*** Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026
<https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026> ***
Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation and Automatic Humor Generation
https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/haha/
Codabench page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/
Can computers be funny? Can humans identify computer-generated humor?
While humor has been studied historically from psychological, cognitive,
and linguistic perspectives, its computational study is an active area of
research in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics that has gained
traction in recent years. There has been significant development mainly in
the field of automatic humor detection and classification, but a
characterization of humor that enables its automatic recognition and
generation is far from being solved.
This task aims to gain better insight into what is humorous and what causes
laughter, and to take some steps forward by assessing the capabilities of
current LLMs to generate actual humorous content in Spanish and attempting
to see whether it’s possible to automatically distinguish between
computer-generated humor and humor written by humans. The target audience
is NLP researchers interested in advancing the understanding of highly
subjective and creative tasks, though anyone is welcome to participate.
Task description
This year, the HAHA evaluation campaign proposes three different subtasks
related to automatic humor detection and generation, with the aim of
deepening our understanding of computational humor.
Subtask 1 - Humor Detection: determining if a news headline is satirical or
real. The main performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of
the 'humorous' class. This subtask is similar to the first subtask proposed
in previous editions of the HAHA shared task, but this time it's applied to
a particular domain where humorous and non-humorous content might sometimes
be difficult to tell apart.
Subtask 2 - LLM-generated humor detection: determining if a joke inspired
by a news headline was generated by an LLM or written by a human. The main
performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of the 'automatic'
class.
Subtask 3 - Humor Generation: generating jokes from a news headline using
computational methods. This subtask will be evaluated through human
preference judgments, employing LLM arena-style battles between pairs of
generated jokes, and ranking the systems using an Elo-based leaderboard.
How to Participate
The CodaBench page for the competition is available:
https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/
Registration is open!
Important Dates
March 18th, 2026: team registration page.
April 1st, 2026: development sets released and open for dev submissions.
May 27th, 2026: test sets released and open for test submissions.
June 3rd, 2026: end of test submissions, publication of results of subtasks
1 and 2.
June 10th, 2026: publication of results of subtask 3.
June 12th, 2026: paper submission.
June 23rd, 2026: notification of acceptance.
July 1st, 2026: camera-ready paper submission.
September 2026: IberLEF 2026 Workshop.
PsyDefDetect invites researchers to tackle a novel challenge at the intersection of Clinical Psychology and Natural Language Processing: detecting and classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues.
Grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework, this shared task aims to advance the understanding of unconscious defensive functioning in text.
Shared task website: https://psydefdetect-shared-task.github.io/
Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/AhuspeXNkM
Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/psydefdetect
RedNote: https://xhslink.com/m/34ddMoz7E4L
Evaluation Platform (Codabench): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/
Task Overview
Psychological defenses are the “immune system” of the mind, shaping what speakers disclose and how they accept or resist help. Despite their critical role in mental health and counseling, defensive functioning remains largely unmodeled in current emotional support conversation systems.
This shared task invites participants to bridge the gap between clinical theory and NLP by analyzing the PSYDEFCONV dataset. Participants will work with multi-turn dialogues to identify the specific defense level of a target utterance given its context. The goal is to develop models that can recognize subtle, context-dependent defensive maneuvers—ranging from adaptive coping to immature distortion.
Data and Labels
PSYDEFCONV is the first conversational dataset annotated with defense levels based on the DMRS. The dataset is constructed from a stratified subset of the ESConv corpus to ensure diverse coverage of problem types and emotions. The corpus contains 200 dialogues and 4,709 total utterances, including 2,336 help-seeker turns annotated for defense levels.
Participants must classify utterances into 9 categories, comprising seven hierarchical levels of defensive maturity and two auxiliary labels.
Key Challenge
Capturing subtle linguistic cues of deep-seated psychological mechanisms within highly informal and context-dependent emotional dialogues.
Timeline
This preliminary timeline is subject to change. Follow our website and channels for updates.
Dec 15 2025: Task announced.
Dec 20 2025: Task Launch on CodaBench.
Mar 15 2026: Start of evaluation period.
Apr 05 2026: End of evaluation period.
TBA: Paper submission.
TBA: Author notifications.
TBA: Camera ready due.
