April 2026 - Corpora

HPSG 2026 -- Final CfP (and deadline extension)
by Antonio Machicao y Priemer 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

THIRD CfP: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Norway) Short Title: HPSG 2026 Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026 Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway) Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer Email: hpsg2026(a)easychair.org Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/ Conference fee: 68€ (faculty) / 43€ (student) Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science; Meeting Description: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (03-04 August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July). Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Presentations are in-person by default, although exceptions can be negotiated. All abstracts should be submitted by 17 April 2026 (deadline extended), via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2026 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion. Deadline for abstracts: 17 April 2026 (Old deadline: 10 April 2026) Reviews due: 10 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026 Conference: 03-04 August 2026 Keynote speakers: * Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) * Nurit Melnik (Open University, Israel) Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2026 A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings will undergo a separate (final) round of reviews (accept/reject), to enable indexing of the proceedings. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ Programme Committee: - Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université de Paris) - Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (Universität Zürich) - Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) - Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) - Felix Bildhauer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) - Olivier Bonami (Universite Paris Diderot) - Francis Bond (Palacký University) - Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, Université de Paris) - Petter Haugereid (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) - Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) - Anke Holler (University of Göttingen) - Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) - Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) - Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Jakob Maché (Universidade de Lisboa) - Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) - Luis Morgado Da Costa (Palacký University Olomouc) - Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Tsuneko Nakazawa (The University of Tokyo) - Joanna Nykiel (UC Davis) - David Oshima (Nagoya University) - Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) - Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Manfred Sailer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Frank Van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Elodie Winckel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Shûichi Yatabe (The University of Tokyo) - Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University) - Olga Zamaraeva (Universidade da Coruña) -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Phone (office): +49/30/2093-9702 Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Address (office): Dorotheenstr. 24 (Room: 3.305), 10117 Berlin Address (post): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik) Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Department of German Studies and Linguistics - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Project: Building register into the architecture of language – an HPSG account (CRC 1412, Project A04) Series: Textbooks in Language Science (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tbls)

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Open PhD position on ethical challenges in NLP at the University of Bergen, Norway
by Samia Touileb 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen, Norway. We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for a 4-year PhD position focused on ethical challenges in NLP, including topics such as bias, fairness, safety, and value alignment. The position offers flexibility for the candidate to develop and shape their own research questions, while contributing to the broader goal of developing and advancing responsible and ethically grounded NLP systems. Check the full announcement and application details here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298789/phd-position-at-the-d… Closing date: June 7th, 2026 If you have any questions or would like additional information, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, Samia --- Samia Touileb Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation Fagspråksenteret: Centre for Norwegian Professional Language

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[CFP] AACL-IJCNLP 2026
by ACL Announcements 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear all, AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. == CFP: https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [1] The conference will be held in Hengqin, China, from November 6th to November 10th, 2026. Important Dates ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) May 25, 2026 Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors May 27, 2026 Author response and author-reviewer discussion July 7 - 13, 2026 Meta review released July 30, 2026 Commitment deadline August 26, 2026 Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) September 7, 2026 Camera-ready papers due (long & short) September 30, 2026 Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD) November 6 - 10, 2026 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). AACL-IJCNLP 2026 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Safety and Alignment in LLMs AI/LLM Agents Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good Code Models Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability LLM Efficiency Generalizability and Transfer Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning Low-resource Methods for NLP Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Natural Language Generation Information Extraction and Retrieval Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Machine Translation Multilinguality and Language Diversity Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Neurosymbolic approaches to NLP Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing NLP Applications == Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Links: ------ [1] https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/

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*SEM 2026: Direct Commitment for ARR-Reviewed Papers (Deadline: 10 April 2026)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear corpora list members, *SEM 2026 (The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics), co-located with ACL 2026, welcomes direct commitments of pre-reviewed papers from ARR. If your paper has already been reviewed through ARR and you would like it to be considered for *SEM 2026, you can submit it through the direct commitment process. Deadline: April 10, 2026 Commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2026/Conference Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12h, Anywhere on Earth) * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 26, 2026 * Conference date: July 3, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) Following ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. More information: Website: https://starsem2026.github.io/ Call for Papers: https://starsem2026.github.io/calls/ Blog post: https://starsem2026.github.io/blog/ We look forward to your submissions. Best regards, *SEM Program Chairs.

