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Call for Participation: CLEF eRisk 2026: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
by ACL Announcements 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Call for Participation: CLEF eRisk 2026: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet _Are you passionate about leveraging AI for societal good? We are pleased to announce that registration and submissions are now open for eRisk 2026, the tenth edition of the CLEF associated evaluation lab of early risk prediction on the Internet!!. Full details are available on the eRisk website._ _Tasks for eRisk 2026 (All the info available at https://erisk.irlab.org/)_ _*Task 1: Conversational Depression Detection with LLMs_ _Participants will interact with fine-tuned LLM personas that will be released on Hugging Face. Each persona simulates a different depression severity. Systems must decide whether the persona is depressed, estimate its overall depression level, and detect active depressive symptoms._ _*Task 2: Contextualised Early Detection of Depression _ _A continuation of last year's contextual detection task: systems analyze full multi-participant conversational contexts arriving sequentially, and make early predictions about depression risk, balancing timeliness and accuracy._ _*Task 3: ADHD Symptom Sentence Ranking (ASRS-v1.1) _ _A novel task expanding beyond depression. Participants will rank sentences by their relevance to each of the 18 symptoms in the ASRS-v1.1 scale. The setup follows the classical ranking-task format, offering no annotated training set at launch (zero-shot setup)._ _ _ _- Why Participate?_ _Publication & Visibility: Accepted contributions will be featured in CEUR-WS (Workshop Proceedings) and acknowledged at CLEF 2026 (Jena, Germany, 21-24 September 2026), offering wide academic and community exposure._ _Interdisciplinary Impact: eRisk blends information retrieval, NLP, computational psychiatry, and social data science: a unique opportunity for collaboration._ _Leading-Edge Challenges: With conversational agents and symptom-level retrieval, eRisk 2026 targets more realistic, fine-grained, and clinically relevant tasks than ever before._ _ _ _- Key Dates _ _ _ _- Datasets Release:_ _ -T1 and T2: 19th December 2026 for training collection and 9th February 2026 beginning of test stage (servers are open)_ _ -T3: no training data, 19th December 2026 release of test collection, and 9th February 2026 beginning of test stage (servers are open)_ _ _ _ _ _- Submission Deadlines:_ _ -T1: 20th April 2026 end of test stage_ _ -T2: 13th April 2026 end of test stage (server closes)_ _ -T3: 1st April 2026 for submitting participants' results to FTP_ _ _ _ _ _- CLEF 2026 Conference: 21-24 September 2026, Jena, Germany. _ _ _ _How to Sign Up & Contribute_ _1. Register: Sign up through the [CLEF 2026 Labs Registration site](https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ [1])_ _2. Submit Agreements: Complete the user agreement form to access datasets. _ _3. Join the Community: Join our Google Groups https://groups.google.com/g/erisk-clef [2] !_ _After evaluation, submit a workshop paper describing your approach and results for publication in CEUR-WS._ _ _ _ _ _We encourage you (and your research group) to join us in advancing the state of early risk detection. Please feel free to forward this message to any colleagues who may be interested._ _Best regards,_ _Javier Parapar, Anxo Pérez, Xi Wang, Fabio Crestani_ _eRisk organizers"_ Links: ------ [1] https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ [2] https://groups.google.com/g/erisk-clef

