*** Call for Participation ***
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution
and Reengineering (SANER 2026)
17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026
*** Early Registration Deadline: 13th February, 2026 (extended) ***
The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
(SANER) is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering information from
existing software and systems. The event explores innovative methods to extract the
many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering
documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this
information in system renewal and program understanding.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Nicole Novielli and Alexander Serebrenik are the keynote speakers of SANER 2026.
More details: https://conf.researchr.org/info/saner-2026/keynotes
REGISTRATION
Registration is open. Please visit:
https://conf.researchr.org/attending/saner-2026/registration+
*** Early registration till 13th February, 2026 (extended) ***
If you have not yet registered, there is still time to register at the reduced rate.
Special rates for IEEE members and for students.
The conference organisation is able to provide visa support letters to attendees that
require visa.
VENUE
SANER 2026 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. St. Raphael Resort is located on one of
the most renowned beaches in Limassol, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre
of town, approximately 10 minutes away.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SANER 2026 workshops take place on 17th March and the main conference between
18th and 20th of March.
SANER 2026 features many tracks with talks in different areas of Software Analysis,
Evolution and Reengineering.
• Research Track (47 papers)
• Industrial Track (19 papers)
• Early Research Achievement Track (15 papers)
• Short Papers and Posters Track (19 papers)
• Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results Track (4 papers)
• Tool Demo Track (13 papers)
• Journal First Papers (18 papers)
• Registered Report Track (5 papers)
• Workshops (7 workshops)
• Tutorials (1 tutorial)
WORKSHOPS
- SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Workshop
https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io/
- Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop
https://greenvolve.github.io/
- Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems
https://fairnessworkshop.github.io/
- F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE
https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/
- IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering
https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/
- VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests
https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/
- MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Applications for Privacy and Security
https://msr4ps.github.io/
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
General Chair
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Local Organizing Chair
• George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
• Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Industrial Chairs
• Anne Etien, University of Lille, France
• Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada
ERA Chairs
• Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands
• Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Short Papers and Posters Chairs
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
RENE Chairs
• Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Workshop/Tutorial Chairs
• Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
• Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Journal-First Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
• Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Registered Report Chairs
• Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland
Tool Demo Chairs
• Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy
Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs
• Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
• Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia
Proceedings Chair
• Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan
Most Influential Paper Award Chairs
• Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland
Sustainability Chair
• Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Publicity and Social Media Chair
• Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
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*CHiPSAL: **Second Call For Papers*
*Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages*
We are pleased to announce the *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing
South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)*, to be held in *hybrid mode on 16 May
2026*, co-located with *LREC 2026*.
CHiPSAL 2026 invites *substantial, original, and unpublished research* on
all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and
evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as
system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing
challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for *South Asian languages*.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Encoding and Unicode issues
- Orthographic complexities
- Morphology and generation
- Dialectal variation and standardisation
- Code-mixing and multilingualism
- Building linguistic resources
- Speech recognition and synthesis
- Technology for linguistic heritage preservation
- Benchmarking models
- Large language models for South Asian languages
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*Important Dates (AoE)*
- Submission Deadline: *20 February 2026*
- Notification of Acceptance: *20 March 2026*
- Camera-ready Papers:* 30 March 2026*
- Workshop (Hybrid): *16 May 2026*
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*Submission Guidelines*
CHiPSAL 2026 accepts *oral*, *poster*, and *poster+demo* papers.
- Short papers: 4 pages
- Long papers: 8 pages
(Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and
data/code availability statements)
All submissions must:
- Follow the *LREC 2026 stylesheet*: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
- Be *fully anonymised* for double-blind review
- Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability
statements
- Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission)
- *Be relevant to South Asian language processing*
Papers must report *original, unpublished work*. Concurrent submissions
must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.
*Speakers*
- *Monojit Choudhury*, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial
Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
- *Usman Naseem*, School of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia
*More Information*
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/
<https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/>
*Associated Shared Tasks*
CHiPSAL 2026 also hosts two shared tasks:
*Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes*
https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-1
*Multilingual ASR for South Asian Languages*
https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-2
*Workshop Organising Committee*
- Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
- Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
- Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA.
