August 2026 - Corpora

[CFP] Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics
by ACL Announcements 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics Language processing technologies from Siri to Google Translate and ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our societies. Consequently, there has been a decade of attention to algorithmically mediated harms, including harms arising from social biases and discriminatory technologies. In this special issue, we broadly invite contributions that reflect on the ethics of language technologies. We invite theoretical and technical submissions around - but not limited to: * Reflection on bias and fairness research and its outcomes; * Interdisciplinary perspectives on bias, fairness, and algorithmically mediated harms; * Critiques of existing approaches; * Development of new theories for bias, fairness, and algorithmically mediated harms; * Analyses of power relationships (including conflicts of interests) and their impacts; * Multilingual considerations; * Decolonisation in relation to bias and fairness; * Reflections on ongoing debates on bias, fairness, and ethics; * Language technologies in context (e.g., in political/social/cultural tensions); * Slow science and its relationship to bias and fairness; * Luddite and decomputing perspectives on language technologies, bias, and fairness; * Environmental impacts of language technologies * The impacts and social considerations of data labour; * Social and societal harms of language technologies; and * External perspectives on language technologies. We particularly encourage inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary submissions which center questions around the fairness, bias, justice, and ethics of natural language processing technologies and computational linguistics. Important dates and information _Submission deadline_: 27 November, 2026 _Notification_: February, 2027 _Publication (Expected)_: October, 2027 Submission site: https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission Guest Editors * Karën Fort, Université de Lorraine / LORIA, France * Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany * Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us cl_si_ethics(a)inria.fr About the journal Computational Linguistics is the longest-running publication devoted exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. This highly regarded quarterly offers university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of all the facets of research on language. Computational Linguistics is a diamond open access journal, which means that "there is no fee to publish and the content is open to anyone to read. All of these titles employ a Creative Commons license for individual articles." (https://direct.mit.edu/journals/pages/open-access)

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Call for Registration: International Conference LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages Fes, Morocco
by Amal Haddad 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

International Conference: 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] Call for Registration ***Early registration available until 16 August 2026*** LaTeLL (https://latell.org/2026/) is the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of low-resource languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and particularly in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. The list of accepted papers is available on https://latell.org/2026/accepted-papers/ Early registration available until 16 August 2026. See the registration link on the conference webpage for more details. -- 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' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/

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articles in honour of Patrick Hanks
by Robert Lew 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 14-15 January 2027, London
by Andrea Farina 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultur… Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) 14–15 January 2026 | King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27), to be held at King’s College London (Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS) on 14–15 January 2026. The conference is funded by the ERC-selected project COALA<https://coala.er.kcl.ac.uk/>. See the conference webpage here<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultur…>. Language is in constant flux, shaped by social, cultural, and cognitive forces over time. With the increasing availability of large-scale textual data and computational tools, researchers are now better equipped than ever to uncover patterns and mechanisms of language change across different linguistic areas (e.g., morphology, syntax, semantics). This conference explores the intersection of quantitative diachronic linguistics and cultural analytics, to investigate how language evolves and how these changes relate – directly or broadly – to cultural dynamics. Confirmed keynote speakers are Prof Dirk Geeraerts<https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english/our-staff/emeritus-professors/dirkgeer…> (KU Leuven) and Dr Stefania De Gaetano-Ortlieb<https://stefaniadegaetano.com/> (Saarland University). Submission Guidelines * We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. * The abstracts should be anonymised and consist of a maximum of 400 words (excluding references). * Please submit your abstract as a .docx file via email to: quantitative.diachronic.ling(a)gmail.com<mailto:quantitative.diachronic.ling@gmail.com>. Use the following subject line: “ABSTRACT Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics” In case of a large number of high-quality submissions, some abstracts may be selected for poster presentations. Authors will be invited to indicate whether they would consider their submission suitable for a poster session, should one be included in the programme. Poster selections will be based both on authors’ preferences and on reviewers’ recommendations, as reviewers will also be asked to assess the suitability of submissions for poster presentation. Deadline: 13 September 2026, 23:59 BST Suggested Topics (non-exhaustive list) Submissions may include (but are not limited to) the following areas, with no restrictions on language(s) or historical periods: * Quantitative studies of language change across time * Corpus-based analyses of language evolution * Computational modelling of diachronic syntax, semantics, morphology, etc. * Cross-linguistic comparisons using large-scale data * Language change in connection with historical, literary, or cultural trends * Digital methods for exploring linguistic and cultural shifts * Applications of cultural analytics to linguistic data Important Dates * 13 September 2026: Abstract Submission Deadline * 26 October 2026: Notification of Acceptance * 14–15 January 2026: Conference Dates For any inquiries, please contact the organiser, Dr Andrea Farina<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/andrea-farina> (andrea.farina(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:andrea.farina@kcl.ac.uk>).