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CFP: Data-driven Storytelling Workshop (DDS 2026) at ISWC – Submit by July 24th
by Pasquale Lisena 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Data-driven Storytelling: Bridging Semantics, AI, and Narrative (DDS 2026) workshop, co-located with ISWC 2026. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of knowledge graphs, NLP, HCI, and generative AI to explore how semantic technologies can enhance narrative creation and engagement. Submission Deadline: July 24th, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Notifications: August 21st, 2026 Camera-ready Version: September 18th, 2026 Workshop Dates: October 25-26, 2026 We invite submissions of research papers, demos, and short papers that address (but are not limited to) the following topics: • Knowledge graphs and ontologies for storytelling • AI-driven narrative generation (LLMs, GenAI) • Benchmarking narrative quality and coherence • Interactive and participatory storytelling tools • Ethics and explainability in automated storytelling Submission Link: https://data-driven-storytelling-workshop.replit.app/ We encourage submissions from interdisciplinary fields, including semantic web, NLP, HCI, and creative industries. For more details, visit the workshop website. Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, Pasquale Lisena, EURECOM, France Maria Angela Pellegrino, University of Salerno, Italy Lisa-Yao Gan, Technical University Munich, Germany Yihang Zhao, King's College London, UK Yiwen Xing, University of Oxford, UK

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Miscelánea Joins EU Diamond Discovery Hub – Call for Papers
by Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am writing in my capacity as Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics at_ Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies_: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en. I am really pleased to share with you all that _Miscelanea _has been included in the European Union's _Diamond Discovery Hub_ platform for high quality open-access journals: https://ddh.edch.eu/en/journals/3198 _Miscelanea_, with 72 issues published to date, and with number 73 coming out in June, is one of the longest-running international journals on English Studies in Spain. It is published and produced at the University of Zaragoza, and more specifically, by the Department of English and German Philology. _Miscelanea _is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (in December and June), and publishes articles on English language and linguistics, on literatures written in English, and on cinema and cultural studies from the English-speaking world. We welcome submissions all year round. As Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics, I will welcome any submission that draws upon any of the following areas and/or methodological approaches (to name but a few): * Descriptive linguistics; * Applied linguistics; * Discourse analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; * Sociolinguistics; * Systemic-Functional Linguistics; * Translation Studies; Etc. I hope you will consider our publication as a potential outlet for your research. Looking forward to receiving and reading your work. With all my best wishes, Miguel-Angel -- Dr. Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) C/ Atarazanas, 4, 44003, Teruel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5943 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Angel-Benitez-Castro https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [1] Member of: _IUI Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) [2]_ Universidad de Zaragoza Language and Linguistics Editor _- Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [3]_ Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [2] https://bifi.es/ [3] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/index

