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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 07 Dec '25

07 Dec '25

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 attracted 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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3rd CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 07 Dec '25

07 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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PROPOR 2026: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline extension!)
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 06 Dec '25

06 Dec '25

******************************************************** PROPOR 2026: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - BA, Brazil April 13th to 16th 2026 https://propor2026.ufba.br/ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline extension: January 9) ******************************************************** The International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to automated language processing, promoting the development of methodologies, resources, and projects. We invite submissions describing work on any topic related to the computational processing of Portuguese and Galician by researchers in industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural language processing tasks (e.g., parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) - Natural language processing applications (e.g., question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) - Natural language generation - Information extraction and information retrieval - Speech technologies (e.g., spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) - Speech applications (e.g., spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) - Resources, standardization, and evaluation (e.g., corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis - Distributional semantics and language modeling - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe) - Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources, Portuguese and/or Galician PROPOR 2026 will take place from April 13-16th in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), a city that stands as a historical meeting point between the Portuguese language, the Indigenous languages of Brazil, and the African languages brought by enslaved peoples.These long-standing linguistic and cultural interactions have been instrumental in shaping the evolution of Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian culture. PROPOR 2026 will be the 17th edition of the biannual PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and Portugal, and more recently also in Galiza. Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014); Tomar, PT (2016); Canela, BR (2018); Évora, PT (2020); Fortaleza, BR (2022); and Santiago de Compostela, GZ (2026). *Important dates* - Full and short paper submission deadline: *09/01/2026 * - Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 11/02/2026 - Camera-ready papers due: 15/03/2026 - Conference: 13-16/04/2026 Submissions Submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two types of papers: - Full papers reporting substantial and completed research, particularly work that contributes significantly to the advancement of the field. Where appropriate, submissions should include concrete evaluation results. Full papers may be up to 8 pages of content + 2 additional pages for references. - Short papers reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing research, position papers, promising ideas for discussion, negative results, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to 4 content pages + 1 page for references. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As the review process is double-blind, submitted papers must be fully anonymized. Submissions must not include authors’ names, affiliations, or any other information that could be used to identify them. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like “We previously showed (Freitas, 1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Freitas (1991) previously showed …”. Author information will be collected separately during the submission process. While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the camera-ready version, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 additional content page to address the reviews’ suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must adhere to the ACL style guidelines and use the LaTeX template below: - LaTeX stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/archive/refs/heads/master.zip> - Overleaf Template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…> - Paper Formatting Guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> Papers should be submitted via the following URL https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026 by selecting the track PROPOR2026 Long and short papers. Multiple-submission policy For work that has been or will be submitted to other venues, this information must be clearly indicated at submission time. If a paper is accepted, the authors must inform the Program Chairs of their final decision regarding the venue at which the work will be presented. Papers that are published (or scheduled for publication) elsewhere cannot be accepted for publication or presentation at PROPOR 2026. *Mandatory Reviewing Workload *As the pace of research in the field continues to accelerate, it is essential to reinforce our collective commitment to the review process. Accordingly, during submission, authors will be required to indicate which co-authors commit to serving as reviewers for the conference. Publication The proceedings of PROPOR 2026 will be published in the ACL Anthology. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete a full registration for PROPOR 2026 by the early registration deadline. Ethics Policy Authors are advised to follow the ACL Ethics Policy for submission, which can be found at: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy Authors are also strongly advised to follow the ACL guidelines for generative AI assistance in authorship, which can be found at: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics… Kindest regards, Diana Santos and Larissa Freitas PROPOR 2026 Program Chairs propor2026(a)ufba.br ---------- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: International Online Conference 'Bringing together research on the CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors'
by María Belén Díez Bedmar 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission to the International Online Conference 'Bringing together research on the CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors' has been extended until 18 December 2025. Please notice that you can submit either research, a proposal to present your project in process, your work in process, a round table or to present a journal/association/etc. related to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the Companion Volume and/or Learner Corpus Research. Conference website: https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/ *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS* *Description* This international online conference (29–31 January 2026) aims to provide a forum for researchers working on the implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and its Companion Volume (CV) (Council of Europe, 2001, 2020) as well as for scholars employing Learner Corpus Res earch (LCR) to describe learner language at different CEFR levels. Colleagues working on the CEFR/CV and LCR are welcome to share their findings at this international online conference and explore opportunities for future collaboration. The conference will be organized into five thematic panels: a) Empirical research on the implementation of the CEFR/CV in the learning, teaching and/or assessment of languages, with a special focus on descriptor use, if possible. b) The description of learner language by means of Learner Corpus Research in CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora at different CEFR/CV levels. c) The possibility of supplementing the CEFR/CV descriptors with linguistic information, i.e., fine-tuned descriptors (Díez-Bedmar, 2018), based on LCR results. d) The design of learning/teaching/assessment materials for different communicative language activities and CEFR/CV levels based on LCR results e) The knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use of descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages. We invite contributions (either in English or Spanish) on the topics above in the following formats. a) Papers: 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for Q&A b) Work in Progress (WiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A c) Projects in Progress (PiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A d) Round tables: maximum three participants, 40 minutes followed by 15 minutes for Q&A e) Presentations of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to the CEFR/CV or LCR: 10 minutes (followed by 5 minutes for Q&A). *Instructions for authors* Contributions may be submitted either in *English or Spanish*. · *Paper abstracts* should be 400 words maximum (excluding references) and are expected to include a brief literature review, the methodology of the study, and the main results obtained. · *WiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and include a brief literature review, the methodology employed, and the main results expected · *PiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and should include the objectives of the project, the participants, the methodology employed, and the main results expected. · *Round-tables* should be 500 words maximum (excluding references) and focus on the knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use of descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages. The proposals should include the name of the three participants, the contextualization of the research conducted/the institutional context and the structure of the round table proposed. Directors and/or teachers in University Language Centres/Language Centres/etc. are welcome to submit proposals for round-tables. · *Presentations* of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to the CEFR/CV or LCR should be 200 words maximum. *Pre-conference workshop* Dr. Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) will offer a pre-conference workshop entitled ‘Introducing CEFR-based text analysis tools’ on January, 29, 2026. This workshop is free of charge, but registration is required (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop). *Conference format* The conference will be online via Zoom. *Submissions* Proposals should be anonymized before submission via EasyChair. Further information is available at https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/conference-information/ The deadline for submission is *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025* *Registration* There is no registration fee for attendants and /or presenters, but registration is required both for the International Online Conference ( https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/registration/) and/or the pre-conference workshop (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop). *Important dates* Deadline for submission: *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025* Notifications of acceptance: January 9, 2026 Pre-conference workshop: 29 January 2026 Conference: 29-31 January 2026 *Publication of a special issue* A special issue in *Research in Corpus Linguistics* ( https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl) will be edited by Dr. Díez-Bedmar on the topic “LCR meets the CEFR/CV” and published in 2027. We encourage researchers analyzing learner language -including linguistic, sociolinguistic, or pragmatic competences- at or across CEFR/CV levels in CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora to submit their research to the CFPs for the special issue. Further information about the CFPs will be provided in due course. *Conference organization* This international online conference is organized by the research project ‘Making the CEFR/CV more user-friendly: fine-tuning descriptors with Learner Corpus Research (LCR) results’ (Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), (( https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php). The project has focused on analysing the needs of CEFR/CV end-users and fine-tuning CEFR/CV descriptors using the FineDesc Learner Corpus compiled during the project. *Organizing committee* Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València) María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén) Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona) Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén) Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén) Arturo Montejo Ráez (Universidad de Jaén) *Scientific committee* Isabel Alonso Belmonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València) Paola Celentin (Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy) Raquel Criado Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia) María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén) Miguel Fernández Álvarez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Stefania Ferrari (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Neus Figueras Casanovas (EALTA CEFR SIG Chair) María del Carmen Fonseca Mora (Universidad de Huelva) Dana Gablasova (Lancaster University, UK) Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona) Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén) Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Geraldine Mark María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén) Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham, UK) Brian North (CEFR co-author) Ignacio Palacios Martínez (Universidade Santiago de Compostela) Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain) Víctor Pavón Vázquez (Universidad de Córdoba) Pascual Pérez Paredes (Universidad de Murcia) Enrica Piccardo (University of Toronto, Canada) Ariadna Sánchez Hernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado (Universidad de Granada) Juana R. Sanmartín Vélez (Presidenta de la Asociación de Centros de Lenguas en la Enseñanza Superior (ACLES)) Yukio Tono (Tokio University of Foreign Studies, Japan) Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 >

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3rd Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 @ EACL – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

Dear all, This is the third CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting): — VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA) VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks - Training data release: November 30, 2025 - Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025 - System submission deadline: January 10, 2025 - System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025 Workshop Organizers Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Daniela FOGLI 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held either on June 8 or 9, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue in Venice. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form, which also contains relevant information for the workshop organisers: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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Postdoc position at the University of Malta
by Claudia Borg 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

Applications are invited for a *postdoctoral researcher (Research Support Officer III)* to work full-time on the project *“3M-XL – Maltese-centric Multilingual Model using Cross-lingual Transfer”* at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta. The post focuses on multilingual language modelling and transfer learning for low-resource languages, with a particular emphasis on Maltese, including corpus preparation, model development, and benchmarking/evaluation. The position is funded for up to 18 months, starting 1st February 2026. The successful candidate will be required to reside in Malta for the duration of the contract. Full details of the post (duties, requirements, salary, and application procedure) are available in the call text: https://www.um.edu.mt/media/um/docs/directorates/hrmd/workatum/projects/FTR… While the call formally allows appointments at RSO I/II level, our primary aim is to recruit at postdoctoral (RSO III) level. The application deadline is *Friday, 19 December 2025*. Informal enquiries are welcome at claudia.borg(a)um.edu.mt. Tislijiet, Claudia -- <https://www.um.edu.mt/> *Claudia Borg **(she/her)* B.Sc.I.T.(Hons),M.Sc.,Ph.D. *Associate Professor* Department of Artificial Intelligence | Faculty of ICT *Associate Member* Institute of Linguistics and Language Technologies Level 1, Blk A, Rm 8, ICT Building +356 9960 0498 https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/claudiaborg <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/facebook> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/x> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/linkedin> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/instagram> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/youtube> <https://www.um.edu.mt/n/s/tiktok> *National Coordinator* *DARIAH-MT* Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities https://dariah.eu/ -- *The contents of this email are subject to *these terms <https://www.um.edu.mt/disclaimer/email/>.**

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A PostDoc position at IICT-BAS
by Petya Osenova 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

A PostDoc position There is an open PostDoc position in NLP for Bulgarian. Please see the details below. RESEARCH AREAS * Natural Language Processing for Bulgarian * LLM training and evaluation of Bulgarian academic texts * AI and Natural Language Processing * AI and epistemological development REQUIREMENTS * PhD in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Informatics or related areas * Excellent knowledge of Bulgarian * Excellent programming and LLM-related skills * Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team, including early stage and experienced linguists as well as pedagogical specialists OPTIONAL * Previous experience with Digital Humanities tasks is an advantage * Previous experience with combining SOTA methods in NLP with LLMs is an advantage SELECTION The selection will be performed on the basis of: * Matching applicant’s education and skills to the position requirements * Scholarly excellence of the applicant * The relation of the previous applicant’s experience to the position requirements EMPLOYMENT DETAILS The position falls within the project “Exploring the Triad of Academic Writing, Critical thinking and AI Literacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Undergraduate Thesis Writing (TRAI)”, a Multilateral Academic Projects Programme (MAPS), financed by Swiss National Science Foundation and co-financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. The partners are from Switzerland, Romania and Bulgaria. A full-time commitment is expected, starting in 2026. The contract is envisaged for approximately 3 years with year-by-year assessment. ABOUT THE INSTITUTION The project is in the AI and Language Technology division of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-BAS), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. IICT-BAS is a leader in a variety of contemporary technologies, among which are NLP for Bulgarian, large-scale computer models, supercomputer applications, big data, intelligent interfaces, optimization and intelligent management. More about the activities in IICT-BAS can be found here: https://www.iict.bas.bg/EN/ APPLICATION DOCUMENTS * a CV * Motivation Letter (max. 1 page) * List of Publications (especially in the last 2 years) HOW TO APPLY If you are interested, please send an email with your questions and/or all the required application documents to Petya Osenova: petya(a)bultreebank.org<mailto:petya@bultreebank.org> Deadline: ongoing until fulfilled

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Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at University of Geneva
by miren.olasagasti＠unige.ch 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics. Important: please refer to https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=… for the official version in French and application submission. Job Description The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics. DUTIES: Integrated into the new Department of Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Humanities, this full-time position is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Evolving Language” (https://evolvinglanguage.ch). The successful candidate will be expected to develop national and international research in computational linguistics and will contribute, through active participation in the NCCR team, to the achievement of its scientific objectives. The candidate will also take part in the development of the Department of Digital Humanities by creating cross-disciplinary links among the various fields within the Faculty of Humanities and by contributing to the establishment of the Department’s study programs, within which they will teach at the bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate levels. They will supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. They will also be required to take on administrative and organizational duties within the Department of Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities, and the University of Geneva. Subject to a positive evaluation, the position is converted to a tenured associate or full professorship after six years. DESIRED PROFILE: The ideal candidate will have a recognized expertise in computational linguistics and computational modelling of language, based on rigorous analytical and quantitative approach to modelling language, from speech production and comprehension, to sentence processing, to language impairments. The selected candidate will lead a strong computational research programme on language in tight connection with theoretical linguistics research, and interfacing with cognitive neuroscience of language and/or psycholinguistics. Of special interest are the research areas of parsing and of modelling of real-time language processing as applied to sentence production or comprehension, with an interest into past, present or future evolution of such processes. Required Degree and Skills • Doctorate in the humanities or an equivalent qualification. • A record of high-quality publications. • Experience in university-level teaching. • Basic knowledge of the French language is desirable (teaching in French is required no later than two years after appointment). Start Date 01.08.2026 or to be agreed upon Contact Faculty Staff Office: monika.starouch(a)unige.ch Additional Information Applications must be submitted exclusively online before 15 January 2026 (11:59 p.m. Geneva time) by clicking the “Apply now” button in the official site (https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=…). NO PAPER APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS SENT BY E-MAIL WILL BE ACCEPTED. The University of Geneva offers attractive employment conditions within a stimulating work environment. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills and personality and to contribute actively to the reputation of an institution founded in 1559. In the interest of gender balance, the University encourages applications from the underrepresented sex.

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CIRCE Online Seminar | 15/12/2025 | Dr. Julia Swan | "Accent Bias Experienced by Instructors at Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education "
by Claudia Soria 05 Dec '25

05 Dec '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next and last webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Julia Swan* /San José State University, USA/ */Accent Bias Experienced by Instructors at Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education /* 📅 *December 15, 2025* 🕓 *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent bias and linguistic discrimination shape outcomes in housing, the legal system, hiring, and higher education, where students’ perceptions of instructor accents strongly influence teaching evaluations and disproportionately disadvantage faculty with non-native or non-standard accents. This study examines faculty at three minority-serving Bay Area universities, comparing native English speakers, early bilinguals, and non-native speakers through survey data on belonging and linguistic bias. While non-native and early bilingual faculty reported similar levels of collegial support as native speakers, non-native speakers felt significantly more self-conscious about their accents, perceived their accents as hindering professional potential, and were less likely to see their accents as advantageous. Both non-native speakers and early bilinguals believed their accents negatively influenced evaluations from students and peers, and early bilinguals anticipated that newcomers with similar accents would struggle to adjust. These findings highlight the need for accent-bias training in faculty recruitment, evaluation, and promotion to enhance faculty diversity and reduce educational inequities. *Bio: *Julia Swan is a sociolinguist interested in topics related to language and social identity. She has made broad contributions to American dialectology and sound change in the Western U.S. Her current projects investigate the role of multilingual speakers, often immigrants and their children, as leaders of sound change in the emergence of regional dialects. In other collaborations, she has explored cognitive aspects of processing "accented" speech, the role of perception in sound change, and individuals' experiences of accent bias. Register at the seminar registration page: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/74ced700-e24e-4dcf-8dc4-aca98b51f1… Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The recording of the last CIRCE seminar by Samantha Jackson is now available on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/en/login>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu. All the best, Claudia Soria CIRCE Project