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EACL 2026 Call For Volunteers
by Ekaterina Kochmar 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Join us as a student volunteer at the prestigious 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026). We're seeking dedicated students, both for in-person and online roles, to contribute to the success of this event. What You Gain: Selected volunteers will receive complimentary registration to the main conference, workshops, tutorials, and social events. Shifts are designed to optimize your access to conference events. Roles and Responsibilities: Volunteer tasks encompass various aspects such as assisting at the registration desk, on-boarding briefs to delegates checking in, problem solving, providing directional support at the conference venue, organizing delegate packs, overseeing poster sessions, coordinating volunteers, and providing AV/technical support, including social media management and aiding with conference events. If you apply and are selected as a virtual volunteer your roles and responsibilities will be monitoring content on platforms such as RocketChat; Underline, MiniConf etc. As a virtual attendee you will report content issues on publications and escalate issue to the on-site technical support team. With this knowledge, please make sure you possess the skills to handle such requirements during the conference. Selection Criteria: Candidates will be assessed based on their application package (details below). Preference will be given to students presenting papers at the main conference or affiliated workshops without alternative travel support. Application Process: * Applicants must be full-time students. * Submission requires a completed application form at https://forms.gle/FQsaESw61dZGCcyX8 with a few questions and a concise one-page CV (resume). * Travel and accommodations should be arranged independently, regardless of the application outcome. Special Rate Lodging is secured by ACL Months in advance to the conference. The discounted rates can be seen and secured by going to the Conference website, Participant Info, Accommodations. Application Instructions: Please refrain from registering for the ACL Conference until you receive a confirmation of acceptance into the Volunteer Service. Upon acceptance, you'll receive a dedicated registration link. Additionally, access will be provided to a Volunteer Website with essential information, FAQs, training materials, and a scheduling system to choose volunteer days and roles. To receive a complimentary registration for the ACL Event, it's crucial to note that a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer work at the event is mandatory. These hours can be divided across several shifts on different days or completed in a single shift. Failure to meet the volunteer commitment will result in being charged the in-person conference fee. In the event of non-acceptance, the Registrar will assist in securing early registration fee rates. For late volunteer registration reimbursements, students need to provide receipts for paid registration fees to the 2026 ACL Reimbursement Link which will be provided to you by the Volunteer Chairs. Additional Financial Support: Once more, volunteering grants you complimentary registration solely for the ACL Conference. If you require further financial assistance for lodging, airfare, or daily expenses, it's advisable to apply for Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies. You have the liberty to seek both a Volunteer subsidy and a D&I subsidy simultaneously, as there are no restrictions against receiving both. To review the criteria for D&I Subsidies, please refer to the Call for D&I Post, which includes selection criteria. Important Dates: * Application Opens: December 22, 2025 * Application Deadline: January 23, 2026 * Acceptance Notifications: February 9, 2026

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Indusrey Track)
by Announce 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

*** First Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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First Call for Participation: CL4Health @LREC 2026 Shared Task on Grounded EHR Question Answering (ArchEHR-QA 2026)
by Soni, Sarvesh (NIH/NLM) [E] 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

ArchEHR-QA 2026 (pronounced ��Archer��): CL4Health @LREC 2026 Shared Task on Grounded Question Answering (QA) from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Dataset (PhysioNet): https://doi.org/10.13026/zzax-sy62 Responding to patients�� inbox messages through patient portals is a major contributor to clinician workload. ArchEHR-QA focuses on automatically answering patients�� health-related questions using their own EHR notes, with an emphasis on producing answers that are grounded in (and explicitly linked to) supporting clinical evidence in the notes. Task Overview ArchEHR-QA 2026 is the second iteration of this shared task (following the ACL 2025 BioNLP edition). This year expands the dataset and introduces four complementary subtasks. Teams may participate in any subset of subtasks, and separate leaderboards will be maintained for each subtask. Subtasks: 1) Subtask 1 �� Question Interpretation: Transform a free-text patient-authored question into a concise clinician-interpreted question (�� 15 words). 2) Subtask 2 �� Evidence Identification: Select the minimal set of sentence IDs from the provided note excerpt that supports answering the question. 3) Subtask 3 �� Answer Generation: Generate an answer grounded in the provided note excerpt (�� 75 words). 4) Subtask 4 �� Evidence Alignment: For each answer sentence, identify the supporting note sentence(s) (sentence-level answer�Cevidence alignment). This year��s shared task follows a staged test data release schedule, with separate deadlines for Subtask 1, Subtasks 2�C3, and Subtask 4. Important Dates (Tentative) * First call for participation / Release of development dataset: January 2 (Friday), 2026 * Test dataset release: * Subtask 1: January 19 (Monday), 2026 * Subtasks 2�C3: January 26 (Monday), 2026 * Subtask 4: February 16 (Monday), 2026 * Submission of system responses: * Subtask 1: January 26 (Monday), 2026 * Subtasks 2�C3: February 16 (Monday), 2026 * Subtask 4: March 2 (Monday), 2026 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): March 13 (Friday), 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 24 (Tuesday), 2026 * Camera-ready system papers due: March 31 (Tuesday), 2026 * CL4Health Workshop Date (LREC 2026): May 12 (Tuesday), 2026 For more information about participation and submission, please visit the shared task website. Join our Google Group (recommended) Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa For questions, please use the Google Group or email: sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov> Program Committee We are also looking for people to join the program committee (responsibilities include reviewing papers). If you are interested, please email sarvesh.soni(a)nih.gov<mailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov>. Looking forward to your participation, Organizers: Sarvesh Soni, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH Dina Demner-Fushman, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH

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Third and Final Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026 @ EACL)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 [Workshop website - https://loreslm.github.io/home] [CFP - https://loreslm.github.io/cfp] [Submissions - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResLM] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. Supporting this important shift, LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 LoResLM 2026 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages. We welcome research that explores modalities beyond text and encourage work on low-resource dialects in addition to major language varieties. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Building language models for low-resource languages. • Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. • Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. • Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multimodal language models/large language models for low-resource languages • Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.) 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 We follow the EACL 2026 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2026 invites submissions of long papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 4 pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the EACL 2026 style files available here: • LaTeX - https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files • Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… Papers should be submitted through OpenReview using the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResLM 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Paper submission: 6th January 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 28th January 2026 • Camera-ready submission: 3rd February 2026 • Workshop: 29th March 2026 @ EACL 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 LoResLM 2026 will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 Proceedings of the workshop will appear in the ACL Anthology. For the past proceedings, please refer https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=rvm3HOgAAAAJ&hl=en 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 Prof Barbara Plank - Full professor and chair for AI and Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Head of the Munich AI and NLP (MaiNLP) lab, and co-director of the Centre for Information and Language Processing (CIS) 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 David Ifeoluwa Adelani - McGill School of Computer Science, Canada Idris Abdulmumin - University of Pretoria, South Africa Godfred Agyapong - University of Florida, USA Isuri Anuradha - Lancaster University, UK Laura Bernardy - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ana-Maria Bucur - University of Lugano, Switzerland Eleftheria Briakou - Google Tommaso Caselli - University of Groningen, Netherlands Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Charibeth Ko Cheng - De La Salle University, Philippines Claudiu Creanga - University of Bucharest Sourabh Deoghare - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Bosheng Ding - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Jaroslav Kopčan - Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Slovakia Constantine Lignos - Brandeis University, USA Cedric Lothritz - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Anne-Marie Lutgen - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Sheng Li - Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Vukosi Marivate - University of Pretoria, South Africa Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Simon Münker - Trier University, Germany Abiodun Modupe - University of Pretoria, South Africa Fred Philippy - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Md Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Mariana Romanyshyn - Grammarly Guokan Shang - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, France Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Hristo Tanev - Joint Research Centre, European Commission Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Raúl Vázquez - University of Helsinki, Finland Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan- Zheng Xin Yong - Brown University, USA Alexandra Zbaganu - University of Bucharest, Romania 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Alistair Plum – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan – National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage – University of Münster, Germany 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 Paul Rayson – Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov – Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber – Queensland University of Technology, Australia 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 The workshop is supported in part by the Artificial Intelligence Journal, which promotes and disseminates AI research. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘂𝘀 Contact us through loreslm.contact(a)gmail.com. Follow us on social media • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreslm/ • X - https://x.com/LoResLM2026 • BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/loreslm.bsky.social Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe, on behalf of the organising committee, LoResLM 2026 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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Reminder: Two PhD positions at Leipzig University in Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics
by leonie.weissweiler＠lingfil.uu.se 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

There are two open PhD positions in Natural Language Processing available at the Institute for Computer Science at Leipzig University, in the group of Leonie Weissweiler. Potential research topics include but aren’t limited to: - Linguistic Interpretability - Multilingual Evaluation - Computational Typology Positions are fully funded for at least three years and will be affiliated with the ScaDS.AI graduate school. Ideal PhD candidates have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Positions: Full-time (TV-L E13) for 3 years Preferred start date: 1st of April 2026 More information: https://leonieweissweiler.github.io/phd_leipzig.pdf Application deadline: 15th of January 2026

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SPEAKABLE Co-located with LREC2026: 2nd CFP
by Davide LIGA 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** 2nd CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026 [??]Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) [??] Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space. Workshop Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities - Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models - Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings --> SPEAKABLE will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout> Invited Speaker Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/ Further details will be posted on the workshop website. Info for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026 Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026 Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026) All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Workshop Organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) [??] Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:speakable2026@gmail.com> Best regards, Davide Liga (on behalf of the organizers)

