February 2026 - Corpora

Job: Full-time permanent Research Engineer Position in NLP (deadline 19/03/26)- Bibliome team at MaIAGE-INRAE, France
by Louise Deleger 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Full-time permanent Research Engineer Position in NLP Bibliome team at MaIAGE-INRAE, France The Bibliome team<http://bibliome> (MaIAGE<https://maiage.inrae.fr/> laboratory) is offering a full-time permanent position of research engineer in Natural Language Processing at INRAE research center within Paris-Saclay University, located in the Paris area, France. INRAE<https://www.inrae.fr/en> (France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) is a public leading research institute, internationally recognised for the scientific excellence and societal impact of its work. INRAE addresses major global challenges related to biodiversity preservation, sustainable agricultural and food systems, climate change adaptation, and environmental risk management. Within this context, the Bibliome team develops cutting-edge NLP research at the intersection of AI and Life Sciences with the aim of advancing large-scale knowledge extraction from documents, using state-of-the-art transformer architectures, large language models (LLMs), knowledge graphs, and domain ontologies. It develops advanced methods for entity linking, relation extraction, semantic representation, and structured knowledge integration, along with robust evaluation frameworks and reusable research software contributing to next-generation knowledge infrastructures. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic interdisciplinary environment, combining fundamental research, methodological innovation, and high-impact applications. Position description and recruitment conditions at: https://jobs.inrae.fr/concours/concours-externes-ingenieurs-cadres-technici… Contacts : Robert.Bossy(a)inrae.fr<mailto:Robert.Bossy@inrae.fr> Louise.Deleger(a)inrae.fr<mailto:Louise.Deleger@inrae.fr> Key dates: - Application deadline : 19 March 2026 - Interview: from 1st to 19 June 2026 - Starting date: September/October 2026

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Last CFP: 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Call for Papers ************************************************************** 19th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 11, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026 Workshop website: https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/ Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/ ************************************************************** MOTIVATION In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, and unrelated corpora are on the other. Increasingly, these resources are not only collected, but also augmented or even created synthetically, which raises new questions about how to define and measure comparability. In recent years, the use of comparable corpora for pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their impressive multilingual and cross-lingual abilities, which are relevant to a range of applications, including information retrieval, machine translation, cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora are crucial to improve methods to mine such corpora, to assess and document synthetic data, and to improve cross-lingual transfer of LLMs. Therefore, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. PANEL DISCUSSION The panel discusses the impact of synthetic data on comparable corpora research. Fundamental questions about how LLMs transform our understanding and use of multilingual data are addressed. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora - Automatic and semi-automatic methods, including generating comparable corpora using LLMs - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, within and across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Synthetic Data for Comparable Corpora - LLM generation of comparable/parallel data - Improving comparability of synthetic data - Incidental bilingualism & pre-training use of comparable data - Comparability & cross-lingual consistency - Detection & attribution of synthetic vs. human text - English-centric effects & fairness across languages/scripts - Evaluation & reproducibility for downstream tasks Applications of Comparable Corpora - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora. - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES 28 Feb 2026: Paper Submission deadline 22 Mar 2026: Notification of acceptance 29 Mar 2026: Camera-ready final papers 14 Apr 2026: Workshop Programme final version 11 May 2026: Workshop date All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”). For updates of the schedule, please see the workshop website. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop is a hybrid event, both in-person and online. Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see https://lrec2026.info/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/BUCC2026/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail immediately upon submission to another venue. For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2026 web page at https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal, Mila, Canada) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) Contact: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI, Germany) - Gabriel Bernier-Colborne (National Research Council, Canada) - Kenneth Church (VecML.com, USA) - Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Alex Fraser (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Natalia Grabar (CNRS, University of Lille, France) - Amal Haddad Haddad (Universidad de Granada, Spain) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) - Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, United Arab Emirates) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal & Mila, Canada) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) - Richard Sproat (Sakana.ai, Tokyo, Japan) - Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) - François Yvon (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) INFORMATION ABOUT THE LRE 2026 MAP AND THE "SHARE YOUR LRs!" INITIATIVE When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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PestCLEF2026 @ LifeCLEF & CLEF 2026: Shared Task on Knowledge Graph Extraction on Plant Pests from Web Documents
by Louise Deleger 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Call for Participation We are pleased to announce the PestCLEF2026<https://www.imageclef.org/PestCLEF2026> shared task as part of the LifeCLEF evaluation lab<https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/labs/lifeclef/> at CLEF 2026<https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/>. Task ------------------------- PestCLEF2026 is a knowledge graph extraction task framed as a document-level relation extraction problem. Target relations reflect ecological interactions and events relevant to plant health monitoring, which involve entities such as Host, Pest, Disease, Vector, and Location. Important Dates ------------------------- - Now: Registration is open and training data is released - 23 April 2026: Registration closes - 7 May 2026: Competition Deadline - 28 May 2026: Deadline for submission of working note papers at the CLEF Conference by participants (CEUR-WS proceedings) - 30 June 2026: Notification of acceptance of working note papers - 6 July 2026: Camera-ready deadline for working note papers - 21–24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Register and Participate ------------------------- Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/registrationForm.php CLEF2026 Discord server (see #lifeclef): https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV PestCLEF2026 homepage (general info): https://www.imageclef.org/PestCLEF2026 PestCLEF2026 Kaggle page (to participate): https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/pest-clef-2026 Organizers ------------------------- Robert Bossy (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Claire Nédellec (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Marine Courtin (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Louise Deléger (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Keep in touch via Kaggle or Discord. We are looking forward to your submission! The PestCLEF2026 team