- Tafseer Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian
NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of
the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions.
We look forward to your contributions.
Best regards,
*The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee*
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*Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)*
Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science
University of Jaffna
Sri Lanka
sarves.github.io
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Second Call for Papers: DELITE 2026
The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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OVERVIEW
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Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation.
The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes.
The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology.
While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models.
We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Deliberation theory in NLP models
* In-domain versus across domain resources
* Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and
interfaces
* Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale
* Argument mining for deliberation scenarios
* Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking
* Empirical foundations for evaluation
* Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for
deliberation scenarios
* Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale
* Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making
* Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias
APPLICATION AREAS
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We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse.
SUBMISSION
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DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences).
* Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers.
* Extended Abstracts (non-archival): A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences).
* PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication.
* Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building.
Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures.
Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Submission link:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DELITE2026/
The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative
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When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)".
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Archival paper submission: 19 February 2026
* Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026
* Camera-ready: 30 March 2026
* Workshop day: 16 May 2026
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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* Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK
* Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
* Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK
* Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany
* Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf,
Germany
* Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,
Germany
CONTACT
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e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/
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Dear all,
We are organizing a workshop co-located with LREC 2026 on Identity Aware
NLP. The details are as follows:
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP
Workshop at LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16, 2026
https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/
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*Workshop Theme:* What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and
technical challenges does this imply?
*OVERVIEW*
What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it)
is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on
the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if
enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting
generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority.
This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the
notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop
aims to raise the question of "what makes each of us unique?" to the NLP
community.
*WORKSHOP GOALS*
- The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of
identities and how identity is treated in AI
- The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and
inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level
*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We invite submissions on the following topics:
*Modeling subjective phenomena and disagreement: *Personalization and
perspectivist methods that challenge one-size-fits-all approaches by
leveraging disaggregated data and annotator metadata. Methods that learn
from disagreements rather than forcing consensus that erases unique
perspectives.
*Auditing and evaluating identity representation:* Techniques to measure
how well models represent diverse identities, diagnose failures in
capturing marginalized perspectives, and assess whether systems treat
all identities equitably. Frameworks for identity-aware performance
evaluation beyond aggregate metrics.
*Bias detection and fairness interventions: *Methods to identify when
models fail marginalized groups due to over-generalization, and
techniques to mitigate such harms while preserving model utility.
*Identity representation in LLMs: *How language models encode (or erase)
diverse identities, embody particular perspectives, and either reproduce
or challenge stereotypes. Measuring LLMs' capacity for reasoning about
identities beyond majority groups.
*Socio-political applications: *Modeling polarization, opinion
formation, and deliberation in ways that account for identity rather
than assuming homogeneous populations. How identity-aware approaches
improve accuracy for politically sensitive tasks.
*Methodological foundations from social sciences:* Best practices from
psychology and survey science for measuring identity constructs (values,
morals, narratives). Addressing challenges of using LLMs to model
diverse populations while avoiding erasure through aggregation.
*Accountability and responsible development: *Ethical responsibilities
when building systems that represent (or exclude) identities. Making AI
development processes accountable to marginalized communities most
affected by over-generalization.
*Identity-aware and community informed evaluation and auditing*:
Community informed bias evaluation and auditing. Human evaluation of
LLMs and other AI systems in an identity-aware manner.
*SUBMISSION TYPES*
We welcome the following types of submissions:
* Long papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references)
* Short papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references)
* Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media
submissions
For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including:
- Art, poetry, music
- Blog posts
- Jupyter notebooks
- Teaching materials
- Videos
- Findings papers
- Late-breaking papers
- Extended abstracts
For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing:
- A summary or abstract of your work
- A link to your work (if hosted externally)
- Any additional context or documentation
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
*
* All submissions will be double-blind reviewed
* Submissions should follow LREC 2026 formatting guidelines available
at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
* Papers must be 4-8 pages in length (excluding references)
* Papers must include ethics and limitations sections
* NO appendices are allowed (initial submission), up to 10 pages
camera-ready
* Originality and simultaneous submissions: submissions must be
original, previously unpublished work. If a paper is submitted to or
under consideration at another venue at the same time, this must be
declared at submission time. If accepted here, it must be withdrawn from
other venues; if accepted elsewhere while under review here, please
notify us promptly.