Baseline and Evaluation Metrics
Baseline runs and official metrics are published on our CodaBench Page (https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/)
Organizers
Hongbin Na, University of Technology Sydney
Zimu Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Zhaoming Chen, University of Utah
Yining Hua, Harvard University
Rena Gao, The University of Melbourne
Kailai Yang, The University of Manchester
Ling Chen, University of Technology Sydney
Wei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Shaoxiong Ji, ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku
John Torous, Harvard University
Sophia Ananiadou, The University of Manchester & ELLIS Manchester
*** Last Call for Journal First Papers ***
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
The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by
ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration,
customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering.
VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in
leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM,
and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity
to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and
more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective
journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings
with a pointer to the original publication.
Scope
To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these
criteria:
• It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026.
• It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call
(https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…),
and can bring new insights or directions to the community.
• It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not
been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before.
• It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other
related conferences.
How to Submit
Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for
presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following:
• Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper.
• If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster
or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal-
First paper.
• All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track).
• Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper.
Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings
published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one
page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… .
By submitting your paper for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you
and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies
(https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to
research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these
policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including
withdrawal of the paper.
Evaluation and Selection
Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after
confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already
been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another
technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First
Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be
accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference
topics of interests and the structure of the sessions.
Conference Attendance
For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for
the conference and attend to give the oral presentation.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission of Papers: 2 April 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026
• Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026
• Author Registration: 15 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
*Registration open!!*
****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail****
MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task
on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from
social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and
2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are
now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures
a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be
solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential
risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently,
performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the
speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and
evaluation metrics.
For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first
subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask
addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions.
We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks:
*1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist
Response Selection*
Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026.
<https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026>
MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in
conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain).
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Important Dates
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*Feb 9th Registration open*
Mar 27th Release of trial corpora (trial server available)
Apr 6th Registration closed
Apr 13th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation
campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)
Apr 20th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of
runs)
Apr 27th Publication of official results and release of test gold
labels
May 11th Deadline for paper submission
June 1st Acceptance notification
Jun 15th Camera-ready submission deadline
Sep TBD Publication of proceedings
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00
Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026.
The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee.
Mª Dolores Molina González
PCD del Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación
mdmolina(a)ujaen.es
Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/>
EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 328
Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Universidad de Jaén
Edificio Departamental, Despacho D-122
Campus Científico Tecnológico de Linares,
Avda. de la Universidad s/n 23700
(+34) 953 64 86 51 <+34%20953%2064%2086%2017> - Escuela Politécnica
Superior de Linares
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Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen
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Dear all,
I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a thematic track
at FedCSIS 2026 (IEEE #61123) called "AI in Digital Humanities,
Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)". FedCSIS
2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia, 23-26 August, 2026.
See https://2026.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso for details.
--> Paper submission: 15.04.2026
This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social
Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for
example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology,
cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and
behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence
systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several
decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in
these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods
and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in
particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination
with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems.
Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three
domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered,
we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning,
discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field
with human and context-aware agents.
The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between
scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how
research questions from other domains challenge current computer
science. In particular, we are interested in communications between
researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences,
economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields.
Topics
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The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
- AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of
the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical,
methodological, experimental, and applied research.
- AI and computational approaches for linking data from different
digital resources, including online social networks, web and data
mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies.
- AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis,
for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies,
computational stylistics and stylometry.
- Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines,
OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences.
- Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis.
- Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society,
education and humanties research
In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below,
but are not limited to:
- Labour market research and qualification, including
behavioral-science perspectives.
- Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult
education, etc.
- Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history,
and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis,
analytical and visualization, databases, etc.
- In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical
reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social
sciences within computer science.
- Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their
quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data,
anonymization and data protection.
Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org
Submission rules
================
- Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for
an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here.
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
- Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
- Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN,
ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
- Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according
to information here.
- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS
Sessions.
Dear all,
I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a workshop at
INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2026 in Dresden, 22.09. – 25.09.2026:
4th Workshop on Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and
Educational Research (DAI-EaR’26)
Submission Deadline: 07.05.2026
See
https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/cssbibb/4th-workshop-on-digitalization-and-ai-for…
for details.