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CfP: 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026), 27–28 August 2026, University of Oulu, Finland
by Steven Coats 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Call for Papers 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026) Date: 27–28 August 2026 Location: University of Oulu, Finland Website: https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their unprecedented popularity, “the question of how meaning is produced in these videos is becoming increasingly important… However, systematic approaches to the analysis of these meanings are still scarce” (Grzenkowicz & Wildfeuer, 2025, p. 1143). At the same time, AI techniques are opening novel avenues for analysis of digital discourse. Social media provides “a massive repository of real-time data” that demands “advanced tools capable of understanding complex language, context, and framing”, and “LLMs offer potential in this domain, with their ability to process large amounts of text and extract meaningful insights” (Nguyen et al., 2025, p. 1331). We adhere to a broad definition of CMC and social media, encompassing a wide range of digital communication media – including email, forums, chats and messenger apps (e.g. WhatsApp, Discord), social networks (Facebook, 𝕏/Twitter, Instagram), short-video and streaming platforms (TikTok, YouTube), online gaming and virtual worlds, and other emerging channels. Submission Types Short Papers (Oral Presentations): 3–5 pages, anonymized short papers for researchers who wish to give a talk. These submissions should follow the conference template and report completed or well-advanced research. Authors of accepted short papers will be allotted a 30-minute slot (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes Q&A) to present their work. All accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Abstracts (Poster Presentations): up to 300 words (excluding references), anonymized abstracts for work-in-progress, early-stage research, software or corpus demonstrations to be presented as posters. Authors of accepted abstracts will present their work during the poster session at the conference, allowing one-on-one discussion and feedback. Review & Presentation All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least two members of the scientific committee. Each submission will be evaluated for relevance to the conference's themes, methodological soundness, and contribution to the field. Based on the reviews, submissions may be accepted for oral talk or poster presentation as appropriate. Authors of accepted short papers will give oral presentations in themed panels (each talk 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted poster abstracts will present their work during a dedicated poster and demo session, where interactive discussion is encouraged. At the start of the conference, all accepted short papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, authors of select top papers may be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue or edited volume, showcasing significant advances in CMC and social media corpus research. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on CMC and social media, including but not limited to the following topics of interest: Development of CMC Corpora / Social Media Corpora * Building and curating CMC corpora: from data collection (APIs, web scraping) to publication and sharing * Open access data for CMC research: addressing ethical challenges and GDPR compliance in data sharing * Annotating CMC data: frameworks for labeling genres, linguistic features, metadata (including novel phenomena like emojis, memes) * Multimodal and multimedia corpora: handling texts, images, audio, video (e.g. short video content) in unified corpora * Big data and streaming corpora: managing large-scale social media datasets, real-time data collection, and data sampling strategies * Legal issues in social media data: copyright, terms-of-service limitations, and long-term archiving of corpora from platforms (including new platforms like TikTok or Discord) Analysis of CMC Corpora / Social Media Communication * Sociolinguistic studies of online communication (language variation, stylistic adaptation, community norms in CMC) * Discourse analysis of digital interactions (conversation structures, politeness, argumentation in forums, comment threads, group chats, etc.) * Linguistic characteristics of CMC (slang, abbreviations, emojis, code-switching, vernaculars across different platforms) * Multimodal communication in social media (integration of text with visuals, videos, GIFs; meaning-making through memes, hashtags, and trends) * Multilingualism and code-switching in online contexts (cross-lingual communication, translation in user-generated content) * CMC in language education and digital literacy (use of social media corpora for language learning, teaching communication skills online) * Platform-specific communication practices (e.g. discourse patterns unique to TikTok, Instagram stories, or Discord communities, and how they evolve) Computational Processing (NLP) of CMC / Social Media Data * Text normalization for noisy CMC data (handling misspellings, abbreviations, emoji to text, spoken-to-written style) * Part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization for social media text (adapting NLP tools to non-standard grammar and orthography) * Anonymization and pseudonymization techniques (protecting user privacy in corpora while preserving analytical value) * Syntactic parsing and semantic analysis of informal or ungrammatical CMC text (challenges for parser models on tweets, chats, etc.) * Transformer and LLM-based approaches for CMC analysis (applying large language models to classify content, summarize discussions, or generate synthetic data for under-resourced CMC domains) * Detection of harmful content and misinformation (e.g. hate speech identification, toxicity filtering, fact-checking and misinformation detection in social media corpora using AI/NLP methods) * Multimodal NLP techniques for social media (e.g. analyzing text in conjunction with images or videos, OCR on memes, speech-to-text in voice chats) Important Dates (EEST where specified) * Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15 April 2026, 23:59 EEST * Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026 * Deadline revised paper/abstract submission: 15 July 2026, 23:59 EEST * Deadline registration for participation: 1 August 2026 * Conference: Thursday 27 – Friday 28 August 2026 Templates & Submission Guidelines * Language & Anonymity: Submissions must be written in English and formatted for anonymous review (please remove author names and any identifying information). * Length Requirements: Short paper submissions should not exceed 5 pages (excluding references) following the provided template. Poster abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). References for poster abstracts are not counted in the word limit. * Templates: To ensure a uniform appearance, authors must use the official conference templates. Templates are available for both Microsoft Word and LaTeX (stand-alone and Overleaf template) on the conference website. Please do not alter margins, font sizes, or other format settings in the templates. Submissions not adhering to the template format may be returned for revision. Word template (.docx)<https://cmc2026.org/assets/cmc-2026-word-template.docx>LaTeX template (.zip)<https://cmc2026.org/assets/CMC2026_Template.zip>Open in Overleaf (template)<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cmc2026-template/pthnqkkzpyss> How to Submit All submissions should be made electronically through the conference’s online submission system (https://conftool.net/cmc2026). A dedicated submission link will be provided on the conference website when submissions open. If you do not already have an account on the chosen platform, you will need to create one prior to submission. When submitting, please select the appropriate track for your contribution (short paper or poster/demo abstract). You will be asked to enter title, abstract, author information (for camera-ready version), and keywords. Ensure that the PDF of your submission is anonymized for review. For any questions regarding the submission process or topic suitability, please contact the organizers at cmc2026(a)oulu.fi<mailto:cmc2026@oulu.fi>. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to the conference! The organizing committee * Steven Coats * Maarit Siromaa * Jarkko Toikkanen * Hanne Juntunen References * Grzenkowicz, M., & Wildfeuer, J. (2025). Addressing TikTok’s multimodal complexity: A multi-level annotation scheme for the audio-visual design of short video content. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 40(4), 1143–1166. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf047 * Nguyen, V. C., Jain, M., Chauhan, A., Soled, H. J., Lesmes, S. A., Li, Z., Birnbaum, M. L., Tang, S. X., Kumar, S., & De Choudhury, M. (2025). Supporters and Skeptics: LLM-Based Analysis of Engagement with Mental Health (Mis)Information Content on Video-Sharing Platforms. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19, 1329–1345. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35875 © 2025 CMC-Corpora Conference Committee (CC BY 4.0 license for this Call for Papers)

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Join Us for the First-Ever TCeXcellerate online Session – 9 December 2025
by Amal Haddad 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Ready to experience the future of multilingual communication? We're excited to launch TCeXcellerate, a brand-new online series spotlighting innovation at the intersection of language, AI, and professional practice. Our very first session is just around the corner--free and open to all! First Session of TCeXcellerate Tuesday, 9 December 2025 16:00-18:00 CET Online | Free access (registration required) Topic: _Multilingual AI technologies at WIPO - Practical examples_ Speaker: _Daniel Torregrosa, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)_ From machine translation and speech-to-text to the newest large language model applications, this inaugural session will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how WIPO is transforming its multilingual services through cutting-edge AI. Expect: * Practical demonstrations of real-world AI tools * Expert insights into what works today--and what's still evolving * Reflections on where human expertise remains essential * A live Q&A and open discussion Whether you're a language professional, researcher, technology developer, or simply AI-curious, this session is for you. Let's kick off this new knowledge-sharing journey together--one that keeps people, purpose, and professionalism at the center of language innovation. 👉 Register here: https://asling.org/tc47/tcex_reg/ We look forward to seeing you there! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" ===============

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Updated Third CFP (Corrected Date): HEALING Workshop on Health-Related Discourse and Language (EACL 2025)
by murathan.kurfali＠ri.se 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

***Apologies for the earlier oversight. This updated CFP now corrects the HeaLing workshop date, which is during the afternoon session on March 28, 2026.*** The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. 📌 Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Tentative Timeline Event Date Direct submission deadline December 19, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due February 3, 2026 Workshop date **March 28 (afternoon session)** 🧠 Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. 🧩 Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) - Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). - Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. - Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. - Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). - Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. - Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). - Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. - Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. 📝 Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. 👥 Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy

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Updated: 1st CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
by Amal Haddad 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Nakba-NLP 2026 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the LREC-2026 Conference Palma de Mallorca, Spain May 11-16, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: - Digitisation of oral and written narratives - Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets - Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up - Annotation tools and annotation guidelines - Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval - Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events - Entity linking and relationship extraction - Event detection and event argument extraction - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data - Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies - Data visualization - Knowledge representation - Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing - Natural Language Generation - Large Language Models - Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction - Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). * Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 * Reviewing Period: 21 February 2026 - 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Hard Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Organizing Committee: ===================== * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University * Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity * Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University * Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University * Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals * Amal Haddad, University of Granada -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.palestine-studies.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/palmuseum.org/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3Oo… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nakba-archive.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [6] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.alhaq.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA… [7] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ichr.ps/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA…

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Third Call for Papers at the HEALING Workshop on Health-Related Discourse and Language (EACL 2025)
by murathan.kurfali＠ri.se 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. 📌 Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Tentative Timeline Event Date Direct submission deadline December 19, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due February 3, 2026 Workshop dates March 24–29, 2026 🧠 Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. 🧩 Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. 📝 Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. 👥 Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy

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MSCA PhD position – La Rochelle Université (France) and South-East Technological University (Ireland)
by Antoine Doucet 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in La Rochelle and South East Technological University --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have an open PhD position at La Rochelle Université, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme (please take note of tight deadline): *- Topic*: "Towards Fair and Explainable Lightweight Multimodal Learning Models for Effective Document Understanding". *- *Keywords: Document Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Analysis - Context: The PhD is a *joint degree* with the South-East Technological University (SETU, *Ireland*), with dedicated mobility support for a cumulated total stay of 6 months. - Main joint supervisors: Antoine Doucet (La Rochelle Univ), Rejwanul Haque (SETU) - Conditions: The PhD is funded by a *Marie Skłodowska-Curie* Actions (MSCA) and includes *competitive salary*, as well generous mobility allowance and budget lines to cover expenses related to research, training and professional travel. *Key eligiblity rules: *- You must hold a masters degree (or equivalent) by the application deadline - You are not eligible if you spent more then 12 months in France between December 2022 and December 2025 ***Full details* are available here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/382079 *Important dates: * - *Q&A* *session* on Monday 8 December 10am CEST (register by emailing the PhD supervisors) - Application *deadline: 12 December 2025 *11pm CET** **

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1st CFP: Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026
by Paul Thompson 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2026/ LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to, accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data, and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) February 18, 2026 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 13, 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 20, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due April 10, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 16, 2026 - Workshop SHARED TASKS Detecting Dosing Errors from Clinical Trials. Medication errors constitute a significant threat to public health worldwide. Although various types of errors may occur, dosing errors have been identified as one of the most frequent types. The objective of the shared task is to develop and evaluate machine learning methods capable of analyzing clinical trial data (including structured metadata and free-text protocol descriptions) to identify trials that are likely to experience unusually high rates of dosing errors. Such predictive tools could serve as early-warning systems, supporting more reliable trial design and enhancing medication safety. A human-annotated dataset comprising 40,000 clinical trials will be used for the training and validation set. Submissions will be evaluated primarily using the F1-score, with AUROC and AUPRC reported as complementary metrics. To avoid participants using unauthorized data for training, only submissions of fully reproducible, open methods will be considered. Automatic Case Report Form (CRF) Filling from Clinical Notes. Case Report Forms are standardized instruments in medical research used to collect patient data consistently and reliably. They consist of predefined items to be filled with patient information. Automating CRF filling from clinical notes would accelerate clinical research, reduce manual burden on healthcare professionals, and create structured representations that can be directly leveraged to produce accessible, patient-friendly, and practitioner-friendly summaries. The shared task focuses on developing systems that take clinical narratives as input and automatically populate the relevant slots in a CRF. Two different (synthetic and real clinical data) multilingual datasets covering English and Italian will be shared with the participants to develop the system. The evaluation will be performed in terms of F1-score by comparing the system's outputs with ground truth labels. Grounded Question Answering from Electronic Health Records. While there have been studies on answering general health-related queries, few have focused on their own medical records. Furthermore, grounding (linking responses to specific evidence) is critical in medicine. Yet, despite extensive studies in open domains, its application in the clinical domain remains underexplored. To foster research in these sparsely studied areas of clinical natural language processing, the ArchEHR-QA (“Archer”) shared task was introduced as part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025. Given a patient-posed natural language question, the corresponding clinician-interpreted question, and the patient's clinical note excerpt, the task is to produce a natural language answer with citations to the specific note sentences. The ArchEHR-QA dataset is based on real-life patients' questions from public health forums aligned with clinical notes from publicly accessible EHR databases (MIMIC-III/IV) to form a cohesive question-answer source case. Submissions will be evaluated for evidence use (“Factuality”) and answer quality (“Relevance”). Factuality is measured via Precision, Recall, and F1 Scores between the cited evidence sentences in systems' answers and ground truth labels. Relevance is measured against ground truth answers using BLEU, ROUGE, SARI, BERTScore, AlignScore, and MEDCON. SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting. LREC provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CL4Health/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. Share your LRs: 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). MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Last call for papers - Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026 ) - 28 March, Rabat, Morocco
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

**Last CALL FOR PAPERS** 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*EACL 2026*, https://2026.eacl.org/), *Rabat, Morocco*. Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop date: *March 28, 2026, 9:00-12:30* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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CFP: The Seventh Workshop on Teaching NLP
by ACL Announcements 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

The Seventh Workshop on Teaching NLP Call for Papers Educators designing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or Computational Linguistics (CL) courses and degree programs face unique challenges due to the rapid progress of the field, particularly with the impact of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Here, the challenge is two-fold: A) courses need to keep up with the pace in terms of the content covered, while B) it will be crucial for educators to adapt the course design accordingly, acknowledging the existence and the use of LLMs by students. To support all those who are facing these challenges, we are planning a discussion-heavy one-day workshop to bring together the communities of NLP research and education, and facilitate active discussion on questions such as (but not limited to): * How can we balance technical details, linguistic background, and domain knowledge in NLP-related courses? * How do we keep the human in the loop? * How can the community support educators at different institutions and career levels? This timely seventh edition of the Teaching NLP Workshop builds on prior successful offerings [1] to tackle the most pressing issues in how to design NLP courses and bring together instructors from various backgrounds to discuss, create, and refine instructional design and material. Submission Information We invite submissions in two categories: short papers (2 pages) on teaching materials and full papers (8 pages) on original, unpublished research (both regular research papers and position papers). Format All submissions must use the official ACL LaTeX style template [2] and follow the standard ACL submission requirements [3]. References and appendices do not count against the page limit (8 pages). Limitations and ethical considerations are optional and do not count against these limits either. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be desk-rejected without review. Submission Process For submission and the review process, we will use OpenReview. If you do not have an OpenReview account yet, make sure to create it well in advance of the deadline. This is especially important, as in some cases, the approval of the account may take some time. The reviewing process will be single-blind. Submission Link (OpenReview): tbd Submission Type 1: Short Papers on Teaching Materials We invite submissions of short papers of 1-2 pages that describe teaching materials such as curricula, course GitHub repositories, Jupyter notebooks, slides, homework, programming assignments, or projects. These short papers need not be anonymized, but will be peer-reviewed and published as part of the workshop proceedings, and presented as posters and/or demos. The associated teaching materials, while not being part of the proceedings, should be submitted in addition to the short paper. We will create a Teaching NLP repository where authors may opt in to make their materials available for reuse after the workshop. Submission Type 2: Full Papers We invite papers of up to 8 pages discussing pedagogical aspects of NLP, focusing on (but not limited to) any of the following general topics: * Tools and methodologies (e.g., teaching with code, active learning, flipped classroom) * Scaling curricula to fit large class sizes * Adapting existing curricula to incorporate new NLP advancements * Teaching online NLP courses or adjusting courses to become remote * Challenges of designing the first NLP course or related degree program at a college, university, or on a MOOC platform * Teaching heterogenous groups of students (e.g., with respect to prior experience in computer science and linguistics, with respect to their social and cultural background, etc.) * Teaching underrepresented students * Bridging the gap between academic training and industry needs * Incorporating ethics, reproducibility, and responsible practices in NLP courses * Teaching multilingual NLP Important Dates * First Call for Papers: October 15, 2025 * Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 * Notification of Acceptance: January 23, 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2026 * Teaching NLP Workshop: 1 day workshop co-located with EACL (March 24 to 29, 2026) All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on earth). Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/view/teachingnlpacl2024 [2] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [3] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp

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NBME 2026 Summer Internships in Measurement and Data Science
by Christopher Runyon 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) Summer 2026 Internships in Measurement and Data Science June 1 - July 24, 2026 NBME invites applications for multiple full-time internship positions, all fully remote, for the Summer of 2026. Over an 8-week period, interns will have the opportunity to collaborate with NBME staff and interact with fellow graduate students as they complete a research project. The expected deliverable is an internal research presentation, with possible opportunities for conference presentations or publications. Specific projects for the summer of 2026 will be discussed with applicants as part of the interview process. Compensation is $12,600, and all interns are eligible to receive up to $1,000 to support their attendance at a conference (not conditional on presenting). The application deadline is Sunday, February 1, 2026, at midnight PST. Interested students can learn more and apply here: https://nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/3918589 If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Chris Runyon: CRunyon(a)nbme.org<mailto:CRunyon@nbme.org> This email message and any attachments may contain privileged and/or confidential business information and are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that the following datasets are now available at reduced fees until 31 March 2026. *Chinese Mandarin (South) database* <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0397/>** ISLRN: 503-886-852-083-2 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/503-886-852-083-2> This database contains the recordings of 1000 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Southern China (500 males and 500 females), from 18 to 60 years’ old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 341 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Chinese Mandarin (North) database* <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0398/>** ISLRN: 353-548-770-894-7 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/353-548-770-894-7> This database contains the recordings of 500 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Northern China (250 males and 250 females), from 18 to 60 years’ old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 172 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade)* <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0496/>** ISLRN: 369-011-475-593-5 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/369-011-475-593-5> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 184 Chinese Kids speakers (98 males and 86 females), from 6 to 10 years' old, recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1,426 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade)* <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0497/>** ISLRN: 993-024-988-227-0 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/993-024-988-227-0> The Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 161 Chinese Kids speakers (71 males and 90 females), from 10 to 12 years’ old recorded in quiet rooms using smartphone. 1,859 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0411/>* ISLRN: 579-088-185-591-2 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/579-088-185-591-2> The Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 179 Japanese Kids speakers (71 males and 108 females), from 6 to 9 years' old (first, second and third graders in elementary school), recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1019 sentence were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. *Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0412/>* ISLRN:846-295-092-462-7 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/846-295-092-462-7> The Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 232 Japanese Kids speakers (104 males and 128 females), from 9 to 13 years’ old (fourth, fifth and sixth graders in elementary school), recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1018 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> *Archives * <https://www.elra.info/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates

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Second Call for Posters – FoIKS 2026 (Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026)
by Yasir mahmood 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