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3rd CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 Third Call for Papers # The conference The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speaker Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC (more names will be announced in future calls) # Submissions and publication NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Submission link – Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available on the conference website. The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. # Important dates - Submissions due: 23 March 2026 - Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 - Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee - Khetam Al Sharou, Dublin City University, Ireland - Lama Al-oqili, University of Liverpool, UK - Abdelalah Alsolami, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy - Alba Bonet Jover, University of Alicante, Spain - Pierrette Bouillon, University of Geneve, Switzerland - Vicent Briva-Iglesias, Dublin City University, Ireland - Elena Calzada, ONCALL Language Services, London and Madrid Open University, Spain - Parthena Charalampidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Helle Dam Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark - Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado, University of Galway - Michael Farrell, University Institute of Modern Languages, Italy - Maria Fernandez-Parra, Swansea University, UK - Ɫukasz Grabowski, University of Opole, Poland - Manuel Herranz , Pangeanic, Spain - Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK - Kristian Hvelplund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Miguel A Jimenez Crespo, Rutgers University, USA - Valentini Kalfadopoulou, Ionian University, Greece - Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland - Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski , Hildesheim University, Germany - Raquel Lazaro Gutierrez, Alcalá University, Spain - Todor Lazarov, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria - Defeng Li, University of Macau, Macau - Elpida Loupaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Elizabeth Marshman, Ottawa University, Canada - Khadidja Merakchi, Heriot Watt University, UK - Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland - Núria Molines Galarza, Valencia University, Spain - Johanna Monti, Naples University, Italy - Ricardo Muñoz Martín, Bologna University, Italy - Jean Nitzke, University of Adger, Norway - Laura Noriega, University of Malaga, Spain - Lucas Nunes Vieira, Bristol University, UK - David Orrego-Carmona, Warwick University, UK - John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, USA - Timea Palotai-Torzsas, Juremy - Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK - Ming Qian, Charles River Analytics, USA - Rozane Rebechi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Natália Resende, Dublin City University, Ireland - Matt Riemland, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Serge Sharoff, Leeds University, UK - Mark Shuttleworth, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Elena Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania - Shiyi Tan, University of Surrey, UK - Irina Temnikova, "Big Data for Smart Society" Institute, Bulgaria - Eleni Tziafa, University of Athens, Greece - Cecilia Yalangozian, Machine Translate, USA - Han Xu , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Sudhansu Bala Das, University of Galway, Ireland - Coco Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Shuyin Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website (https://nettt-conference.com/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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[2nd CfP] Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 - Dubai
by ddessi＠sharjah.ac.ae 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

Call for Papers 4th Int. Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE https://semtech4stld.github.io/ ----------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions: January 5th, 2026 (1 week left!!) Paper Submissions: January 12th, 2026 Notifications: January 25th, 2026 Camera-Ready Contributions: February 2nd, 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Aims and Scope ------------------------------------------------------ The SemTech 2026 workshop focuses on methods that combine Semantic Web technologies, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs), and other AI technologies to model knowledge across scientific, technical, and legal domains. The workshop invites research on knowledge graph creation, semantic annotation, LLM–KG hybrid reasoning, and trustworthy AI pipelines that enhance the reliability, interpretability, and reuse of Web data. This is particularly timely as the Web community seeks robust approaches to integrate symbolic and sub-symbolic methods for managing and understanding the growing body of domain-specific knowledge on the Web ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Topics ------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions on topics related to Semantic Web technologies and deep learning, particularly in the context of scientific, technical, and legal data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Data Collection - Leveraging LLMs for generating scientific, technical, and legal data. - New tools and systems for capturing scientific, technical, and legal data, such as scientific articles, patent publications, etc. - Procedures and tools for storing, sharing, and preserving data on the Web. - Collecting and sharing data sets such as benchmarks, etc. - Pipelines and protocols to capture peculiarities from Web data. - Employing Semantic Web Technologies to represent and preserve sensitive data in terms of ethics, privacy, security, and trust on the Web. Novel Semantic Technologies for scientific, technical, and legal web: - Ontologies and annotation schemas to model such data. - Annotation, linking, and disambiguation of the data. - Knowledge graph construction. - LLMs to generate metadata, vocabularies, ontologies, and semantic models for specific data. Applications for patents, scientific, technical, and legal web: - Applications based on Generative AI and LLMs. - Exploiting knowledge graphs for document similarity, question answering, search, etc. - Semantic content-based retrieval. - Natural language processing techniques for classification, summarization, etc. - Exploratory search using semantic technologies on scientific, technical, and legal data. - Key enabling tools (also based on LLMs) for accessing and using data on the Web. - Lessons learned and use cases from both academia and industry around semantic models and LLMs for data in specific domains. ------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ------------------------------------------------------- Formatting Requirements. Submissions must be written in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). The review process will follow a single-blind protocol. Key Participation Requirement: At least one author per paper must be registered for the workshop, attend in person, and present their work. - Full Research Papers (6-8 pages maximum) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature is encouraged. - Replicability/Reproducibility papers (4 pages) should involve repeating prior experiments using the source code and datasets to analyze existing methods and their limitations. Alternatively, authors may assess the robustness of previous work by applying the original code in new contexts, such as different domains or datasets. - Short Papers (4 pages) should describe significant novel work in progress. Compared to full papers, their contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging areas of legal data are encouraged. Submissions should not exceed the indicated number of pages, including any diagrams and references. PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2026, which are archived in the ACM Digital Library, subject to meeting the ACM open-access, formatting guidelines, and camera-ready timeline as provided and observed by the ACM Web Conference. See the section Important update on ACM's new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! on the conference website. --------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs --------------------------------------------------------- Rima Dessi´ Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hidir Aras FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Jeenu Joy FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Danilo Dessi´ Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Francesco Osborne The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------------------- Contacts ----------------------------------------------------------- For general inquiries on the workshop, please send an email to ddessi(a)sharjah.ac.ae