Aims & Scope
============
Societies today have to deal with multifaceted risks such as pandemics,
geopolitical tensions, and virtual security risks. At the nexus of these
risks computational social sciences, computing education and digital
literacy are emerging as a critical political and societal lever for
designing digitalized futures. In pursuit of an open society, open
science and open source, this workshop addresses the transformative
power of computational methods, including AI, not only in education, but
also in society and labor markets by exploring interdisciplinary
insights to questions of digital and open sovereignity, societal
structures, and the evolving demands of labor markets.
Call for Papers
===============
This workshop aims to comprehensively explore the intersection of
computer science, computational methods, education research,
sociological research, their respective methods and societal
implications, with a special focus on digitalization and AI for and in
society, education and educational research. It focuses on
interdisciplinary perspectives on the design of an open society, open
science and open source, examining aspects such as society, general
education, labor markets, qualifications, vocational education and
training, or adult education. In addition, the workshop encourages
submissions that critically reflect on the application of digital
methods in these research areas. The overarching goal is to understand
how computational methods, especially AI, can be sensibly applied in the
development of open, digital and sustainable societies and economies.
Emphasis is placed on theoretical as well as empirical research,
including data science methods and AI approaches applicable to
recommender systems, digitized learning, and effective linking of
digital resources.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computational Social Sciences, in particular AI and computational
approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences,
economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological,
experimental, and applied research.
- Quantitative and qualitative research
- Data science methods to analyse (vocational) education and labour
market data
- Digital methods and systems in education (e-learning, adult
education, general, VET and academic education, etc.)
- AI approaches for recommender systems and digitized learning
- Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their
quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data,
anonymization and data protection. AI and computational methods for text
mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences,
digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry.
- Network analysis, including social and educational network analysis.
- We also welcome submissions focusing on a critical reflection of
digital methods in labour market research, education and other research
areas.
Submission
==========
The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Selected
papers will be published in “GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics”
(LNI). Submissions (6-16 pages for full paper, 3-6 pages plus references
for poster presentation) must be written in English and follow the
guidelines published at https://informatik2026.converve.io/ and
https://gi.de/service/publikationen/lni.
Please submit your papers to
https://www.conftool.org/informatik2026/index.php?page=login
Submissions are reviewed using a single-blind review process, which
means you do not have to hide authors’ names and affiliations.
Important Dates:
07.05.2026 – Submission Deadline
01.06.2026 – Notification
01.07.2026 – Deadline Proceedings/Full Paper Submission – Submission of
camera-ready papers.
31.07.2026 – Publication of agenda.
Institution: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Closing date: April 10th 2026
We recently opened a position of potential interest for NLP researchers.
We are looking for a motivated candidate with relevant technical expertise
and compatible scientific interest.
The successful candidate will work in a group consisting of two senior
researchers and a PhD student.
The focus of the project is twofold:
1) researching how autonomous agents operate on DLT platforms, and
2) developing and deploying a long-running agents to interact with DLT
platforms and social networks.
The first part encompasses collection and analysis of relevant DLT data,
while the second part will
focus on development and deployment of an LLM-based agentic system, and on
studying its behavior and patterns of interaction.
Initially, we plan to focus on Farcaster as the target platform.
The candidate will be welcome (and expected) to actively participate in the
design of the research.
How to apply: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/418300
(basically you need to send a cover letter, plus the other information
described as required).
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at:
matija.piskorec(a)irb.hr
damir.korencic(a)irb.hr
*apologies for cross-postings*
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: *April 3*
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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop
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July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA
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We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the second joint CODI-CRAC workshop which will be held during ACL 2026! More information at:
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<https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ �
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CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
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Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: April 3 2026
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The workshop will also host the CRAC shared task. More information at:
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- CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26
Aims and scope
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Recent breakthroughs in NLP and Large Language Models have dramatically expanded our systems’ abilities to interpret and generate not just sentences, but whole documents and conversations. This shift has renewed interest in discourse-level challenges, driving new work on inter-sentential phenomena, coherence modeling, long-form summarization, discourse-aware representation learning, and large-scale resources for discourse understanding and parsing.
