August 2026 - Corpora

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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Call for System Demonstrations - EACL 2027
by ACL Announcements 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

Call for System Demonstrations EACL 2027 March 9-14, Athens, Greece https://2027.eacl.org/ Submission deadline: 22 September 2026 Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2026 The EACL 2027 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. We encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics and (applied) natural language processing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools * Reusable components (parsers, generators, taggers, speech recognizers, etc.) * Systems that do not necessarily employ LLMs Submissions require a paper (up to 6 pages), a demonstration video (up to 2.5 minutes), and a live demo website or installable package. Please see the following page for more information: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/demos/ [1] Contact: eacl2027-sysdemo(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2027.eacl.org/calls/demos/

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2 PhD Positions on Integrating Values, Beliefs, and Social Dynamics into Conversational Agents and Knowledge-Driven NLG for Combating Hateful Misinformation. Application deadline: August 27th
by Marco Guerini 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

----------------- Apologies for cross-posting. ----------------- The Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD <https://land.fbk.eu/>) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of two fully-funded PhD position: *1) TITLE*: *Integrating Values, Beliefs, and Social Dynamics into Conversational Agents* *DESCRIPTION*: Providing neural models with a persona profile has demonstrated that conditioning such models on specific characteristics produces more coherent and engaging conversations. However, current representations remain shallow, typically relying on static biographical facts. In reality, human communication is shaped by both profound internal traits - such as goals, opinions, values, and beliefs - and dynamic situational factors, including emotional states, conversational context, and the specific relationship between speakers. The goal of this PhD Thesis is to bridge these dimensions, moving beyond rigid profiles to develop adaptive, context-sensitive persona models. By integrating deep profile characteristics with real-time social dynamics, the research aims to advance the state of language generation for conversational agents across multiple domains and languages. *Link to the call*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A5 *2) TITLE*: *Knowledge-Driven Natural Language Generation for Combating Hateful Misinformation* *DESCRIPTION*: The convergence of online misinformation and hate speech poses a significant threat to social cohesion, especially when manipulated content is used to incite hostility toward marginalized groups. While large language models (LLMs) offer potential for fact-checking and counterspeech, current systems often struggle with factual accuracy, complex reasoning, and the nuanced social dynamics of harmful content. This PhD project aims to overcome these hurdles by developing knowledge-enhanced neural generation frameworks. The research will integrate external knowledge and computational argumentation to produce reliable, persuasive, and ethically grounded responses, while also addressing the moral values and motivations of users spreading hate-based misinformation. Ultimately, this work seeks to advance generative AI that can mitigate harmful discourse and clarify its underlying mechanisms. *Link to the call*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A6 *COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application *IMPORTANT DATES:* deadline for application is 27th August 2026, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) *FURTHER INFORMATION:* For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact me (guerini(a)fbk.eu) Best Regards, Marco Guerini -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Final CfP [extended deadline]: 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026
by Veronika Laippala 05 Aug '26

05 Aug '26

Final Call for Papers [deadline extended] 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026 https://wackyworkshop.org The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limited metadata, and the under-representation of many languages and domains. These challenges call for a shift toward Data-Centric AI, focusing on the curation, analysis, and responsible use of web-derived data. The 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for research addressing the full lifecycle of web data. We invite submissions on methods, resources, and applications related to web corpora, with special emphasis on multilingual data and less-resourced languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (e.g., data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification) * Use of web data in empirical linguistic research * Analysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insights * Ethical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data By bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, and the social sciences, WaC aims to advance best practices for one of the field’s most influential data sources. Important dates Direct paper submission deadline: 15 August, 2026 (extended) Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: 1 September, 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 September, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: 20 September, 2026 Workshop date: 29 Oct, 2026 Submissions Submit your papers through https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13 (both archival and non-archival option available) or through ARR commitment https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13_ARR_Commitment. Workshop Organizers Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo, Norway Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl Foundation Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation Thom Vaughan, Common Crawl Foundation Vuk Dinić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (MLCR27)
by Frey Jennifer-Carmen 05 Aug '26