* Preprints: there is no anonymity period at LREC 2026, so authors may
post preprints at any time; however, the version submitted for review
must still be anonymized
* Language resources (optional): at submission time, authors may share
related language resources with the community; repository entries are
linked to the LRE Map and provide metadata for the resource
* Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/IdentityAwareAI
* Proceedings and presentation: accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be presented as posters.
For remote participants, we will also organize a lightning round of
short virtual presentations to accompany the posters.
*WORKSHOP FORMAT*
The workshop will be a half-day event featuring:
- Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field
- Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks)
- Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary
vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and
design a vision for collecting new datasets
We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The
workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and
virtual participation.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
* Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2026
* Camera-Ready Deadline: March 30, 2026
* Workshop Date: May 16, 2026
*DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
*
We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and
countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough
feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers.
*
ORGANIZERS*
Pranav A (University of Hamburg)
Valerio Basile (University of Turin)
Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart)
David Jurgens (University of Michigan)
Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg)
Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin)
*CONTACT*
For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com
Join us at Identity-Aware AI 2026 to contribute to this important
conversation!
2nd Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca
https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…>
Important Dates
* February 27: Paper submission
* March 20: Notification of acceptance
* March 30: Camera-ready papers due
* May 12, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at LREC
NLPerspectives
Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024).
Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025).
In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios.
In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline.
The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026.
Submissions
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers.
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>.
We accept three types of submissions:
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Regular research papers;
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Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings;
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(Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere.
NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop.
Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLPerspectives
Topics
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
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Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
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Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
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Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models
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Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
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Fairness and inclusive modelling
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Perspectivist approaches for social good
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Applications of multi-perspective modelling
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Computing with (dis)agreement
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Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
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Perspectivism in multimodal AI
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Foundational aspects of perspectivism
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Participatory approaches and human label variation
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Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP
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Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems
Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation.
Attendance
The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference.
Workshop organisers:
Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/
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Joint Call for Papers
Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study
Social Interactions (NLPSI)
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Workshop day: May 12, 2026
Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026
Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io
Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de
OVERVIEW
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Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the
modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics
include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social
context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI
workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while
addressing distinct challenges.
The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use,
seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology
and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional
crowdsourcing.
The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human
communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce
language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social
Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale
studies.
TOPICS
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This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors
should choose the track that best matches their contribution.
SoCon Track
"Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community
Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with
pragmatics and social sciences
* Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of
practice and speech communities
* Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory
design involving relevant communities
* Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social
attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events
Contact for SoCon track: social-context-workshop(a)googlegroups.com
NLPSI Track
"Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a
deeper understanding of social interactions."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
*Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality)
*Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction
*Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution
*The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion
contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation
Contact for NLPSI track: nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de
SUBMISSION TYPES
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* Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from
preliminary to established contributions
* Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage
research
* Extended abstracts(non-archival, up to 2 pages): a new format designed
to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are
not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). Extended abstracts are not
included in conference proceedings.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submissions will be double-blind reviewed.
Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf).
Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics,
acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count.
Submission via Softconf: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SoConNLPSI/
Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools,
technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language
resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow
ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
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The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy.
It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations
(oral and lightning talks).
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026
Workshop day: May 12, 2026
ORGANIZERS
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SoCon
Marco Antonio Stranisci, Turin University
Soda Marem Lo, Turin University
Sabine Weber, Bamberg University
Rossana Damiano, Turin University
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Viviana Patti, Turin University
Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University
Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg
NLPSI
Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg
Sofie Labat, Ghent University
Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Véronique Hoste, Ghent University
Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg University
LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted
Collections for Open Science
Palma de Mallorca
2nd Call for Papers
The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted
Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026).
Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a
promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be
shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions.
This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and
infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal
framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital
humanities, and language technology.
