September 2026 - Corpora

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy
by ACL Announcements 11 Sep '26

11 Sep '26

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy In light of challenges with unsustainable rate of submissions at EMNLP'26, ACL Peer Review Standing Committee has developed a proposal for a sustainable reviewing policy. It has now been approved by ACL exec team, and it will apply for submissions to ACL Rolling Review (ARR) starting from October 2026. TLDR: ARR faces a reviewing crisis: submissions are growing far faster than reviewer capacity. 38% of the ~17K May 2026 submissions came from authors with no available publication record, and there are cases of outright spam, for which we so far had no established protocols. **The proposal:** cap reviewed submissions to available reviewer capacity. Each submission must "pay" for itself by providing a qualified service contributor (reviewer or chair). Submissions without service capacity go into a lottery for whatever spare capacity remains. Service from qualified contributors counts towards the venue capacity, and a mentorship system will be built up for those not qualified yet. If a qualified service contributor is not available among the authors, non-author designated contributors can be nominated, but must vouch for the work (arXiv-endorsement style). Measures for system abuse will be implemented. For example, accounts that systematically submit or endorse low-quality work, and accounts that misuse the system in other ways, will be penalized or even banned. Additionally, per-author quotas are introduced, where authors are capped at 20 total submissions and 5 first-author (including shared first-author) submissions per cycle. **Offsetting measures:** to keep things as inclusive as possible, reviewer qualification criteria are being broadened (already implemented in Aug 2026), with further proposals for a manual application path for those with equivalent experience, a mentor-matching program for newcomers, and a certification path to let experienced secondary reviewers become fully qualified. Please see the proposal for more details: <LINK HERE> The new reviewer qualifications, capping of reviewing to available capacity, AND requirements for all authors to have completed OpenReview profiles including ORCiD come into effect immediately, and will apply to submissions to NAACL and COLING 2026 (ARR submission deadline - October 12). We advise the following steps for those who are planning to make a submission for NAACL/COLING: 1) **Make sure that ALL co-authors have OpenReview profiles including ORCiD - and, if available, DBLP/ACL Anthology links**. It was previously possible for some co-authors to only be registered by email, but this will no longer be possible. Since it may take a while to coordinate with all authors, we recommend everyone to do this as soon as possible. The OpenReview profiles can be registered and updated before the official submission form opens. 2) Check the new reviewer qualifications, and decide who will serve as the designated service contributor. Further make sure that this person has a full OpenReview profile with all publications, is qualified to review, and will not be named on more than two submissions. Any submissions with over-committed service contributors will be subset to max capacity randomly. The submissions that do not provide service capacity will enter a lottery, and may be assigned to reviewers or desk rejected based on available capacity. 3) The designated service contributor will need to vouch that the submission is at the expected quality level: ready for consideration for acceptance at a top-tier conference. 4) Those who are not yet qualified in terms of past publications, but have a stellar record of reviewing or secondary reviewing at ARR, will be able apply for manual verification. Early applications are highly encouraged, close-to-deadline requests for manual verification may not get processed on time. 5) Check the new service obligations: if a designated service contributor has any emergencies, the responsibility to notify about that and to provide a suitable and willing replacement is now on them. Otherwise any submissions they are serving for, and any they co-author, will be desk rejected. 6) Make sure that you are not planning more than 20 submissions, and not more than 5 as a first or joing-first author. The updated reviewer qualifications are as follows: - Those who have obtained their PhDs and/or have senior academic positions (postdoc/faculty), automatically qualify if they have at least 2 publications in major ACL events, Findings of the ACL, or major ML venues. - Doctoral students (but not bachelor and master students), as well as industry researchers with at least a Masters degree, automatically qualify if they have at least 2 publications in major ACL events or Findings or major ML venues and a total of >= 3 publications in total. - Those who do not automatically qualify by these criteria can serve as secondary reviewers, mentored by a qualified primary reviewer (see (4) below), but cannot be designated service contributors by themselves. Venues considered 'major ACL' are: ACL, CL, COLING, CoNLL, EACL, EMNLP, HLT, IJCNLP / AACL, LREC, NAACL, TACL, *SEM. Venues considered 'major ML' are: AAAI, COLM, CVPR, ECCV, FAccT, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, JAIR, JMLR, NeurIPS, TMLR, TPAMI. Venues considered major may be expanded over time and additional qualification criteria may be added over time as appropriate. The ARR submission form opens two weeks in advance (available from September 28 for October'26 review cycle). ARR team is currently working on an automated tool to check reviewer qualifications and streamline applications for manual verification. This tool will be announced separately as soon as possible, and linked from the submission form. ACL Peer Review Standing Committee https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-peer-review-standing-committee

