25rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
[Submission deadline: May 29th, 2026]
The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 25rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases:
The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing.
The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 42th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2026), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author.
In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work.
Doctoral theses read during the year 2025, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition.
In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send:
a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions.
a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents.
The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury.
The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 29th 2026.
The final decision will be communicated during the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2026).
Submission instructions (here)
For more information aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus
EDICIÓN XXV PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL
[Plazo de presentación: 29 de mayo de 2026]
La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXV del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases:
La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el XLII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2026), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor.
Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo.
Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2025, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa.
Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar:
Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones.
Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes.
La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado.
Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 29 de mayo de 2026.
La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 42 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2026).
Documento con las instrucciones (aquí)
Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus
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*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Final Phase Started *
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MIRROR@IberLEF20206: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via
Synthetic cOnversational tuRns
Challenge platform: https://www.mirror-iberlef.lat/
The final phase of MIRROR has now started, make your submissions through
the platform to be considered for the final ranking.
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****Task description****
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We invite the community to develop Generative AI (GenAI) methods for
creating synthetic conversation turns that can substantially improve the
performance of models trained to recognize behavior codes (BCs) in the
context of motivational interviews. A BC is a discrete, observable
clinician action (e.g., asking a question, giving information) that is
counted during coding of a motivational interviewing session to quantify
specific techniques used. These codes allow raters to tally how often
particular clinician behaviours occur, which helps assess adherence to
MI-consistent versus MI-inconsistent practice. Our ultimate goal is to
generate valuable data for training models for the automatic assessment
of clinicians’ motivational-interviewing skills. These skills — crucial
for promoting behavior change among patients — can be evaluated by using
the “Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)” rubric
(https://tinyurl.com/38byjrwy).
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*This is a data-centric competition: *participants are expected to
produce high-quality datasets representing a wide range of clinical
conversations (rather than training a model) to enhance the performance
of a frozen baseline model used for BC classification. We encourage
participants to include samples featuring clients from diverse
backgrounds, varied conversation topics, and conversing with different
types of health professionals.
Participants in this competition should provide three datasets (one per
pair of considered BCs) of at most 100 labeled conversation turns that
will be used to fine-tune pretrained models; the fine-tuned models will
then be used to make predictions for a hold-out dataset. The performance
of the fine-tuned model will be used as the leading evaluation metric to
rank participants. The considered pairs of BCs are:
(1) Simple reflection vs. Complex reflection;
(2) Open question vs. Closed question;
(3) Persuasion vs. Giving Information.
Sample submissions, and detailed instructions on the formatting,
evaluation criteria and competition platform will be available at the
MIRROR website.
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****Important dates****
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* Mar 9th: Start of the development phase (platform starts receiving
submissions for the validation set)
* May 1st: Start of the final phase (platform starts receiving
submissions for the test set)
* May 11th: End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs)
* May 22nd; Publication of official results
* Jun 8th: Deadline for paper submission
* Jun 23th: Acceptance notification
* Jun 30th: Camera-ready submission deadline
* Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings
* Sep, TBD: Workshop with SEPLN 2026
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****Organizing team****
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* Luis J. Arellano INAOE, Mexico
* Carlos Olachea INAOE, Mexico
* John Piette, University of Michigan, USA
* Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico
* Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico
* Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico
* Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico
Contact: Hugo Jair Escalante (hugo.jair(a)gmail.com)
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Call for Participation
Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026)
To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 on 11 May 2026,
https://www.elra.info/lrec2026
Conference venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
(Spain)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nle2026/home
Overview
Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of
fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and
categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs
understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This
task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling
back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account
larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the
same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is
relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and
summarization.
This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While
most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and
metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g.,
hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement),
rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have
very recently started becoming available to the research community and
may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing,
with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting
such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but
still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop's focus is on adaptation
of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of
Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such
constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in
natural language analysis tasks.
The workshop focuses on the use of techniques like self-training for
leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work that focuses on the
incorporation of external linguistic resources and knowledge injection
to enrich features, and also in research that describes work on
utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to benefit from related
tasks. The workshop highlights the necessity of high-quality data, as
well as cross-lingual datasets.
Invited Speaker
- Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA
Workshop Program
Monday, May 11, 2026
9:00–13:00 Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data
Room: 4
Chair: Valia Kordoni
9:00–9:10 Introduction
Oral Session 1
9:10–9:50 Challenges in Japanese Euphemism Classification: An Analysis
of Pretrained
Japanese and Multilingual Models
Noriko Takahashi, Whitney Poh, Libby Barak, JIng Peng and Anna
Feldman
9:50–10:10 Steering Pragmatic Interpretation in LLMs: A Diagnostic
Evaluation of Few-
Shot and Reasoning-Based Prompting for Indirect Speech Acts.