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2nd Call for SemEval Task Proposals 2027
by Ekaterina Kochmar 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Introduction We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2027. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks investigate the nature of meaning in natural languages, exploring how to characterize and compute meaning. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2027, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g., SemEval-2020 (http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/) and SemEval-2021/2026 (https://semeval.github.io<https://semeval.github.io/>). We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures, and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road that may delay the task. We suggest providing a reasonable baseline (e.g., providing a Transformer / LLM baseline for a classification task) apart from the majority vote / random guess. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at <semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:semevalorganizers@gmail.com>> to discuss your idea. The submission webpage is: https://softconf.com/acl2026/semevaltasks2027/ Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc. - one addition is not sufficient)? Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available, or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? Is the task significantly challenging (e.g., room for improvement over the baselines)? Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? Ethical – The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted. Avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health). These are representative and not exhaustive. Roles: Lead Organizer - main point of contact, expected to ensure deliverables are met on time and participate in contributing to task duties (see below). Co-Organizers - provide significant contributions to ensuring the task runs smoothly. Some examples include maintaining communication with task participants, preparing data, creating and running evaluation scripts, leading paper reviewing, and acceptance. Advisory Organizers - more of a supervisor role, may not contribute to detailed tasks, but will provide guidance and support. New Tasks vs. Task Reruns We welcome both new tasks and task reruns. For a new task, the proposal should address whether the task would be able to attract participants. Preference will be given to novel tasks that have not received much attention yet. For reruns of previous shared tasks (whether or not the previous task was part of SemEval), the proposal should address the need for another iteration of the task. Valid reasons include: a new form of evaluation (e.g., a new evaluation metric, a new application-oriented scenario), new genres or domains (e.g., social media, domain-specific corpora), or a significant expansion in scale. We further discourage carrying over a previous task and just adding new subtasks, as this can lead to the accumulation of too many subtasks. Evaluating on a different dataset with the same task formulation, or evaluating on the same dataset with a different evaluation metric, typically should not be considered a separate subtask. Task Organization We welcome people who have never organized a SemEval task before, as well as those who have. Apart from providing a dataset, task organizers are expected to: - Verify the data annotations have sufficient inter-annotator agreement. - Verify licenses for the data allow its use in the competition and afterwards. In particular, text that is publicly available online is not necessarily in the public domain; unless a license has been provided, the author retains all rights associated with their work, including copying, sharing and publishing. For more information, see: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-copyright-and-why-does-it-matter - Resolve any potential security, privacy, or ethical concerns about the data. - Commit to make the data available also after the task in a long-term repository under an appropriate license, preferably using Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/semeval/ - Provide task participants with format checkers and standard scorers. - Provide task participants with baseline systems to use as a starting point (in order to lower the obstacles to participation). A baseline system typically contains code that reads the data, creates a baseline response (e.g., random guessing, majority class prediction), and outputs the evaluation results. Whenever possible, baseline systems should be written in widely used programming languages and/or should be implemented as a component for standard NLP pipelines. - Create a mailing list and website for the task and post all relevant information there. - Create a CodaLab or other similar competition for the task and upload the evaluation script. - Manage submissions on CodaLab or a similar competition site. - Write a task description paper to be included in SemEval proceedings, and present it at the workshop. - Manage participants’ submissions of system description papers, manage participants’ peer review of each other’s papers, and possibly shepherd papers that need additional help in improving the writing. - Review other task description papers. Desk Rejects - To ensure tasks have sufficient support, we require a minimum of two organizers at the time of proposal submission. A task proposal with only one organizer will be desk-rejected. Running a SemEval task is a significant time commitment; therefore, we highly recommend that a task have at least three-four organizers. - A person can be a lead organizer on only one task. The second mandatory organizer on the task must be committed to the task as a key co-organizer. Any other organizers (beyond the lead and co-organizer) can participate in other tasks. - All data should have a research-friendly license. The licensing must be provided in the proposal. - Task organizers must commit to keeping the data available after the task, either by keeping the task alive, by uploading it to Zenodo or some other public data storage location that will be permanent, and sharing the link with the organizers. === Important dates === - Task proposals due 13 April 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification 25 May 2026 === Preliminary timetable === - Sample data ready 15 July 2026 - Training data ready 1 September 2026 - Evaluation data ready 1 December 2026 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation start 10 January 2027 - Evaluation end by 31 January 2027 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2027 - Notification to authors March 2027 - Camera ready due April 2027 - SemEval workshop Summer 2027 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the ACL template: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Each proposal should contain the following: - Overview - Summary of the task - Why this task is needed and which communities would be interested in participating - Expected impact of the task - Data & Resources - How the training/testing data will be produced. Please discuss whether existing corpora will be reused. - Details of copyright and license, so that the data can be used by the research community both during the SemEval evaluation and afterwards - How much data will be produced - How data quality will be ensured and evaluated - An example of what the data would look like - Resources required to produce the data and prepare the task for participants (annotation cost, annotation time, computation time, etc.) - Assessment of any concerns with respect to ethics, privacy, or security (e.g., personally identifiable information of private individuals; potential for systems to cause harm) - Pilot Task (strongly recommended) - Details of the pilot task - What lessons were learned, and how these will impact the task design - Evaluation - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - For Task Reruns - Justification for why a new iteration of the task is needed (see criteria above) - What will differ from the previous iteration - Expected impact of the rerun compared with the previous iteration - Task organizers - Names, affiliations, email addresses - (optional) brief description of relevant experience or expertise - (if applicable) years and task numbers of any SemEval tasks you have run in the past Proposals will be reviewed by an independent group of area experts who may not have familiarity with recent SemEval tasks, and therefore, all proposals should be written in a self-explanatory manner and contain sufficient examples. The submission webpage is: https://softconf.com/acl2026/semevaltasks2027/ === Chairs === Debanjan Ghosh, Analog Devices, USA Kai North, Cambium Assessment, USA Ekaterina Kochmar, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE Mamoru Komachi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA Contact: semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:semevalorganizers@gmail.com>

