target modern languages or contemporary genres (e.g.,
social media, reviews), this challenge explores historical linguistic
variation and semantic shift, raising a new challenge for NLP systems.
Participants are tasked with developing systems that automatically identify
emotional content in fragments of historical Spanish letters, addressing
issues such as diachronic language variation, historical semantic shifting,
and domain adaptation. The shared task aims to foster methodological
progress at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital
Humanities.
🔗 *Task page / resources*:
https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026
<https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com>
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Why Participate?
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Advance emotion detection methods in low-resource and historical domains.
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Explore semantic change effects on automatic classification.
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Benchmark systems on a novel historical dataset with expert human
annotation.
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Cutting-edge research into the computational study of cultural heritage.
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Shared Task Details
Task: Multi-label emotion detection
Each text fragment should be labelled with one or more of the following
emotions:
• joy • sadness • fear • anger • surprise • hope
Participants will predict binary labels for each emotion per fragment.
Systems will be evaluated against hidden gold labels using standard metrics
such as precision, recall, and macro-F1 score.
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Important Dates
Task announcement
February 9, 2026
Development data release
February 12, 2026
Training data release
March 12, 2026
Test data release & evaluation start
March 27, 2026
Deadline for system submissions
April 30, 2026
Official results published
May 4, 2026
System description papers due
May 20, 2026
Review notification
June 19, 2026
Camera-ready papers due
July 1, 2026
IberLEF Workshop (presentations)
September 22, 2026
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Contact & Submission
For updates, questions, or discussions about the task, please open issues
in the task GitHub repository or contact the organisers. Detailed
submission guidelines will be published alongside the data releases.
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We look forward to your participation and contribution to this exciting
challenge!
— HISEMOTIONS 2026 Organising Committee
Dra. Albina Sarymsakova, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa
Dra. Patricia Martín Rodilla, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa
Dr. Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Universidad de Jaén
Dr. Alfonso Ureña López, Universidad de Jaén
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*Second call for paper: BriGap-3, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and
Computational Linguistics*
(with our apologies for cross-posting)
Venue: Université Paris Cité, campus des Grands moulins, *Paris, France*
Date: *July 11th, 2026*
Event website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/
*BriGap-3 is a venue for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP
scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build
upon each other’s work?*
** Context **
Due to the groundbreaking achievements of the last decade, the ongoing
discourse in NLP has shifted more to what can be achieved through language
than studying language for its own sake, and traditional conferences are
increasingly dominated by engineering-oriented work. It could thus appear
that computational and formal linguistics are more than ever separate
domains. Yet, we are also witnessing a growing interest in linguistics in
both explaining the successes of neural models and uncovering their
limitations. Conversely, all kinds of computational methods have proven
their usefulness for linguistics time and again.
To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful
bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the third iteration of
the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational
Linguistics (BriGap-3) intends to provide a space for formal linguists,
computational linguists, and NLP scientists to exchange their perspectives
on how their different domains of research can build upon one another.
** Event topics **
- investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning models,
- linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their relations
with theoretical concepts such as compositionality,
- use of computational and information-theoretical methods for linguistic
inquiry,
- formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for NLP,
- formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for
computational linguistics and NLP,
- trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP,
- …
** Invited speakers **
- *Raquel FERNÁNDEZ*, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- *Tal LINZEN*, New York University (online)
** Submission details **
The event is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to
foster as vibrant a discussion as possible.
In particular, we will accept:
- Archival submissions, corresponding to novel and unpublished research, to
be included in the event proceedings,
- Non-archival submissions, corresponding to work in progress, early
results, and articles presented in other venues that engage with the topics
of the event.
The event accepts both archival (original and unpublished research)
submissions in either short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) format,
and non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research published or
accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in short (up to 4 pages) format.
Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of
content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or non-archival
status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-3 will be indexed in the ACL
Anthology.
Please use the ACL style templates available here:
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=BriGap/2026/Workshop
Please be aware that to submit on OpenReview, you need an OpenReview
profile, and that the activation process might take up to two weeks (in
case you do not use an institutional email).
While it is often syntactically correct and coherent to some extent, the
text produced by current generative AI systems falls below our expectations
in terms of depth, clarity, and precision. Conceptual clarity and
argumentation will be key criteria in the evaluation of submissions. We
therefore *strongly* discourage the use of AI systems.
In addition, the detection of any hallucinations in a submission (whether
in the bibliography or elsewhere) will lead to rejection, regardless of the
other qualities of the text.