*CALL FOR POSTERS14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026https://foiks2026.github.io/ <https://foiks2026.github.io/>**.* *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *FoIKS 2026 invites poster contributions presenting fresh research ideas in the broad area of information and knowledge systems. Poster papers need not report mature scientific results; they can also describe early-stage work, starting points for discussions, or novel perspectives on known problems.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IMPORTANT DATES* * * Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Notification: January 19, 2026 * Final version due: January 26, 2026 * Conference: March 23–26, 2026 * * * * The deadlines mentioned above are firm! * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: discrete structures, algorithms, graphs, formal languages * Database Design and Management: formal models, dependencies, transactions, concurrency control * Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial/temporal logics, argumentation, probability and fuzzy logic * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: logical and non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning under inconsistency, vagueness, or uncertainty * Foundations of Neuro-symbolic Reasoning: embeddings for structured information (knowledge graphs, logical theories, etc.) * Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, formal models of interaction, coalition formation, epistemic reasoning * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis, association rules, information extraction * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: privacy, trust, access control, secure services, inference control, risk management * Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Knowledge Graphs and Semi-structured Data: data modelling, processing, compression, and exchange ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Poster papers must use the Springer LNCS LaTeX style (seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings… <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).Submissions that deviate substantially from the guidelines may be rejected without review. * Review process: single-blind (submissions are not anonymous). * Length: up to 5 pages including all material, i.e. including references and no additional resources. * Submissions: PDF format only (final versions require LaTeX sources). * Submission link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026> Poster papers will undergo a rather lightweight review process. A good poster paper should include motivation, a clear problem statement, and initial results or report on work in progress. Preliminary ideas and modest extensions of previous work are welcome. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for the conference. Each accepted poster will be presented in a lightning talk and a poster session at FoIKS 2026. For inquiries, contact: foiks2026(a)easychair.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLICATION Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS * Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION Program Committee Chairs:Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Paderborn University, Germany)Jonni Virtema (University of Glasgow, UK) Local Chair:Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) Publicity Chair:Yasir Mahmood (Paderborn University, Germany) Local Organizers:Timon Barlag, Nicolas Fröhlich, Vivian Holzapfel, Rahel Kluge,Laura Strieker, Heribert Vollmer (all Leibniz Universität Hannover) Program Committee:Ringo Baumann, Meghyn Bienvenu, Thomas Bolander, Stefan Borgwardt,Elena Botoeva, Willem Conradie, Fabio Cozman, Thomas Eiter,Flavio Ferrarotti, Johannes K. Fichte, Valentin Goranko,Guido Governatori, Marc Gyssens, Miika Hannula, Jelle Hellings,Andreas Herzig, Martin Homola, Tomi Janhunen, Matti Järvisalo,Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Sébastien Konieczny, Juha Kontinen,Mena Leemhuis, Joao Leite, Sebastian Link, Maria Vanina Martinez,Arne Meier, Thomas Meyer, Daniel Neider, Magdalena Ortiz,Nina Pardal, Elena Ravve, Sebastian Rudolph, Katsuhiko Sano,Konstantin Schekotihin, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Guillermo R. Simari,Jan Van den Bussche, Stefan Woltran, Thomas Ågotnes, Mantas Šimkus *

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Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Psychology for an ERC Project
by Lucie Flek 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

The Data Science Lab of Prof. Lucie Flek at the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence invites applications for a *Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)* in *Computational Psychology / Human–AI Interaction*. The position is part of the *ERC-funded project LLMpathy (2025–2030)*, which investigates how *human psychological traits, values, emotions, and social cognition can be modeled and empirically linked to the behavior of large language models* in order to build and evaluate *socially intelligent AI systems*. The postdoc will take a *leading role in the design and execution of large-scale human studies* that serve as the empirical foundation for computational human modeling and social AI evaluation. *Responsibilities include:* – Co-Design and validation of psychometric and interaction-based human studies – Development of social interaction and human–AI interaction tasks – Advanced statistical analysis of human behavioral data – Close collaboration with AI researchers to translate psychological constructs into human models for AI evaluation – Co-Development of Ethics- and GDPR-compliant study governance – Co-Mentoring of PhD students and scientific publications *Profile:* PhD in psychology, cognitive science, HCI, computational social science, or related field, with strong expertise in *psychometrics, experimental design, and human-subject research*. Strong AI affinity is required; deep machine learning engineering is *not* expected. *Position:* Full-time (TV-L E13/E14) up to *3 years* *Preferred start:* *March 1, 2025* *Location:* Bonn, Germany *Application:* CV, motivation letter, short research summary, referees (optional) *Contact:* lflek(a)uni-bonn.de Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the first deadline on *December 13, 2025* The University of Bonn is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and underrepresented groups. More information: https://lamarr-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/Job_Position-ERC_Flek_LLMpa… <https://lamarr-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/Job_Position-ERC_Flek_LLMpa…> -- ____________________ Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek Data Science and Language Technologies Lamarr Institute for AI and ML Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 6 / 8, Raum 2.123 53115 Bonn Tel.: 0228-73-69200 https://lamarr-institute.org/

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Fully-funded PhD position in NLP-Driven Digital Twins, L3i, La Rochelle University, France
by Georgeta Bordea 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i) of La Rochelle University. 🏛️ Topic: NLP-Driven Digital Twins for the Preservation of Coastal Historical Heritage Coastal historical buildings represent centuries of heritage but face existential threats from climate change. While physical restoration is urgent, the critical historical and technical data required for accurate reconstruction is often locked in unstructured textual formats (historical archives, architectural logs, and damage reports). Current Digital Twins are often "semantically empty" as they contain geometry but lack historical context. We lack automated methods to interpret complex, often archaic, textual descriptions and map them to digital models for accurate restoration. This thesis aims to revolutionize heritage conservation by integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) into the Digital Twin pipeline. The research will focus on fine-tuning LLMs to parse and structure data from historical corpora regarding building materials, past interventions, and degradation history and constructing a dynamic Knowledge Graph that links linguistic data to 3D architectural elements. The outcome will be a system that empowers engineers and historians to interact with heritage data via Natural Language, ensuring that the reconstruction of these landmarks is not just structurally sound, but historically accurate. 📌 Supervised by: Dr. Georgeta Bordea [https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeta-bordea-7116851a/] (La Rochelle Université [https://www.linkedin.com/company/la-rochelle-universite/]) and Prof. Ana - Cornelia BADEA [https://www.linkedin.com/in/anacorneliabadea/] (Universitatea Tehnică de Construcții București [https://www.linkedin.com/company/utcbro/]). 🔗More information: * LRUniv website: https://www.univ-larochelle.fr/en/research-and-innovation/phd/eu-docs-for-s… [https://www.univ-larochelle.fr/en/research-and-innovation/phd/eu-docs-for-s…] * Euraxess: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380133 [https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380133] * Association Bernard Gregory: https://www.abg.asso.fr/fr/recruteurOffres/show/id_offre/133799 [https://www.abg.asso.fr/fr/recruteurOffres/show/id_offre/133799] 📅 Application deadline: 𝟭𝟮 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

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[IberLEF 2026] Second Call for Task Proposals
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

================================= IberLEF 2026 -- Second Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in León, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2025. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2026). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2026. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 23, 2026. Proceedings IberLEF 2026 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JIF: 1,22), CiteScore (Scopus): 7,3 and SJR: 0,57) in its September 2026 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 19, 2026, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2026. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2025. - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19, 2026. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026. - IberLEF Workshop: September 22, 2026. IberLEF general chairs Alba Bonet Jover, GPLSI, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com =================================

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Second CFP: The 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2026)
by Priya Rani 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)* *Workshop description* The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology. In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological research. *SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):* - *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,” what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML algorithms? - *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse languages. - *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging approaches. - *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual data generation/selection, and annotate texts. - *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of cross-linguistic variation and universals. - *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic generalisations? - - *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to typology, and automated approaches to etymology. *Important Dates (23:59 AoE)* - *Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025* - *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026* - *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026* - *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026* - *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)* *Submissions* We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. *Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person.* *Format: * Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/SIGTYP *SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/ *Organizing Committee* Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova *Anti-harassment policy* The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. *Contact* For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com Regards, Priya.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Fifth Call for Demos & DC & T
by Announce 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

*** Fifth Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, along with their respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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Job opening: Open rank position in Cognitive Science, Aarhus University
by rdkm＠cc.au.dk 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark invites applications for the position of either assistant professor, associate professor or full professor of cognitive science, based at the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics. The assistant professorship is a full-time, three-year fixed-term position, and subject to appropriate funding, there will be an opportunity to apply for a subsequent associate professorship. The associate and full professorships are both full-time, tenured positions. We are looking for an applicant who can strengthen our research profile in computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or computational modelling of social processes. The ideal applicant will contribute to the department’s collective research on cognitive and social processes and to the continued development of courses on mathematical and computational modelling of cognition within our BSc and MSc cognitive science programmes. Please note that this can also include computational linguistics and natural language processing, particularly in applied contexts. The deadline for applying is January 8th 2026. You can read the full job listing and apply here: https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-pr… — Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan Associate Professor, PhD Department for Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics Aarhus University

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Final call, PROPOR 2026
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

We remind interested authors that *PROPOR 2026*, the17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 accepts submissions until *7 December 2025*. See the website for more details: https://propor2026.ufba.br/#cfp Larissa Freitas and Diana Santos, program chairs ---------- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv

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Dataset release: AraFinNews – the largest Arabic financial-news summarisation dataset to date.
by El-Haj, Mo 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Dear all, I’m pleased to announce the release of AraFinNews, the largest Arabic financial-news summarisation dataset to date. GitHub: https://github.com/ArabicNLP-UK/AraFinNews HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/drelhaj/AraFinNews Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01265 AraFinNews includes 212,500 article–headline pairs (2015–2025) from reputable financial media, making it a strong Arabic counterpart to benchmarks like CNN/DailyMail. It provides clean structured text and article-level metadata, with ready-to-use splits for summarisation and for building downstream financial NLP tasks. Using this dataset, we evaluated mT5, AraT5, and the domain-adapted FinAraT5, with results demonstrating clear gains from financial-domain pretraining in headline generation. Best wishes, Mo See more of our NLP datasets and tools on: ArabicNLP.uk https://arabicnlp.uk/ HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/drelhaj GitHub: https://github.com/drelhaj ArabicNLP-UK: https://github.com/orgs/ArabicNLP-UK/ UCREL: https://github.com/UCREL ———— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk<https://elhaj.uk/> https://vinnlp.com<https://vinnlp.com/>

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Release: Modality in Text - a Portuguese Corpus
by Amália Mendes 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Dear all We are pleased to announce the release of several Portuguese corpus samples that have been manually annotated for modality. Please find more details here: https://github.com/Irishx/modality-pt-corpus Best regards, Iris Hendrickx and Amália Mendes Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa <http://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/>https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt

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1st CfP: Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
by Piotr Banski 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

* 12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC) 1st Call for Papers The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part of the LREC-2026 conference <https://lrec2026.info/>in Palma, Mallorca. See https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html <https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html>for up-to-date information. Workshop description As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language generation, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably, reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research: apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical (and other) annotation layers. These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes against. Topics of interest This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics: Interoperability and accessibility • How to make corpora as accessible as possible • Interoperable APIs for query and analysis software • Provision of multiple levels of access for different tasks Machine/Deep Learning • Data preparation for machine learning input • Creation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning networks) • Legal issues concerning language model distribution Linguistic content challenges • Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc. • Diversity and inclusion in language resources • Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation • Quality management of annotations • Ensuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication, correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc. • Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video, facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …) Technical challenges • Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data (potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation data • Corpus versioning and release management • Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processing • Dealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing corpora • Environmental impact of big language data computing • Engineering and management of research software Exploitation challenges • Legal and privacy issues • Query languages, data models, and standardisation • Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictions • Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics • Repurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster. Important dates • Deadline for paper submission: 16.02.2026 • Notification of acceptance: 12.03.2026 • Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: 30.03.2026 • Meeting: details TBA Paper submission We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the topics listed below, as PDF created according to LREC-2026 templates <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite poster proposals of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. Submissions are accepted solely through the START system (URL TBA). A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA. LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative 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). Programme Committee Names will be added as Programme Committee members confirm their participation. Organising Committee • Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim) • Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) • Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) • Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim) • Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw) Homepage CMLC series homepage is located at http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html <http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html> * -- Dr. Piotr Bański Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R5 6-13 68-161 Mannheim, Germany

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC. The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: • present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment; • explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback provided by the mentors and other DC students; • network and build collaborations with other members of the community; • discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities. Submission and Participation Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach. The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website). Submission Instructions If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org! To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required: • Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by December 17, 2025. • In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025. For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . 1. Cover Letter (1 page max): Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional). 2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references): A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. Key points the submission should include: • motivation for your dissertation research • goal and research questions • related work that frames your research • methods/approach to reach the goal • results, if any • next steps for your research 3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max): List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/ participants. 4. Your CV (3 pages max): Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document. How to Format and Submit Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline. In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively, and press "Go". Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026. Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards. The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 17, 2025 • Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA • Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel • Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands

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Second Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026 @ EACL)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 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: March 28, 2026- March 29, 2026 (TBD) @ 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

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Advance notice: ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp (08 – 12/07/2024)
by Magali Paquot 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) will be hosting Stefan Gries’s next bootcamp on statistics for linguistics with R from 08 to 12 July 2024. The ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp is a hands-on introduction to statistical methods for both graduate students and seasoned researchers and is loosely based on the third edition (2021) of Gries’s textbook Statistics for linguistics with R. The course is intended for linguists who already have a basic knowledge in statistics and some experience using R and who wish to improve their proficiency in statistical modeling of linguistic data. Using the open source software and programming language R, we will deal with: • fundamental aspects of fixed effects regression modeling for both numeric and binary response variables; these include exploration of data and their preparation for modeling, model formulation and selection; numerical and visual interpretation and evaluation of models; • more advanced aspects of fixed-effects regression modeling such as contrasts for ordinal predictors, orthogonal contrasts, curvature of numeric predictors, and maybe general linear hypothesis tests; • the theoretical foundations of mixed-effects regression modeling; • applications of mixed-effects modeling for both numeric and binary response variables; • tree-based methods and random forests: 'fitting' and interpreting them with importance scores, partial dependence scores, and detecting (not just capturing) interactions. The website of the bootcamp will be online in early 2024 and online registration will start on 1 March 2024, 11 am CEST. The number of participants is limited. If you would like to participate, mark the date in your diary! Contact email: magali.paquot(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:magali.paquot@uclouvain.be> Magali Paquot Convenor

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PhD and Postdoc positions in NLP @ Uni Potsdam, Germany
by David Schlangen 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

There will be several openings in 2026 in my lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany: - For a start in early 2026, there will be one position for a PhD student in a project, and another position (that comes with a teaching load) for a PhD student or a postdoc. - For a start in autumn 2026, there will be a position for a Postdoc (again, with teaching load). Some keywords: language learning in interaction / learning to interact; simulating situated use / building "agents"; evaluating LLM(-agents) in interaction; pragmatics of human/AI interaction. Positions are open until filled; reviewing of applications has started. For more information about the positions and on how to apply, see: https://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de/positions/ . -David Schlangen --- David Schlangen Chair "Foundations of Computational Linguistics" Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25 14476 Potsdam, Germany Campus Golm, Building 14, Room 2.18 Tel. +49 331 977 2692 Tel. Secretary +49 331 977 2016 http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de

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CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Nakba-NLP 2026 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the LREC-2026 Conference Palma de Mallorca, Spain May 11-16, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: - Digitisation of oral and written narratives - Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets - Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up - Annotation tools and annotation guidelines - Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval - Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events - Entity linking and relationship extraction - Event detection and event argument extraction - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data - Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies - Data visualization - Knowledge representation - Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing - Natural Language Generation - Large Language Models - Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction - Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). * 15 Jan 2026 - Shared-task training set release * 15 Feb 2026 - Shared-task blind test release * 1 Mar 2026 - Shared-task system submissions * 10 Mar 2026 - Shared-task results * 20 Mar 2026 - Paper submission deadline * 15 Apr 2026 - Acceptance notifications * 30 Apr 2026 - Camera-ready deadline * 11-16 May 2026 - LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC) Organizing Committee: ===================== * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University * Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity * Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University * Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University * Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals * Amal Haddad, University of Granada Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.palestine-studies.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/palmuseum.org/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3Oo… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nakba-archive.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [6] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.alhaq.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA… [7] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ichr.ps/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA…

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2nd CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/eacl2026/AbjadNLP2026/ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 8 January 2026 ARR submissions: 10 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 3 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [1]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [2] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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NLPerspectives 5: 1st Call for Papers
by Abercrombie, Gavin 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

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 * May 11-16, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 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: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * (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. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Perspectivism in multimodal AI * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Participatory approaches and human label variation * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP * 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/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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Job Opening: Open-Rank Position in Humanistic & Critical Approaches to AI (Northwestern University in Qatar)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) invites applications for a full-time, open-rank faculty position in Humanistic and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in the Communication Program. We seek scholars whose research centers humanistic perspectives on AI. Areas of interest include: * Critical, historical, or theoretical approaches to AI * AI ethics and algorithmic accountability * Cultural manipulation and AI * Humanistic, interpretive, comparative, or transnational AI methodologies * Critical studies of AI in media industries * AI’s intersections with sound, robotics, digital labor, and computation Candidates should demonstrate a strong research record (commensurate with rank) or strong potential for early-career scholars, as well as a commitment to inclusive teaching, mentoring, and service. The teaching load is two courses per semester, including core courses and electives aligned with the candidate’s expertise. Faculty may also contribute to interdisciplinary minors such as AI and Media, Media and Politics, Strategic Communication, Film and Design, Middle East Studies, and Africana Studies. NU-Q offers opportunities for collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study of the Global South, the Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab, and the Media Majlis Museum. Located in Education City, NU-Q is a diverse, globally connected institution with students from more than 60 countries. Applications received by January 4, 2026, will receive priority; the position remains open until filled. Apply here: https://facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQ2NA== Please prepare all materials in PDF format before submission; the system does not allow post-submission edits. References will be contacted directly. Best regards, Wajdi -- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Residence, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City

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CFP: Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2026)
by Yoshinobu Kano 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2026) associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2026 (IsAI-2026) June 7th and 8th, 2026 G MESSE GUNMA (GUNMA Convention Center), Gunma, Japan (Hybrid Format) https://www.g-messe-gunma.jp/en/ Aims and Scope Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics. Important Dates Workshop: June 7th and 8th, 2026 Submission Deadline: 25 Jan, 2026 Notification: 28 Feb, 2026 Camera-ready due: 25 March, 2026 Registration Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Model of legal reasoning Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent Legal term ontology Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base Computer-aided legal education Use of informatics and AI in law Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law AI and intellectual property Legal/Ethical Compliance check of AI Systems Natural language processing for legal knowledge Translating law into formal representation Legal data mining Legal document analysis Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems Online dispute resolution Evidential reasoning AI application to forensics AI application to smart contracts and blockchain Legislation support by AI/IT techniques Generative AI and Law Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain Submissions We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=jurisin2026 If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop through this page. Without fulfilling this condition, the paper will not be in the proceedings. Proceedings We will publish accepted papers which have LNAI quality in IsAI2026 proceedings in LNAI series. We will also publish another online proceedings other than LNAI proceedings for papers which are not qualified for LNAI publication, but are selected to be presented at the workshop. Workshop Chairs Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-informatics, Japan Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Program Committee Members (To be confirmed) Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna Marina De Vos, University of Bath Huimin Dong, TU Wien Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics Randy Goebel, University of Alberta Guido Governatori, Central Queensland University Shigeru Kagayama, Meiji Gakuin University Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University Mi-Young Kim, U. of Alberta Yuntao Kong, Center for Juris-Informatics Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology Maria Navas-Loro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Ha-Thanh Nguyen, National Institute of Informatics Le-Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Katsumi Nitta, Center for Juris-Informatics Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, ALMA-AI Livio Robaldo, University of Swansea Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-Informatics Cor Steging, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Satoshi Tojo, Asia University Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University Vu Tran, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan Bart Verheij, University of Groningen Mayu Watanabe, Institute of Science Tokyo Sabine Wehnert, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media \ Georg Eckert Institute Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University Adam Wyner, Univesity of Swansea Hiroaki Yamada, Institute of Science Tokyo Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University May Myo Zin, Center for Juris-Informatics Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen jurisin 2026 homepage: https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/jurisin2026/ -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
by Announce 29 Nov '25

29 Nov '25

*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by December 10, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu).

