Dear colleagues,
*Apologies in advance if you receive this message multiple times, as we are sharing this announcement across several mailing lists.
We are delighted to send you call for NTCIR-19 participants. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-18 conference was held in June 2025.
This round, we have 14 interesting tasks (https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/tasks.html), and the topics cover LLMs, IR, biomedical NLP, and financial NLP among others. We also have travel support for some participants every year. Hope you can find some topics that you are also interested in and join NTCIR in December 2026 in Tokyo.
Below are more details about NTCIR-19. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Best Regards,
The NTCIR-19 Publicity Co-chairs
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CALL FOR NTCIR-19 TASK PARTICIPATION
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NTCIR-19 (Dec 8-10, 2026, Tokyo, Japan) now calls for task participation of anyone interested in research on information access technologies and their evaluation, such as retrieval from a large amount of document collections, question answering and natural language processing. We welcome students, young researchers, professors who supervise students, researchers working for a company, and anyone who is interested in informatics.
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■ What is NTCIR?
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NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a project aimed at creating a large-scale evaluation framework for technologies that facilitate access to desired information, understanding, and utilization from vast amounts of data. These technologies include information retrieval, question answering, summarization, text mining, and machine translation. It provides a shared common foundation for numerous researchers both domestically and internationally, enabling them to advance their respective research, conduct validation and comparative evaluations, and learn from one another within a collaborative forum. Since it started in 1998, NTCIR has been striving to realize richer information access technologies and create future value. The project operates on a cycle of 1.5 years, during which several tasks (research areas) are selected for focused activities.
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■ NTCIR-19 Tasks
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NTCIR-19 Program Committee has selected 14 tasks.
The overview slide of each task can be available at the
kick-off page: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/kickoffcfp.html
For more details, please visit the websites of each task:
Task Overview page: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/tasks.html
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== Core Tasks ==
- AEOLLM-2: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2
https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUIR/AEOLLM
- FinArg-3: Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements
https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finarg3/
- HIDDEN-RAD2: Hidden Causal Reasoning in Radiology Report Generation
https://sites.google.com/view/hidden-rad2/
- Lifelog-7: Advancing Lifelog Analytics and Retrieval at NTCIR19
https://lifelog-ntcir-project-bd9eae.gitlab.io/
- MedNLP-CALL: Medical Natural Language Processing for Emergency Call
https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-call/
- ToT: Tip-of-the-Tongue
https://ntcir-tot.github.io/
== Pilot Tasks ==
- AgenticInstruction: Instruction Generation for Agentic Search
https://geniie-lab.github.io/ntcir/
- CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects
https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir-cameo26/
- DAGRI: Data Analytics for aGRicultural Information
https://sites.google.com/view/dagri/
- FEHU: Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding
https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19fehu
- ModelRetrieval: Pre-trained Model Retrieval
https://pre-trained-model-retrieval.github.io/
- R2C2: RAG Responses Confident and Correct?
http://sakailab.com/r2c2/
- RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking
https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19regcom/
- SciClaimEval: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers
https://sciclaimeval.github.io/
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■ How to Participate
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1. Please carefully read "How to Participate to NTCIR-19 Task(s)":
https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/howto.html
2. Please register at https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/howto.html
The datasets of each task will be delivered to the team after registration
(the date may vary depending on the task).
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■ Registration Due (Depend on the task)
Apr 20, 2026
- R2C2: RAG Responses Confident and Correct?
Jun 1, 2026
- AgenticInstruction: Instruction Generation for Agentic Search
- DAGRI: Data Analytics for aGRicultural Information
- FEHU: Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding
- ModelRetrieval: Pre-trained Model Retrieval
- RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking
- SciClaimEval: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers
- ToT: Tip-of-the-Tongue
Jul 1, 2026
- MedNLP-CALL: Medical Natural Language Processing for Emergency Call
Jul 10, 2026
- AEOLLM-2: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2
- CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects
- FinArg-3: Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements
- HIDDEN-RAD2: Hidden Causal Reasoning in Radiology Report Generation
- Lifelog-7: Advancing Lifelog Analytics and Retrieval at NTCIR19
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■ Schedule
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(*Schedule can be different in different tasks. Please visit the respective webpages of each task for the details.)