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M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

The MA in Applied Linguistics at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) is accepting applications for Fall 2026. This interdisciplinary program provides training in language, communication, and society, with a focus on real-world applications of linguistic analysis. *About the Program:* *Core areas:* The curriculum covers second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, multilingualism, and language in education, alongside training in corpus-based and computational approaches to language. *Research-active faculty:* Faculty research spans second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, corpus linguistics, register variation, academic discourse, second language writing, prosody and speech processing, language documentation, and conversation analysis, alongside computational approaches to language. Students may participate in mentored research and applied projects across corpus, NLP, and experimental labs. *Interdisciplinary training:* The program draws on expertise across Linguistics and related fields, supporting both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including corpus analysis and data-driven methods. *Flexible pathways:* The program is open to students from any academic background, with options tailored to interests in research, education, or language-related careers. *Professional outcomes:* Graduates pursue careers in education, language services, communication, research, and related fields, supported by faculty mentorship and a growing alumni network. *Location:* Montclair, NJ is located 12 miles from New York City, providing access to a diverse linguistic environment and professional opportunities. *Funding:* A limited number of graduate assistantship positions may be available in Fall 2026, awarded on a competitive, merit basis. More information and application details: https://www.montclair.edu/academics/programs/ma-applied-linguistics/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested students and colleagues. For questions, email Dr. Larissa Goulart (M.A. in Applied Linguistics Program Coordinator) at goulartl(a)montclair.edu or Dr. Anna Feldman (Chair of Linguistics) at feldmana(a)montclair.edu.

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M.S. in Computational Linguistics at Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

The MS in Computational Linguistics at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) is accepting applications for Fall 2026. This interdisciplinary program is jointly offered by the Departments of Linguistics and the School of Computing, combining theoretical linguistics with training in NLP, machine learning, and language technologies. *About the Program:* *Cutting-edge coursework:* The curriculum integrates NLP, corpus linguistics, annotation, machine learning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs), alongside strong foundations in syntax, semantics, and phonetics. *Research-active faculty: *Faculty research spans NLP, speech processing, and computational modeling of language learning and processing. Areas of work include figurative language, psycholinguistically informed approaches, multilingual and low-resource NLP, corpus development and annotation, and machine learning, including transformer-based methods. Students may participate in ongoing research and lab-based projects, including work in dedicated research labs (NLP Lab, Corpus Linguistics Lab, and Experimental Linguistics Lab). *Interdisciplinary training:* As a joint program between Linguistics and the School of Computing, the curriculum integrates coursework in programming, data structures, and machine learning with linguistics and NLP. *Flexible pathways:* The program is open to students from any academic background, with preparatory coursework available as needed. *Industry relevance:* An active Industry Advisory Board helps align the curriculum with current needs in AI and language technology, and supports connections to internships, applied projects, and career opportunities. *Career outcomes:* A growing alumni network supports placements across industry, government, and academia. *Location:* Montclair, NJ is approximately 12 miles from New York City, providing direct access to a major hub for tech, AI, and research opportunities. *Funding:* A limited number of graduate assistantship positions will be available for Fall 2026, awarded on a competitive, merit basis. More information and application details: https://www.montclair.edu/academics/programs/ms-computational-linguistics/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested students and colleagues. For questions, email Dr. Libby Barak (M.S. in Computational Linguistics Program Coordinator) at barakl(a)montclair.edu or Dr. Anna Feldman (Chair of Linguistics) at feldmana(a)montclair.edu. *Anna Feldman, Ph.D.* Professor of Linguistics <https://www.montclair.edu/linguistics/>and Computer Science <https://www.montclair.edu/school-of-computing/> Chair of Linguistics Phone: *973-655-7500* Email: *feldmana(a)montclair.edu* <feldmana(a)montclair.edu> [image: Montclair State University]

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Appel : Journée d'étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie »
by Laperrière, Gaëlle 05 Apr '26

05 Apr '26

Appel : Journée d'étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie » Jeudi 30 avril, Montréal, Canada **Date limite de réponse : 4 avril 2026** https://dcsf.cirst.ca/journees-ia-decouvrabilite-appel/ Créée en 2024 par le Fonds de recherche du Québec, la Chaire de recherche du Québec sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français (DCSF) s'intéresse aux conditions d'accès, de diffusion et d'usage des savoirs scientifiques en français. Elle étudie les pratiques de publication et les outils technologiques qui influencent la découvrabilité des contenus. Elle développe des solutions pour infléchir le recul de l'usage du français en recherche et pour bonifier les capacités de découverte des principales plateformes de diffusion de contenus scientifiques en français utilisées au Québec. En soutenant des stratégies et des outils adaptés, la Chaire vise ainsi à renforcer durablement la présence du français dans les communautés de recherche. ________________________________ La journée d’étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie », organisée le 30 avril 2026, propose une réflexion collective sur les effets des outils d’intelligence artificielle dans la circulation des savoirs scientifiques en français. Des tables rondes, des présentations, une session de posters et un atelier pratique permettront d’examiner les enjeux de l’IA pour la recherche francophone : promesses et limites de l’IA générative, biais linguistiques et sociaux des modèles multilingues, enjeux de souveraineté des données et propriété intellectuelle, standardisation du savoir. Cette journée entend ouvrir un espace de débat sur l’avenir de la publication scientifique en français et identifier des leviers d’action pour renforcer la découvrabilité des contenus francophones dans les environnements numériques contemporains. Outre la consolidation d’un réseau de recherche interdisciplinaire, cette journée a pour objectif de favoriser l’identification de pistes de recherche sur les transformations induites par l’IA dans la circulation des savoirs scientifiques en français. Appel à présentations Public visé Personnes utilisatrices (journalisme, communication scientifique, milieux communautaires, etc.), communauté de recherche (IA, communication, sciences de l’information, sciences humaines et sociales, études linguistiques, etc.). Format Communication de 15 minutes + 5 minutes de questions. Participation en mode hybride (en personne ou à distance). Thématiques * Biais linguistiques et sociaux des modèles multilingues * Standardisation du savoir et biais d’indexation * Secteur privé, propriété intellectuelle et souveraineté des données * Place de la francophonie (Afrique, Europe, Québec, etc.) dans les modèles d’IA * Recherche documentaire : les LLM face aux moteurs de recherche * Découvrabilité scientifique et vulgarisation * Publication scientifique en français (enjeux globaux et responsabilités locales) * Les propositions hors de ces thèmes mais en cohérence avec la thématique générale des journées sont les bienvenues. Soumission Un seul document pdf contenant : * Titre * Auteur.e.s * Affiliation.s * Résumé (250 mots) * Courte biographie Appel à posters Public visé Personnes utilisatrices (journalisme, communication scientifique, milieux communautaires, etc.), personnes étudiantes de cycles supérieurs, postdoctorantes. Format Session posters de 45 minutes à 1 heure. Présentation sur place. Si vous souhaitez présenter un poster à distance, merci de nous contacter. Poster au format A0. Thématiques Les posters peuvent porter sur tous les enjeux en lien avec l’IA, la recherche d’information, la traduction, la publication scientifique, la découvrabilité ou les langues de diffusion de la science. Soumission Un seul document pdf contenant: * Titre * Auteur.e.s * Affiliation.s * Résumé (250 mots) * 3 à 5 mots-clés Pour les personnes étudiantes : cycle d’étude et stade de la recherche (exploratoire, résultats préliminaires, finalisée) Modalités générales * Langue des soumissions et des communications : français et anglais * Envoi des propositions : chaire.dcsf(a)proton.me * Date limite : 4 avril 2026 Les propositions seront évaluées au fur et à mesure de leurs réceptions. Aucune contribution ne sera évaluée après le 4 avril. Les communications feront l’objet d’une captation vidéo et d’une valorisation sur le site de la Chaire.

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