** Important dates *- Submission deadline: Monday, April 27th, 2026* (23:59
AoE)
- Notification of acceptance: Monday, May 11th 2026
- Event: Saturday, July 11th, 2026
** Contact **
For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop(a)gmail.com or contact
one of the event chairs:
- Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Giulia Rambelli, Università di Bologna
***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING***
🚨 Due to several email requests --> Deadline got extended.🚨
Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/
We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space.
Workshop Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions on (but not limited to):
- Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages
- Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech
- Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies
- Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies
- Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches
- Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities
- Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models
- Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings
--> SPEAKABLE will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout>
Invited Speaker
Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/
Further details will be posted on the workshop website.
Info for Papers
We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work.
All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review.
Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission.
SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 26, 2026 (Extended deadline)
Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026)
All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE).
Workshop Organizers
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/
For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:speakable2026@gmail.com>
[Apologies for multiple postings]
The Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a
company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an
international context, is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy
for a permanent Junior Project Manager position, specialised in Natural
Language Processing.
Job description
The Junior Project Manager will conduct the activities related to the
production of language resources and the co-ordination of national and
European R&D projects, under the supervision of a Senior Project
Manager. Their responsibilities include the recruitment and management
of project-dedicated team members, as well as the design/specification
and quality control of the language resources produced within the
projects. They will also contribute to improve or update the current
language resources production workflows, particularly in terms of human
resources, time management and budgets. This yields excellent
opportunities for motivated, creative candidates willing to improve
their experience and actively participate in the Language Technologies
field.
The position is based in Paris (13th).
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 28-38K€).
Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers.
Required profile
*
Master’s degree in NLP, Linguistics or General Management with a
liking for language technologies and AI.
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Strong organizational skills and ability to supervise members of
a multidisciplinary team. Proficiency in organizational tools is
required (e.g. ASANA, currently used at ELDA); familiarity with
or proposals for other tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence or Notion)
would be a plus.
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Strong skills in office tools (in particular Word, PowerPoint,
Excel).
* Ability to experiment with various techniques or tools related to
language technology (e.g. annotation or transcription tools).
* Dynamic and communicative, flexible to work on multiple tasks
* Proficiency in English with ability to write administration
documentation, deliverables and reports, and good mastering of
French. Knowledge of any other European language would be a strong plus.
* Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country.
About
ELDA is an SME established in 1995 to promote the development and
exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all
data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and
multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases, and terminology.
ELDA’s role is to produce LRs, to collect, to validate, and, foremost,
to make them available to users in compliance with applicable
regulations and ethical requirements.
For further information about ELDA, visit:
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Dear all,
due to numerous requests we are extending the submission period for
NLE2026@LREC 2026 to Monday, 02 March. See below for the updated Call
for Papers:
**NEW** Submission deadline: 02 March 2026
Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026)
To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11
May 2026.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nle2026/home
Overview
Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of
fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and
categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs
understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This
task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling
back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account
larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the
same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is
relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and
summarization.
This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While
most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and
metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g.,
hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement),
rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have
very recently started becoming available to the research community and
may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing,
with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting
such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but
still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop's focus is on adaptation
of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of
Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such
constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in
natural language analysis tasks.
Topics of Interest
We are interested in contributions which focus on the use of techniques
like self-training for leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work
that focuses on the incorporation of external linguistic resources and
knowledge injection to enrich features, and also in research that
describes work on utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to
benefit from related tasks.
The workshop also wants to discuss alternative approaches which may
elaborate on the use of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) as a
foundation and the application of techniques like contrastive learning
and clustering to identify challenging examples within the data, the
ultimate aim of the workshop being to highlight the necessity of
high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets.
Invited Speakers
- Barbara Plank, LMU Munich
- Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA
Further details and info on the invited talks will be announced shortly.
Submission Guidelines
Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf, using the
following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLE2026/
Submissions should:
• Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements
• Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference
website:
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
• Use templates provided here:
https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/
Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources
(broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used
in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such
resources to support reproducibility and reuse.
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation
format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the
work.
Important Dates
• 02 March 2026 — Submission Deadline
• 20 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance
• 30 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due
Endorsements
The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412
"REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German
Research Foundation)
Programme Committee
- Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS, USA
- Maria Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Yuri Bizzoni, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Kenneth Church, VecML Inc., USA
- Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Markus Egg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA
- Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA
- Valia Kordoni, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Emmy Liu, CMU, USA
- Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
- Sebastian Padó, IMS Stuttgart, Germany
- Gudrun Reijnierse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Sebastian Reimann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Adam Roussel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart
- Vered Shwartz, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Caroline Sporleder, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
- Egon Stemle, EURAC, Italy
Organizers
• Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de