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 A workshop proposal must be at most 8 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CfP: CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - Jena, Germany
by Philipp Schaer 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

# CLEF 2026 - Call for Papers CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization 21-24 September 2026, Jena, Germany https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ # Good to Know The CLEF 2026 Conference welcomes papers in the Information Access domain that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Each submission is reviewed in two stages, see details below. # Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. CLEF consists of the presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2026 is the 17th CLEF conference, continuing the popular CLEF campaigns that have run since 2000, contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental Information Access as carried out within evaluation forums (e.g., CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search in different domains, also considering specific classes of users, such as children, students, or impaired users in different tasks (e.g., academic, professional, or everyday life). We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on information access test collections, on the analysis of test collections and evaluation measures, and on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield-style evaluation paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past runs, results, data analyses, and new data collections. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design should be clearly described in the paper. Linking to additional resources, such as code or data repositories, is encouraged. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). # Topics Relevant topics for the CLEF 2026 Conference include, but are not limited to: - Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval, question answering, recommender systems, image retrieval, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Interactive and conversational search evaluation: the interactive/conversational evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive/conversational evaluation methods, simulation of interaction/conversation, etc. - Analytics for information access: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field specifically targeted at information access data analyses, data enrichment, etc. - Reproducibility and replicability: analyses of past results/runs in depth. - Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability (FATE) in information access. - Language diversity in information access: work on low-resource languages. - Models leveraging collaborative and social data, and their evaluation. User studies, either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing. - Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact, and projections of any evaluation initiative upon completing its cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component-based evaluation, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Specific application domains: information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, and in the form of text, audio, and/or image data. - New data collection: presentation of new data collections with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, and multilingual collections. - Reflections on past achievements and future research directions, roadmaps, outlooks for future developments, and lessons learned. # Format Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format (http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) Three categories of papers will be accepted: - Long research papers: 12 pages plus references for complete research work - Short research papers: 6 pages plus references for position/discussion papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. - Past, Present, Future: Up to 12 pages for future directions and research roadmaps, reflections on past achievements, etc. Papers should be anonymous. Sharing code and data with reviewers should be done via anonymous repositories (such as https://anonymous.4open.science/). # Review Process for Research Papers Research papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the programme committee in two stages using a results-blind reviewing process. At the first stage, the members will review the paper's originality, clarity, technical & theoretical soundness, and methodology. At the second stage, the complete manuscripts that passed the first stage will be reviewed. At this stage, reviewers will also look at the reproducibility of the work. The final decision will not be based on whether results are positive or beat a baseline. Therefore, negative results and failed experiments are explicitly welcome. Authors of long and short papers are asked to submit TWO versions of their manuscript: 1. Methodology version (restricted): This version does NOT report anything related to the results of the study. At this stage, the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the importance of the problem addressed and the soundness of the methodology. Manuscripts can include an introduction, a description of the proposed methodology, and datasets used. However, there should be no section on results and discussion. The authors should also remove any mentions of results from the included sections (e.g., the abstract and introduction). 2. Experimental version (complete): The complete manuscript that contains all the sections of the paper, including the experiments and results. The submission deadline for both versions is 15 May 2026. Authors of Past, Present, Future papers are asked to submit to the “Past, Present, Future” track. The submission deadline for the Past, Present, Future track is 15 May 2026. # Paper Submission Papers should be submitted in PDF format at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2026 - Submit the methodology/restricted version to the "Conference - Methodology Part" track. - Submit the experimental/complete version to the "Conference - Experimental Part" track. - Submit the Past, Present, Future papers to “Conference - Past, Present, Future” track. - Submit the best of CLEF 2025 Labs papers to the "Conference - Best of CLEF 2025 Labs" track. # Best Paper Award A Best Paper Award will be given to one outstanding conference paper accepted to the conference. This award, sponsored by Springer LNCS, includes a certificate and a 500 EUR prize. # Organisation Programme Chairs - Philipp Schaer, Technische Hochschule Köln, Germany - Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, Austria Lab Chairs - Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Julia Maria Struß, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany General Chairs - Matthias Hagen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany - Martin Potthast, University of Kassel, hessian.AI, ScaDS.AI, Germany - Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

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CFP: CHiPSAL 2026 @ LREC — Submission Deadline Extended to 28 Feb
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

===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

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Nordic NLP Postdoc Position at the University of Copenhagen
by Ali Basirat 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

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

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Call for Workshops: 16th European Summer University in Digital Humanities
by Elisabeth Burr 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

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/

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Final Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science (extended deadline)
by Thorsten Trippel 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

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/

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Deadline Extension: Computation and Written Language Workshop at LREC 2026
by Constantine Lignos 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

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 - Multi-writing system models - Text entry and tokenization - Processing abbreviations and homographs - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization - Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres of text - Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to decipherment - 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.

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