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PhD position in Linguistic Annotation with LLMs at the University of Tartu, Estonia
by Kristiina Vaik 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, The Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) <https://digits.ut.ee/> at the University of Tartu is looking for a full-time doctoral researcher to work on linguistic annotation with large language models. * Research topic: Linguistic Annotation with LLMs * Supervisor: Prof. Maciej Eder (University of Tartu; Polish Academy of Sciences) * Position: Junior Research Fellow (full-time) * Duration: Four years, starting in autumn 2026 * Application period: 15-30 September 2026 * Requirements: A master’s degree or equivalent qualification and proficiency in English The project will use a series of experiments to investigate how effectively different types of LLMs can perform linguistic annotation tasks, evaluated against human-annotated gold-standard datasets, particularly in scenarios for which the models were not optimized. Further information and application details: https://digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested candidates. All the best, Kristiina Vaik Research fellow in Digital Humanities University of Tartu, Estonia

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Third call for papers for NLP4CALL 2026
by Arianna Masciolini 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Third call for papers for NLP4CALL 2026 November 19-20, 2026. Gothenburg, Sweden and online https://nlp4call.github.io/current/ ________________________________________________________________________________ We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day hybrid event that will take place on November 19-20, 2026. Onsite participation will be possible at the Humanisten building of the University of Gothenburg (Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, Sweden) and a link for remote participation will be shared closer to the workshop dates. Both onsite and online participation are free of charge. Contents: - Workshop description - Submission information - Important dates - Registration - Invited speakers - Organizers - Contact - Funding Workshop description ________________________________________________________________________________ The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising from this connection. The latter includes, among others, the integration of insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, and the promotion of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructures. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research — Intelligent CALL, or short, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into SLA theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop therefore invites a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential use in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application, or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL; - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year, the workshop has a special focus on process-oriented approaches to educational NLP, including but not limited to work related to the collection and analysis of keystroke data from langauge learners. Submission information ________________________________________________________________________________ Submissions should describe original unpublished complete or in-progress work and follow the ACL Guidelines for Generative Assistance in Authorship (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…). Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published both in the NEALT Proceeding Series and through the ACL anthology. We accept short, long and demo papers, all of which have to adhere to the following page limits: - short and demo papers: between 4 and 7 pages - long papers: between 8 and 12 pages. Also note that: - references and appendices do not count towards these page limits - the main body of the paper has to be self-contained, as reviewers are not required to read any appendices - camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be allowed an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should be submitted as PDFs through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=7836699869611025050.1789051827.85f55…). LaTeX and Word templates are available at https://github.com/NLP4CALL/nlp4call.github.io/blob/website/_includes/other…. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ - paper submission deadline: September 24, 2026 - notification of acceptance: October 15, 2026 - camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2026 - workshop: November 19-20, 2026 All deadlines are AoE. Registration ________________________________________________________________________________ Registrations are open! You can find the registration form at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Me2YB7D1NUmGPHPuJQ…. Invited speakers ________________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Andrea Horbach: A Focus on the Writing Process With and Without AI Support: Insights from the German PISA 2025 Foreign Language Assessment Data Collection Bio: Andrea Horbach has been professor for Educational NLP at Kiel University and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) since 2024. Her research interests include free-text scoring, argument mining, automated feedback, and the use of process data for assessment. She is particularly interested in developing explainable and fair methods that support human agency in writing and assessment processes. Abstract: Automated essay scoring has traditionally focused on the text as the final written product. More recently, corpora that include keylogging data have made it possible to shift the focus toward writing as a process: to investigate how students write and revise their texts, and to explore whether scoring models can provide useful feedback before the final essay is completed. Moreover, AI-based writing support is becoming increasingly available, but we still know comparatively little about how students actually use such systems while writing. In this talk, I will give an overview of ongoing work based on data from the German PISA 2025 foreign language assessment. The data combine final essays and their scores with intermediate text states, keylogging information, and interaction logs from an LLM-based writing support chatbot. I will present first results on how intermediate texts and process information can be used as early evidence for automated scoring, and how students interact with AI support during writing. I will conclude by discussing what these data can tell us about timely feedback, the interpretation of process evidence, and the role of AI support in computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Rianne Conijn: Moving beyond the product: Keystroke Logging for CALL Bio: Rianne Conijn is an assistant professor in learning analytics in the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on developing methods to capture and model learning behavior (e.g., self-regulated learning) and writing behavior (e.g., revision processes), using fine-grained behavioral data, such as keystroke and clickstream data. In addition, she uses these methods to examine how educational technologies, such as generative AI, affect the learning process. Rianne recently received a NWO Veni grant on “Human-Centered AI in education” where she aims to improve human-AI collaboration in writing in higher education. Abstract: This abstract has been rewritten by me and polished with AI several times, yet you only read this final version. The final product of writing reveals little of the cognitive and behavioural activities involved in producing it. Keystroke logging, e.g. using Inputlog, can provide detailed insights into how writing unfolds. However, its value depends on how we interpret and analyse these data. In this talk, I show how keystroke data can inform our understanding of students’ writing at three levels, each making different aspects of the process visible and each requiring its own analytical choices. The micro level covers individual key events and short sequences, for instance showing that pauses cannot simply be equated with planning. The meso level characterizes how a writing session unfolds over time, revealing patterns that can inform writing instruction that whole-session averages obscure. The macro level extends the analysis across a project, tracing activity across sessions, drafts, and changing task demands. Finally, I discuss how these perspectives can help us investigate writing with generative AI, drawing on ongoing research into students’ master thesis writing. Together, these perspectives show how analysing writing at different levels can deepen our understanding of how students produce texts, both with and without generative AI. Organizers ________________________________________________________________________________ - Arianna Masciolini, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - David Alfter, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Herbert Lange, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway - Elena Volodina, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ For more information about the workshop, you are welcome to reach out to nlp4call2026(a)easychair.org. Funding ________________________________________________________________________________ This workshop is jointly supported by: - Språkbanken – jointly funded by its 10 partner institutions and the Swedish Research Council (2025–2028; project id 2023-00161); - Huminfra; - the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology; - the IncluEdS project.