05 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the "International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (MLCR27)", which will take place on 6–7 May 2027 at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of multilingualism and learner corpus research to discuss theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in this emerging field. We welcome concluded research as well as work-in-progress discussions and poster presentations on topics including (but not limited to): * design, compilation, and annotation of multilingual learner corpora * methodological challenges in capturing multilingual learner profiles * plurilingual competence and repertoire-based approaches * multilingual speaking, writing and translation practices * longitudinal perspectives on multilingual development * pedagogical implications of multilingual learner corpus research * innovative methods and tools for analysing multilingual learner data * multilingual learner corpus data in mixed methods designs For the full call for papers, submission guidelines, and further information, please visit the workshop website: https://www.porta.eurac.edu/mlcr27/ Please submit anonymised abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) via ConfTool<https://conftool.lt.eurac.edu/MLCR27/>. Submission deadline: 15 October 2026 Confirmed keynote speakers * Heike Wiese (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) * Hildgunn Dirdal (University of Oslo, Norway) Contact: For any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us via porta(a)eurac.edu<mailto:porta@eurac.edu> We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Bolzano in May 2027! Best regards, Aivars Glaznieks and Jennifer-Carmen Frey Eurac Research, Bolzano ___ Jennifer-Carmen Frey, PhD [cid:498ac965-0a22-49b5-8568-d89da750be1f] <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-6394> Eurac Research Institute for Applied Linguistics Drususallee/Viale Druso 1 I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano www.eurac.edu<http://www.eurac.edu/> Facebook<https://facebook.com/eurac.research> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/EURACtv> | X<https://twitter.com/eurac> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/euracresearch> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/euracresearch/> [signature_1401579056]<https://www.eurac.edu/en> According to regulation (EU) 2016/679 this transmission is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Call for paper - LLMs for Equitable Education Systems (second reminder)
by Marco Bombieri 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research Topic “LLMs for Equitable Education Systems” is approaching. The Research Topic explores how LLMs and agentic AI can contribute to more equitable, inclusive, and responsible educational systems. We welcome original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and other contributions addressing topics such as AI-driven personalized learning, fair and transparent assessment, bias detection and mitigation, accessibility, and the ethical and policy implications of LLMs in education. - Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 September 2026 - Further information and submission guidelines are available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77438/llms-for-equitable-educat… We warmly encourage interested colleagues to submit their work and to share this call with potentially interested researchers. With best regards, The Research Topic Editorial Team

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: ARR Commitment Deadline
by daryna.dementieva＠tum.de 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Dear community! The last chance to submit and present at our NLP for Positive Impact Workshop -- you can commit your reviews from ARR May cycle till August 5th, EoD, AoE! Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI_ARR_Commitment Accepted at EMNLP 2026 main conference? Come present it with us! We welcome both archival and non-archival submissions — you can showcase an EMNLP-accepted paper at NLP4PI with no need to re-publish. It's a great way to reach a community focused on real-world, responsible NLP. Looking forward to yours submissions! All the best, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Organisers

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[Call for Participation] Volunteer annotators for temporal RAG and GraphRAG evaluation
by Murad Mustafayev 02 Aug '26

02 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, I am looking for volunteer annotators for a research study on the human evaluation of temporal question-answering, RAG, and GraphRAG systems. The study investigates whether existing and newly developed automatic metrics can reliably evaluate answers that depend on temporal facts, retrieved evidence, and graph-based reasoning. Human judgments will serve as the reference against which these metrics are compared. Annotation task Participants will evaluate 20 system-generated answers. Depending on the sample, the judgments concern: - answer correctness; - temporal correctness; - whether the supplied evidence supports the answer; - whether citations are temporally appropriate; - whether graph evidence is sufficient; and - whether a system’s decision to answer or decline to answer is appropriate. All required questions, evidence, graph information, and reference material are provided in the annotation interface. External search and AI tools should not be used. Expected commitment - Guided tutorial: approximately 15 minutes - Main annotation task: approximately 60-80 minutes Total expected time: approximately 1.5 hours Progress is saved automatically, allowing the task to be paused and resumed A desktop or laptop computer is strongly recommended The dataset and interface are entirely in English. Participants should therefore be fluent English readers. Experience with NLP, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, question answering, RAG, or LLM evaluation is helpful but not required. No prior familiarity with this project is necessary. This is a voluntary and unpaid academic contribution. Access is distributed individually rather than through a public link. Each participant receives a private study URL, an annotation guide, and a pseudonymous participant ID. To participate, please contact me at: [ mailto:murad.mustafayev4@etu.univ-lorraine.fr | murad.mustafayev4(a)etu.univ-lorraine.fr ] with the subject: Temporal RAG annotation study Please feel free to forward this call to colleagues, researchers, students, or practitioners who may be interested. Best regards, Murad Mustafayev

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Two PhD positions in computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen
by Lea Frermann 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

We are hiring two PhD candidates to join an interdisciplinary team spanning computational linguistics, medical informatics and cultural studies. Both candidates will be based in the computational linguistics department and work on automatic speech recognition (Project 1) or models of cultural narratives (Project 2) for historical German dialects. The positions will be filled as soon as possible, with a final deadline for applications on September 30th. For full details and application instructions see link below, or contact me directly for informal inquiries. https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/299892

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