February 2026 - Corpora

[CFP]-DravidianLangTech-at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Call for Participation for *DravidianLangTech-2026 Workshop and Sharedtaks @ ACL-2026 *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *CFP for the Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages- * *DravidianLangTech-2026 (**Theme: Multilingual Multicultural Multimodal LLMs)* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *DravidianLangTech-2026 @ The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026* *Venue: San Diego, California, United States* *Conference Date: July 02 - 07, 2026* *Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026>* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and language technologies, internet usage has continued to surge globally, enabling many widely spoken languages to adapt successfully to the digital age. However, regional and underresourced languages still face significant challenges due to limited computational resources, annotated datasets, and specialized tools. One such group is the Dravidian language family, primarily spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with communities across Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, London, and other parts of the world. The Dravidian languages, with a history spanning more than 4,500 years and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. Despite growing research interest, gaps persist in areas such as speech recognition, multimodal processing, and generative AI applications for Dravidian languages. This is the sixth workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages, building upon the success of the previous editions. DravidianLangTech-2026 continues to serve as a collaborative forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to share insights and advance computational methods for Dravidian languages. The main objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 are as follows, The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 will be - To explore challenges and innovations in developing speech and language resources for Dravidian languages. - To design and adapt language technologies for multilingual, multimodal, and code-mixed Dravidian contexts. - To facilitate collaboration between the global Dravidian language community and international scholars across computational linguistics, AI, and digital humanities. - To address ethical, cultural, and inclusivity aspects in the creation of language technologies for under-represented communities. - To encourage the integration of Agentic AI frameworks for building interactive, explainable, and collaborative language systems in Dravidian contexts. *Call for Papers :* DravidianLangTech-2026 welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application driven contributions on any Dravidian languages (e.g., Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, etc.) that advance language processing, speech technologies, multimodality, or resource development. Submissions can address challenges in monolingual, bilingual, and code-mixed settings as well as crosslingual and low-resource transfer approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - Corpus(Data) development, annotation tools, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies - Detecting Hate Speech, Offensive Language, Misinformation, Fake News, Spam, and Rumor - Generative AI and Prompt Engineering for Dravidian languages - Agentic AI and Multi-agent Systems: workflow orchestration, reasoning agents, and collaborative agents for Dravidian language processing - Multimodal processing: Text, Speech, Image, Video, and Memes in Dravidian contexts - Speech Technology: Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion - Impaired/Normal Speech Recognition and Assistive Technologies for Dravidian speech - Accent Recognition, Verification, and Dialect Modeling - Emotion and Sentiment Recognition from Dravidian Speech and Text - Machine Translation and Cross-lingual Transfer in Dravidian languages - Language Resources for Generative and Instruction-Tuned LLMs - Document Analysis and Understanding for Dravidian texts and scripts - Object Detection and Recognition in multimodal Dravidian datasets - Ethical and Fair AI for Low-resource Language Communities - Healthcare and Mental Health Applications (e.g., depression detection, doctor-patient communication) in Dravidian speech - Educational Applications: Digital literacy, inclusive tools for rural Dravidian language communities *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Workshop Paper Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/DravidianLangT…>* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Important Dates* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026* *Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026* with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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CFP: Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026) at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Second call for paper* *Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026)* at The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 Place: San Diego, California, United States Link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2026/home Tagline: Towards Fair and Inclusive Language Technologies for All. Call for Papers: Following the success of the first five editions of the LTEDI 2026 workshop (LDK 2025, EACL 2024, RANLP 2023, ACL 2022. EACL 2021), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with social scientists and interdisciplinary researchers. LT -EDI-2026 invites theoretical, empirical, and applied papers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and interdisciplinary communities particularly those focusing on bias in language technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Datasets, and Benchmarks for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - - - - Construction and annotation of datasets for EDI, including benchmarks for bias detection and mitigation. - Compilation of resources curated for fairness, inclusivity, and accessibility. - Methodologies for annotating intersectional identities (gender, race, disability, religion, sexual orientation, etc.). - Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs - - - - Techniques for identifying, measuring, and mediating gender, racial, disability, and other societal biases in NLP and LLMs. - The impact of bias in deployed NLP/LLM systems - Gender-neutral modeling and representational fairness in LLMs - Detection and mitigation of intersectional biases including gender, racial, gender identity, disability, and other societal biases. - Advances in bias mitigation in large language models: in-context learning, prompt engineering, conditional text generation, and adversarial training. - Inclusive Language and Counter-Narratives for LLMs - - - - Algorithms and resources for inclusive language generation with LLMs. - Counter-narrative modeling for combating toxicity, hate speech, and misinformation targeting marginalized communities. - Dialogue systems and multi-agent approaches that align with inclusivity goals. - Human-in-the-loop and participatory strategies for enhancing inclusiveness. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches for LLMs - - - - Multicultural and multilingual LLMs and approaches - Speech and language recognition for minority and under-resourced groups - Code-mixed and cross-lingual approaches for inclusive technologies - Responsible, Explainable, and Trustworthy LLMs for EDI - - - - Detecting and mitigating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity in LLM systems - Explainable and trustworthy LLMs - Evaluation frameworks incorporating ethics, accountability, and transparency - Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 - Workshop dates: July 4, 2026 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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open postdoc position in NLP research
by Ali Basirat 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear all, We are recruiting a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing and Representation Learning of Metaphorical Language in Large Language Models at the Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen. This role will contribute to the METALLM project — a cutting-edge research initiative exploring how large language models process metaphors and what this reveals about language, cognition, and culture. If you have a strong background in computational linguistics, NLP, and representation learning, this is a fantastic chance to advance your research in a dynamic international environment. Start: 1 August 2026 (or soon after) Application Deadline: 15 March 2026 Application Link: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=156836 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about your application. 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

