September 2026 - Corpora

September 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Sep '26

15 Sep '26

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S11> CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L06> MATERIAL Lithuanian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S12> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S11> was developed by LDC and contains 38 hours of speech from 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native Mandarin Chinese speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese collection, combining CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Speech (LDC96S34)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96S34> and CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts (LDC96T16)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96T16>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 120 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Speech (LDC96S34)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96S34> which represented training and development data and a subset of evaluation data. Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for gender, language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and accent. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development/evaluation partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L06> was developed by LDC and contains 44,404 Mandarin Chinese words with morphological, phonological and frequency information. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Lexicon (LDC96L15)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L15>. The words in the lexicon were derived from transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native Mandarin Chinese speakers contained in CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Second Edition (LDC2026S11) <https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S11> and from Chinese news text. The lexicon contains seven tab-separated information fields: (1) headword: orthographic representation of the word in hanzi (e.g., 没有); (2) pinyin: headword transcribed in pinyin (e.g., mei2 you3); (3) tone: tone sequence for headword (e.g., 2 3); (4) pron: pronunciation of headword without tone information (e.g., mey yow); (5) pos: part-of-speech tag for the headword; (6) xinhua_freq: frequency of the headword in newswire text; and (7) train_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME transcripts. It is presented as a tab-delimited TSV file encoded in UTF-8 format and includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in UTF-8 encoded CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Lithuanian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S12> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 64 hours of Lithuanian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 100% of the speech files, 6% of which were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to “Receive Newsletter” under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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3rd CfP and deadline extension: Methods Fair at the IDS Annual Conference 2027 "Language and Literature"
by Roman Schneider 15 Sep '26

15 Sep '26

Apologies for cross-posting. The Call for Papers below is in German, as it concerns a German-language conference dedicated to methods and resources for research on the German language. Please feel free to forward it to colleagues who may be interested. ------------ 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 30.09.2026 (verlängerte Deadline) 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-2… 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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2nd Call for Papers: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (MLCR27)
by Frey Jennifer-Carmen 15 Sep '26

15 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to submit your proposals 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 your 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) 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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DEADLINE EXTENDED — WASP 2026
by ACL Announcements 15 Sep '26

15 Sep '26

==================================================================== DEADLINE EXTENDED -- WASP 2026 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 (online) >>> New paper deadline: September 21, 2026 (AoE) <<< ==================================================================== The WASP 2026 submission deadline has moved back one week to September 21 (AoE). This is the final week. WASP 2026 covers information extraction, summarisation, retrieval, evaluation, and the responsible use of LLMs across the scientific publishing pipeline. Long papers up to 8 pages, short papers up to 4 pages, double-blind, with proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [1] Full call and topics: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] SHARED TASK: AstroCLIMB Our multimodal shared task (reconstructing a paper's citation graph from figures and captions) has been extended to the same date. Data is live on Kaggle. Details: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/shared_task [3] UPDATED DATES (AoE) - Paper submission (WASP): September 21, 2026 - Shared task registration: September 20, 2026 - Shared task system run + paper: September 21, 2026 - Notification: October 5, 2026 - Camera-ready: October 12, 2026 - Workshop: November 10, 2026 Contact: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your submissions. Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [3] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/shared_task

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Call for contribution - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM SAC 2027
by Patrizio Bellan 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