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Submit to ACM WebSci’26 (Papers, Posters, Workshops, PhD Symposium)
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 28 Nov '25

28 Nov '25

18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 Calls for Papers, Posters, Workshops/Tutorials, and PhD Symposium * Braunschweig, Germany | May 26–29, 2026 * Celebrating 20 Years of Web Science * Website: https://websci26.org/ Call for Papers (Deadline soon!) * Submission deadline: December 10, 2025 * Notification: February 4, 2026 * Camera-ready: February 28, 2026 * More details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77>´ Call for Workshops & Tutorials * Submission deadline: December 15, 2025 * Notification: December 19, 2025 * Workshops/Tutorials Day: May 26, 2026 * More details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> Call for Posters * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Final version: April 1, 2026 * More details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> NEW --> Call for PhD Symposium * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Camera-ready: April 1, 2026 * Symposium Date: May 26, 2026 * Submissions should be single-author (the PhD student) and up to 3 pages. * More details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Scientific Coordinator Stuttgart Research Focus – Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Universität Stuttgart Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D | 3.352 | 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte Universitätsstr. 32 | 00.121 | 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 685 84 371 Email: sierra.kaiser(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:sierra.kaiser@iris.uni-stuttgart.de> Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | IRIS Newsletter<https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…> www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Posters and Demos
by Announce 28 Nov '25

28 Nov '25

*** Last Call for Posters and Demos *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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Webinar by: Goran Glavaš (Universität Würzburg)
by webinars.hitz＠ehu.eus 28 Nov '25

28 Nov '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: Goran Glavaš (Universität Würzburg) Title: Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Language models tend to excel in languages they see the most during (pre)training—leaving low-resource languages at a stark disadvantage. But what if we could boost performance without throwing (much) more data or compute at the problem? In this talk, I’ll present a set of resource-lean (read: “cheap”) strategies that enhance multilingual language understanding and generation in low-resource settings. I’ll show how conceptually effective knowledge transfer techniques—not just bigger models—can improve multilingual capabilities across three major fronts: (1) standard text-based LLMs, (2) vision-language models, and (3) code language models. The takeaway? Scaling isn’t the only answer: for truly inclusive multilingual language technology, we need stronger inductive biases and more conceptual innovation. Bio: Goran Glavaš is a Full Professor for Natural Language Processing at the University of Würzburg (Germany), Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS). His research focuses on multilingual language understanding and cross-lingual transfer, vision-and-language models, and trustworthiness of (multilingual) language models. He has (co-)authored over 120 publications in NLP and IR, regularly publishing at top-tier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, TACL, SIGIR, ECIR). He received the best long paper award at EACL 2021 and outstanding paper awards at EACL 2024 and ACL 2024. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) and regularly serves as (Senior) Area Chair for top-tier NLP conferences. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Upcoming webinars: Thamar Solorio (January 15) Henning Wachsmuth (February 5) José Andrés González López (March 5) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Fully funded Postdoc and PhD Positions in Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity, ATHENE, TU Darmstadt / GU Frankfurt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

🛡️ 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗖 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡𝗘 (National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity) Hybrid human–AI agentic cybersecurity is the next step toward digital defense! Our new project 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗖 – 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 investigates how LLM–based AI agents and human experts can work together to analyse complex security data and rethink cybersecurity architectures. We invite applications for 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 in Computer Science, AI, Human–Computer Interaction and Cybersecurity. Become part of defining the next generation of trustworthy, human–AI collaborative agentic cybersecurity ✨ Do not miss the opportunity for groundbreaking science and get a chance to work together with an amazing diverse team of leading researchers! 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_haicc_pos… 📩 Apply via the career platform: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/, choose the “𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡𝗘-𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗖” position 📅 Application deadline: 𝟭𝟰 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (positions remain open until filled) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Call for Papers - ALTARS 2026 @ The Web Conference
by giorgiomaria.dinunzio＠unipd.it 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

[apologies for cross posting] We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the ALTARS Workshop (Advanced Legal and Terminology-Aware Retrieval Systems), which will be held as part of The Web Conference 2026. https://altars2026.dei.unipd.it/ ALTARS explores new methodologies that bridge high-recall retrieval, Web intelligence, and responsible AI, with a special emphasis on Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) at Web scale. The workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners focused on foundational and applied advances in transparent, reliable, and domain-aware retrieval and review systems. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following themes: 1. Web-Scale Applications of Technology-Assisted Review Research on applying Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) methodologies to large and dynamic Web environments, including: Scientific knowledge curation and evidence synthesis Open data discovery and enrichment Legal, biomedical, environmental, or governmental Web content review Misinformation detection and content integrity Multilingual and cross-domain review pipelines 2. Intelligent and Hybrid Retrieval on the Web Studies that combine TAR principles with Web-scale search and representation frameworks, such as: LLM-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Semantic search and entity-centric retrieval Integration of knowledge graphs and structured Web data Adaptive or high-recall ranking strategies Retrieval workflows for heterogeneous information sources 3. Interactive, Explainable, and Human-in-the-Loop TAR Research focusing on transparent, interpretable, and user-centered TAR systems, including: User-in-the-loop review and collaborative curation systems Explainable AI methods for document triage and prioritization Uncertainty and confidence estimation for AI-assisted decisions Evaluation of interaction models and review interfaces 4. Responsible and Fair Web Review Systems Investigations into fairness, accountability, and ethical design of Web-scale review workflows, such as: Bias detection and mitigation in large-scale content filtering Responsible and trustworthy AI in regulatory, journalistic, or civic contexts Auditability and transparency of TAR workflows Human oversight and governance for automated review systems Publication and Proceedings Accepted papers that meet the camera-ready deadline will be published in the ACM Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference 2026. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 22nd, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 29th, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: February 2nd, 2026 Submission Format Submissions must follow the ACM two-column proceedings template, available here: 🔗 https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template 🔗 Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… We welcome the following submission types: Research papers presenting original work (up to 4 pages) Posters for ongoing research, tool presentations, demos, or position papers (up to 2 pages) For all submission types, references are included in the page limit. Organizing Committee Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio – University of Padua, Italy Evangelos Kanoulas – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Prasenjit Majumder – DAIICT, Gandhinagar and TCG CREST, Kolkata, India We warmly invite the community to contribute and participate. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature invited talks and discussions aimed at shaping future research directions in trustworthy, domain-aware, and Web-scale review systems. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you at ALTARS 2026.

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PhD student in AI Security at Linköping University
by khac-hoang.ngo＠liu.se 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Large language model (LLM) agents represent the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, integrating LLMs with external tools and memory components to execute complex reasoning and decision-making tasks. These agents are increasingly deployed in domains such as healthcare, finance, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles, where they interact dynamically with external knowledge sources, retain memory across sessions, and autonomously generate responses and actions. While their adoption brings transformative benefits, it also exposes them to new and critical security risks that remain poorly understood. Among these risks, memory poisoning attacks pose a severe and immediate threat to the reliability and security of LLM agents. These attacks exploit the agent’s ability to store, retrieve, and adapt knowledge over time, leading to biased decisions, manipulation of real-time behavior, security breaches, and system-wide failures. The goal of this project is to develop a theoretical foundation for understanding and mitigating memory poisoning in LLM agents. This position, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of AI security, tackling some of the most pressing challenges in the field. Full information and link to apply: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/27883

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SEPLN CFP issue 76 ***Deadline Extension December 5th***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 76 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics NLP for low-resource languages Efficient and sustainable NLP methods Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP Truthworthy and explainability in NLP Security and privacy in NLP Text and Multimodal Generation Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision Knowledge and common sense Computational lexicography and terminology Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Morphological and Syntactic analysis Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse Machine translation Speech synthesis and recognition Audio indexing and retrieval Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education) Submission Information The deadline has been extended until December 5th, 2025. Remember that proposal must must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline EXTENSION: December 5th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2026 Camera ready: February 7th, 2026 Publication: March 2026 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 76 http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 1,61 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL PNL veraz y explicable Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL Generación Texto y Multimodal Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión Conocimiento y sentido común Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Semántica, pragmática y discurso Traducción automática Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Indexación y recuperación de Audio Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Juridico-administrativo, Educación, etc) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 5 de Diciembre del 2025. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío EXTENDIDO de trabajos: 5 de Diciembre 2025 Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2026 Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2026 Publicación: Marzo de 2026 Persona de contacto: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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PhD Position / Research Associate on Applied Computational Linguistics, University of Augsburg, Germany
by Christian Chiarcos 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear all, the Applied Computational Linguistics (ACoLi) lab at the University of Augsburg, Germany, is offering a faculty position (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter TV-L E13, part-time) for an initial period of 3 years to a candidate with keen interest in both linguistic and technological aspects of Computational Linguistics or Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will contribute to research and teaching activities within the group and in the wider context of the University of Augsburg. They are encouraged to participate in grant proposals, research collaborations and scientific networks of the group, and to develop their independent academic profile in this process. We welcome candidates with research interests in one or more of the following areas: - natural language understanding - graph technologies and web standards in NLP (e.g., in the context of Linguistic Linked Open Data) - computational discourse - NLP for low-resource or historical languages Please apply before Dec 15, 2025, with a letter of motivation and the usual documents via email to sekretariat.computerlinguistik(a)philhist.uni-augsburg.de <mailto:sekretariat.computerlinguistik@philhist.uni-augsburg.de>. For details, please consult the full English description under https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet/philhist/professuren/Applied-Compu… <https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet/philhist/professuren/Applied-Compu…>. For further questions, please feel free to contact christian.chiarcos(a)uni-a.de. The position is hosted at the chair for Applied Computational Linguistics (ACoLi) at the University of Augsburg, Germany, Munich Metropolitan region. The ACoLi Lab focuses on the intersection of NLP and knowledge graph technology, and applications of these technologies in the Digital Humanities, and the candidate is expected to pursue a PhD thesis in these areas. Please note that this is an on-site position that includes the duty to teach 2.5 hours per week in local programmes on Computational Linguistics, NLP and/or Digital Humanities. Please feel free to forward this call for applications to interested candidates. Best regards, and apologies for cross-posting, Christian Chiarcos -- Prof. Dr. Christian Chiarcos Chair for Applied Computational Linguistics (ACoLi) University of Augsburg, Germany

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Project Officer - Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Media Monitoring at the European Commission (Joint Research Center)
by CARTIER Emmanuel 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce an opportunity to join the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission as a Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Media Monitoring. This role involves leading innovations in global media analysis using advanced AI technologies, including large language models and multilingual NLP research. The work notably includes: * Research and Development: conduct research on the latest AI technologies applicable to media monitoring; write peer-reviewed publications and technical reports. Data Analysis: monitor and analyse media trends, extracting meaningful insights from diverse media sources; utilise machine learning and natural language processing techniques to identify emerging topics, events, narratives, and sentiment. * Collaboration and Communication: collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing media monitoring platforms; present research findings and insights to stakeholders, provide and present actionable recommendations to policymakers where relevant. * Innovation and Improvement: continuously improve AI models and algorithms to enhance accuracy and efficiency in media monitoring; keep-up with the latest academic and industry trends and advancements in AI to ensure our methodologies remain cutting-edge. * Documentation and Reporting: document research processes, methodologies, and findings in a clear and detailed manner; prepare reports and presentations summarizing analytical results and their implications. If you have a PhD in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence or a related field, and experience in AI and machine learning, we encourage you to apply. Proficiency in programming, excellent analytical skills, and very good knowledge of English are essential. For more details and to apply, please please visit the JRC Recruitment Portal : https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/2368. Feel free to share this opportunity with your network. Best regards, ____________________________________________ Emmanuel Cartier [1756718039991] Scientific Project Officer in Computational Linguistics / Applied Research Joint Research Center of the European Commission Text and Data Mining unit (T5) Europe Media Monitor (EMM) team emmanuel.cartier(a)ec.europa.eu<mailto:emmanuel.cartier@ec.europa.eu>

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash: November 2025
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, The November edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * Key insights from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2025 by PC Chair Cristina Grisot, * Direct links to the conference materials and the newly released Introduction to CLARIN tutorial * An inspiring impact story on enhancing theatre accessibility through 3D sign language * New Tour de CLARIN blogs showcasing the Spanish consortium And don’t forget to mark your calendar—the next CLARIN Café is just around the corner on 9 December. It will focus on concrete use cases with multimodal data, large language models and multilingual comparative discourse analysis, explaining the role of the CLARIN Knowledge Centres in these research areas. Read more and register here<https://www.clarin.eu/event/2025/clarin-cafe-ssh-research-clarin-k-centres-…>. Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-november-2025 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. Kind regards, CLARIN ERIC --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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UMass Amherst: Assistant/Associate Professor, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
by Brendan O'Connor 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Here at UMass Amherst, we're excited to invite applications for tenure-track faculty in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and similar areas, in the College of Information and Computer Sciences. For more details, and to apply, please see: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528970/assistantassociate-profe… and/or https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/employment/faculty-positions We're happy to answer any questions - feel free to ask myself or search committee co-chairs Hamed Zamani (zamani(a)cs.umass.edu) or Andrew McCallum ( mccallum(a)cs.umass.edu). -- Brendan O'Connor (http://brenocon.com) College of Information and Computer Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst

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IPAI Science Residency – AI Commercialization Fellowship (Heilbronn, Germany)
by Alexander Fraser 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

IPAI Science Residency – AI Commercialization Fellowship (Heilbronn, Germany) Application Deadline: January 4, 2026 The IPAI Science Residency invites applications for a 1-year Applied AI Fellowship designed for individuals who are ready to turn cutting-edge AI research into real-world impact. IPAI is seeking two kinds of people who want to explore and commercialize innovative ideas in a highly entrepreneurial environment: 1) recent PhD graduates in AI-related fields 2) people with at least three years of experience in AI (but no PhD) What the Fellowship Offers: 1 year of full funding for your position Up to €200,000 in research budget — including compute or other project-critical resources A unique commercialization focus: develop ideas with real market potential The opportunity to integrate into one of IPAI’s many partner companies—or to launch your own venture Personalized coaching and mentorship to accelerate both your research and commercialization strategy Why IPAI? Based in Heilbronn, Germany, IPAI is an emerging hub for applied AI innovation. Fellows join an interdisciplinary community of researchers, startups, and established companies working together to bring AI breakthroughs into practice. Apply Now: The deadline is approaching quickly: January 4, 2026. Submit your application and learn more here: https://ipai-foundation.ai/en/science-residency/ Please feel free to share this opportunity within your networks.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas
by Announce 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

*** Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track is intended to present and provoke visionary ideas, long- term challenges, new research opportunities, and debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative research directions, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new directions relevant for Agents and advancing Multi-Agent Systems research through interdisciplinary viewpoints. We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite submissions that focus on novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve in the coming years a leading position within AI and computing research. Evaluation Criteria Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria: Relevance and Advancement (level of future-thinking) • Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS research communities? • Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into the future? Novelty and Vision (level of “Blue Sky”-ness) • How much the ideas are visionary (vs. next step w.r.t. state of the art), novel, or out of the box. Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness) • Are the ideas motivated and grounded in a solid understanding of the existing state-of- the-art and older foundational research/theory? • Do the ideas consider relatively new research ideas (e.g. published in the last 3 years)? Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability) • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the research agenda in the Agents and MAS communities? • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended beneficiaries of the ideas presented, including practical considerations? Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution) • Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way? • How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the exploration of these ideas? Submission Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS 2026 format, with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS 2026 main track. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of presenting the paper at the conference. See the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track) and Submission Instructions for details (information on the conference website). Important Dates • Abstract Submission: December 3, 2025 • Paper Submission: December 8, 2025 • Rebuttal Period: January 10-15, 2026 • Author Notification: January 31, 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: February 19, 2026 • Author Registration: March 31, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Contact AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs • Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ann.nowe(a)ai.vub.ac.be • Michael Winikoff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand michael.winikoff(a)vuw.ac.nz Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to School Learner Language (CASLL 2026)
by maria.d.garcia＠uv.es 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission to CASLL 2026 (1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to School Learner Language) has been extended until **15 December 2025. We invite proposals on topics related to school corpora of language learners. Other topics are also welcome as long as they relate to corpora in language education. The conference will be held at Universitat de València, Spain from 14 to 15 May 2026. Please visit our website for further information: https://esdeveniments.uv.es/137403/detail/1st-international-conference-on-c… **Important Dates: Abstract submission deadline: 15th December, 2025 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: 15th December to 10th January, 2026 Early bird registration closes: 15th January, 2026 Conference dates: 14th and 15th May, 2026 Please send your abstract through the conference website. **Plenary speakers: • Prof. Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catolique de Louvain) • Prof. Hildegunn Dirdal (University of Oslo) Please feel free to circulate this information to other colleagues in your network. Best wishes, The organising committee -- ******************************** Maria Dolores Garcia Pastor Professor Dept. of Teaching Languages and Literature (TEFL) Faculty of Teacher Education University of Valencia Avda. dels Tarongers 4, 46022 València Apartado de Correos 22045 Tel: +34 96 3864485 (ext. 4899) Fax: +34 96 3864002 E-mail: maria.d.garcia(a)uv.es https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Garcia-Pastor https://www.uv.es/investigacion-ensenanza-lenguas-giel/es/grupo-investigaci… ********************************

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Postdocs/Research Engineer positions on Multimodal LLMs & Responsible NLP at FBK
by Luisa Bentivogli 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