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Call for participation Multilingual Easy to Read Translation - MER-TRANS-2026
by Horacio Saggion 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

*MER-TRANS-2026: https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>IBERLEF 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026>Apologies for cross-postingWe are pleased to announce the launching of the Shared Task: Multilingual Easy to Read Translation (MER-TRANS) in the context of the IberLef 2026 Evaluation Forum. - Context* *Linguistic access to information is increasingly recognised as a fundamental citizens’ right. For example, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) includes accessibility as one key enabler for a more inclusive society, while the European Union adopted the European Accessibility Act (EAA) in 2019, which requires that many everyday products and services, including digital information services, comply with accessibility standards. The UNCRPD and the EAA stress that information has to be provided in accessible language, such as plain language or easy-to-read language in order to allow the different population segments with language comprehension difficulties to exercise their recognized right to participate in society and public life. Providing information in easy language in a real-world setting is challenging. High-quality, easy-to-read content must typically be written or translated by human experts following specialized guidelines, and then often validated by target readers. This manual process requires considerable effort, time, and expertise, which limits how much content can be produced or translated into easy formats. Therefore, this MER-TRANS shared task aims at advancing the state of the art in the field of automatic easy-to-read translation with specific emphasis on Romance languages, more concretely, in Catalan, Italian, and Spanish. * * - Task OverviewIn this shared task, we invite participating teams to automatically produce easy to read versions of texts and/or sentences. The texts will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, a multilingual corpus in the domain of democratic participation, which has been simplified by human experts following easy-to-read recommendations and high-quality validation procedures. There will also be a surprise language task to be revealed closer to the release of the test data. Up to three submissions per language will be allowed per participant team. - Data and EvaluationUnlike previous challenges where the data remained of restricted use, the iDEM corpus, with original and adapted versions, will be made fully available to the community, the documents for participants to produce adaptations will be provided during the test phase, and the full dataset during the IberLef workshop in September 2026. A small trial dataset will be released; it will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, considering the occurrence of different difficulties addressed by the easy-to-read adaptations. The examples will contain both the original text excerpts and easy-to-read versions. The test datawill consist of only the original complex text excerpts. Evaluation will be carried out with automatic metrics borrowed from current text simplification evaluation research, such as SARI and/or BLEUE and semantic similarity scores when appropriate. - System Description Papers and ProceedingsAll participating teams will be invited to submit a system description paper describing their methods, models, and experimental findings: further information about formatting and length will be given in due time. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers.Papers will be required to describe fully Reproducible solutions which contribute to Open Science. Accepted system description papers will be published at no cost in the Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2026), hosted by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the IberLEF 2026 workshop. Presentation at the workshop is encouraged but not mandatory for publication in the proceedings. - Who Should Participate?Participation is open to all. - Important DatesRegistration opens: Open nowRegistration closes: 28 Feb 2026Trial data release: 06 Mar 2026Test data release: 06 Apr 2026System outputs submission deadline : 13 Apr 2026Evaluation results published: 27 Apr 2026System Description Papers: 01 Jun 2026Papers acceptance: 14 Jun 2026Camera-ready papers due: 21 Jun 2026IberLEF 2026 Workshop: 22 Sept 2026 - How to ParticipateIn order to participate, teams must register using the registration form available at the task website https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>Note that registration is mandatory in order to access the data and submit system outputs. - Task OrganizersHoracio Saggion — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainNelson Pérez Rojas — Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa RicaStefan Bott — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Nouran Khallaf — University of Leeds, UKMehrzad Tareh — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainDaniel Adanza — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainAlmudena Rascon — Plena Inclusion Madrid, SpainSandra Szasz — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain* -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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WebSci'26: Poster Deadlines Extended, Travel Grants, Registration is OPEN!
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Here are key updates for ACM WebSci’26<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> (May 26–29, 2026 | Braunschweig, Germany): * Poster Deadline Extended: February 25, 2026 | Details Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> Didn’t get your full paper accepted? Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of WebSci’26—submit your work as a poster. It’s an excellent venue to showcase your research and receive valuable feedback. * Student Travel Grants Still Available: February 28, 2026 | Details Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=529> A limited number of travel grants are available to support student participation. We strongly encourage eligible students to apply. * Registration is Open: Early registration until March 15, 2026| Register Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=661> Secure your spot today! Registration for WebSci’26 is officially open. Join us in celebrating 20 years of interdisciplinary Web Science research and engaging discussions on the Web, society, AI, and beyond. We look forward to welcoming you to WebSci’26. Best regards, The WebSci’26 Organizing Committee ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Koordinatorin / Coordinator Stuttgart Research Focus – Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Universität Stuttgart Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D | 3.352 | 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte Universitätsstr. 32 | 00.121 | 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 685 84 371 Email: sierra.kaiser(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:sierra.kaiser@iris.uni-stuttgart.de> Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | BlueSky<https://bsky.app/profile/unistuttgartiris.bsky.social> | IRIS Newsletter<https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…> www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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Postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Postdoctoral position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Salary: EUR 3.546 - EUR 5.538 gross per month Closing date: 15 March 2026 We have an open postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). The focus of the project is on the development of methodologies for multilingual NLP and alignment of large language models. We welcome applications from candidates with a PhD in NLP or Machine Learning and an interest in AI alignment. The position is for three years. The expected start date is September 2026, but there is some flexibility. For further information and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-la… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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CFP: Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication (Extended deadline)