As Artificial Intelligence systems increasingly rely on both language understanding and structured knowledge, bridging Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering has become a central challenge for the next generation of intelligent systems. The rapid evolution of Large Language Models and knowledge-based AI is creating new opportunities—and new challenges—in how machines acquire, represent, connect, and reason over knowledge. Understanding language alone is no longer enough: modern AI systems must also be able to organize knowledge, integrate it with linguistic information, and use it effectively to support reasoning. As a result, the relationship between language, knowledge, and reasoning has emerged as one of the key research frontiers in contemporary Artificial Intelligence. The Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing investigates methods and applications at the intersection of *Knowledge Engineering* and *Natural Language Processing*, with particular emphasis on approaches that combine these two areas. KNLP is an emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field at the core of Artificial Intelligence. It brings together and complements scientific advances in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and related disciplines. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. *Natural Language Processing* - NLP methods for knowledge extraction - NLP for ontology population and ontology learning - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for knowledge-based applications - Interplay between natural language and ontologies - NLP for explainable knowledge - Machine translation techniques for multilingual knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small and large language models - Interaction between small or large language models and knowledge *Knowledge* - Knowledge-enhanced NLP - Knowledge for information retrieval - Knowledge-based sentiment analysis and opinion mining - Combining knowledge and deep learning for NLP - Knowledge technologies for the Web - Knowledge-enhanced agentic reasoning - Agent reasoning over knowledge graphs and ontologies - Knowledge-based agent personalization - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based natural language explainability - Language-model-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - Language-model-based agents for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation using small and large language models - Ontological knowledge representation and memorization in language models - Knowledge-based techniques for language models, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, fact-checking, and bias mitigation - Question answering over knowledge graphs using small and large language models *Real-World Applications Exploiting Knowledge and NLP* - Knowledge and NLP systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technologies supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment and evaluation of Knowledge and NLP systems in domains such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, healthcare, and medicine - News, media, and data-streaming environments *Paper Submission* We invite original research papers and experience reports addressing the topics listed above. Submissions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACM SAC proceedings template. Authors’ names and affiliations must be entered separately in the submission system and must not appear in the submitted manuscript. All submissions will undergo a *double-blind peer-review process* in accordance with ACM SAC regulations. Submissions to the *Student Research Competition (SRC)* are also welcome. Prospective authors should consult the SAC 2027 SRC page for eligibility requirements and submission instructions. *Submission Policy* - All papers must initially be submitted as *regular papers*. There is no separate submission category for poster papers. - Papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Depending on the outcome of the review process and the overall acceptance-rate constraints, technically sound submissions that cannot be accepted as regular papers may be offered acceptance as posters. - Although there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions shorter than *four full pages* that do not demonstrate a substantial contribution may be desk-rejected without external review. *Submission Links* - *Regular papers and SRC abstracts:* submission links are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> - *Author kit and templates:* formatting instructions and official templates are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> *Important Dates* Please consult the official ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/#important-dates> for up-to-date deadlines and possible changes. - *October 2, 2026:* Regular paper and SRC abstract submission - *November 13, 2026:* Author notification - *November 28, 2026:* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and SRC submissions - *December 5, 2026:* Author registration deadline - *April 5–9, 2027:* Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track at ACM SAC 2027 All deadlines follow the time zone specified on the official conference website. *Further Information* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track website <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and the ACM SAC 2027 conference website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/>. 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Call for Papers (Deadline Extended): End-to-End Research Workflow, Methods, and Applications for AI-Assisted Science (AIASci 2026)
by wei.zhao＠abdn.ac.uk 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