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Call for Papes - LPKM 2026 conference
by imen touati 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

📢 Call for Papers – LPKM 2026 | Sousse, Tunisia 🇹🇳 The ANLP Research Group (MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia) is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge Management (LPKM 2026), which will be held in Sousse, Tunisia, from May 5 to 7, 2026. 📍 Sousse, Tunisia 📅 May 5–7, 2026 LPKM 2026 provides an international forum to present cutting-edge research, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and address emerging challenges in language processing, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and intelligent systems. 🔬 Main Topics (non-exhaustive) 🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Data Science 🔹 AI & Intelligent Agents 🔹 Machine Learning 🔹 NLP & Large Language Models (LLMs) 🔹 Data Science & Knowledge Engineering 🔹 Computer Vision & Image Processing 🖥️ Systems, Software & Security 🔹 Systems and Computing 🔹 Information Systems 🔹 Software Engineering & Architecture 🔹 System and Software Security 🔹 Cloud Computing, IoT & Blockchain 📐 Theory & Formal Methods 🔹 Algorithms, Automata & Complexity 🔹 Logic, Semantics & Programming Theory 🔹 Static Analysis, Verification & Testing 🌍 Cross-Domain AI Applications 🔹 AI in Healthcare 🔹 AI in Auditing 🔹 AI in Taxation, Economics, and Management 🔹 AI in Finance and Financial Systems 🔹 AI in Fraud Detection and Risk Management 🔹 AI in Intelligent Automation 📝 Paper Submission 📄 PDF submission via CMT 👉 https://lnkd.in/emf9p-s8 🗣️ Language: English 📑 Max length: 10 pages (Springer LNCS format) ⏰ Important Dates 📌 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 January 2026 📌 Notification of Acceptance: 5 March 2026 📌 Camera-Ready Submission: 20 March 2026 📌 Conference Dates: 5–7 May 2026 🌐 Conference Website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dcKfHn9u 📧 Contact: lpkm2026(a)fsegs.u-sfax.tn ✨ We look forward to welcoming you to LPKM 2026! ✨ 🔁 Feel free to share with interested colleagues and research networks. ___________________________ _______________________________________Dr. Imen TouatiPhd in Computer sciences Email : ismi_touati(a)yahoo.frResearchGate: Imen TouatiSite Web : https://sites.google.com/site/imentozeur/DBLP : https://dblp.org/pid/167/4856.htmlORCID ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-3444 Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=THOtuH8AAAAJ&hl=fr Web of Science Researcher ID : HNS-9123-2023 Adresse : FSEGS, B.P. 1088,3018 Sfax, Tunisie_____________________________

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