by Constantin Orasan 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026 Third call for papers https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 New submission deadline: 14th March 2026 The conference Building on the success of the first Convergence conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023> in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies at University of Surrey, UK, is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. The conference will be preceded by a Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication between 15th and 17th June 2026. The application process for the summer is currently open at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… Conference themes Theme 1: Ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting Theme 2: AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion Theme 3: Which creative turn? Language mediation in the era of GenAI Theme 4: The evolving role of language professionals in the era of AI Theme 5: LLMs supporting multilingual communication Theme 6: Responsible use of language AI in the public sector Full description of the themes is available on the conference website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#themes Submissions and publications Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes: * Long papers - describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices * Short papers - describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Full details about paper submission are available on the conference website at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/submis… Invited speakers * Horacio Saggion<https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion>, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the TALN Group and Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. * John Anthony O'Shea<https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanthonyoshea/>, LL.B, LL.M, Founder of Jurtrans, Chairperson of FIT-Europe, member of EU's Language Industry Expert Group Programme committee The programme committee is available at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/commit… Important dates * 7th March 2026: Registration of intention to submit a paper (optional) * 14th March 2026: Submissions of full papers * 16th April 2026: Notification of acceptance * 29th May 2026: Camera ready papers for the draft proceedings * 15th - 17th June 2026: Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication * 17th - 19th June 2026: The Convergence conference * 1st Sept 2026: Camera ready papers for final proceedings Venue The conference will take place in Guildford at University of Surrey. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us on cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_enquiries@surrey.ac.uk> Conference organisers Conference chair: Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Programme chairs: Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> and Dr Diana Singureanu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/diana-singureanu> Proceedings chairs: Dr Felix do Carmo<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/felix-do-carmo> and Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> Summer school chairs: Dr Elena Davitti<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/elena-davitti> and Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Sponsorship chairs: Sara Palmer<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sara-palmer> and Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> Local organisers: Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> and Dr Yuan Zou<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yuan-zou> --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey, UK Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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1st Call for Papers: SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL* *Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages* *https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page <https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>* ------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce the upcoming SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL on Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages <https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>, co-located with *LREC 2026 *in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. This workshop brings together researchers working on less-resourced, endangered, minority, low-density, and underrepresented languages to share novel techniques, resources, strategies, and evaluation methods. We emphasize the entire pipeline: data creation, modeling, adaptation/transfer, system development, evaluation, deployment, and ethical/community engagement. We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics: - Data collection, annotation, and curation for under-resourced languages (crowdsourcing, participatory methods, gamification, unsupervised or weakly supervised methods) - Learning with limited supervision (zero- or few-shot, PEFT, RAG with linguistic resources) - Multilingual alignment, representation learning, and language embeddings, including rare languages - Speech, multimodal, and cross-modal technologies for under-resourced languages (speech recognition, synthesis, speech-to-text, speech translation, multimodal resources) - Basic text processing (normalization, orthography, transliteration, tokenization/segmentation, morphological and syntactic processing) in and for low-resource settings. - Low-resource machine translation (pivoting, alignment, synthetic data) - Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics designed or adapted for underrepresented languages - Adaptation, domain adaptation, and robustness to domain shift in low-resource contexts - Responsible approaches, ethical issues, community engagement, data sovereignty, and language revitalization - Deployment, tools, and practical systems for underserved languages (e.g., mobile apps, dictionary or translation apps, linguistic tools) - Case studies of success and negative results (with lessons learned) - Interoperability, standardization, and metadata practices for datasets in low-resource scenarios Special Themes Language modeling for intra-language variation, dialects, accents, and regional variants of less-resourced languages Many less-resourced languages display rich internal diversity, including dialects, accents, and regional or social varieties. This special theme focuses on developing language models and speech technologies that capture and respect intra-language variation rather than reduce it to a single “standard.” We welcome work on dialect identification and adaptation, accent-robust speech systems, normalization vs. diversity-preserving modeling, and cross-dialect transfer in low-data scenarios. Approaches combining linguistic insights, community participation, and ethical awareness are especially encouraged. The aim is to build technologies that reflect and sustain the true linguistic richness of under-resourced languages. Ultra-Low-Resource Language Adaptation This special theme focuses on methods that enable effective language and speech technology development under extreme data scarcity. We invite research on transfer learning, cross-lingual adaptation, multilingual pretraining, and self-supervised or few-shot approaches tailored to ultra-low-resource settings. Work on evaluation, data augmentation (including synthetic data), and leveraging typological or linguistic knowledge is also welcome. The goal is to advance techniques that extend modern language technologies to the most underrepresented languages, ensuring inclusivity in the digital age. Community-Led Project Showcase To help ground research in community needs, we invite brief (5–10 min) presentations by language community members, NGOs, or practitioners describing real-world challenges or resource needs. Position papers or research posters are appropriate formats for this category. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 20 (Friday), 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 22 (Sunday), 2026 Submission of Camera-Ready: March 30 (Monday), 2026 Workshop Date: 11-12 May 2026 All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Call for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to the topics of the workshop. Each submission can be one of the following categories: - research papers; - position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, and institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches); - posters, for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources; - demo papers and early-career/student papers (to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters). The research and position papers should range from four (4) to eight (8) pages, while demo papers are limited to four (4) pages. References don't count towards page limits. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. Submissions must be anonymous and follow LREC formatting guidelines <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. For inquiries, send an email to claudia.soria(a)cnr.it. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! 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). Thanks, Atul