*AIASci 2026: End-to-End Research Workflow, Methods, and Applications for AI-Assisted Science* Deadline extended: September 18, 2026 Direct submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci Full-day workshop co-located with AIAS 2026 - November 7, 2026 in San Francisco, USA *Aim and Scope* Large (vision-) language models are transforming the practice of science — from literature search and hypothesis generation to automated experimentation, manuscript drafting, multimodal content creation, and peer review. The central question is no longer whether AI can assist with these tasks, but how such systems can support the end-to-end research workflow: sustaining long-horizon scientific reasoning, grounding their claims in causal and mechanistic understanding, adapting through interaction with real experimental environments, and serving as trustworthy partners across scientific disciplines. AIASci brings together researchers building systems that move beyond passive analysis toward sustained reasoning, causal understanding, adaptive learning, and iterative participation in scientific discovery. Mirroring the workshop's title, the program is structured along three intersecting pillars that submissions may combine freely. Scientific responsibility (ethics, reliability, and human oversight), runs as a unifying theme throughout, featured in invited talks, contributed papers, poster sessions, and a dedicated panel discussion. Website: https://aiasciworkshop.github.io/ *Topics of Interest* We welcome submissions on any aspect of human–AI collaboration for science, the capabilities that enable it, and the evaluation of AI-assisted scientific outputs. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Stages of the AI-Assisted Research Workflow - Literature search, synthesis, comparison, and recommendation - Hypothesis generation, research ideation, and idea refinement - Automated experimentation, AI agents, and AI-driven discovery - Text-based scientific content generation - Multimodal scientific content generation and understanding - AI-assisted peer review, claim verification, and meta-review generation (2) Methodological Capabilities - Long-context and sustained scientific reasoning - Causal inference and mechanistic understanding - Adaptive systems that learn through experimentation, feedback, and reflection - Verification, reliability, and reproducibility of scientific AI outputs - Human-in-the-loop and human–AI collaboration designs - Multimodal models, self-improvement, and memory for scientific AI systems - Evaluation of AI-assisted research workflows and their outputs (3) Scientific Domains and Applications - AI scientists for physics, mathematics, chemistry, materials science, biology, medicine, and related disciplines - AI for the social sciences and humanities - Cross-disciplinary case studies - AI-assisted reproductions of real scientific findings *Paper Submission* - Long papers: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references - Short papers: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references *Submission Modes* - Direct submissions: Receive up to three reviews and a final acceptance decision. - ARR commitments: Unpublished papers already reviewed through ACL Rolling Review may be committed to the workshop. - Non-archival and previously published papers *Submission Links* - Direct submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci - ARR commitments: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci_ARR_… - Workshop website: https://aiasciworkshop.github.io/ *Important Dates* - Direct submission deadline (extended): September 18, 2026 - ARR commitment deadline: October 9, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: October 26, 2026 - Previously published papers deadline: October 26, 2026 - AIASci 2026 workshop: November 7, 2026 *Organizing Committee* - Yong Cao, University of Tübingen - Steffen Eger, University of Technology Nuremberg - Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg - Yufang Hou, IT:U Austria and IBM Research - Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen Contact: yong.cao(a)uni-tuebingen.de

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ARR Job Advertisement: Workflow Manager
by ACL Announcements 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

ARR JOB ADVERTISEMENT: WORKFLOW MANAGER The Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR) seeks an additional workflow manager to support the regular operations of ARR's reviewing cycles, which take place every two months. This position sits at the heart of the peer-review infrastructure used by major ACL conferences, processing thousands of submissions and coordinating several thousand reviewers, area chairs, and senior area chairs every two months. The goal of this role is to support and extend ARR's use of OpenReview and its related internal tools. POSITION SUMMARY The workflow manager will: * Lead the implementation of the data manipulation on top of OpenReview required for the ARR peer-review process, including submission intake, reciprocal reviewing, reviewer, area-chair, and senior-area-chair assignments, availability and load tracking, withdrawal and desk-rejection handling, resubmission detection, bulk communication, and related workflows. * Maintain and extend ARR's internal Python tooling for bulk data reads and mutations. * Collaborate with the ARR team, including the Editors-in-Chief, CTOs, current workflow manager, and technical support team, to identify, design, and implement software solutions that streamline the ARR review process. * Work closely with the ARR team and conference program chairs to provide a smooth transition between the reviewing and commitment stages. * Collaborate with the ARR team and support the implementation of data-driven approaches to improve the ARR review process. * Support the creation of reports and statistics about the review process for the ARR team and conference program chairs throughout each cycle. * Provide troubleshooting and technical support regarding the OpenReview infrastructure to the ARR team, often on short turnaround while a cycle is active. REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: * Solid software-engineering training or equivalent practical experience. * Experience integrating solutions into legacy software and building on third-party platforms. * Solid programming skills in Python, particularly for data handling with pandas, CSV, and JSON and for writing command-line tools that use REST APIs. * Working knowledge of JavaScript and HTML for OpenReview process functions and interface customization. * Strong organizational and time-management skills and the ability to work according to a fixed cycle calendar with hard deadlines. * Demonstrated attention to detail, since errors may be visible to the entire ACL community and can be difficult to reverse. * Strong and responsive communication skills. * Knowledge of and experience with software version-control systems. The work is performed remotely. Interaction with the ARR team and conference program chairs will take place through online meetings and asynchronous communication. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The workflow manager works under the direct supervision of the ARR Editors-in-Chief and collaborates closely with the ARR CTOs, current workflow manager, technical support team, and conference program chairs. The desired start date is October 1, 2026. The workload varies throughout the reviewing cycles but averages approximately 20 hours per week. Because ARR follows a fixed cycle calendar, some periods have hard deadlines and require prompt communication. The annual compensation range is USD 30,000-40,000. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country from which they will perform the role. HOW TO APPLY To apply, submit: * A cover letter that includes your country of residence, current time zone, and typical working hours in that time zone. * A CV or résumé. * Names and contact information for three professional references. Applicants from all time zones are welcome. Availability that complements the current team's working hours is a plus but is not required. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Send application materials and questions to workflow-manager-search(a)aclrollingreview.org.