The Machine Translation Unit <http://mt.fbk.eu> at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) <https://www.fbk.eu/en/>, Trento, Italy, is hiring three researchers to work on multilingual and multimodal LLMs and Responsible and Trustworthy NLP. For full announcements and to apply, see: - Researcher in Multimodal Large Language Models <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Multimodal_La…> - Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_in_Responsible_a…> - Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal Large Language Models <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Junior_Research_Engineer_in…> *Application Details:* - Deadline: December 10, 2025 (positions remain open until filled) - PhD not required at the time of application - Expected start: Feb 2026 (flexible) *About the MT Unit:* The MT Unit is a competitive research team of ~12 researchers and students with a long tradition in machine translation, speech translation, and inclusivity research. The group is involved in several international projects and offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible workweek, full reimbursement for conferences, and a competitive salary. The unit is located in Trento, Italy, in the beautiful Alps. We encourage talented researchers and engineers interested in multimodal LLMs or responsible NLP to apply. -- Luisa Bentivogli Head of the Machine Translation Research Unit Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy *mt.fbk.eu/author/bentivogli/ <http://mt.fbk.eu/author/bentivogli/>* -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
by Michael Roth 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

________________________________________ Von: Agnieszka Faleńska <agnieszka.falenska(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2025 10:29 An: Roth, Michael (UTN) Betreff: Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart) Warning: This email was sent by an external email address. Please verify if this email is authentic. Attachments, links or intent might be harmful. Dear colleagues, We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the interdisciplinary project "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" (APHIC) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] and Prof. Judith Tonhauser [2] under the IRIS-HISIT initiative. Project APHIC is part of the "Human-Intelligent Systems Interaction and Teaming" (IRIS-HISIT) programme [3] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg [4]. The project investigates authority presuppositions—implicit assumptions that an AI system has the expertise to deliver high-stakes advice (e.g., medical or legal). The project aims to (1) develop a theoretically grounded taxonomy of authority presuppositions, and (2) design and evaluate conversational repair strategies that maintain trust and informativeness while ensuring user safety. Position • Duration: 18 months • Start: February 2026 (latest starting date: July 2026) • Salary: TV-L 13 (100%), see [5] for details • Environment: The researcher will be embedded in the IRIS community [6] and collaborate closely with colleagues at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [7] and the Institute of Linguistics [8]. Candidate Profile • PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field • Background in formal pragmatics is an advantage • Strong programming skills • Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research • Proficiency in English (German not required) How to Apply Please submit one PDF containing: • a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests, • your CV with publication list • contact information for one to two references. Applications should be sent to: Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>). Applications received before 15th December 2025 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after 15th of December. The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field and is therefore particularly interested in applications from women. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability. University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours). Links [1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska> [2] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/> [3] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interaction-an…<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interac…> [4] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite<http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite> [5] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025<http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025> [6] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/> [7] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/> [8] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de<http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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CfP Special Issue - Information - Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior
by Thomas Mandl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Special Issue on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for the analysis of online social behavior. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J Natural language processing has seen tremendous progress in recent years and many technologies can be applied and adopted to social media discourse. This Special Issue will collect contributions from diverse domains that leverage NLP technologies for relevant questions regarding human behavior. Potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue include the following: 1. How can NLP be used to analyze social media posts and comments related to social issues like climate change? What insights can be gained into public opinion and sentiment on these topics? 2. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to everyday life, such as conversations about food, travel, or hobbies? What can be learned about human behavior and preferences through this type of analysis? 3. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to political attitudes and behaviors? What insights can be gained into how people engage with politics online? 4. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to discourse behavior, such as online debates, discussions, and arguments? What can be learned about how people engage with each other online and how this relates to offline interactions? 5. How can NLP be used to analyze social media data related to negative impacts, such as hate speech, cyberbullying, online harassment, or the spread of misinformation? What insights can be gained into the causes and consequences of these phenomena? These are just a few examples of the many potential topics that could be explored in this Special Issue. I am sure there are many more exciting areas of research that could be explored through the application of NLP technologies to social media discourse. What are some of the specific research questions or topics that you'd like to see explored in this Special Issue? Some discounts for the APC are available Prof. Dr. Thomas Mandl /Guest Editor/ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MCA1E7LC2J

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SCOLIA 2026 at ECIR – Call for Papers and Shared Tasks
by Ingo Frommholz 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS & SHARED TASKS === **************************************************************************** The 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA ’26) held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '26), April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026), following SCOLIA 2025 and the successful BIR workshop series (https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/), to be held as part of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) in Delft, The Netherlands. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Delft (NL). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 19th January 2026 - Notifications: 1st March 2026 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15th March 2026 - Workshop: 2nd April 2026 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2026 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., * Chatting with papers via chatbots * Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR * Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review * Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission * Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature * Recommendation of citations based on the context * Discourse modelling and argument mining * Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation * Agent-based scholarly search and recommendation * Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. * Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., * Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM * Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references * Simulated users. * User Models and Collections, e.g., * Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search * Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction * Building test collections. * Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., * Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers * Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour * Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers, scientific fact checking and claim verification * Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper * Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2026 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2027 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. * CEURART: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, Overleaf template of CEURART: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… * Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2026 Page limits: * Full paper: 12 pages excluding references * Short paper: 6 pages excluding references * Shared task proposal: 4 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France For any enquiries please email scolia2026(a)easychair.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ — Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor and Head of School of Applied Data Science Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Chair, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, UK Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *Shared Tasks: * We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian, Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please visit to LoResMT website. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Friday 19 December 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). * Topic: Philosophies of Language and Corpus Linguistics * Speaker: Alan Partington (SiBol Group / CoLiTec) * Title: Language Distrusted, Language Ignored, Language Recovered: From Plato to Corpus Linguistics and Beyond The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 17 December. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Gualtiero Volpe 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

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program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160 We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day. If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kelly Elizabeth Wright NARNiHS Convenor on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers

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Circle U, NLPL, & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl - Max Idahl, ellamind - Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs - other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school web page for updates) The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/). It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium (https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en) and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway. For additional information, please see: https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28, another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Application still open: Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Application for Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) is still open until 23.11.2025: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7d827ce2da7b901b5456d2297a87… -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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HumanCLAIM workshop, 16th/17th of March, Goettingen
by Beinborn, Lisa 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

The HumanCLAIM workshop is back for its fourth edition. Join us in Göttingen for a human-centered perspective on language technology. We expect an interdisciplinary audience of researchers from computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science, and hope that many of you join us. Date: 16th/17th of March, 2026 Location: Gauss’ historic observatory, Göttingen, Germany Participation is free of charge, but we have limited capacity. Please register before the 15th of December: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop Keynote Speakers: 1) Tessa Verhoef is the co-founder of the Creative Intelligence Lab at Leiden University. She works towards better understanding language evolution and will talk about her research on emergent linguistic structure in agent communication. 2) Terra Blevins leads the LiLaC lab at Northeastern University in Boston. She studies cross-lingual transfer and works on modeling approaches for low-resource languages to overcome the curse of multilinguality. Poster session: The poster session is the heart of the workshop. Participants get the chance to discuss their work on multilingual and cognitively inspired modeling and receive feedback from interdisciplinary experts including Ece Takmaz (Univ. of Utrecht), Valentin Hofmann (Allen Institute for AI), Lukas Galke (Univ. of South Denmark), Sina Zarrieß (Univ. of Bielefeld), Stefan Frank (Univ. of Nijmegen), Miryam de Lhoneux (Univ. of Leuven), David R. Reich (Univ. of Zurich). Idea pitches: You have an idea but lack expertise? We will make time for focused knowledge exchange in smaller groups. Several ongoing cooperations and grants have started at our workshop. Workshop dinner: Our workshop focuses on personal interaction. We hope you join the group dinner on Monday evening. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. The HumanCLAIM organization committee: Lisa Beinborn, Urja Khurana, Zhuojing Huang, Luise Pohlmann Useful Links: - Workshop info and registration: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop - Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3zKE9sPnMZKTzhPH8 - Tessa Verhoef: https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home - Terra Blevins: https://blvns.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Lisa Beinborn Human-Centered Data Science https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute for Computer Science University of Göttingen -------------------------------------------------

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CfP: ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47
by Neumann, Stella 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ *Call for Papers* ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47 The International Copus of English (ICE) project, founded in 1990 (Greenbaum 1996, Greenbaum & Nelson 1996), has been a tremendous success: 15 ICE corpora of Englishes around the world have been completed to date and numerous articles on the use and structures of varieties of English have been published on findings generated by these corpora. What role do the ICE corpora play today, 35 years after their conception? On the one hand, 35 years after their conception, ICE corpora are increasingly being criticised as being too small, using an outdated data format and being difficult to handle for automatic analyses. Moreover, those ICE corpora collected 20 years ago may be considered outdated or at least not representing the contemporary use of the respective variety of English anymore (e.g. Botha & Bernaisch 2025). More generally, the original design, to some extent modeled on contexts of use applying to Great Britain, turned out not to match the reality of all varieties of English. On the other hand, ICE corpora have been shown to still constitute excellent sources for research on varieties of English even in comparison with big data (Loureiro-Porto 2017). In particular, coverage of a range of spoken and written registers sets the ICE corpora apart from more recent corpora. By the same token, some ICE corpora have been updated and extended to include modern data formats as well as new annotations (e.g., Conrad et al. 2025, Gut & Fuchs 2017, Schützler et al. 2017, Kallen & Kirk 2012, Wong et al. 2011, Wunder et al. 2010). This workshop addresses the question of what role ICE corpora can play in the age of AI: Do they still constitute a good source for research, especially compared to the mega corpora of online data? How can they be updated for easier processing? How can new ICE cropora be collected using AI methods such as Whisper for the automatic transcription of spoken data? Should they be increased in size? Should new text categories be added and/or the original corpus design be revised? How can we be sure not to include texts generated by AI? The workshop is intended to bring together people involved in the (i) compilation, (ii) computational handling and (iii) use of the International Corpus of English. We invite submissions of abstracts addressing perspectives in compiling, computationally handling and using the International Corpus of English in the age of AI. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references), using the ICAME format <https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/>, and should be sent to the workshop organisers by December 10 2025. Organisers Ulrike Gut, Universität Münster Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University Gerold Schneider, Universität Zürich Conference website https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ References Botha, W., & Bernaisch, T. (2025). World Englishes and sociolinguistic variation. World Englishes, 44, 2–11. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12695 Conrad, S., Neumann, S., Frenken, F., & Schneider, G. (2025). Updating the international corpus of English for the 21st century: Towards a standardized XML-compliant markup. Corpus Linguistics 2025 Book of Abstracts, 74. Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora. World Englishes, 36, 387–403. Greenbaum, S. (1996). Comparing English Worldwide. Oxford University Press. Greenbaum, S., & Nelson, G. (1996). The International Corpus of English (ICE) project. World Englishes, 15, 3–15. Kallen, J. & Kirk, J. (2012). SPICE-Ireland: A User’s Guide. https://johnmkirk.etinu.net/johnmkirk/documents/003648.pdf Loureiro-Porto, L. (2017). ICE vs GloWbE: Big data and corpus compilation. World Englishes, 36, 448–70. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12281 Schützler, O., Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). New perspectives on Scottish Standard English. Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English. In S. Hancil & J. Beal (Eds.), Perspectives on Northern Englishes (pp. 273–301). De Gruyter Mouton. Wong, D., Cassidy, S., & Peters, P. (2011). Updating the ICE annotation system: Tagging, parsing and validation. Corpora, 6(2), 115–144. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2011.0009 Wunder, E.-M., Voormann, H., & Gut, U. (2010). The ICE Nigeria corpus project: Creating an open, rich and accurate corpus. ICAME Journal, 34, 78–88. Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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release 2.17 of SUD (Surface syntactic Universal Dependencies)
by Bruno Guillaume 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

As a follow up of the UD released announced a few days ago, we are happy to announce the release of the synchronised Surface syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) release v2.17. You can access to the data from: https://surfacesyntacticud.org/data/ (refer to UD announcement for list of languages and contributors). Related links: - https://universal.grew.fr/: All UD and SUD treebanks for the release 2.17 are available for online requests in Grew-match. - https://tables.grew.fr/: Interactive tables showing features and dependency relations use on all treebanks.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Bocconi University (Deadline Dec 16, 2025)
by Debora Nozza 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) invites applications for the position of Tenure-Track Assistant Professor within the Department of Computing Sciences. Deadline: 16/12/2025 Find out more and apply: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=870 For further information or inquiries, you are welcome to contact me at debora.nozza(a)unibocconi.it<mailto:debora.nozza@unibocconi.it> *************************************************** Description The Department of Computing Sciences is an interdisciplinary department with leading international researchers in various fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, theoretical computer science, machine learning theory, statistical physics modeling, computational neuroscience, as well as biomedical applications. In terms of teaching, the department has recently opened a bachelor's in AI, a master's in AI, and is strongly involved in the PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science. The successful candidates will be expected to develop a strong publication record, broadly contribute to the academic life of the department, and be effective teachers both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Compensation and teaching load will be competitive with other top European Schools. Qualifications Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or closely related areas, and should demonstrate the capacity for exceptional research achievement and the ability to teach effectively in undergraduate, master's, MBA, and PhD programs. Application Instructions Applicants should submit a CV, a research statement, up to five recent publications, and three reference letters. Equal Opportunity Statement Bocconi University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. Applications are particularly welcome from women and members of underrepresented groups in academic posts.

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Second CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Elena Epure 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

[image: 🎵]Second Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 1, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM -- Elena Epure Senior Research Scientist 22-26, rue de Calais - 75009 PARIS

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Call for contributions to SIG Writing Conference 2026
by cerstin.mahlow＠zhaw.ch 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing (https://www.earli.org/sig/sig-12-writing) and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics (https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics), invite proposals to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference (https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026 ) to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from *June 2nd to 4, 2026*. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme *Writing Research for Writing Practice*, we aim to highlight how empirical findings, theoretical advances, and methodological innovations can inform and transform writing instruction, assessment, and professional development. We welcome contributions that bridge the gap between research and real-world writing contexts—whether in schools, universities, or workplaces. While the conference traditionally hosts a diversity of topics and approaches, proposals within the theme *Writing Research for Writing Practice* are particularly welcome. We will make this SIG Writing Conference a Swiss experience by involving Swiss SIG Writing members from the University of Basel, the PH Zurich, the PH Luzern, and the FHNW in the organization and orientation of the conference and research school. ## Submission Guidelines for the Conference Presentation formats are Paper, Symposium, Poster, Roundtable, and Demonstration. *Paper* The abstract of 250-350 words (including any references) should include: - Research topic / aim - Theoretical framework / area of investigation - Methodological design - (Expected) conclusions / findings - Relevance to domain of writing and other forms of text production No extended summary is needed. Paper presentations will be scheduled in 90-minute sessions of three papers. *Symposium* Symposia consist of one 90-minute session organized by the submitters. Symposia include 3 papers, a named chair and a named discussant, who will offer a critique of the symposium and its papers. At least 3 countries need to be represented in a symposium in the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant. A symposium is submitted as a single submission that includes a description of the symposium (250-350 words) and the abstracts for all the papers to be presented as part of the symposium (250-350-word abstract per paper). No extended summary is needed. Two weeks prior to the conference, the organizer needs to provide the discussant with the presentations included in the symposium. It is possible to link two or more symposia together. Indicate in the title of each of the linked symposia the order in which they should be presented. When possible, the parts will be allocated in non-parallel time slots in the order suggested by the proposers. *Roundtable* Roundtables are organized for researchers who wish to focus on a specific topic, theoretical or methodological issue, and discuss and debate the topic for 90 minutes. The organizer of a roundtable submits a proposal with a plan for the roundtable that includes the title for the roundtable and an abstract of 250-350 words (including any references), in which the topic and objective of the roundtable is stated. *Poster* The research poster is a popular method of presenting research findings succinctly through a combination of text and graphics. All poster authors will present in a poster session where they should be prepared to explain and answer questions about their research to those attending the Poster Exhibition. The abstract should be 250-350 words (including any references). No extended summary is needed. *Demonstration* Authors will present a live demonstration using their own laptop and other necessary equipment and/or devices. Software simulations or videos can also be used during the demonstration session. The proposal consists of an abstract of 250-350 words (including references) presenting a tool or method, its novelty and applicability. ## Submission System All proposals must be written in English and submitted using the online submission system: https://www.earli-eapril.org. The system is open until December 17, 2026, 24:00 AOE (anywhere on earth). Note that this is a firm deadline! ## Contact For any questions, please contact us at sigwriting26(a)zhaw.ch. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026 Best regards, The SIG Writing 2026 organizing team Conference Chairs: Cerstin Mahlow, Liana Konstantinidou, Daniel Perrin (all ZHAW) Organizing Support: Sibylle Lichtsteiner Hurschler (PH Luzern), Stefan Daniel Keller (PH Zurich), Afra Sturm (FHNW), Mirjam Weder (University of Basel),

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Applications Open: 2026–2027 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
by Bloomberg Research Grant Program (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX) 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Dear Research Community, Bloomberg is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 edition of the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship Program (https://www.techatbloomberg.com/bloomberg-data-science-ph-d-fellowship/), a premier initiative supporting outstanding Ph.D. students advancing the frontiers of data science, AI and their applications. The Fellowship provides financial support and engagement opportunities for Ph.D. candidates whose innovative research has the potential to shape the future of data-driven technologies and methodologies. Key Dates *Application deadline: December 14, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE) *Fellowship recipients announced: February 9, 2026 For program details, eligibility criteria, and application instructions, please visit our official fellowship website (https://www.techatbloomberg.com/bloomberg-data-science-ph-d-fellowship/). If you have questions that are not addressed on the website, please contact the committee at rdml(a)bloomberg.net. We would appreciate it if you could redistribute this funding opportunity within your network. Warm regards, The Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship Committee Note: If you want to learn more about Bloomberg Academic Engagements (e.g., internships, sponsorships, and sabbatical programs), please fill this form: Bloomberg's Academic Engagements – Fill out form (https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/hkriEg2xRp). If you would prefer not to receive future communications about Bloomberg’s academic engagements, research collaborations, or fellowship opportunities, please reply to this email with “unsubscribe” in the subject line.