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CFP : [LaTeLL 2026] International Conference ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’
by chafik.salmane＠um6p.ma 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

International Conference ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ Fourth Call for Papers - The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities, have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, LaTeLL represents the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in particular. - Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages ● Dataset creation and annotation ● Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings ● Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases ● Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection ● Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages ● Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages ● Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding ● Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation ● Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing ● Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages ● Information extraction and named entity recognition ● Question answering systems ● Dialogue and interactive systems ● Summarisation ● Machine translation ● Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining ● Content moderation ● Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages ● Vision and language for low-resource contexts ● Speech and text multimodal systems ● Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages ● Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies ● Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development ● Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages ● Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies ● Educational applications and language learning ● Community needs assessment and technology adoption ● User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages ● Multilingual language models and their adaptation ● Code-switching and code-mixing ● Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. - Special Theme Track 1 — Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages LaTeLL’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. - Special Theme Track 2 — Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Dialect identification and classification ● Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects ● Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects ● Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic ● Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects ● NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content ● Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages - Submissions and Publication LaTeLL’2026 welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: ● Regular (long) papers: Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. ● Short (poster) papers: Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers (both long and short) will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL’2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates ● Submissions due: 1 May 2026 ● Reviewing process: 20 May – 20 June 2026 ● Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026 ● Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026 ● Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026 ● Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration. The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open in April 2026.

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Call For Participation: MedGenVidQA at BioNLP-ACL 2026 — Test Set Released & Submission Open
by deepak.gupta＠nih.gov 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are pleased to inform you that the CodaBench registration and submission portal for the MedGenVidQA shared task is now open. Participants can access the test dataset and submit their system runs for evaluation through the portal. Task A: Multimodal Retrieval (MMR) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13989/ Task B: Multimodal Answer Generation (MAG) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14014/ Task C: Visual Answer Localization (VAL) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14015/ Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026 More details can be found on the shared task webpage: https://medgenvidqa.github.io/ We look forward to your participation. Please join our Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/medgenvidqa2026) for important updates. If you have any questions, please contact us via the Google Group or email. Best regards, MedGenVidQA 2026 Organizers

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