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Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #5 -- still time to register!
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

==> One more week to register! <== *** Reading with NARNiHS *** [reading group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics] ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3288 Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fifth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 24 September 2026, at 11:00 am US Eastern time / 5:00 pm European Central time and features Sandrine Tailleur with her recent historical morpho-syntactic work emphasizing the use of multiple types of data, including rich corpus data, to get a fuller picture in the investigation of the complex course of language change. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant venue for engagement with cutting-edge work in historical sociolinguistics, accessible to researchers at all levels. Reading with NARNiHS combines aspects of "meet the author" + "author interview" + "authors read their works" + "classic reading group discussion" as we interact together with new scholarship and its authors. Anna Havinga will be our moderator, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. So, please come along for an enriching one-hour exchange about the most current topics in historical sociolinguistics! To receive the Zoom link and the article we're going to discuss on 24 September, please sign up via the following form by Monday, 21 September 2026 (it takes less than a minute): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKs-ZDztlFQloZ1AUX8kSyb8dXlhJziCB… We are looking forward to seeing many of you on Thursday, 24 September 2026, for Reading with NARNiHS! The NARNiHS Steering Group

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free Corpus MOOC - running right now
by Brezina, Vaclav 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

Dear all, There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free. The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing. You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course. The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish. For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu… Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC27B2.DE8CE5B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP-2027): FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
by Petya Osenova 12 Sep '26

12 Sep '26

RANLP-27 16th Conference RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/2027/ Summer school ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’: 1-3 September 2027 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 4-5 September 2027 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 6-8 September 2027 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and Shared Tasks: 9-10 September 2027 (Thursday-Friday) RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools ‘Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics’ which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995-2025) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The Student Research Workshops (now in their 10th edition) have become active discussion forums for young researchers. After 2009, the papers accepted at the RANLP conferences and the associated workshops аre included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. The conference will be preceded by a summer school ‘Deep learning ad Large Language Models for NLP’, tutorials on current hot topics and will be followed by specialised workshops and shared tasks in advanced subfields of NLP. Confirmed keynote speakers: Barbara Plank (LMU Munich), Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Roma), Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI Abu Dhabi), Kristina Toutanova (Google, Seattle), Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University), Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Expected conference submission deadline(s): TBC soon Call for workshop and shared tasks proposals: November 2026 Venue: RANLP-27 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel ‘Cherno Mor<http://www.chernomorebg.com/>e’. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. Varna is a major tourist destination with numerous flights to/from the Varna International Airport. Team behind RANLP 2027: * Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) * Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (PC Chair) * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops and Shared tasks Co-Chair, Summer School Co-Director) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Summer School Co-Director) * Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) * Marie Escribe, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (Publication Co-Chair and OC Team Co-Leader) * Ernesto Estevanell, University of Alicante, Spain (Publication Co-Chair) * Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (OC Team Co-Leader) * Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria * Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE * Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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