We invite contributions from the community that address practical
experiences, challenges, and solutions related to:
* The creation and processing of DTF
* Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data
* Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus
linguistics, or NLP
* Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows
* Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards)
The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date
will be communicated in due time.
Submission Format
Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and
potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC
stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page
<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> at
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions will be reviewed by the
workshop organizers and the programme committee.
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
* Reviewing period: 21 February 2026 – 10 March 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026
* Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026
* Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026
Submission
Submissions will be handled via the submission system Softconf
<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF> at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF.
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used
for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and
replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)
Workshop Organisers
* Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library
* Keli Du, University of Trier
* José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library
* Philippe Genêt, German National Library
* Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
* Christof Schöch University of Trier
* Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für
Deutsche Sprache
Programme Committee
tba
Contact
For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com
<mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com>
Updates
For updates, see
https://text-plus.org/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-12-lrec-dtf/
*Call for papers:* *NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on
Natural Language & Information Systems*
17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Trondheim, Norway
Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/
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/Objectives:/*
Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it
comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage
with information using natural language instead of artificial query
languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also
ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB
has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection
of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and
practitioners to contribute.
/*Important Dates:*/
Paper Submission: 6 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth
Author Notification: 20 March 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026
/*Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):*/
- Multimodality
- AI safety and ethics
- Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces
- Social Media and Web Data
- eXplainable AI
- Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP
- Generative models, Large Language Models
- Information Retrieval and Text Mining
- Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining
- Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems
- NLP Applications
- Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
- Big Data and Scalability
*
/Paper Submission/*
Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and
all relevant requirements are available on the conference website.
Submission system: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via
Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/
Author guidelines: Authors should follow the LNCS format. Submissions
that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected.
Paper categories and length limits:
- Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices
- Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices
- Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references
Dear colleagues,
The Social Media Access Days are concerned with sustainable archiving, indexing and access to social media data for research and infrastructure.
Registration for the Social Media Access Days is now open: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-access-days-tickets-1973758115656…
The conference, entitled ‘Social Media Data between Research and Infrastructure – Sustainable Archiving, Indexing and Provision’, will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Keynote:
Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) “Nearly a decade after the APIcalypse: Where are we now on social media access?"
All information and the full program are available here: https://www.dnb.de/EN/smad
We look forward to your participation.
Warm regards on behalf of the programme committee
Tatjana Scheffler
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Tatjana Scheffler (she/her)
GB 5/157
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Digital Forensic Linguistics
Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut
Universitätsstraße 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de
Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/
Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr
Tel.: +49 234 32-21471
Dear all,
The University of Manitoba's Department of Computer Science invites
international applications for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in
Artificial Intelligence, to be appointed to the rank of Full Professor
or Associate Professor. Chairholders will awarded up to $8 million over
eight years ($1 million per year), with the potential for a four-year
extension at 50% of the initial award value per year.
The focus of this position is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,
specifically systems and methods that are designed, evaluated, and
deployed with a focus on human values, needs, behaviours, and social
contexts. Applications from those in natural language processing,
provided their research aligns with this focus, are welcome.
The full posting is reproduced below, and is also available on the UM
Careers Portal at
<https://viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX?REQ_ID=43775>. For
more information, please contact Kellee Strom: Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca
Sincerely,
Tristan Miller
Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence
Full Time, Tenured
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Position #: 37369 and 37370
Expected start date of appointment: Within 12 months of the award date
(September 2026).
The Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science at the
University of Manitoba invites applications for a Canada Impact+
Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. A Canada Impact+ Research
Chair is one of the most prestigious international awards globally,
providing Chairholders and their research teams with an award of up to
$8 million over eight years ($1 million per year). In addition, there is
potential for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value
per year. This extension will be determined by an external review in
Year 7 of the award.