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Discourse sits at the intersection of many NLP subfields, as it is where context, structure, and meaning come together beyond single sentences. Discourse shapes how we capture coherence, cohesion, and inference across long texts, and brings together researchers tackling the shared challenges of document structure, long-range dependencies, and the requirements of extended context.
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In 2025, we organized the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference phenomena. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse-level problems and have served as a forum for discussing suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods.
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This joint edition corresponds to the 7th CODI workshop and the 9th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state-of-the-art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the 5th edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution.
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The workshop is planned as a 1-day event that brings together different subcommunities. It will feature regular papers and invited talks by Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) and Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research). We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers.
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Topics of interest
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We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse.
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- discourse structure
- discourse connectives
- discourse relations
- annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena
- corpora annotated with discourse phenomena
- discourse parsing
- cross-lingual discourse processing
- cross-domain discourse processing
- anaphora and coreference resolution
- event coreference
- argument mining
- coherence modeling
- discourse and semantics
- discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc.
- evaluation methodology for discourse processing
- discourse pretraining tasks
- long-text modeling and generation
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Submissions
Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time.
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We solicit three categories of papers: �
* (1) Regular workshop papers �
* (2) Demos
* (3) Extended abstracts
Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
1- Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. �
* Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references.
* Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
2- Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references.
3- Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them.
Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content.
Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences
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We also invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings.
We also fast-track ARR papers with existing reviews.
Submission website
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All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp �
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Submission website:
* CODI-CRAC: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/> https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ �
Schedule
Important dates for the workshop are listed below:
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* CODI-CRAC papers due: April 3
* Pre-reviewed ARR fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): April 5 �
* Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2026
* Grant application: May 5, 2026
* Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026
* Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026
* Workshop dates: July 4, 2026
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Invited Speakers
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- Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University
- Philippe Laban, Microsoft Research
Organizers
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- Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT
- Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen
- Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia
- Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin
- Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg
- Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
- Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague
- Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht
- Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com �
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Dear Corpus Linguists,
The following event may be of interest to those who are engaged in corpus-based research and practice for educational purposes.
The University of Bath's 3rd Disciplinary Literacy Symposium will be taking place on 17th and 18th June 2026. This two-day event hosted by the University's BAWESS corpus project<https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/disciplinary-literacy-corpus-based-pedagogy…> team brings together some of the leading educational specialists, linguists and academics, who will present research and lead hands-on workshops in the areas of:
* Disciplinary knowledge and literacy
* Genres and genre-based pedagogy
* Cross-disciplinary collaboration
* Teacher/researcher collaboration
* Corpus-based pedagogy
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Data-driven Learning
Registration is now open: Third Disciplinary Literacy Symposium<https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/third-disciplinary-literacy-symposium/>
Disciplinary literacy, encompassing the specialised ways of reading, writing, and communicating knowledge within distinct academic disciplines, has emerged as a critical focus in education worldwide as educators and learners face the challenge of mastering subject-specific literacies in a wide range of curriculum areas, sometimes in more than one language.
The event is designed to be of particular interest to secondary school teachers, and promises excellent opportunities for discussion, knowledge exchange, professional development and networking. This is a two-day in-person event with refreshments provided.
Dr David Beauchamp
Research assistant
BAWESS team
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Dear All,
We are pleased to inform you that we are hosting the "*Shared Task on
Low-Resource Indic Language Translation*" again this year as part of the
Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2026). Following the outstanding
success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's
edition (INDIC MT Task - WMT 2025, WMT 2024 and WMT 2023), we are excited
to continue this important initiative, especially in North Eastern
Languages. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as
multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of
parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for
low-resource languages.
The WMT 2026 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this
challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language
families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as *Assamese, Mizo,
Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, and Kokborok*. In addition, WMT 2026
introduces three new languages to the shared task: *Karbi, Tagin, Nagamese
and Mishing*.
Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the
following link:
Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/indic-mt-task.html.
We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can
provide updates regarding the release dates of data and other relevant
information periodically
To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available
here:
Link: https://forms.gle/VfADz8BA3sASbNqu5
For inquiries and further information, please contact us at
lrilt.wmt(a)gmail.com.
Thanks & Regards,
Dr. Partha Pakray
*WMT - Indic Task Organizers, 2026*