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SemEval-2027 Task 5 CfP: Noun Compound and Particle Verb Compositionality Prediction in Context (ComPartMent)
by Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

We are pleased to announce the SemEval-2027 Task on *Noun Compound and Particle Verb Compositionality Prediction in Context* (ComPartMent). We introduce a shared task on in-context compositionality prediction: given a target multiword expression (a noun compound such as glass ceiling or a particle verb such as take off) and a sentence in which that expression is used, systems are expected to output numerical scores reflecting human ordinal compositionality ratings for the target expression in that context. Our task addresses the compositionality prediction problem from several novel angles. We incorporate two types of multiword expressions (noun compounds and particle verbs) in two languages (English and German). For each of the 1,539 target expressions, we draw on two types of corpora (present-day and historical data) to provide ≈10 example sentences, each labeled with human ordinal compositionality ratings. *Example ratings * (Scale: 0/clearly non-compositional - 5/clearly compositional) *Noun compound examples (compound-modifier / compound-head ratings) *she propelled herself into the firing line in taking the stance she did (0.6 / 0.7) our flea market will feature some of the most creative individuals (0.0 / 4.7) *Particle verb examples (overall rating)* it’s gonna get very cold so pull up your leggings (4.8) I will probably wind up as a Web Haunter […] blogging for eternity (0.2) How to participate *Task website*: https://sites.google.com/view/semeval-compartment *Task data, registration, and submissions*: CodaBench <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17971/> Important dates September 5, 2026: Trial data release September 8, 2026: Training data release January 10, 2027: Evaluation start January 31, 2027: Evaluation end Organizers Filip Miletić, Chris Jenkins, Sabine Schulte im Walde Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart Contact: semeval-compartment (at) ims (dot) uni-stuttgart (dot) de -- Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universität Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 5b 70569 Stuttgart, Germany fon: +49 (711) 685-84584 email:schulte@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

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Open PhD position at Helsinki-NLP
by Mickus, Timothee 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear all, [Apologies for cross-posting] The Language Technology research unit at the University of Helsinki ("Helsinki-NLP") seeks to recruit one fully funded NLP PhD student for a duration of 3 years, with extension by up to 1 extra year. The PhD will focus on the role of pretraining data on cross-lingual transfer for factual tasks — whether data available in one language can be leveraged by multilingual LLMs to produce factually correct text in another language, and conversely, whether failure to do so can be leveraged to identify and characterize pre-training data gaps. The PhD will be conducted under the supervision of Jörg Tiedemann and Timothee Mickus; the position is expected to start on January 1st, although adjustments may be possible. The position will be held within the Helsinki-NLP team (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/), focusing on the FLaM project (https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/flam/). We invite applications from students currently holding a masters in computational linguistics, NLP, machine learning, or any adjacent field and not have been enrolled previously in another PhD programme. Applicants are to send an email to timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi and jorg.tiedemann(a)helsinki.fi with the following subject line: “[crosslingual fact transfer, PhD application]”, and must provide the following: - A curriculum vitae detailing their education (max 1 page) - The name and email of one reference (ideally a former supervisor, e.g. for a masters’ thesis) - A research statement (max 500 words), describing how the applicant’s interest aligns with the topic outlined above and what they expect to achieve through the PhD - Transcript with grades received Full consideration will be given to applications received before September 30th; the position will remain open until filled. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly for an interview. We emphasize matching research interests during the assessment of applications, and will not factor in quantitative indicators (such as number of publications, etc.), in line with DORA practices. Please forward this call to anyone who might be interested! Best regards, Timothee Mickus Research Fellow University of Helsinki

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CFP SemEval-2027 Task 4: Par-PARSEME - a multilingual shared task on paraphrasing of idioms
by Agata Savary 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Par-PARSEME - a multilingual shared task on paraphrasing of idioms https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:par-parseme Overview --------------- The PARSEME and UniDive communities are happy to introduce the Par-PARSEME, task 4 in SemEval-2027. It is a follow-up of previous shared tasks organized by PARSEME. Par-PARSEME is a shared task whose goal is to assess systems’ ability to **paraphrase idioms** in written texts. Idioms, such as a hot dog or to pull one’s leg, are subsets of multiword expressions (MWEs), and are combinations of words exhibiting non-compositional semantics. This makes them challenging for semantic tasks like paraphrasing. For instance, a hot dog can be paraphrased as a bread roll with a hot sausage but not as #a warm dog or #dog which is hot. The input for this task is a raw sentence containing exactly one idiom not explicitly marked in text. Systems must paraphrase the sentence so that the original idiom no longer occurs (which requires idiom identification), but the meaning is kept. For all details, see the Par-PARSEME website. Evaluation is done along 2 axes: **performance** (automatic and manual measures) and **diversity** (automatic measures). Quick links --------------- * Par-PARSEME website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:par-parseme * SemEval 2027 webpage: https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2027/tasks * Par-PARSEME data repository: https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/par-parseme?ref_ty… * Mailing list for the shared task participants: https://groups.google.com/g/par-parseme-semeval-2025 * Mailing list to contact the shared task organizers: parseme dash core at lisn DOT upsaclay DOT fr * Expression of interest form: https://forms.gle/yUbc2FWhPUU41Wma7 * Baseline system: https://github.com/racai-ai/mwe_baseline Languages --------------- Thirteen languages are covered in the training data: French, Georgian, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The test data will cover the same languages, and possibly also English and Serbian (to be confirmed). Data --------------- The Par-PARSEME Gitlab repository contains: * training data with 60 to 150 data points per language * tiny trial data in English and French to illustrate the expected outcomes and file formats * tools for system evaluation and file format validation * baseline results obtained by the baseline system which we make available to the participants Test data will contain about 100 sentences per language. Important dates --------------- * 8 September 2026: Publication of the training data * early January 2027: Evaluation starts * January 31, 2027: Evaluation ends * February 2027 (tentative): Submission of system description papers * March 2027 (tentative): Notification to authors * April 2027 (tentative): Camera-ready due * Summer 2027: SemEval-2027 workshop, co-located with a major NLP conference Organizers --------------- Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université, LIS, France Agata Savary, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Takuya Nakamura, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Éric Bilinski, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Manon Scholivet, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Advisory board --------------- 20 PARSEME native experts of the 13 participating languages

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Call for Participatio: ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '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 Participatio n 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, with particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. The draft conference programme is available at https://latell.org/2026/draft-programme/. For registration details, please follow the registration link on the conference website. We would be delighted to welcome you to Fes! -- 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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CFP for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2026 @ Melbourne, Australia
by Wei Zhang 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the deadline of archival paper submission to ALTA'26 has been extended to 18 September. Details are available on our website at https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates - Submission deadline (long and short papers): 18 September 2026 - Submission deadline for presentation abstracts and non-archival papers: 9 October 2026. - Author notification: 23 October 2026 - ALTA 2026: 30 November - 2 December 2026 Overview The 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2026) will be held in person at Deakin University Downtown Campus, Melbourne, from 30 November to 2 December 2026. ALTA is the key local forum for presenting and discussing research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). The workshop will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published online in the ACL Anthology and on the ALTA website. Papers will be presented either as oral or poster presentations at the workshop. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2026 Conference Rankings as Australasian C. Topics - Commonsense Reasoning. - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. - Dialogue and Interactive Systems. - Discourse and Pragmatics. - Efficient Methods for NLP. - Ethics in NLP. - Information Extraction. - Information Retrieval and Text Mining. - Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. - Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. - Machine Learning for NLP. - Machine Translation. - Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. - Natural Language Generation. - NLP Applications. - Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. - Question Answering. - Resources and Evaluation. - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. - Speech and Multimodality. - Summarisation. - Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) Archival Submissions, and Non-Archival Submissions. Please refer to our CfP webpagehttps://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers for specifics. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associatio...<https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati…> LinkedIn (group): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ X: https://x.com/altanlp Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2026 Team: Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, General Chair Prof Massimo Piccardi, Program Chair Dr Ming Liu, Program Chair Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Program Chair Dr Zhuang Li, Publication Chair Mong Yuan Sim, PhD candidate, Publication Chair Aymen Rayane Khouas, PhD candidate, Technology Chair Dr Fatima Ansarizadeh, Sponsorship Chair Sara Mirabi, PhD candidate, Local Chair Saeedeh Javadi, PhD candidate, Local Chair A/Prof Wei (Emma) Zhang, Publicity Chair

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Nominations requested for the governance of the European Chapter of ACL
by ACL Announcements 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

Dear EACL member, This is addressed to all members of the European Chapter of ACL. We have a total of five open roles in the EACL governance structure. As Chair-elect, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Malvina Nissim (https://lnkd.in/dFPw2ANM [1] ), University of Groningen, NL As Secretary, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Simon Ostermann (https://lnkd.in/d9dQrYP7 [2]), DFKI Saarbrücken, DE As board members, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Agata Savary (https://lnkd.in/d6YMrmrz [3] ), Université Paris-Saclay , France - Ella Rabinovich (https://lnkd.in/dyif8eVQ [4]), Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel- Georg Rehm (http://georg-re.hm [5] ), DFKI Berlin, Germany Any further nominations (from EMEA members for EMEA members only and supported by at least three EACL members) must be sent to the EACL Secretary by email (eacl-secretary(a)aclweb.org) by October 1st, 2026. Evidence must be presented that the nominee will serve if elected. If there are further nominations, there will be a ballot of Chapter members. Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi - EACL Secretary - Links: ------ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2FdFPw2ANM&… [2] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fd9dQrYP7&… [3] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fd6YMrmrz&… [4] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fdyif8eVQ&… [5] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorg-re%2Ehm&urlhash=…

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UCCTS 2027 - Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (9th edition)
by Karakanta, A. 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

*Leiden University Centre for Linguistics is organising the 9th edition of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference series in 2027.* UCCTS conference is a biennial international conference which was launched by Richard Xiao in 2008 to provide an international forum for the exploration of the theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation/interpreting studies. Since 2008 UCCTS conference series that took place, among other, in Louvain-la-Neuve (2018), Bertinoro (2021), Poznań (2023) and Hildesheim (2025) has played a key role in advancing contrastive and translation studies by giving scholars of the sister disciplines the opportunity to meet and engage in discussions on research outcomes and ideas on how to effectively apply, enhance and further develop corpus methods to move both fields forward. A selection of papers presented at UCCTS appeared in special issues of journals important in both fields or edited volumes published, for example, by Routledge or Bloomsbury. The 9th edition of the UCCTS conference will be held on *9-11th June 2027 in Leiden, the Netherlands*. The conference is planned to be an on-site event. However, we will try to also organise virtual presentation options. *CALL FOR PAPERS* UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). *Conference topics* include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) * Corpora and linguistic resources for low resource languages The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between *800* and *1000* words long (excluding references) by *20th November 2027*. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted in pdf through theOpen review system <https://openreview.net/group?id=UCCTS/2027/Conference#tab-your-consoles> and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. * Important dates* * Conference abstract submission due: 20 November 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 29 January 2027 * Final abstract version due: 19 February 2027 * Registration open: 26 February 2027 * Early-bird registration: 9 April 2027 * *Conference date*: 9-11 June 2027 *For questions and requests, please contact uccts2027(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl*

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