Successful nominees will be expected to start their position at the
University of Manitoba within 12 months of accepting the award. The
successful candidate will be appointed to a full-time tenured position
at the rank of Full Professor, or at the rank of Associate Professor
with an opportunity to apply for promotion to Full Professor within two
years of starting their appointment. Salary and tenure status will be
based on the candidate's qualifications and experience, in accordance
with the University of Manitoba Faculty Association collective
agreement. The position will be provided with a start-up package and
opportunities to compete for additional equipment funding through the
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
The Canada Impact+ Research Chair Program
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is a new initiative
funded by the Government of Canada to attract world-leading researchers
to Canadian universities whose work addresses critical national and
global challenges. Impact+ chairholders must advance ambitious and
transformative projects in one or more of Canada's strategic priority
areas, build and maintain exceptional research teams, and collaborate
with partners across sectors and borders. Canada's strategic priority
areas are: Advanced digital technologies (including artificial
intelligence, quantum and cybersecurity); Health, including
biotechnology; Clean technology and resource value chains; Environment,
climate resilience and the Arctic; Food and water security; Democratic
and community resilience; Manufacturing and advanced materials; and
Defence and dual-use technologies. Impact+ chairholders are expected to
drive the translation of discoveries into applications,
commercialization and social and economic benefits for Canada and the
world, while also developing the next generation of highly qualified
personnel. Please consult the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs website
<https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs/program-details/competition/202…>
for full program information, including further details on eligibility
criteria and application requirements.
Applicants must have a recent track record of research accomplishments
and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada. Only
candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing
outside of Canada) at the time of the first intake application deadline
(March 24, 2026) are eligible to apply. The focus of this position is
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, specifically systems and methods
that are designed, evaluated, and deployed with a focus on human values,
needs, behaviours, and social contexts. Areas of interest include, but
are not limited to: explainability, accountability, trust, and
transparency; health, education, and civic engagement; embodied,
robotic, and social intelligence; human-robot interaction, human-AI
collaboration, and decision support systems; AI for science and
scientific discovery. While this is a research-intensive position, the
successful candidate will also contribute to educating undergraduate and
graduate students through teaching and mentorship in the Department of
Computer Science, and participate in academic service activities to the
Department, Faculty, or University. Teaching experience in Machine
Learning, Language Models, Digital Systems, and related areas is an asset.
The successful applicant will have access to core resources within the
faculty, including Grex, the University of Manitoba high-performance
computing system, as well as collaboration opportunities with research
institutes including the Institute for Global Public Health and the
Manitoba Institute for Materials. Within the department, the successful
applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with established
research clusters including the CORE AI group; the GADA lab, HCI and
HRI, Digital Agriculture, Security, Software Engineering, and others.
Interdisciplinary collaborators across Engineering, Medicine, Law,
Ethics, and Arts provide the potential for broad-reaching investigations.
The appointment is dependent on a successful Canada Impact+ Research
Chair Award, and the two-stage process of this appointment is:
1. Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement
for review and endorsement, and
2. The successful candidate will then prepare the required nomination
package, with the support of the Office of the Vice President (Research
& International) at the University of Manitoba. Completed nomination
packages will be submitted to the Tri-agency Institutional Programs
Secretariat (TIPS) as part of the national Impact+ Program's application
process. An academic appointment at UM is dependent on a successful
review by the multidisciplinary selection committee and approval by the
TIPS Steering Committee.
Computer Science and the University of Manitoba
The Department of Computer Science currently has 26 full-time tenured
and tenure track research faculty and 10 full-time instructors. We offer
a full range of both undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer
Science, including Joint Honours programs with Mathematics, Physics and
Astronomy, Statistics, and Data Science. Further information about the
Department is available at umanitoba.ca/science/computer-science
Join us in advancing the fight against cancer, rare diseases, and
infectious diseases, leading global public health efforts at scale in
Asia and Africa, connecting to the Arctic, opening a new maritime trade
route, working alongside Indigenous partners, enhancing defence and
security in the North, developing materials for green energy and the
digital economy, and making Canadian agriculture more globally
competitive and sustainable.
UM's Strategic Research Themes
<https://umanitoba.ca/research/strategic-research-plan> are:
* Foundations
* Social Justice and Human Rights
* Research by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples
* Water and Food Security
* Health and Well-being
* Climate Action and Sustainability
* Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Arctic, and the World
Please consult the Change Trough Research University of Manitoba
Strategic Research Plan 2024-2024
<https://umanitoba.ca/research/sites/research/files/2024-07/university-of-ma…>
for further information about these Research Themes.