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

*** Call for Participation *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 *** Early Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026 *** We are pleased to invite researchers, practitioners, educators, and students to participate in the inaugural edition of VARIABILITY 2026, the new flagship conference dedicated to variability engineering, software reuse, and software product line engineering. As modern software systems must cope with evolving requirements, heterogeneous platforms, changing user needs, adaptive behaviour, and increasingly AI-enabled development processes, variability engineering has become more important than ever. The conference provides a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in variability-enabled systems including modelling, analysis, automation, architectures, tools, empirical studies, software reuse, and software product line engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 builds upon the legacies of three leading conferences in the field: • International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) • International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS) • International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) By bringing these communities together, VARIABILITY 2026 creates a unified international forum for advancing the engineering, management, and exploitation of variability in software-intensive systems. Keynote Speakers VARIABILITY 2026 will feature keynote presentations by: • Prof. Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson / Mälardalen University) • Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel (University of Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IUF) Tracks VARIABILITY 2026 will feature presentations spanning many tracks including: • Research • Industry • Journal-First • Demonstrations and Tools • Projects Showcase • Doctoral Symposium Workshops • MODEVAR - International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability https://modevar.github.io/ • GAIV - Workshop on Generative AI and Variability https://sites.google.com/view/gaiv-2026 Tutorials • Product Comparison using Feature Similarity Matching by Mike Mannion and Hermann Kaindl • The Engineering and Manufacture of Software-based Products by Grady Campbell Awards The conference will honour excellence through: • Awards for the most influential papers published more than 10 years ago in the predecessor conferences • Best Research Paper and Best Industry Paper awards (sponsored by Springer) Join us in Cyprus for this historic inaugural edition and help build the future of variability- enabled systems and software! Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CfP] KEIR @ CIKM 2026
by Luca Ragazzi 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

📢 Call for Papers — KEIR @ CIKM 2026 The Third Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval 📍 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 📅 November 8, 2026 🎓 Co-located with ACM CIKM 2026 🌐 Website: https://keir-workshop.github.io/ After two successful editions at ECIR (2024 & 2025), the Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR) workshop is coming to CIKM 2026 in Rome! KEIR brings together researchers from Information Retrieval, NLP, Data Mining, and Knowledge Management to advance the principled integration of external knowledge into retrieval systems and the language models that power them. We invite both short and long papers presenting original or work-in-progress research, as well as position, applied, and resource papers. We especially encourage submissions addressing knowledge-intensive and domain-sensitive applications where factuality, trustworthiness, and discovery are essential, including medicine, law, finance, and science. 🔍 Topics include (but are not limited to): • Knowledge-enhanced retrieval and recommendation models, both representational and generative • Knowledge-aware data augmentation and query processing • Knowledge-enhanced agentic IR: LLM agents that plan, reason, and decide when, what, and how to retrieve, navigate structured knowledge, and curate and link knowledge • Self-evolving, dynamic knowledge and automated discovery • Multimodal knowledge sources for IR • Test-time adaptation of retrievers and language models • Efficient knowledge-enhanced retrieval • Evaluation, interpretability, uncertainty quantification, bias, and fairness • Domain-specific retrieval applications 📅 Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: August 24, 2026 • Notification: September 23, 2026 • Workshop: November 8, 2026 📝 Submissions • Double-blind reviewing • Original unpublished work and suitable CIKM 2026 rejected papers are welcome • Authors may optionally publish an extended version of their accepted paper in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume; participation is entirely optional, helping preserve the opportunity to submit a revised version of the work to another conference or journal if desired We look forward to welcoming the community to Rome this November! Luca Ragazzi, PhD DISI UniBO NLP<https://disi-unibo-nlp.github.io> DISI - University of Bologna l.ragazzi(a)unibo.it<mailto:l.ragazzi@unibo.it>

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: ARR Commitment Deadline Extension
by daryna.dementieva＠tum.de 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

Dear community, As there is still an issue with OpenReview papers links that influenced several workshops, we also accept ARR Commitment submissions via form: https://forms.gle/swiwbUA1EsNF65gs8 till August 12th, EoD, AoE. Looking forward to gather in one place all amazing positive impact papers! Best wishes, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Organisers

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Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17-20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 20 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026-20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types - Long papers: max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) - Short papers: max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) - Executive summaries: max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building, not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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PhD position in Digital Forensic Linguistics
by Tatjana Scheffler 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

We are looking for a PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics The position is located in the group headed by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Digital Forensic Linguistics) in the Institute for German Studies. The research focus of the group is the theoretical and computational analysis of human language in digital media, in particular computational approaches to forensic linguistics. Research topics of the group include disinformation, hate speech, and automatic approaches to digital authorship, among others. The position includes a small teaching requirement (approximately 1 class per semester), which will be carried out in the undergraduate and graduate programs in German linguistics. This position is meant to lead to further qualification of the holder in the form of a Ph.D. degree. Work on the Ph.D. thesis is considered part of the tasks in this position and should center around a project in the newly established field of digital forensic linguistics. Your tasks: - Investigating new computational linguistic methods of analyzing, detecting and combating harmful online language (disinformation, hate speech, or other digital forensic applications) - Contributing to the development of the emerging research field Digital Forensic Linguistics - Creation of annotated corpora and datasets - Collaboration in an interdisciplinary team - Preparing research results for publication in leading venues (conferences and journals) - Teaching (1 class per semester) in the field of German linguistics (preferably in German) - Supervising student research assistants (m/f/x) Your profile: - Very good Master's degree in computational linguistics or a related subject - Knowledge of and ideally practical experience with natural language processing (NLP), including machine learning methods (statistical methods, deep learning, LLMs) - Solid programming skills (e.g., Python) - Excellent language skills (reading and writing) in English; German skills preferred - Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following fields would be beneficial: forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, analysis of social media data, psycholinguistic experiments, visual communication - Willingness to participate in interdisciplinary research We offer: - Compensation according to TV-L E13, 65% - An interdisciplinary team including colleagues from computational linguistics, linguistics, and computer science - The opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. with strong support - Challenging and varied tasks with a high level of independence - Professional development, mentoring, and training - The opportunity to join one of the largest universities in Germany, embedded in the University Alliance Ruhr Your application should include the following documents: (1) Cover letter, including your motivation for the position, (2) current CV, (3) transcript of records for the Bachelor's and Master's degree, (4) sample of your academic writing, e.g. (chapter from) Master's thesis, and (5) names and email addresses of two references. We would prefer that CVs do not include a personal photo. Your cover letter and CV should be written by you and clearly demonstrate the ways in which you match the requested profile. Please submit your application via the online form. Interviews are planned to take place in August 2026 via video conference (Zoom). We look forward to receiving your application via our online application portal by 2026-08-24. Please make sure to mention the reference number ANR 5953. Application Deadline: 24-Aug-2026 Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d… --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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Second Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026)
by keren.artiaga＠adaptcentre.ie 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026. WSLP 2026 aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working on sign language technologies. The workshop will showcase recent advances in sign language understanding, translation, recognition, generation, and multimodal AI, with a special emphasis on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature shared tasks, invited talks, and discussions on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field. 🔑 Important Links 🌐 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/ 📄 Submission Portal (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP 🏆 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/ 💬 Workshop Discord: https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7 💬 Shared Task Discord: https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) * Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026 * Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop Date: October 29, 2026 🔍 Topics of Interest (Including but Not Limited To) * Low-resource and underrepresented sign languages * Sign Language Recognition (SLR) * Continuous and Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) * Sign Language Generation and Avatars * Multilingual, Cross-modal, and Zero-shot Learning for Sign Languages * Large Language Models and Multimodal Models for Sign Languages * Cultural and Dialectal Variation in Sign Languages * Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Data Resources * Fairness, Ethics, Accessibility, and Real-world Applications 🏆 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2026 * Indian Sign Language to English Translation * Isolated Sign Recognition * Word/Sign Presence Prediction We particularly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages, inclusive technologies, and real-world deployment challenges. We warmly invite the community to submit their latest research and join us in advancing sign language technologies that foster accessibility, inclusion, and communication for all.

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