August 2026 - Corpora

2nd CfP: Methods Fair at the IDS Annual Conference 2027 "Language and Literature"
by Roman Schneider 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Apologies for cross-posting. The Call for Papers below is provided in German, as it concerns a conference event dedicated to methods and resources for research on the German language. Please feel free to forward it to interested colleagues. Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur" Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf ab, Phänomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. März 2027, im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet. Der Fokus der Methodenmesse ist praxisnah und liegt auf Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeugen, die idealerweise anhand kurzer Anwendungsstudien demonstriert werden. Die Vorstellung von spezifischen Studien ist ebenfalls möglich, wobei transparente Methodik, Dokumentation und möglichst reproduzierbare Forschungsprozesse im Vordergrund stehen sollten. Wir begrüßen insbesondere Beiträge, die sich mit der deutschen Sprache beschäftigen bzw. auf das Deutsche anwendbare Methoden oder Tools vorstellen. Geplante Themenbereiche sind: • Korpora oder andere Ressourcen für die empirische Arbeit mit literarischen Texten • Tools, Strategien und Workflows für die empirische Untersuchung literarischer Texte mit Bezug auf deren sprachliche Struktur, hierbei auch besonders: o Untersuchungen und kritische Reflexion zum Einsatz von KI-Methoden o Untersuchungen zu multimodalen und neuartigen Literaturformen (z.B. Songs, Graphic Novels, Social-Media-Formate, interaktive Formate, KI-generierte Literatur) • Didaktisch-methodische Konzepte für die Verknüpfung von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft in Lehre und Unterricht Weitere Themenbereiche können berücksichtigt werden, sofern der Bezug zum Tagungsthema in der Einreichung klar herausgearbeitet ist. Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt. Anschließend gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca. eineinhalbstündigen Poster-Session zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung bei IDSopen ( https://idsopen.de ) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip publiziert werden. Wenn Sie einen Beitrag zur Methodenmesse beisteuern möchten, bitten wir um ein nicht anonymisiertes Abstract auf Deutsch (ca. 500 Wörter exkl. Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) bis zum 15.09.2026 an folgende Adresse: methodenmesse2027(a)ids-mannheim.de Über die Annahme der Beiträge wird bis zum 15.11.2026 entschieden. Konferenz-Webseite:https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/jahrestagung-2027/ Organisationsteam: Annelen Brunner, Katharina Gloning, Peter Meyer, Roman Schneider -- Prof. Dr. Roman Schneider Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R5 6-13, 68161 Mannheim Tel: +49 621-1581-217 http://www.ids-mannheim.de/gra/personal/schneider.html

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[Call for Workshop Proposals] ACL-family conferences 2027 — deadline September 4 AoE
by ACL Announcements 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Call for Workshop Proposals- ACL-family conferences 2027 -- deadline September 4 AoE ACL invites workshop proposals for EACL 2027, COLING 2027, NAACL 2027, ACL 2027, or EMNLP 2027. This is the single joint workshop-proposal call for the 2027 conference cycle. Proposals are welcome across computational linguistics and related areas, including linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Important dates: - Proposal submission: September 4, 2026, 11:59 p.m. UTC-12 (AoE) - Notification: October 2, 2026 Full call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-workshops-proposals-2027 [1] Submission: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/ [2] Questions: star-acl-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-workshops-proposals-2027 [2] https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/

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[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 08 Aug '26

08 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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