Jan-Jun 2026 Dry run*
Mar-Jul 2026 Formal run*
Aug 1, 2026 Evaluation results return / Task overview release (draft)
Sep 1, 2026 Submission due of participant papers (draft)
Nov 1, 2026 Camera-ready participant paper due
Dec 8-10, 2026 NTCIR-19 Conference (Tokyo, NII)
(At the NTCIR-19 Conference, online presentation will be available)
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■ Questions?
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For information regarding the task specifications etc.,
please contact the NTCIR Program Chairs: ntc19-pcc(a)nii.ac.jp<mailto:ntc19-pcc@nii.ac.jp> or task organizers.
For information regarding the online registration and previous NTCIR
test collections,
please contact the NTCIR office: ntc-secretariat(a)nii.ac.jp<mailto:ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp>
We are looking forward to your participation!
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Dr Ramon Ruiz-Dolz
Lecturer (Teaching and Research) | Open Research Lead
Member of the ELLIS Society<https://ellis.eu/person/ramon-ruiz-dolz> | AFHEA
School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee
rruizdolz001(a)dundee.ac.uk<mailto:rruizdolz001@dundee.ac.uk> | raruidol.github.io<http://raruidol.github.io/>
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University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland, UK, DD1 4HN
The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics<https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf>, held as part of Languages & Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines (14-16 December 2026, Aix-en-Provence, France).
The full call is available here: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf.
This workshop seeks to investigate whether current NLP methods and tools can support the annotation of lexical semantic features (word senses, metaphors, concrete/abstract meanings, etc.) in diachronic corpora. In particular, it aims to assess under which conditions high-quality annotation can be achieved and how this may vary depending on (i) the theoretical framework adopted; (ii) the research objective; (iii) the language under investigation; (iv) the chronological dimensions.
Submission details
We welcome anonymised abstracts (max. 500 words, excluding references) presenting research using NLP tools for diachronic lexical semantics, regardless of framework, language, or period. Abstracts should clearly state research questions, methods, data, and expected results.
Submission deadline
17 May 2026
Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2026.
Please select: WS4. NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics.
Template and full call details are available on the LLcD2026 website: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/.
We look forward to your submissions.
Best regards,
Andrea Farina
On behalf of the organising committee:
Zinaida Geylikman
Andrea Farina
Barbara McGillivray
Bastien Liétard
Willing to participate to a workshop where you can discuss work in progress
and blue sky ideas ?
Are you surprised about the ability of LLMs to perform complex reasoning
tasks?
Do you have a particular keenness for cracking the code of their inner
workings?
If the answer to the three questions is yes,
this is the workshop for you!
Observing properties and understanding the inner workings are two sides of
the same coin. Another way is possible (e.g.,
<https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo:
Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology)!
The workshop aims to accept focused contributions on:
* Mechanistic Interpretability by-design
* Neuro-symbolic approaches by-design
Work in progress and blue sky ideas are in the spirit of the workshop.
Your contribution must be between four pages and six pages, excluding
references, and should be prepared using the
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/gyxkgssbstfr#85e729> Overleaf Submission
Template. The proceedings will be submitted to <http://ceur-ws.org/>
CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please submit your contribution via
EasyChair at the designated submission
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memomina2026> link. The reviewing
process is single-blind.
Submission Deadline: 31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE
Acceptance Notification Date: 14/6/2026
Camera ready: 21/6/2026
Workshop Date: 24/6/2026
Venue: University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) & Online
Registration fees: cheaper than cheap (it's free)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop “Ethics in Clinical
AI Applications (ETHICAIA)”, to be held in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI 2026.
🌐 Website: https://ethicaia.loria.fr/
📍 Location: Bremen, Germany
📅 Workshop dates: August 15–17, 2026 (TBC)
📝 Submission deadline: May 15, 2026
*About the workshop*
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in clinical
contexts—supporting diagnosis, risk prediction, treatment planning, and
patient interaction. However, these applications raise critical ethical
challenges related to fairness, bias, accountability, transparency,
privacy, and patient safety.
ETHICAIA provides a dedicated forum to explore these issues as an
integral part of AI research, not as an afterthought. We particularly
emphasize the connection between ethical concerns and the robustness and
real-world reliability of clinical AI systems, including challenges such
as data shifts, uncertainty, and deployment conditions.
We welcome contributions from across AI fields, including machine
learning, NLP, computer vision, multimodal systems, and foundation
models in healthcare.
*Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):*
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Fairness, bias, and representation in clinical AI
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Ethical challenges in clinical decision support
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Robustness and resilience under real-world conditions
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Multimodal and foundation models in healthcare
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Explainability, accountability, and contestability
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Human–AI interaction and shared decision-making
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Privacy, consent, and secondary use of clinical data
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Synthetic data: benefits and ethical risks
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Evaluation beyond accuracy (metrics, benchmarks, validation)
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Regulatory and governance challenges
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Real-world case studies and failure analyses
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Ethical-by-design methodologies for clinical AI
Best regards
Roland Roller <https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-roller-a9017877/>(DFKI
<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23dfki&origin=HASH_T…>),Karën
Fort <https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenfort/>(Universite de Lorraine
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/universit-de-lorraine/> /
LORIA),Massimo Esposito
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimo-esposito-39134183/>(ICAR-CNR
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/icar-cnr/>),Paolo Soda
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-soda-9622197a/>(Università Campus
Bio-Medico di Roma
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/universita-campus-bio-medico/>/Umeå
universitet (Umeå University)
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/kamla-bhubneswer-b.-ed.-college/>)
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Karën Fort
Prof. des Univ. en informatique / Professor in Computer Science
Université de Lorraine / Loria
Resp. du M2 TAL et resp. locale du Master Erasmus Mundus LCT
Présidente du comité d'éthique du cluster IA ENACT
Porteuse du projet ANR InExtenso (évaluation des biais dans les LLM)
https://members.loria.fr/kfort
LORIA : B116 / IDMC : 215
Quelle que soit l'heure de réception de ce message, il n'appelle pas de réponse de votre part en dehors des heures de travail.
[Apologies for cross-posting]
We are announcing a postdoctoral position at the AI4X Centre of Excellence at Linköping University, Sweden (https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ida/aiics). We are looking for an enthusiastic researcher to join an interdisciplinary research project at the intersection of AI, NLP, and materials science.
Here is a link to the full announcement and application details: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/29164
The closing date is 2026-06-01.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the position.
Best regards
Marco Kuhlmann
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University
The University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, is seeking an ambitious AI researcher to join the British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence (BHF-CRE) and the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), a world-leading centre in biomedical NLP and AI.
The role focuses on developing the next generation of agentic biomedical AI systems, moving beyond static language models toward adaptive, reasoning-driven AI capable of planning, retrieving, simulating, and interacting with complex biomedical environments to support cardiovascular disease research.
The successful candidate will join an existing interdisciplinary team of researchers working across:
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Machine Learning and AI
- Biomedical and Clinical AI
- Cardiovascular Disease Research
You will work closely with AI researchers, clinicians, and biomedical scientists to design systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, simulation, and scientific discovery in healthcare settings.
Research themes include:
- Agentic LLM systems
- Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures
- World models and simulation-informed AI
- Retrieval-augmented and tool-augmented reasoning
- Trustworthy and interpretable biomedical AI
We welcome applications from:
- Recent PhD graduates
- Candidates close to submitting their PhD thesis
- Researchers with strong backgrounds in AI, NLP, machine learning, or biomedical AI
You should ideally have:
- Experience with LLMs and modern deep learning systems
- Strong programming skills (Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow)
- A research track record in strong AI/NLP venues
- Interest in agentic AI, reasoning systems, MoE, or biomedical applications
Why Join Us?
- Work in one of the world’s leading biomedical NLP centres
- Access substantial dedicated AI compute infrastructure
- Collaborate with leading experts in AI, medicine, and cardiovascular science
- Publish at leading AI conferences and journals
- Receive support for conferences and career development
- Help shape AI systems with real-world healthcare impact
Contract Duration: Fixed term for 24 months (full time)
Salary: £32,080 - £46,049 per annum depending on experience
Closing date: 21 May 2026
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34883
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Paul Thompson
Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science
National Centre for Text Mining
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
University of Manchester
131 Princess Street
Manchester
M1 7DN
UK
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/
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Paul Thompson
Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science
National Centre for Text Mining
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
University of Manchester
131 Princess Street
Manchester
M1 7DN
UK
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/
First Call For Papers: CLEAR-TEXT Workshop at the conference CLIB 2026 (7 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home
Free participation
IMPORTANT DATES:
1 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) abstract submission deadline (abstracts are not compulsory, but highly recommended)
15 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) all articles submission deadline
23 July 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) review decisions sent to authors
12 August 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) camera-ready submissions due
7 September, 2026 - Workshop date
This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility.
The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions.
Specifically, we invite submissions from scientific researchers, representatives of IT companies, publishers, public institutions (such as the Ministries of Education and public schools), and practitioners (such as authors of children's books, school materials, and teachers). The scientific articles can present completed or ongoing work with methods coming from all related fields, such as Linguistics, Translation and Translation Technologies, Psycholinguistics, Education, Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.
The workshop will feature one invited speaker and two panels of representatives from different fields, who will present cutting-edge insights and discuss the existing international and Bulgarian issues and possible solutions to them.
More information: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home
Irina Temnikova, PhD
Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE)
[Apologies for cross-posting]
We are starting the process to hire a NLP/AI Researcher in the Blasi Group at Pompeu Fabra University. The position will focus on applications of computational tools from these fields to interdisciplinary challenges at the intersection of linguistic diversity, human cognition, and foundation models.
See here for more details about the position https://dub.sh/blasi_nlp_posting
If interested, send a message with the header AI POSITION, your CV and a very brief motivational statement at damian.blasi(a)upf.edu
Thanks!
Pablo Contreras Kallens
Postdoctoral Researcher
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals ***
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/
Objectives
ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To
that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide
additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops
aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes
workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and
security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure
software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately
defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics:
• They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas
at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication.
• They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make
progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance
software and systems.
• They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers
and industry practitioners.
Recurring Workshops
Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of
participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop
proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning
the workshop to ISSRE in 2026.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the
software development lifecycle, and are not limited to:
• Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software
reliability
• Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting
software reliability
• Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures
• Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting)
• Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems
• Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large
Language Models
• Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks
• Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates
• Automated debugging and program repair
• Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay
with safety/security
• Reliability of software services
• Reliability of open source software
• Reliability in networks softwarization
• Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
• Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
• Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems
• Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive,
green and sustainable, mobile systems)
• Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things,
Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization,
Blockchain)
• Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability
• Societal aspects of software reliability
Proposal Submissions
Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee
and address the following questions:
• Workshop length: Half day or one full day
• Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups
• Outline of themes and goals of the workshop
• How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.)
• Desired/estimated number of participants
• Organizing committee members and their past experience
Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for
workshop proposals. The submission link is:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 .
Proposal Evaluation
Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The
criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE
community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team.
Logistics
The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to
attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026
• Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026
• Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026
(NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for
information about deadlines)
• Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026
• Camera ready papers: August 17, 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
Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student or postdoc in autumn 2026? We have openings on a new project titled “A Mechanistic Framework for Mitigating the Susceptibility of LLMs to Learning False Information”<https://dff.dk/en/about-the-fund/news-and-press/all-news/news-uk/2026/maj/2…> funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark<https://dff.dk/en/>, led by Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. The project goal’s will be to develop a novel theoretical frameworks for LLM security, new mechanistic interpretability methods, and new evaluation protocols, developed through research at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and Explainable AI. In addition to the PIs, the postdoc and PhD student, the project also offers the opportunity to apply as an academic collaborator with NVIDIA as part of an existing relationship.
Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here<https://www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/>.
PhD position
The PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on researching mechanistic interpretability methods to curb the effects of false information attacks on LLMs at different stages of the model lifecycle.
The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP.
The PhD student will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=160571> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Postdoc position
The postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to characterise the spectrum of false information used by LLMs at different stages of their life cycle, in order to develop mitigation methods and prevent false information attacks on LLMs.
The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience on Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and/or Explainable AI.
The postdoc will work with Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=160569> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/