Massimiliano Orsini and Dominique Brunato
10:10–10:30 Injecting Structured Lexicographic Knowledge into LLMs for
Non-Literal
Expression Disambiguation: A Controlled Study on Croatian
Slobodan Beliga, Ivana Filipovic Petrović and Ana Meštrović
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:40 Poster session
- Metaphor Identification in Spanish Oncological Discourse: The Role of
Explicit Meaning in Low-Resource Settings
Lucia Pitarch, Jordi Bernad and Gemma Bel-Enguix
- Exploring Detection of Complex, Non-Literal Expressions of Cultural
Motifs
Ibrahim H. Alyami and Mark A. Finlayson
- Artful Writing, Authentic Emotions: Distinguishing Human-Written from
LLM-Generated Metaphors by Annotation
and Classification
Michaela Regneri, Nooshin Aghajari and Thomas Kroedel
- Creation and Validation of a Monolingual Spanish NLI Dataset for
MetaphorInterpretation via Model-in-the-Loop
Alec Sanchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix and SERGIO LUIS OJEDA TRUEBA
- A Hybrid Architecture for Metonymy Detection in Marathi
Pratibha Dongare
- Contextualising (Im)plausible Events Triggers Figurative Language
Annerose Eichel, Tonmoy Rakshit and Sabine Schulte im Walde
Oral Session 2
11:40–12:00 A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic
Metaphor Detection in
German Religious Online Forums
Sebastian Reimann and Tatjana Scheffler
12:00–12:20 Decomposing Creativity: Two Small Datasets Combining
Originality Ratings and
Metaphor Annotations
Emilie Sitter, Sina Zarrieß, Omar Momen and Berenike Herrmann
Invited Talk
12:20–13:00 Unveiling Reasoning in Small Language Models: Insights into
Literal and Non-Literal Understanding
Debanjan Gosh
Endorsements
The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412
"REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German
Research Foundation)
Programme Committee
- Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS, USA
- Maria Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Yuri Bizzoni, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Kenneth Church, VecML Inc., USA
- Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Markus Egg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA
- Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA
- Valia Kordoni, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Emmy Liu, CMU, USA
- Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
- Sebastian Padó, IMS Stuttgart, Germany
- Gudrun Reijnierse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Sebastian Reimann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Adam Roussel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart
- Vered Shwartz, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Caroline Sporleder, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
- Egon Stemle, EURAC, Italy
Organizers
• Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de
Call for Participation
AthNLP 2026 - 4th ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
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** Preliminary schedule of Speakers, Labs, Events: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/schedule.html
** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J3AC6Yat2sfov0hpRXsCDXnnWLjdm9FI/view>
We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to participate in the 4th Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus between 2-8 September 2026: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/
Important Dates
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* Application Deadline: May 31, 2026
* Decision Announcement: June 10, 2026
* Registration: June 30, 2026
* Summer School: September 2-8, 2026
Description
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Following successful AthNLP editions in 2019, 2024, and 2025, AthNLP 2026 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer school is organised by NCSR Demokritos, the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC ATHENA, and Heriot-Watt University, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon, 20–25 July 2026).
The school focuses on Machine Learning methods for NLP, especially Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), offering: Morning lectures on theory, afternoon hands-on lab sessions, evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos.
Our target audience is:
* Students and researchers in NLP/Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning;
* Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML;
* Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields.
While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming.
Features of AthNLP:
* Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the registration ee.
* Lecturers are leading researchers in Machine Learning and NLP.
* Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks.
Confirmed Speakers
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* Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science
* Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
* Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen
* Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi
* Lingpeng Kong, University of Hong Kong
* Julia Kreutzer, Cohere
* Ryan McDonald
* Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University
* Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen
* Emine Yilmaz, University College London
Participation
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To apply, please fill this<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final> form.
The fees are the following:
* 300 EUR for students
* 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute
* 500 EUR for everyone else
AthNLP Summer School Scholarship
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Applicants can apply for the scholarship through the main application form<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final>. Scholarship recipients will be selected by the Admissions Committee and notified of the outcome after the acceptance decisions have been finalized. The scholarship provided covers only the registration fee for the AthNLP Summer School. Please note that accommodation, travel expenses, and visa costs are not included and remain the responsibility of the scholarship recipients.
Any questions should be directed to: athnlp(a)athenarc.gr<mailto:athnlp@athenarc.gr>
We are looking forward to your participation!
-- The organizers of AthNLP 2026
***** The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is here! *****
Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics!
==> 07-09 May 2026 <==
Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420
Thirteen (13 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel!
The event is **fully online and free** for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2
Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS member listserv a few days before the event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee
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TL;DR
The deadline for paper & abstract submission has been extended to May 6th.
Time & place: 3-7 August, ESSLLI in Prague, Czech Republic
Submission types: ACL Anthology archival (short/long/demo) and non-archival (extended abstract)
Website: https://naloma.github.io
The 6th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning) workshop
invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect
of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R).
The topics include but are not limited to:
- Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks
- Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations)
- Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R
- Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems
- Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R
- Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R
- Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets
- (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks
- Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks
- Generalization of NLU&R systems
- Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems
NALOMA accepts archival papers (long, short, and demo) to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings and non-archival extended abstracts.
The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2026.esslli.eu), 3-7 August, Prague, Czech Republic.
The submission deadline is 6 May.
Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call.
NALOMA PC chairs,
Lasha Abzianidze and Hitomi Yanaka
Lasha Abzianidze
Assistant professor
Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University
*** Third Call for Papers (Industry Track) ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/
The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from,
within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as
well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self-
made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software
reliability.
Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development
professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software
reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to
industrial problems and practical applications.
All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person.
Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide
selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the
software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective.
Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or
industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you
have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed
topics list for the research track on this site.
• Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability
or dependability.
• Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods,
metrics and lessons learned.
• Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including
experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field.
• Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability
Engineering.
• Software reliability in any system domain.
• Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering.
• Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability.
• Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences.
We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical
experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting
negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice.
Submission Guidelines and Instructions
We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track:
• Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a
video for a tool demo).
• Short paper: 4-pages (including references).
• Full paper: 6-pages (including references).
All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program
Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental
Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore.
Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 .
Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more
Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website:
https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/).
Note that:
• A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up
to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous.
• Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the
abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them.
• The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical
material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper.
• Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring
on-screen magnification.
• Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link).
Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that
do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review.
Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the
conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted.
Best Paper Awards
The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers
presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for
industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact
of the results.
The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the
presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to
the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is
in Industry.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026
• Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026
• Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026
• Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026
• Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings):
August 15, 2026
• Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD