September 2026 - Corpora

Nominations requested for the governance of the European Chapter of ACL
by Nina Tahmasebi 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear EACL member, This email 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://malvinanissim.github.io/ ), University of Groningen, NL As Secretary, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Simon Ostermann (https://simonost.github.io/home/), DFKI Saarbrücken, DE As board members, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Agata Savary (https://perso<https://perso/>.lisn.upsaclay.fr/savary/ ), Université Paris-Saclay , France - Ella Rabinovich (https://www.int.mta.ac.il/faculty-members/dr.-ella-rabinovich), Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel - Georg Rehm (http://georg-re.hm ), 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 – Nina N. Tahmasebi, Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better" -Samuel Beckett

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Cf Participation SemEval-2027 Task 3: Semantic Change Across Multiple Time Periods.
by Nina Tahmasebi 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for SemEval-2027 Task 3: Semantic Change Across Multiple Time Periods. SemEval-2027 Task 3 investigates how word meanings evolve across multiple historical time periods. While previous shared tasks have focused on comparisons between just two time points, this task extends the setting to ten time periods, using a multilingual benchmark of approximately 120,000 human annotations, allowing participants to model the evolution of individual word senses over time. The benchmark spans six languages annotated across ten time periods ranging roughly 1880--2023: Swedish, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian (140 words in total). The task consists of two subtasks: - Subtask 1: Diachronic Word Sense Induction – discover how word meanings evolve over time without predefined sense inventories. Evaluated via two tracks: Track 1a, Diachronic Sense Assignment (BCubed F1), and Track 1b, Sense Dynamics (Spearman's rank correlation over Jensen-Shannon Divergence). - Subtask 2: Hypothesis-Driven Change Detection – given a target sense definition, identify which usages express that sense. Evaluated via Average F1-score. Register now to participate: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17510/ Important Dates: - Training data ready: 1 September 2026 - Evaluation period: 10–31 January 2027 - Subtask 1: 10–21 January 2027 - Subtask 2: 22–31 January 2027 - Paper submission: February 2027 - Notification to authors: March 2027 - Camera-ready due: April 2027 - SemEval workshop: Summer 2027 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Additional Information: - Task website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2027-semeval/ - Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/semeval2027-task3-SCxMTP Organizers: Nina Tahmasebi, Pierluigi Cassotti, Felix Morger, Lucia Siciliani, Eduardo Calò, Pablo Mosteiro, Stefano De Pascale, and Mariia Fedorova We look forward to your participation! Nina N. Tahmasebi, Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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[CFP] ACLing 2026 – 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics | Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026
by Khaled Shaalan 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

============================================================ ACLing 2026 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics 25–26 November 2026 | Multi-Site Hybrid Conference 📍 The British University in Dubai (BUiD), Dubai, UAE 📍 Jadara University, Jordan 🌐 Virtual Participation Worldwide Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Conference Website: https://acling.org/ ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2026) invites researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry professionals worldwide to submit original research contributions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Computational Linguistics. ACLing 2026 will be held on 25–26 November 2026 as a Multi-Site Hybrid Conference, connecting two physical conference hubs in Dubai, UAE, and Jordan with synchronous virtual participation worldwide. Authors may participate and present: • In person at The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE • In person at Jadara University, Jordan • Virtually from anywhere in the world Two Countries. Two Physical Hubs. One International Research Community. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== • Paper Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026 • Acceptance Notification: 20 October 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 30 October 2026 • Author Registration: 10 November 2026 • Conference: 25–26 November 2026 ============================================================ PUBLICATION & VISIBILITY ======================== All accepted and presented papers will be published in Procedia Computer Science (ISSN: 1877-0509) by ELSEVIER. Peer-reviewed research articles published in Procedia Computer Science are: • Published Open Access on ScienceDirect • Assigned a DOI • Indexed in Scopus • Ranked by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) • Covered by major scholarly indexing and abstracting services Previous ACLing proceedings have also been catalogued in DBLP. Previous ACLing proceedings published by Elsevier include ACLing 2017, ACLing 2018, ACLing 2021, ACLing 2024, and ACLing 2025. ============================================================ TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== ACLing 2026 welcomes original research addressing theoretical foundations, algorithms, architectures, resources, evaluation, and practical applications in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications • Generative AI and Emerging Language Technologies • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Information Retrieval • Conversational AI, Dialogue Systems, and AI Agents • Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering • Knowledge and Information Extraction • Statistical and Neural Language Modeling • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP • Multilingual NLP, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages • AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages • Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces • Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI • Domain-Specific NLP: Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, and Educational • Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing • Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning • Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis • NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science • Text Summarization and Natural Language Generation • Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding • Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery • Responsible, Ethical, and Interpretable AI • Human-Centered NLP • Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability • Prompt Engineering and Reinforcement Learning for NLP • AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools Interdisciplinary contributions and innovative applications of AI to language technologies are particularly encouraged. ============================================================ SUBMISSION & REVIEW =================== ACLing 2026 welcomes original, unpublished work that is not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted papers will undergo peer review by experts in the field. Paper length: • Regular papers: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references • Extended papers: Up to 10 pages, subject to the applicable additional-page fee Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one author for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Submit your paper through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ ============================================================ WHY ACLing 2026? ================ ACLing provides an international forum for researchers working at the rapidly evolving intersection of AI and language technologies. The 2026 edition expands the conference's international reach through a multi-site hybrid format, enabling researchers to connect and present their work across the UAE, Jordan, and the global virtual research community. ACLing offers: • International research visibility • Elsevier Procedia Computer Science publication • Open-access publication on ScienceDirect • Scopus-indexed proceedings • Opportunities for international research collaboration • Interaction with researchers in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics • Flexible physical and virtual presentation options ============================================================ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== • Prof. Khaled Shaalan The British University in Dubai, UAE • Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy Newgiza University, Egypt ============================================================ USEFUL LINKS ============ Conference Website: https://acling.org/ Call for Papers: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/ Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission Guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ Previous ACLing Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ============================================================ CONTACT ======= General inquiries: [ACLing2026@gmail.com](mailto:ACLing2026@gmail.com) Prof. Khaled Shaalan: [khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae](mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae) Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: [samhaa@computer.org](mailto:samhaa@computer.org) Dr. Taher M. Ghazal: [taher.ghazal@ieee.org](mailto:taher.ghazal@ieee.org) ============================================================ We look forward to welcoming you to ACLing 2026 and receiving your research contributions. Please feel free to circulate this Call for Papers among interested colleagues, research groups, students, and professional networks. ACLing 2026 25–26 November 2026 Dubai • Jordan • Worldwide Online https://acling.org/

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2nd CfP: Computer Speech & Language Special Issue in Conjunction with INLG 2026
by Saad Mahamood 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Computer Speech & Language on: Spoken Language Generation: Methods, Evaluation, and Applications. The special issue is organised in conjunction with INLG 2026 and will focus on research at the intersection of natural language generation and speech technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Content planning, dialogue act realisation, surface realisation, and end-to-end approaches to spoken language generation Language generation for text-to-speech and speech-to-speech systems Prosody-, emotion-, persona-, and audience-aware spoken language generation Multimodal generation involving speech, gesture, gaze, and embodied interaction Spoken language generation in multilingual, cross-lingual, code-switching, and low-resource settings Evaluation of spoken NLG Robustness, factuality, safety, and responsible deployment of spoken language generation systems The strongest papers accepted at INLG 2026 will have the opportunity to submit an extended versions of their work to the special issue. Submissions are also warmly welcomed from the wider research community and are not limited to INLG 2026 participants. Submission deadline: 31 December 2026 Review process: rolling review, beginning immediately upon receipt of each submission Editorial decisions: no later than two months from the submission date of each paper Further information and submission details: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/336863/spoken-language-generati… We would be grateful if you could circulate the call among colleagues and others who may be interested. Best wishes, Guest Editors: Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester Chao Zhang, Tsinghua University Anton Ragni, University of Sheffield Chenghao Xiao, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Saad Mahamood, Shopware

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Invitation to Participate: UniAgent@CIKM 2026, the 1st Shared Task on Agentic AI in University Administration
by Udo Kruschwitz 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in UniAgent, the 1st Shared Task on Agentic AI in University Administration, at CIKM 2026 in Rome. UniAgent evaluates agentic AI in a bounded, enterprise-like environment: the administration of a public university. THE TASK Your agent is given a real administrative case from the University of Kassel. It has to retrieve the regulations that apply, plan the steps required, and produce a solution a human would accept, for example a compliant travel request. Not every case can be approved as submitted. Agents must check the case against the applicable rules, found in the collection we provide. Agents must flag non-compliant cases with a justification. Task Details: https://uniagent.webis.de/cikm26/uniagent26-web/agentic-university-administ… IMPORTANT DATES September 30, 2026: Registration closes October 23, 2026: Task submission deadline October 30, 2026: Notebook paper deadline November 8, 2026: UniAgent session at the CIKM 2026 AnalytiCup November 9 to 11, 2026: CIKM 2026 main conference, Rome All deadlines are 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE). LINKS UniAgent: https://uniagent.webis.de Register: https://www.tira.io/task-overview/uniagent-2026/ Forum: https://www.tira.io/c/uniagent Contact: uniagent(a)lists.its.uni-kassel.de We are looking forward to your submission! The UniAgent team ---- Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft Universität Regensburg | Universitätsstraße 31 | D-93053 Regensburg Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *Registration open* *Bari, Italy*15 – 19 September 2025 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to practice your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/upcoming-lexicom/>* I hope to meet you in Bari in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* sketchengine.eu <http://www.sketchengine.eu/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine>

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British Council English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants and Awards 2026
by Felice, Mariano (Exams) 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

Deadline: 2 October 2026 Dear Colleagues, We would like to share our call for proposals for the British Council English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grant (ELLAs) and our Language Assessment Awards. We welcome applications until 2 October 2026. We currently have two funding opportunities: * English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants <https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…> * Aimed at researchers around the world conducting research in language learning and assessment * Research focus: Longitudinal studies into the impact of using AI in language assessment / language classrooms * One project, up to £70,000 * Find out more about the British Council products and data available at our open session, sign up here<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…>. * Assessment Research Awards<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…> * Aimed at Ph.D./Ed.D. students of language assessment and testing * Up to £2,500 per award For more information and application details, please visit: English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants (ELLA) | British Council<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-awards>. For any queries, please contact: ELLARG(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:ELLARG@britishcouncil.org>. We look forward to receiving your submissions! The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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*** Call for participation *** KONVENS 2026, September 14-17, University of Hamburg
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 06 Sep '26

06 Sep '26

*** KONVENS 2026 Call for participation *** https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ We would like to invite you to participate on site at the Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 – 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers: – KEYNOTE 1 – Tuesday, 15 September 2026 · 13:30 –14:30 · Lecture Hall D The Myth of Ground Truth: Why Context and Disagreement Matter for NLP Barbara Plank Abstract: Natural language processing has made remarkable progress. Yet much of this progress still rests on a powerful simplifying assumption: that for every input there exists a single correct answer, a single ground truth, to be recovered independent of who is asking, who is answering, and in what context. In this talk, I argue that this assumption is often at odds with how language actually works, and with the complex, ambiguous, and inherently human environments in which language technology operates. Meaning is filled in by context: by what a sentence implies rather than states explicitly, by who interprets it and what perspective, language, dialect, or background they bring. Drawing on research on human label variation, ambiguity, and the evaluation of foundation models, I show that this variation is natural, not noise to be eliminated, but signal to be understood. I close by considering what this means for generative AI and alignment. Human-centered NLP is multi-faceted: building inclusive systems around people means building them around their disagreement, not despite it. – KEYNOTE 2 – Wednesday, 16 September 2026 · 09:00 –10:00 · Lecture Hall D Evaluation in Context: Humans, Machines, and the Crisis of Validity Valentin Hofmann Abstract: Language model evaluation is facing a crisis of validity: models increasingly excel on established benchmarks, yet benchmark performance can be a poor indicator of how systems behave in the wild. In this talk, I will argue that making evaluation meaningful requires taking context seriously — not only the context of the humans who use and are affected by language models, but also the context of the models being evaluated. I will first examine social bias evaluation as an example of core validity issues in current practices and discuss efforts to build benchmarks that more closely reflect the ways in which people actually use language models as well as the harms they experience. Turning from humans to machines, I will then show how the value of an evaluation item depends on the model taking the test, and how this insight can be leveraged through psychometric methods to improve validity. I will conclude by making the case for a future of language model evaluation that takes into account both the humans around our systems and the machines in front of us. Registration: https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/registration/

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The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026)
by ACL Announcements 06 Sep '26

06 Sep '26

==================================================================== Third CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 10, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [1] Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 * Registration deadline for shared task: September 13, 2026 * System Run and Output Submission (shared task): September 13, 2026 * System Paper Submission (shared task): September 14, 2026 * Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 * Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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