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*The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource
Languages (LoResMT 2026)*
*https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>*
*@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)*
*Rabat, Morocco*
*SUBMISSION*
ARR submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT
*TIMELINE*
- Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026
- Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD
- EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026
*SCOPE*
Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT)
workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING
2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop
at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers
working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented
languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT
for low-resource languages and define the most important directions.
Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial
and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural
language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and
especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools
are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools
in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output.
*TOPICS*
We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2)
review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however,
we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.
- Neural machine translation for low-resource languages
- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages
- Pivot MT for low-resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages
- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation
*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and
position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review
and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4)
and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For
system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions
should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates
(Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further
information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be
published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the
conference.
Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided
submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to
other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other
venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be
double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in
person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open
Review.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language
that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic
items and their corresponding English translations are provided.
Registration is handled by the main conference (
https://2026.eacl.org/registration).
*Shared Tasks: *
We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low
resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The
pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian,
Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language
pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by
yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports
will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please
visit to LoResMT website.
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Atul Kr. Ojha
Chao-Hong Liu
Ekaterina Vylomova
Flammie Pirinen
Jonathan Washington
Nathaniel Oco
Xiaobing Zhao
*CONTACT*
Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any
questions/comments/suggestions.
Dear all,
There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free.
The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing.
You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course.
The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish.
For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu…
Best regards,
Vaclav
Professor Vaclav Brezina
Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YD
Office: County South, room C05
T: +44 (0)1524 510828
@vaclavbrezina
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*<Lexicom/>*
a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing
*Registration open*
*Bari, Italy*15 – 19 September 2025
Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in
*corpus-driven lexicography* and to practice your
*corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in
the field.
For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration,
visit this website
*lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/upcoming-lexicom/>*
I hope to meet you in Bari in September!
Ondřej
*Ondřej Matuška*
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Dear all,
I'm pleased to announce our new shared task at ArabicNLP @ EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungry, October 24-29, 2026.
AraGenre: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task
AraGenre is a challenging shared task designed to test how NLP systems generalise to the unseen through:
• Few-shot training and development data
• Cross-lingual genre definitions guiding Arabic classification
• A large hidden test set of naturally occurring Arabic texts
• Unseen genre-definition combinations
The task addresses a wider challenge in NLP: building methods that can generalise from limited data and support languages and varieties that remain underrepresented in current NLP research.
Registration now open:
https://forms.gle/RAi7SpYoRD5RgUnP6
AraGenre Codabench:
https://www.codabench.org/competitions/16356
Organisers:
- Mo El-Haj, VinUniversty, Vietnam / Lancaster University, UK.
- Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, KSA
- Mustafa Jarrar, HBKU, Qatar
- Shadi Abudalfa, KFUPM, KSA
International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT 2026)
Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026
https://nettt-conference.com
Call for Participation
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to participate in the third edition of the International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT 2026), taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 24 to 27 June 2026.
Following the success of previous editions, NeTTIT 2026 continues to serve as a unique bridge between academia and industry, bringing together researchers, developers, practitioners, language service providers, and vendors interested in the latest technologies for translation and interpreting.
Why Participate?
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Discuss cutting-edge research, tools, and practices in translation, interpreting, subtitling, localisation, and machine translation.
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Attend invited talks by renowned experts, including Yves Champollion (Wordfast LLC) and Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute).
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Join pre-conference tutorials on:
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Post-editing and AI-augmented translation (Marie Escribe)
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Machine Translation Quality Evaluation (Tharindu Ranasinghe)
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Automatic Speech Recognition for interpreters (Constantin Orasan)
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Network with peers and establish research or business collaborations.
Accepted Papers
The list of accepted papers is available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/28003-2/
Important Dates (Participation)
Conference dates: 24-27 June 2026
Early registration finishes on 31 May 2026
Venue
The conference will be held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik.
Registration
Registration details (fees, deadlines, and accommodation recommendations) are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/fees-registration/
Follow and Share
Stay updated via social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/NeTTIT2026
Contact
For any questions, please contact the organisers at: nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com
We look forward to welcoming you to Dubrovnik for an inspiring and collaborative event!
NeTTIT 2026 Organising Committee
11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026)
LxGr2026 will be held online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2026.
Programme, abstracts, and registration (free): https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr
Invited Speakers
Stefan Gries<https://www.stgries.info/> (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Martin Hilpert<http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert> (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff<https://ssharoff.github.io/> (University of Leeds, UK)
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>.
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The 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), will take place at the University of Trento, Italy, on September 25–26, 2026. ICNLSP 2026 will be a hybrid conference.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.
We welcome contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 15, 2026 11:59 PM
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2026.
Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026.
Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026.
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
TOPICS of INTEREST
We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Generative AI
- Large language models (LLMs)
- Cognition and NLP
- Machine translation
- Text categorization
- Summarization
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Computational social web
- Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
- NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
- Text annotation tools
- Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems
- Information extraction
- Data mining and information retrieval
- Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
- Visualization for nlp
- Knowledge graphs.
Speech Processing
- Signal processing and acoustic modeling
- Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.)
- Speech analysis
- Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.)
- Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis
- Speech translation
- Speech synthesis
- Speaker verification and identification
- Language identification
- Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility
- Speech perception and production
- Brain studies on speech
- Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
- Speech and hearing disorders
- Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language
- Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology.
For more information, please, check the conference website: https://www.icnlsp.org/2026welcome/
Final Call for Participation: Summer School on LLMs and NLP
Alicante, Spain · 15-17 June
We are pleased to invite students, researchers, and practitioners to
participate in a three-day Summer School on Large Language Models and
Natural Language Processing, taking place from 15 to 17 June in
Alicante, Spain.
The programme brings together leading researchers and experts to discuss
the foundations, applications, and future directions of LLMs and NLP
(https://summer-school.gplsi.es/programme/ [1]). The summer school will
feature keynote talks by Roberto Navigli on lexical semantics in the LLM
era and Preslav Nakov on open, safe, factual, and language-specific
large language models, as well as a panel on the paradigm shift and the
future of NLP featuring well-known NLP experts.
Across three days, participants will explore a wide range of timely
topics, including foundations of LLMs, LLMs for low-resource languages,
datasets and bias, explainable AI in NLP, machine translation,
eye-tracking and gaze data, digital humanities, legal NLP, quantum NLP,
sentiment analysis, and model optimisation.
Beyond the scientific programme, participants will also have the
opportunity to enjoy Alicante's Mediterranean weather, welcoming
atmosphere, and excellent local food.
The summer school offers an excellent opportunity to learn from
international experts, exchange ideas, and discuss current challenges in
NLP and language technologies.
Further details and registration: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/
We warmly encourage interested participants to join us for this exciting
event.
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Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her)
Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad
Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad
Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines,
Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala
Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching'
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Dear all,
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher for a 2+1-year position at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) within the 3-year project LLADIGA: Learning Language with Dialogue Games.
The project is carried out in collaboration with David Schlangen (University of Potsdam), Alessandro Suglia (University of Edinburgh), and Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam).
The position is expected to start around 1 September 2026.
Further details and the application call are available here:
https://tinyurl.com/LLADIGA-bz
Application deadline: 29 June 2026, 12:00 PM CEST
Raffaella
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Room B1.5.01
Faculty of Engineering
Free University of Bozen Bolzano
NOI Techpark - B. Buozzi 1,
39100 Bozen Bolzano, Italy