The Application Process
Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement
through the UM Careers portal <https://umanitoba.ca/careers/> for review
and endorsement and clearly state the application position number in the
cover letter. Applicants should upload their cover letter separately,
their curriculum vitae separately, and then combine their research plan,
teaching statement, personal statement and a list of three referees into
a single PDF file and upload it under ‘Additional Documentation' when
applying in UM Careers. If you experience any difficulties accessing UM
Careers, please contact Kellee Strom Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca, for
assistance. Further details on the application materials are:
* a concise cover letter describing suitability for the position
* a curriculum vitae (including examples of significant research
contributions)
* a research plan (3 page maximum) outlining an independent, innovative
research program, and its potential to attract funding and contribute to
student training
* a teaching statement (1/2 page) that documents the applicant's
experience in and/or approach to training and mentoring diverse students
and the candidate's teaching philosophy
* a personal statement reflecting on the applicant's positionality,
demonstrated commitment, and approach to issues pertaining to
anti-racism and social justice (including principles of equity, access,
and participation) in the following areas: teaching, research, and service
* the names and contact information of three referees
A review of applications will begin Feb 20 2026, and will continue until
the position is filled. Application materials, including letters of
reference, will be handled in accordance with the protection of privacy
provision of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
(Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitae may be provided to
participating members of the search process.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Considerations
Equity, diversity and inclusion are embedded as foundational principles
in Impact+ objectives, expected outcomes and reporting requirements of
the competition. The three agencies expect that institutions and
chairholders will demonstrate and implement the highest EDI standards
for the duration of their award.
UM is committed to these principles and to promoting opportunities in
hiring, promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically
marginalized groups who have been excluded from full participation at UM
and the larger community including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized
persons, persons with disabilities and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+
(Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex,
asexual and other diverse sexual identities).
The Canada Impact+ Research Chair nomination selection committee will
receive equity training that includes instruction on how to recognize
and combat unconscious, implicit, overt, prejudicial and other kinds of
bias.
The University acknowledges the potential impact that Career
Interruptions and Personal Circumstances can have on an applicant's
record of research achievement. We encourage applicants to explain the
impact of any such interruption(s) in their submission. Measures will be
taken to ensure that these leaves will be taken into careful
consideration during the evaluation process.
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multicultural community and diverse culture. The city, with a growing
population of more than 766,000, is home to internationally renowned
festivals, galleries and museums, the historic Exchange District and The
Forks, and ever-expanding research, education, and business sectors.
From the Hudson Bay waters, across the farmland fields, to the pulse of
the cities and towns, The Province of Manitoba's
<http://www.travelmanitoba.com/> people and places – its 100,000 lakes,
92 provincial parks, winding river valleys and storied prairie skies –
inspire.
Additional information:
The University of Manitoba is a driving force of innovation, discovery
and advancement. Our momentum is propelled by our campus community – UM
faculty, staff and students whose determination and curiosity shape our
world for the better. Our teaching, learning and work environment is
uniquely strengthened and enriched by Indigenous perspectives. With two
main campuses in Winnipeg, satellite campuses throughout Manitoba, and
world-wide research, UM's impact is global.
Discover outstanding employee benefits, experience world-class
facilities and join a dynamic community that values reconciliation,
sustainability, diversity, and inclusion. We are one of Manitoba's Top
Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. At the
University of Manitoba, what inspires you can change everything.
The University of Manitoba is committed to the principles of equity,
diversity & inclusion and to promoting opportunities in hiring,
promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically marginalized
groups who have been excluded from full participation at the University
and the larger community including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized
persons, persons with disabilities and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+
(Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex,
asexual and other diverse sexual identities).
If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process,
please contact UM.Accommodation(a)umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7195. Please
note this contact information is for accommodation reasons only.
Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled
in accordance with the protection of privacy provisions of "The Freedom
of Information and Protection of Privacy Act" (Manitoba). Please note
that curriculum vitae will be provided to participating members of the
search process.
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Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792