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November 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

In this newsletter: Join LDC for membership year 2026 Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline New publications: AnnoDIFP CTS Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S10> LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T16> ________________________________ Join LDC for membership year 2026 It's time to renew your LDC membership for 2026. Any organization that joins the Consortium or renews their membership before March 2, 2026, will receive a 10% discount off the membership fee. In addition to accessing new publications, current LDC members enjoy the benefit of licensing at reduced fees older data from our Catalog of close to 1000 holdings. Current-year for-profit members may use most data for commercial applications. Plans for next year's publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: * 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set: 10,000+ hours of English conversational telephone speech following the Mixer collection protocol, used in NIST's 2012 speaker recognition evaluation * KAIROS schema learning corpus background data and Phase 1 evaluation datasets: multimodal English and Spanish source data and annotations for reasoning about complex real-world events * CALL MY NET 2: 800+ hours of Tunisian-Arabic conversational telephone speech from over 400 speakers to support text independent speaker recognition, used in the 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation * Multi-language conversational telephone speech: multiple releases, hundreds of hours of speech from speakers of confusable linguistic varieties (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Slavic, Spanish) to support language identification * CALLHOME omnibus releases: combined speech and transcript datasets with updated directory structure, file formats and documentation, and lexicons (Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish) * IARPA MATERIAL language packs: conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations and queries in multiple languages (e.g., Lithuanian, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog) For full descriptions of all LDC data sets, browse our Catalog<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/>. Visit Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership, user accounts and payment. Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2026 for the Spring 2026 LDC data scholarship program which provides university students with no-cost access to LDC data. Consult the LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships> page for more information about program rules and submission requirements. ________________________________ New publications: AnnoDIFP (Annotated Data for the Investigation of Facets of Personality) CTS (Conversational Telephone Speech) Audio and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S10> was developed by LDC, the Florida Institute of Technology <https://www.fit.edu/> and the University of New Haven<https://www.newhaven.edu/index.php> to support algorithm development for predicting personality traits. It contains 242.52 hours of English telephone audio recordings and transcripts from 1,179 telephone calls involving 327 participants paired with scores from two self-reported personality assessments, HEXACO Personality Inventory (Revised) (HEXACO-PI-R) and Short Dark Triad (SD3). This corpus contains audio and transcripts for 277 participants and transcripts only for 50 participants. Telephone calls were collected using LDC's robot-operator platform<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/about/facilities/human-subjects-collection>. The operator called participants every 24 hours during their indicated availability and paired them with another participant to speak on a prompted topic for 10 minutes. Transcripts were produced automatically using the Rev.ai<https://www.rev.ai/> speech-to-text service. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T16> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 8.9 million words of Ilocano monolingual text, 3.3 million words of English monolingual text, 3.2 million words of parallel Ilocano-English text, and 3 million words annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Ilocano language used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2019 Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt-evaluations>. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity discovery and linking annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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3-year PhD Position (E13 100%) on Lightweight Language Models and Agentic AI in the DFG Project *SocEnRep* at Ulm University, Germany
by Ansgar Scherp 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Dear all, I am seeking a highly motivated PhD student to pursue her or his career in Data Science, with a focus on lightweight language models and agentic AI. ✨ *Motivation *Data Science deals with the content-driven identification and localization of digital objects such as semi-structured data on the web (e.g., Linked Open Data), documents, profiles, or communities — and with understanding the relationships among them. This includes designing innovative methodologies and algorithms as well as applying them to large and diverse data and document corpora. The work is inherently interdisciplinary and involves collaboration with fields such as the social sciences and economics. *About Us* Ulm University (UULM) is a research university with an excellent reputation for interdisciplinary research, innovation, and education. It plays a central role in the /Science City of Ulm/ — the region’s largest educational institution and a strong driver of R&D through its partnerships with non-university research institutes, maximum-care hospitals, and technology companies. UULM is ranked among the world’s top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education Ranking. 🌍 The city of Ulm was ranked Germany’s most livable and future-ready city in 2024. Located in the southeast on the Danube River, its roughly 130,000 residents enjoy a vibrant cultural heritage and beautiful natural surroundings. 🌿 *About the Position *The /Data Science and Big Data Analytics/ research group, led by Prof. Scherp, was established in 2020. It is a computer science group with a strong reputation in text and data mining — particularly deep learning methods on text, graph representation learning, and knowledge graphs. We have long-standing experience in Data Science and in interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers from, e.g., the social sciences and economics. In the DFG-funded project /SocEnRep/, we aim to develop lightweight language models and agentic AI approaches. These models will be applied to improve the reproducibility of research in economics and the social sciences. To this end, we analyze both research code and corresponding papers, and we match code executions with the results reported in publications. For the DFG-funded project /SocEnRep/, we seek: *1 Doctoral Researcher (PhD student, E13 100%)* The position is available immediately and is limited to 36 months in accordance with the German WissZeitVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). *Your Tasks* - Conduct research on lightweight language models and on developing and applying agentic AI approaches - Run experiments on large datasets following rigorous scientific procedures - Apply developed methods to improve scientific reproducibility by matching research papers with results from code re-executions 🔍 *Requirements* - Strong interest in conducting research and writing scientific papers - Very good problem-solving and programming skills - Master of Science in Computer Science *Interested?* Apply via email before /December 5th/. Please include a /motivation letter, CV, transcript of records, degree certificates, /and any /supporting materials such as letters of reference/. Screening starts immediately. We look forward to receiving your application. For questions about the position, please contact Prof. Dr. Ansgar Scherp (ansgar.scherp(a)uni-ulm.de).

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Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026 The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025 Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková Conference site: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz Key dates: Submission deadline: 16 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026 The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague on 16–19 September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. Call description We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Language for Academic and Specific Purposes Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies Corpora as Pedagogical Resources Multimodal Learner Corpora Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis Corpus-Based Translation Studies English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Data Mining and Exploratory Methods Statistical and Quantitative Approaches Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures Presentation formats We invite submissions for the following formats: Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) Corpus/Software demonstration Poster presentation Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. Abstract submission We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used A summary of the main results and their interpretation Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary). https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confe… The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026</h2> <h4><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 </h4> <h5 class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025</h5> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Conference site: <a href="https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz">https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz</a> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Key dates: Submission deadline: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 January 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> Notification of acceptance: <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Prague <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">on <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16–19 September 2026<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference, titled <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research<span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Call description </h2> We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Language for Academic and Specific Purposes</li> <li>Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing</li> <li>Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies</li> <li>Corpora as Pedagogical Resources</li> <li>Multimodal Learner Corpora</li> <li>Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis</li> <li>Corpus-Based Translation Studies</li> <li>English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)</li> <li>English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)</li> <li>Data Mining and Exploratory Methods</li> <li>Statistical and Quantitative Approaches</li> <li>Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics</li> <li>NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research</li> <li>Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures</li> </ul> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Presentation formats</h3> We invite submissions for the following formats: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)</li> <li>Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)</li> <li>Corpus/Software demonstration</li> <li>Poster presentation</li> <li>Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) </li> </ul> The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Abstract submission</h2> We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research</li> <li>A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used</li> <li>A summary of the main results and their interpretation </li> </ul> Submissions must be made via <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confe…">OpenReview</a> (registration necessary). The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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Universal Dependencies, release 2.17
by Dan Zeman 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are very happy to announce the twenty-third release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.17, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *339* treebanks in v2.17 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *186* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish, Chinese, Chintang, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, Khunsari, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Nayini, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, Soi, South Levantine Arabic, Southern Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish English, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik and Zaar. The 186 languages belong to *35* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Na-Dene, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in May 2026. The size of the following 44 treebanks changed significantly since the last release (note that UD_Occitan-CorAG has been recategorized under another language code as UD_Old_Occitan-CorAG; also, the Kurmanji language has been renamed to Northern Kurdish, and UD_Northern_Kurdish-Kurmanji is just a new name for UD_Kurmanji-MG): Alemannic DIVITAL : 0 → 19743 Ancient Hebrew PTNK : 90770 → 145866 Armenian ArmTDP : 52585 → 104293 Armenian BSUT : 41805 → 46168 Central Kurdish Mukri : 0 → 765 Chintang CTNTB : 0 → 14631 Egyptian UJaen : 21927 → 24375 English CHILDES : 226470 → 302740 English LittlePrince : 0 → 6852 Esperanto Prago : 839 → 3165 French ALTS : 43832 → 68088 French PoitevinDIVITAL : 0 → 5484 Georgian GNC : 18747 → 22547 Greek Lesbian : 3333 → 5926 Greek Messinian : 0 → 899 Hausa WesternAutogramm : 0 → 13888 Ika ChibErgIS : 3706 → 5307 Italian KIParlaForest : 0 → 9348 Korean KSL : 108072 → 137122 Middle French ALTM : 0 → 7084 Middle French PROFITEROLE: 68454 → 89809 Nenets Tundra : 651 → 1272 Nheengatu CompLin : 21813 → 26033 Northern Kurdish Kurmanji: 0 → 10259 Occitan CorAG : 37585 → 0 Old East Slavic Ruthenian: 111502 → 137333 Old French ALTM : 0 → 15285 Old Occitan CorAG : 0 → 45389 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 10287 → 17125 Pashto Sikaram : 2515 → 4067 Polish MPDT : 0 → 47273 Romanian MolDoRo : 0 → 241 Shanghainese ShUD : 0 → 8584 Sicilian STB : 0 → 11204 Sindhi Isra : 15741 → 95227 Southern Kurdish Garrusi : 0 → 1685 Swedish Old : 0 → 507 Swedish SweLL : 0 → 8644 Thai TUD : 0 → 77215 Ukrainian ParlaMint : 84189 → 109166 Umbrian IKUVINA : 786 → 1162 Uzbek UzUDT : 0 → 7542 Yiddish YiTB : 0 → 27879 Zaar Autogramm : 17682 → 20758 In total, the new release contains 2313529 sentences, 37133071 surface tokens and 37877213 syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Hamid Aghaei, Željko Agić, Amir Ahmadi, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Erik Andersen, Kirk Andrews, Matthew Andrews, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Hiwa Asadpour, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Elena Badmaeva, Jana Bajorat, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Bryan Khelven da Silva Barbosa, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Shabnam Behzad, Nathanaël Beiner, Juan Belieni, Alevtina Bémová, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Marie Benzerrak, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Delphine Bernhard, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Helin Binici, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Théo Brillet, Kristina Brokaitė, Lanni Bu, Eva Buráňová, Aljoscha Burchardt, Carmen Cabeza, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Olesea Caftanatov, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Caterina Maria Cappello, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Anila Çepani, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Claudine Chamoreau, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Esther Cocco, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Netanel Dahan, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Sabrina D'Alì, Philemon Daniel, Khensa Daoudi, Bijayalaxmi Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ahmet Demir, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Ariani Di Felippo, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Louise Esher, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Ján Faryad, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Barbara Francioni, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, José María García-Miguel, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Gili Goldin, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Mathieu Goux, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Mario Guglielmetti, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Vladimir Gurevich, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Michael Hahn, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Eva Hajičová, Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Jiří Havelka, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Barbara Hoff, Petter Hohle, Nick Howell, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Jessica K. Ivani, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee, Katharine Jiang, Sylvanus Job, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Zhuoxuan Ju, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Jiří Kárník, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Veronika Kolářová, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Nelda Kote, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Emmanuelle Kowner, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Lucie Kučová, Adrian Kuqi, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Israel Landau, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Pierre Larrivée, Kusum Lata, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Wei Qi Leong, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Lori Levin, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yang Janet Liu, Zoey Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Markéta Lopatková, Lucelene Lopes, Edita Luftiu, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Punyanuch Maitreenukul, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Arianna Masciolini, Jan Mašek, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Caterina Mauri, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Hilla Merhav, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Marie Mikulová, Emilia Milano, Aleksandra Miletić, Aaron Miller, Junghyun Min, Yael Minerbi, Jiří Mírovský, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, Biswakalpita Mohapatra, AmirHossein Mojiri Foroushani, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Katerina Mouzou, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Nikolett Mus, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Minoo Nassajian, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Michal Novák, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Masanori Oya, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Petr Pajas, Thomas Palakapilly, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Jarmila Panevová, Ludovica Pannitto, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Shantipriya Parida, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Oggi Peeters, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Eva Pettersson, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Charin Polpanumas, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Clamença Poujade, Rangga Prangwedana Prangwedana, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Ella Rabinovich, Alexandre Rademaker, Mutee-u Rahman, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Norton Trevisan Roman, Mykhailo Romanenko, Natalia Romanova, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Paulette Roulon, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Rozana Rushiti, Attapol T. Rutherford, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Saraswati Sahoo, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Robert Schikowski, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Jean Sibille, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Dolores Sollberger, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Nina Speransky, Rachele Sprugnoli, Panyut Sriwirote, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Omer Strass, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Sara Stymne, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Jack Sun, Hakyung Sung, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Maria Irena Szawerna, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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D&I Subsidies + Mentorship for IJCNLP-AACL 2025: Application deadline extended to Nov 20
by Tirthankar Ghosal 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

Hello all, The application deadline for Diversity and Inclusion subsidies to attend IJCNLP-AACL 2025 is extended until November 20, 2025. https://2025.aaclnet.org/calls/subsidies/ Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar Ghosal (D&I Co-chair, IJCNLP-AACL 2025) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Phrasenet Database Toolbox
by JLDLME 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We are glad to announce the release and availability of the PhraseNET Database Toolbox v3, a web app for mobile phones & tablets with an icon menu with 29 resources. PhraseNET Database Toolbox for Mobile Devices (https://www.phrasenet.com/webapp/index.html) is part of an integrated cross-platform package that works across all Windows and Android environments. However, here the focus is only on the reduced version, which has an icon menu for mobile devices and allows desktop use. The user interface contains open dialogues related to the extraction and loading of n-grams, collocations, phraseology, phrasal verbs, keywords, and storage of corpus in databases and concordancers based on web corpus and database corpus, which line up a list of words to the right and left that can vary on either side, providing an easily identifiable view of the keywords that are in the center, representing a small sample of the context in which they are found or of the complete sentence. The CHADES (Corpus Hispanoamericano del Español) is integrated into PhraseNET in such a way that it allows the extraction of phraseological units, searching by keywords. And the linear text is available online at https://chades.com.br/chades/chades.html. Without hypertextualization, the same corpus with hypertextualization is available at http://dhytex.com/dhytex.html in a non-linear way. It’s a set of compiled texts, written by native speakers of Spanish in many varieties, extracted from literature and newspapers, and based on both printed and digital sources. Sincerely, J. L. De LUCCA Universidad Politècnica de Valencia, PhD, 2011 Sao Paulo University, PhD, 2001

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Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1)
by ACL Announcements 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA - Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA, which stands for Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate, is SemEval 2026's Task 1 [1] and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The task is organized into two subtasks: * Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. * Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a free-form humorous caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026 Links: ------ [1] https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/

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PROPOR 2026: Deadline extended
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

We gladly inform that *PROPOR 2026*, the17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 has extended the submission date to *7 December 2025*. Check the website for more details: https://propor2026.ufba.br/#cfp Larissa Freitas and Diana Santos, Program Chairs

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High- Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 19, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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Two Postdoctoral opportunities in Latin and Computational Linguistics at King’s College London
by Barbara McGillivray 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

(apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, We are looking for two Postdoctoral Research Associates (in Latin Linguistics and in computational linguistics) for theERC-selected project “Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics” (COALA) at King’s College London. Led by Dr Barbara McGillivray, the project is funded by UKRI under the ERC Guarantee scheme and explores Latin semantics through large-scale corpus annotation and computational analysis, combining NLP with historical linguistics. Location: Strand Campus, London Fixed-term: 3 years Closing date for applications: 2 December 2025 1. Post-doctoral research associate in Latin Linguistics The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation. Fixed-term: 3 years Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130725-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-latin… 2. Post-doctoral research associate in Computational Linguistics The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation. Fixed-term: 2 years and 11 months Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130705-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-compu… Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | <https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> @BarbaraMcGilli<https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Open Research Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/>

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Second Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by t.ranasinghe＠lancaster.ac.uk 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various 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: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here - Latex - https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 Word - https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ The conference will feature a student workshop, and awards will be offered to the authors of the best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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Reminder: CIRCE Online Seminar | 24/11/2025 | Dr. Samantha Jackson | "Biased ears: Investigating and reducing accent discrimination in hiring evaluations"
by Claudia Soria 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

*🎓 *We are happy to remind you the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Samantha Jackson* /University of Toronto, Canada/ */Biased ears: Investigating and reducing accent discrimination in hiring evaluations/* 📅 *November 24, 2025* 🕓 *4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Researchers, secondary school teachers, language instructors *Summary: *As international migration continues to increase (IOM 2024), the last few years have seen a growth in nationalist politics (Bieber 2018) and anti-immigrant sentiments, despite economic reliance on immigrants in many Global North countries. Immigrants bring not only their skills and experience, but also their multifaceted identities, which are partly reflected in their accents. A listener’s language attitudes often reflect broader social attitudes (Lippi-Green 2012), influencing their valuation of their interlocutor’s words. In the workplace, such biases can influence decisions in hiring, promotion and conflict resolution, creating pressures for immigrants to assimilate linguistically. In the current climate, it is therefore important that equitable workplace practices are engrained. This talk uses Canada as a case study to explore accent discrimination against immigrants in the job interview, a key “gatekeeping encounter” (Erickson 1976). Canada’s laws promote mutual acceptance of all cultures and identities. The project involved 96 Human Resources students trained in recruitment and selection, who evaluated scripted interview responses from women born and raised in Canada, China, England, Germany, India, Jamaica, and Nigeria. Participants were unaware the responses were scripted. A mixed methods analysis of scores and comments indicates significant bias against non-Canadian accents. The standard Canadian accent was associated with greater competence, comprehensibility, desirability and aesthetic appeal. The talk concludes with an introduction to a new cross-disciplinary project aimed at mitigating the biases that were uncovered. *Bio: *Samantha Jackson is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Linguistics and the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication. Her research interests stem from the need to address societal issues such as accent discrimination, bias in large language models and under-documented language acquisition norms. Her pedagogical interests focus on student engagement and research-informed teaching. Register at the seminar registration page: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5322572e-6caf-42f4-826b-24e9a13fa9… Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. Upcoming webinars: - Julia Swan (Monday, 15 December 2025) The recording of the last CIRCE seminar by Onur Özkaynak is now available on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/en/login>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu. All the best, Claudia Soria CIRCE Project

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2025 - London, 25-26 November
by Udo Kruschwitz 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Search Solutions 2025 is the UK’s premier forum for presenting the latest innovations in search and information retrieval, organised by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Tutorial Day: Tuesday 25 November 2025 Conference Day: Wednesday 26 November 2025 Location: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, EC2R 7BP The conference brings together practitioners, researchers, and end-users to share insights between research and practice. This year’s programme features sessions on Evaluation, User-Centred Search, Search Effectiveness, and Professional Search, with contributions from academic and industry leaders including Sease, University of Glasgow, City St George’s, France Labs, Zuva, Trip Database, and others. The day concludes with the BCS Search Industry Awards, drinks reception, and AGM. Ticket prices (incl. VAT & fees) * BCS/ISKO members – £92 * Non-members – £110 * Students – £80 Full agenda and registration: * Conference – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025 <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-2025> * Tutorials – https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial… <https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/november/search-solutions-tutorial…> We look forward to welcoming you to another inspiring event showcasing the latest innovations in search and information retrieval.

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1st call Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) External Inbox
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

**2nd CALL FOR PAPERS** 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*EACL 2026*, https://2026.eacl.org/), *Rabat, Morocco*. Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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WSDM Cup 2026 - Call for Participation
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

WSDM Cup 2026 - MULTILINGUAL RETRIEVAL https://wsdmcup-2026.github.io *** CHALLENGE FEATURES *** Why you should care about this Cup! * Multilingual: Search with queries and documents in different languages is difficult. * For Better RAG: Incorporating information in different languages is critical for effective RAG. * Informational Queries: We prepare rich information queries instead of factoid QA questions. *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems provide an opportunity to expand the scope of available information to users, since they are able to retrieve and synthesize information from documents in languages that the user does not necessarily understand. The ability to retrieve documents only based on their relevance, regardless of language, is crucial for modern retrieval models to support better coverage of perspectives from different parts of the world. Thus, WSDM Cup 2026 features a multilingual retrieval task. The participants will develop systems that receive English queries and search a collection of about 10 million documents (https://huggingface.co/datasets/neuclir/neuclir1) in Chinese (3.1M), Persian (2.2M), and Russian (4.6M). For each query, the system must produce a ranked list of 1,000 documents selected from the entire multilingual collection, ordered by likelihood and relevance to the topic. All systems should operate automatically without human intervention. Submissions must be in the TREC run file format. Each team may submit up to 5 submissions and will be evaluated using nDCG@20. *** PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS *** There are 41 development queries that the participants can use in system development. Participants are free to use other data, such as MIRACL. However, using the TREC NeuCLIR Track data besides the development queries provided by the organizers is strongly prohibited. The participants should not use the publicly available relevance assessments on this specific collection (NeuCLIR) besides the development queries and labels provided by the Cup. Participants will be asked to provide code for their training and inference process either through a tarball submission or a publicly available repository. All participants are expected to submit a short write-up about their submissions (similar to the TREC system paper). Selected teams (including the winner of the Cup) will receive a slot at WSDM for oral presentation. Submissions will also be made to the submission Google Form. All test queries should have at least 20 retrieved documents in each submission file. The following is an example of the submission format (the TREC run format). *** IMPORTANT DATES *** * November 17, 2025: Document collection, development/test queries, and the submission portal are available. * December 1, 2025: Online Q&A session if needed * February 2, 2025: Submission due * February 22-26, 2026: WSDM Conference; winner and evaluation result announcement. An overview technical report will be released along with the final results. *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** * Dawn Lawrie (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Sean Macavaney (University of Glasgow) * James Mayfield (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Luca Soldaini (Allen Institute for AI) * Eugene Yang (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University) * Andrew Yates (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University)

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WSDM 2026 - Call for WSDM Day Presentations
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

WSDM 2026: 19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Feb 22, 2026 - Feb 26, 2026 Boise, Idaho, USA Call for WSDM Day Presentations Submission deadline: November 18, 2025 Notification: December 2, 2025 WSDM Day Date: February 26, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth. -------------------------------------------------------- Artificial intelligence has become a critical enabler of scientific discovery, amplifying and accelerating research through massive literature analysis, hypotheses generation, design and control of experiments, collection and interpretation of large datasets, and scalable verification and validation. Autonomous science is an emerging field that uses artificial intelligence, robotics, and automated systems to conduct scientific experiments and discovery, enhancing human capabilities. This year, the WSDM Day will be held on February 26th, 2026, aiming to promote WSDM-aligned topics relevant to autonomous science and discuss the “State of Data Mining & Web Search in Scientific Discovery.” The organizing committee invites submissions for oral/poster presentation on topics aligned with those set forth in the call for papers of the main conference, focusing on issues relevant to autonomous science. We welcome all submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: * Agentic models for reasoning in science * Agentic AI and LLM-based systems are increasingly being used to support hypothesis generation and reasoning over complex models. Integrating web search and data mining allows these agents to continuously draw upon open scientific resources, digital libraries, and web knowledge graphs, thereby grounding hypotheses in the latest accessible evidence. Such integration accelerates workflows in fundamental sciences as well as user facility operations wherein researchers must make data-driven decisions regarding experimental and simulation design and control. By embedding reasoning into agents with web-mined knowledge, autonomous systems can help scientists frame and test ideas quickly and efficiently. Topics in this area include: ** LLMs and agentic models for hypothesis generation and knowledge extraction that leverage large-scale web-mined corpora and open-access repositories. ** Query formulation and expansion using scientific knowledge bases and web-scale search engines. ** Multi-agent systems for problem solving in scientific workflows enriched by open data and community-contributed resources. ** Foundation models for single and multiple scientific domains, trained and evaluated on mined web and literature data. ** Privacy, trust, and interpretability in autonomous reasoning systems that rely on heterogeneous, web-sourced knowledge. -------------------------------------------------------- * Embodied intelligence for autonomous experiments * Laboratories increasingly integrate robotics and AI for high-throughput experimentation and autonomous sample handling. Embodied intelligence can enable closed-loop operation of particle accelerator beamlines, synthesis robots, and advanced microscopes, reducing human intervention and increasing reproducibility. Web search and data mining provide complementary resources by enabling embodied systems to draw on prior experimental data, shared lab protocols, and open-access knowledge to guide adaptive control. There is also strong interest in developing digital twins of experimental systems that integrate web-accessible datasets to guide exploration of large parameter spaces. Topics in this area include: ** Robotics and mechatronics for operating experiments, informed by mined online design repositories and shared experimental logs. ** Closed-loop control in complex laboratory settings that leverages streaming data and searchable metadata collections. ** Benchmarking and validation through open science datasets, test collections, and evaluation methodologies made discoverable via data mining. ** Digital twins and online data streaming for linking simulation to experiment, enriched by knowledge integration from web and community datasets. -------------------------------------------------------- * Search and planning algorithms for scientific discovery * Search and planning algorithms play a central role in scientific discovery pipelines, from designing materials with desired properties to planning experiments. When integrated with web search and data mining, such algorithms can exploit open repositories of molecular structures, experimental data, or prior results to guide decision-making. In laboratories, adaptive planning algorithms can maximize information gain from limited resources, such as beam time and sample availability, while leveraging web-accessible experiment registries. This area also includes the operational task of optimal planning and scheduling of experiments at scientific facilities, aided by searchable databases of facility usage and constraints. Topics in this area include: ** Tree search, graph algorithms, and combinatorial methods that integrate mined data from scientific publications and web repositories. ** Filtering and re-ranking results based on relevance and criticality using web-scale knowledge graphs and citation networks. ** Reinforcement learning and adaptive experimental design augmented with external data mined from past studies. ** Planning and scheduling under uncertainty in constrained environments, supported by searchable facility schedules and open metadata. -------------------------------------------------------- * Data reduction at scale * Science experiments and simulations often generate petabytes of multi-modal data. Example data sources include particle collisions, climate simulations, or high-resolution microscopy images and spectra. In-situ and edge computing strategies must be used to perform reduction and compression at the source. Web search and data mining play an essential role in discovering, indexing, and linking these massive datasets with open-access resources, enabling cross-facility comparisons and meta-analysis. These capabilities are crucial for processing data from user facilities and making large-scale simulation models usable in practice. Topics in this area include: ** In-situ and edge computing for real-time reduction of experimental data, linked to searchable web repositories for downstream use. ** Streaming analytics for large-scale experimental datasets integrated with data mining for anomaly detection and trend discovery. ** Compression, summarization, and representation learning for scientific data, with searchable embeddings accessible via open web interfaces. -------------------------------------------------------- *** Submission Guidelines *** Submissions are invited in the form of 4-page papers (with an additional one page for references) or a 2-page abstract for poster and demonstration proposals. All submissions must adhere to the formatting requirements specified in the conference’s author guidelines, available at https://wsdm-conference.org/2026/index.php/call-for-short-papers/. Submissions are now open via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026, select WSDM Day Presentations Track). Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner by at least two reviewers and must include all authors’ names and affiliations. Papers that fail to adhere to the submission guidelines or fall outside the scope of relevant topics will be rejected without review. The papers will go through a peer reviewed process, and the accepted papers would be presented as an oral or poster presentation during the WSDM Day. Accepted papers will be featured in the WSDM Day program and included in the conference proceedings with the ACM Digital Library, with a strict 2-page limit for all content. Dual-submission policy: We welcome ongoing and unpublished work. We also welcome papers that are under review at the time of submission. Presentation: The presentation format will include short oral presentations (e.g., talks ranging from 10 to 15 minutes) and poster session. At least one author of each accepted presentation must register in the conference and be able to present the work during WSDM Day 2026. We look forward to your submissions and participation in this exciting event! -------------------------------------------------------- *** Contact *** For questions or additional information, please contact the organizing committee at WSDM2026-day(a)easychair.org: Organizing Committee: * Mahantesh Halappanavar (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) * Natalie Isenberg (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) * Nathan Urban (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 1st Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Submissions
by Alba Bisante 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities. Interactive Experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers, and artists. Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields. Please notice that: The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs before submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION FORMAT All the papers mentioned above require online submission. Specific information concerning the submission (e.g., submission format) is available on the AVI website. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive, and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Tanja Döring, TU Berlin, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Mehdi Rizvi, Heriot Watt University, UK Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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[IberLEF 2026] Call for Task Proposals
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

================================= IberLEF 2026 -- Call for Task Proposals ================================= IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take place in León, Spain. The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2026. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 3, 2026). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2026. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 23, 2026. Proceedings IberLEF 2026 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JIF: 1,22), CiteScore (Scopus): 7,3 and SJR: 0,57) in its September 2026 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the acceptance of their works by June 19, 2026, and send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 3, 2026. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2026. - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026. - Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19, 2026. - Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026. - IberLEF Workshop: September 22, 2026. IberLEF general chairs Alba Bonet Jover, GPLSI, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com =================================

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Call for Posters – FoIKS 2026 (Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026)
by Yasir mahmood 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

** *CALL FOR POSTERS14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) Hannover, Germany, March 23–26, 2026https://foiks2026.github.io/ <https://foiks2026.github.io/>**.* <https://foiks2026.github.io/> *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *FoIKS 2026 invites poster contributions presenting fresh research ideas in the broad area of information and knowledge systems. Poster papers need not report mature scientific results; they can also describe early-stage work, starting points for discussions, or novel perspectives on known problems.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IMPORTANT DATES* * * Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Notification: January 19, 2026 * Final version due: January 26, 2026 * Conference: March 23–26, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: discrete structures, algorithms, graphs, formal languages * Database Design and Management: formal models, dependencies, transactions, concurrency control * Logics in Databases and AI: classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial/temporal logics, argumentation, probability and fuzzy logic * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: logical and non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning under inconsistency, vagueness, or uncertainty * Foundations of Neuro-symbolic Reasoning: embeddings for structured information (knowledge graphs, logical theories, etc.) * Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, formal models of interaction, coalition formation, epistemic reasoning * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis, association rules, information extraction * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: privacy, trust, access control, secure services, inference control, risk management * Integrity and Constraint Management: verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Knowledge Graphs and Semi-structured Data: data modelling, processing, compression, and exchange ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Poster papers must use the Springer LNCS LaTeX style (seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings… <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>).Submissions that deviate substantially from the guidelines may be rejected without review. * Review process: single-blind (submissions are not anonymous). * Length: up to 5 pages including all material, i.e. including references and no additional resources. * Submissions: PDF format only (final versions require LaTeX sources). * Submission link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks2026> Poster papers will undergo a rather lightweight review process. A good poster paper should include motivation, a clear problem statement, and initial results or report on work in progress. Preliminary ideas and modest extensions of previous work are welcome. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register for the conference. Each accepted poster will be presented in a lightning talk and a poster session at FoIKS 2026. For inquiries, contact: foiks2026(a)easychair.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLICATION Accepted poster papers will appear in the FoIKS 2026 proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS * Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION Program Committee Chairs:Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Paderborn University, Germany)Jonni Virtema (University of Glasgow, UK) Local Chair:Arne Meier (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) Publicity Chair:Yasir Mahmood (Paderborn University, Germany) Local Organizers:Timon Barlag, Nicolas Fröhlich, Vivian Holzapfel, Rahel Kluge,Laura Strieker, Heribert Vollmer (all Leibniz Universität Hannover) Program Committee:Ringo Baumann, Meghyn Bienvenu, Thomas Bolander, Stefan Borgwardt,Elena Botoeva, Willem Conradie, Fabio Cozman, Thomas Eiter,Flavio Ferrarotti, Johannes K. Fichte, Valentin Goranko,Guido Governatori, Marc Gyssens, Miika Hannula, Jelle Hellings,Andreas Herzig, Martin Homola, Tomi Janhunen, Matti Järvisalo,Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Sébastien Konieczny, Juha Kontinen,Mena Leemhuis, Joao Leite, Sebastian Link, Maria Vanina Martinez,Arne Meier, Thomas Meyer, Daniel Neider, Magdalena Ortiz,Nina Pardal, Elena Ravve, Sebastian Rudolph, Katsuhiko Sano,Konstantin Schekotihin, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Guillermo R. Simari,Jan Van den Bussche, Stefan Woltran, Thomas Ågotnes, Mantas Šimkus *

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2nd Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Dear all, This is the second CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting): — VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA) VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks - Training data release: November 30, 2025 - Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025 - System submission deadline: January 10, 2025 - System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025 Workshop Organizers Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway) Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de

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Share your feedback and help shape the future of CLARIN.SI
by Taja Kuzman Pungeršek 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

* Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in a survey that will help us evaluate and plan the development of services, activities, resources, and tools of CLARIN.SI, the Slovenian infrastructure for language resources and technologies. Your responses will play a key role in shaping our future strategy and ensuring our infrastructure meets the needs of the research community. Take the anonymous survey here: https://1ka.arnes.si/clarin?language=2<https://1ka.arnes.si/clarin?language=2>The survey takes up to 15 minutes and is open until the end of November. If you use, contribute to, or are simply interested in the language data, services and technologies that CLARIN.SI offers, please take part – and share the survey with others in your network. Note: This is the English version of the Slovenian survey that was available in March 2025. If you have already completed the survey in Slovenian, please do not fill it out again. Best regards, The CLARIN.SI Team *

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CFP: ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] First Call for Papers The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages--which account for at least 85% of the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities- have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, _LaTeLL_ represents the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in particular. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad spectrum of topics concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages * Dataset creation and annotation * Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings * Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases * Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection * Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages * Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages * Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding * Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation * Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing * Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages * Information extraction and named entity recognition * Question answering systems * Dialogue and interactive systems * Summarisation * Machine translation * Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining * Content moderation * Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages * Vision and language for low-resource contexts * Speech and text multimodal systems * Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages * Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies * Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development * Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages * Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies * Educational applications and language learning * Community needs assessment and technology adoption * User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages * Multilingual language models and their adaptation * Code-switching and code-mixing * Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages _LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dialect identification and classification * Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects * Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects * Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic * Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects * NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content * Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages Submissions and Publication _LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: * Regular (long) papers:Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. * Short (poster) papers:Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers--both long and short--will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Further details regarding the submission process will be provided in the Second Call for Papers, scheduled for release in November 2025. The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 1 May 2026 * Reviewing process: 20 May - 20 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026 * Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026 * Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ [1] and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open in March 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/

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PhD position in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (LIACS, Leiden University) - Deadline Approaching
by Plaza del Arco, F.M. (Flor Miriam) 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Apologies for the cross-posting. ⏳ Only 5 days left to apply! PhD position in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (LIACS, Leiden University) Please note the updated application link (due to a recent university webpage update). Link: https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Candidate-in-Emotionally-and-… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, We are looking for a PhD candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing at LIACS, Leiden University. The PhD will be supervised by myself, Prof. Suzan Verberne, and Prof. Joost Broekens. The position is part of the Human-AI cluster, a great environment for interdisciplinary research where AI and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. This PhD position focuses on advancing AI models that don’t just optimize for accuracy, but also recognize and respond to emotions responsibly and adapt to social context. Current systems often reproduce or amplify social biases, generate toxic context, or do not respond safely to emotional cues. The goal of this PhD is to design AI systems that promote inclusivity, fairness, and emotional intelligence in human-AI interaction, with a particular focus on applications in mental well-being, education, and other socially sensitive contexts where how AI interacts with people has a big impact. The deadline to apply is November 17, 2025. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad: https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Candidate-in-Emotionally-and-… Best regards, Flor Plaza ------------------------------------------------ Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Human AI Leiden University Office: BM 3.03, Gorlaeus Gebouw – BE-vleugel Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, Netherlands 🌐 Website<https://fmplaza.github.io/> | 🦋 BlueSky<http://florplaza.bsky.social/> Classified as Internal | Intern

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[EACL WASSA Workshop] 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 2nd Call for Papers
by Roman Klinger 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

*15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 2nd Call for Papers* *EACL’26, March 24–29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco, Half Day Workshop* *Background and Envisaged Scope* *Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis has become a highly developed research area, ranging from binary classification of reviews to the detection of complex emotion structures between entities found in text. This field has expanded both on a practical level, finding numerous successful applications in business, as well as on a theoretical level, allowing researchers to explore more complex research questions related to affective computing. Its continuing importance is also shown by the interest it generates in other disciplines such as Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Marketing, Crisis Management & Digital Humanities, where it can support the study of online interactions, group dynamics, and public discourse.* *The aim of WASSA 2026 is to bring together researchers working on Subjectivity, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Detection and Classification and their applications to other NLP or real-world tasks (e.g. public health messaging, fake news, media impact analysis, social media mining, computational literary studies) and researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation from text. We encourage the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but not restricted to the following topics:* * *Resources for subjectivity, sentiment, emotion and social media analysis* * *Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and summarization* * *Humor, Irony and Sarcasm detection* * *Mis- and disinformation analysis and the role of affective attributes* * *Aspect and topic-based sentiment and emotion analysis* * *Analysis of stable traits of social media users, incl. personality analysis and profiling* * *Transfer learning for domain, language and genre portability of sentiment analysis* * *Modelling commonsense knowledge for subjectivity, sentiment or emotion analysis* * *Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Application of theories from related fields to subjectivity and sentiment analysis* * *Multimodal emotion detection and classification* * *Social Groups analysis and their interactions in Social Media* * *Generation, detection, and evaluation of subjectivity, sentiment, and emotion in NLP tasks with LLMs* * *Risks, challenges, and ethical implications of affective uses of LLMs* * *The role of emotions in argument mining* * *Applications of sentiment and emotion mining* * *Public sentiments and communication patterns of public health emergencies.* * *The analysis of pretrained small and large language models.* *Finally, this year we also propose a special trackon multilinguality and socio-cultural adaptation to lesser-resourced languages/communities. * *In general, we particularly invite contributions from young researchers, work on low-resource languages, multilingual methods, and interdisciplinary work.* *Important dates* * *December 17, 2025: Direct submission deadline* * *January 2, 2026: ARR submission deadline* * *January 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance* * *February 3, 2026: Camera Ready Papers due* * *March 24–29, 2026: EACL with WASSA workshop on one of the days.* *Shared tasks* *We do not offer a shared task this year.* *Papers* *At WASSA 2026, we will accept three types of submissions:* *For the regular research track we accept long& shortpapers.* *Additionally, we accept double submissions and double commitment of ARR reviews in parallel to WASSA and another venue. Please note that you must immediately withdraw your paper from WASSA if you decide to publish it elsewhere. Check with the other venue if they also allow double submissions.* *Longpapers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. A- subset of these papers will be presented orally.* *Shortpapers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. Most of these papers will be presented as posters.* *Also this year there is an industry track, for which we accept demo papers. Demo papersdescribe system demonstrations, ranging from early prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate for this track. Demo papers may consist of up to six (6) pages of content, these will be presented as a poster and should include a live demonstration.* *Submission procedure and templates* *Submissions without reviews can be done directly through our Open Review side (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/WASSA).* *Authors who received reviews already through the ACL Rolling Review process are invited to commit their reviewed paper to WASSA. To do so, please go to our ARR Website and click on “ACL 2026 Workshop WASSA Commitment Submission”. You will then need to add the title, the URL to the ARR submission with reviews + metareview, and other information.* *Both long and short papers must be anonymised for double-blind reviewing, must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>, and must use the ACL templates (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). The submitting author must have an OpenReview profile* *Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data* *ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary materials may include appendices, software or data. For example, pre processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into appendices. However, if the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider material in appendices. Appendices should come after the references in the submitted pdf, but do not count towards the page limit. Software should be submitted as a single .tgz or .zip archive, and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive. Supplementary materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way anonymized reviewing policy and must not exceed 100MB.* *Organizers* * Jeremy Barnes, University of the Basque Country Valentin Barriere, University of Chile Orphée De Clercq, Ghent University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Célia Nouri, Inria and Sciences Po Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Pranaydeep Singh, Ghent University Contact Email: wassaworkshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://workshop-wassa.github.io/ * -- Prof. Dr. Roman Klinger (he/him) Professor for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences (WIAI) Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Office: Room 02.10; Gutenbergstr. 13; 96050 Bamberg; Germany Phone: +49 951 863 3320 Mail:roman.klinger@uni-bamberg.de WWW: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/ https://www.romanklinger.de/

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Postdoc position in multilingual NLP at Uppsala University
by Joakim Nivre 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral research to work on multilingual NLP. The deadline for applying is November 26 and it is possible to apply even if you don’t yet have your PhD degree (but expect to get it within 1–2 months). Here is the full announcement: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=… Joakim Nivre Professor of Computational Linguistics Uppsala University När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas
by Elen Le Foll 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the winter 2025/26 edition of *ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas* <https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/specials/reproducibilitea-…> with a host of wonderful guest speakers, exciting discussion topics, and several hands-on workshops, too! We are sticking to our usual, informal discussion format and 4 o'clock tea time; however we have moved to *Thursday afternoons*. You can find the full schedule on our homepage <https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/specials/reproducibilitea-…> with topics ranging from reproducibility, data sharing, and replication to research integrity, participant consent, and the use of generative AI in (linguistics) research. For those of you who use digital calenders, the dates are also available for download in standard ical format <https://www.edulabs.uni-koeln.de/calendar.php?client_id=iliasedulabs&token=…> and for Google calenders <https://www.edulabs.uni-koeln.de/calendar.php?client_id=iliasedulabs&token=…>. We are kicking things off this coming *Thursday 13 November 16-17:30 CET* with corpus linguist Amalia Canes-Nápoles**from the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Cologne. Amalia will share insights into "Reproducibility in automated corpus compilation: Challenges of dynamic workflows" and will lead a broader discussion on computational reproducibility in day-to-day research. Future guest speakers include three more distinguished linguists: Lukas Sönning, Mark Dingemanse, and Maryam Mohammadi, plus several Quarto workshops led by myself, and fellow linguists and co-organisers of ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas: Gabriele Schwiertz and Denis Arnold. You can join us in person at the University Library in Cologne where we serve a range of teas and biscuits or brew your own and join us via Zoom. Please join our mailing list to get the Zoom links: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas. We aim to be as inclusive as possible: from B.A. students to full professors, everyone is welcome and there are no silly questions! The full schedule can be found here: https://ub.uni-koeln.de/kurse-beratung/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-hum…. Best, Elen

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2nd CfP SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 Workshop at EACL 2026
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual events which also host the SIGHUM business meetings. Workshop site https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/sighum-latech-clfl-2026/ Important dates Submission deadline: January 5th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 10th, 2026 Description The community of the broadly understood Digital Humanities (DH) has witnessed remarkable growth and transformation, fueled by the rapid advancements in NLP. There is a steady interest in, and a high demand for, NLP methods of semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of primary and secondary data. Even so, the heterogeneous landscape of the DH with their diverse, often multi-lingual or multi-modal sources can be a challenge for NLP. Consider, for example, the growing interest in historical language data and in under-resourced languages. There are unique obstacles in developing comprehensive language models in aid of the linguistic diversity in DH. The handling of noisy and non-standard data, and the need for domain adaptation and intensive annotation, continue to be at the forefront of research effort in the community. The literary studies, which have witnessed substantial progress in the application of NLP methods, bring their own similar problems. Navigating forms of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. A case in point might be the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, the recognition of certain literary devices, or the quantitative analysis of poetry. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) expands the DH toolkit. There is support for automatic text cleaning and annotation, creation of semantic resources, analysis of narrative, genre and literary style, and linking information across sources. LLMs can support historical or low-resource languages, particularly when complemented with domain-specific fine-tuning and careful evaluation. One must note, however, that even with careful adaptation, curation and attention to interpretability, LLM outputs remain prone to errors, biases and lack of transparency; that requires rigorous assessment to ensure their suitability for scholarly research. There is growing emphasis on the importance of explanation in NLP models. That applied equally to DH, whose various domains enjoy the effect of NLP. Transparency and clarity of the results are critical if one is to accept the processed data, and gain valuable insights. That is why one must carefully consider a balance between raw performance scores and interpretability, in keeping with the specific research objectives. For many years now, this broad research context has drawn together NLP experts, data specialists and researchers in Digital Humanities who work in and across their domains. Our long-standing series of workshops has shown that cross-disciplinary exchange supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities. It encourages the Computational Linguistics community to build rich, effective tools and, above all, interpretable models. Topics Our workshops attract original work on a wide variety of topics, including – but as usual not restricted to – these: adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; identification and analysis of literary genres; information/knowledge modelling in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage; interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI); linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; low-resource and historical language processing; modelling dialogue literary style for generation; profiling and authorship attribution; search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language Information for authors We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. We will consider long papers, short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. A short paper / demo presenting work in progress or the description of a system may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2026 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it). Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Please keep references to your own work at a reasonable minimum, and do not use anonymous citations. In accordance with the EACL 2026 policy on multiple submission, we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. During the review period, papers submitted to our workshop cannot also be submitted elsewhere. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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PhD/Postdoc Positions on LLM Architectures, Interpretability, and Safety
by Michael Hahn 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

The Language, Computation, and Cognition Lab (LaCoCo) <https://lacoco-lab.github.io/home/> at Saarland Informatics Campus (Saarbrücken, Germany), directed by Michael Hahn <https://mhahn.info/>, invites applications for fully funded PhD and postdoc positions, with a flexible start date. * RESEARCH AREAS * We’re especially excited about projects on: * Architectural limitations of large language models (LLMs), especially from theoretical perspectives * New architectures and efficient reasoning for LLMs * Mechanistic interpretability * Theoretical foundations for AI safety You’ll have substantial freedom to shape your topic within the lab’s scope. *ABOUT THE LAB* The lab is generously supported by an Emmy Noether grant (DFG) and has substantial GPU resources. We regularly publish at top venues (e.g., six NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR papers in 2024–2025; ACL Best Paper 2024) and are embedded in a world-class environment: Saarland University (Departments of Computer Science and Language Science & Technology) <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/>, MPI for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home>, MPI-SWS <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, CISPA <https://cispa.de/en>, and DFKI <https://www.dfki.de/en/web>. Learn more about the lab at https://lacoco-lab.github.io/ <https://lacoco-lab.github.io/><https://lacoco-lab.github.io/> *HOW TO APPLY * Please follow the procedure here: https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/ <https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/><https://lacoco-lab.github.io/joining/> Deadline: December 20, 2025. For questions, please contact Michael Hahn, mhahn(a)lst.uni-saarland.de Applicants are expected to have a Master's degree by the start date. Applicants who only have an undergraduate degree should instead apply to the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science <https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/>. -- Michael Hahn Assistant Professor Saarland Informatics Campus Saarland University Group: https://lacoco-lab.github.io/ Personal: https://www.mhahn.info/

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Online info session: MS in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University (Washington DC)
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

The MS in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC is now accepting applications for admission in Fall 2026. The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2026. � You're invited to an online information session on Friday, Nov. 21, 10:00am-11:00am US ET, where you can meet faculty and learn more about the program. Register here. You'll learn about our faculty, coursework, research opportunities, how to craft your application, and alumni placement. Join us! About the Program: We are a small, selective 2-year STEM-designated program that affords extensive curricular, research, and career opportunities. At Georgetown, you will benefit from: � * Cutting-edge courses: Core faculty are leaders in several areas of computational linguistics, with expertise including natural language processing (NLP), psycholinguistics, corpus development, low-resource languages, digital humanities, and the study of LLMs. The program also provides strong linguistic grounding in phonology, syntax, and semantics. * Flexible course pathways suited to your linguistic and/or computational experience. * A vibrant culture of research collaboration across the labs, with many MS students choosing to participate in research. * Close interdisciplinary connections with the Computer Science department for an expansive set of courses and research options. * Access to customized career advising from a faculty career advisor, as well as career opportunities in the Washington, DC region. * A network of alumni who have built careers in industry, government, and academia. * International students benefit from the STEM OPT extension to 3 years. Find more information about the Georgetown University Computational Linguistics community here, including our alumni placements. Application instructions can be found here and you can start your application here. � We look forward to meeting you soon! Nathan Schneider, Ethan Wilcox and Amir Zeldes � �

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[CFP] Advanced Visual Interfaces / AVI 2026 / 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals
by Daniela FOGLI 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Interfaces for Sound and Music Multi-sensory Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization Training and Learning Systems Industry 5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452> -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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1st Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs and Language Models (SESAME) Workshop
by Ansgar Scherp 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

Dear all. The following new JCDL workshop might be of interest to you: **1st Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs and Language Models (SESAME) Workshop** - during JCDL 2025 (Virtual Event) - to be held on 15-19, December 2025 > SESAME brings together researchers and practitioners to explore how AI-driven curation approaches leveraging large language models and knowledge graphs to strengthen digital libraries infrastructures. https://sesame-workshop.github.io/SESAME/ Deadline for submissions is **Friday, November 7th, AoE** Topics of interest include: - Research Artifacts Metadata Modeling and Granularity - Large Language Models (LLMs) and NLP for Metadata - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data - Digital Libraries and Infrastructure - Societal, Ethical Impact and Future Policy Directions Please consider submitting. The event is fully online, so the barrier to entry is low. The organizers are also explicitly inviting applied papers.

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for the AAAI Track
by Announce 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

*** Last Call for the AAAI Track *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. AAMAS 2026 invites submissions to its AAAI track. We are looking for AAAI-26 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Authors are expected to update their manuscripts to address the comments of the AAAI reviewers and reformat them using the AAMAS style. All submitted material will be checked for correctness with AAAI and reviewed by members of the AAMAS program committee. We expect to accept only a fraction of the submitted manuscripts and will provide only short meta-reviews to explain the accept/reject decisions. The AAMAS submission must be based on a rejected AAAI-26 submission • that was submitted to the main AAAI track; and • that did not receive any reject review (all review scores are 5 or above); and • that is relevant to the AAMAS research community. The submission guidelines for the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track, available here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> , apply to the AAAI track with the exceptions given below: Authors must submit in one PDF document: • their original AAAI submission; • all AAAI review scores and reviews (including the meta-review); • the AAMAS submission (that is, the updated AAAI submission), in the format required for the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track and with the same restrictions; • in addition, all changes made should be highlighted in color (for example, red text or text highlighted in yellow); • at most a two-page long document that describes how the AAMAS submission addresses the comments of the AAAI reviewers; and • a short statement of why the submission is relevant for the AAMAS research community, together with one of the areas of interest listed on the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track, see the conference website) that describes the AAMAS submission. The publication of the 2-page extended abstracts is not an option for this track. For questions, please contact the AAAI Track Chair Bo An, Nanyang Technological University, at boan AT ntu.edu.sg. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=aamas2026aaaitrack<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Important Dates (AoE) • Submission Deadline: November 17, 2025 • Decision Notification: February 15, 2026 • Camera-ready Submission: February 21, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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Call for Papers - NooJ 2026 International Conference
by petra.giommarelli＠phd.unipi.it 08 Nov '25

08 Nov '25

First Call for Papers ***************** NooJ 2026 International Conference Naples, Italy June 24-26, 2026 https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2 ******************* Important dates: ******************* Abstract submission: 31 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026 Registration: until 13 April 2026 Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026 *********************************************** University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism. NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc. NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr ****************************** The conference intends to: ****************************** * give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; * present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; * offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts. ******************* Topics of interest: ******************* * Lexical resources * Computational morphology * Syntactic analysis * Semantic analysis * Linguistic-based NLP applications *************** Submission: *************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 31 January 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to nooj2026(a)gmail.com. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026. Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at nooj2026(a)gmail.com for any additional information. ************************ Scientific Committee: ************************ Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France ************************** Organizing Committee: ************************** * Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Third Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

*** Third Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 attracted 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. The conference will feature the following workshops with open calls for submission. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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Assistant Professor (Education Focused) in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing
by Mark Lee 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

The University of Birmingham Dubai is inviting applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Education Focused) in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing within our School of Computer Science. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a World Top 100 University, contributing to innovative teaching and academic leadership at our state-of-the-art campus in Dubai International Academic City. We’re looking for a highly motivated academic with: A PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, AI, ML, or NLP A strong track record in teaching and curriculum development A commitment to academic excellence, inclusivity, and student success Location: Dubai, UAE Start date: June 2026 Closing date: 4th December 2025 Contract: 3 years (renewable) Salary: Competitive At the University of Birmingham, we are proud of our collaborative, inclusive, and ambitious environment—one that empowers both staff and students to make an impact globally. Learn more and apply here: https://edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_6… With best regards, Mark Mark Lee Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (India) Professor of Artificial Intelligence www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl> University of Birmingham

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Call for Participation – SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets.
by Lung-Hao Lee 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets. *Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However, current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained, real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA) representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications. To bridge this gap, we propose *Dimensional ABSA (DimABSA)*, a shared task that integrates dimensional sentiment analysis into the traditional ABSA framework. Furthermore, there is a conceptual similarity between stance detection and ABSA when the stance target is treated as an aspect. Building on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer reviews to public-issue discourse (e.g., social, political, energy, climate) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to continuous VA scores. ——————— *Languages* ——————— *We provide data in 11 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng), Hausa (hau), Japan (jpn), Kinyarwanda (kin), Russian (rus), Swahili (swa), Tatar (tat), Twi（twi), Ukrainian (ukr), and Chinese (zho) ——————— *Subtasks* ——————— *Track A – Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)*: Predict real-valued valence–arousal (VA) scores for aspects and extract their associated information from text. Its subtasks include: - *Subtask 1: DimASR* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression - *Subtask 2: DimASTE *– Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction - *Subtask 3: DimASQP* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction *Track B – Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*: A Stance-as-DimABSA task, where the target in stance detection is treated as an aspect. Its subtasks include: - *Subtask 1: DimASR for stance analysis* ——————— *Evaluation* ——————— For both tracks, RMSE is used for Subtask 1, and *a new metric (continuous F1)* for Subtasks 2 & 3. ——————— *Participation* ——————— *Website* (checkout details): https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026 *Codabench* (register and submit results) - Track A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10918/ - Track B: To be announced soon. *Discord* (community and discussion) https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu *Google Group* (official updates): https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants ——————— *Important Dates* ——————— - Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025 - Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025 - *Evaluation Start: 10 January 2026* - Evaluation End 31 January 2026 - System Description Paper Due: February 2026 - Notification to Authors: March 2026 - Camera Ready Due: April 2026 - SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA) We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task and contribute to advancing NLP research. Best regards, SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17
by Costas Gabrielatos 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org Details and registration: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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eLex 2025 programme available, registration still open
by Iztok Kosem 05 Nov '25

05 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, Draft programme of the eLex 2025 conference is now available at https://elex.link/elex2025/programme/. In addition to a number of presentations, posters, and demos, there are also two workshops taking place before and after the conference, respectively. For those interested in attending the conference (onsite or online), you can still register at https://elex.link/elex2025/programme/. Kind regards Iztok Kosem In the name of the eLex 2025 organising committee

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals
by Announce 05 Nov '25

05 Nov '25

*** Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. Workshops AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for the workshop program, which will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops proposals that focus on emerging topics, open research questions and challenges, as well as broader subjects of interest to a wider community. Additionally, we welcome workshops with previous editions at AAMAS that can attract established communities working in the same research area. Workshops may vary in length from half a day to two days, though most are expected to last one full day. Attendance will be limited to registered participants, and both organizers and attendees must register for their workshop, which will have a separate fee from the main conference. Workshop attendees are not required to register for the main AAMAS conference if they do not plan to attend it, though this is highly encouraged. AAMAS 2026 will be an in-person event in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS 2026 reserves the right to cancel workshops if the registration numbers do not cover their operating costs. Competitions We are glad to announce the third edition of the AAMAS Competition track at AAMAS 2026. Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By proposing challenging competitions to the AAMAS community, competition proposers contribute to pushing the state-of-the-art in specific areas or to solving problems of practical importance. We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community. We encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel application scenarios relevant to the AAMAS community. Submissions from established areas for which the competition may serve as a stimulus to advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young researchers in the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community. If the accepted competition involves the development of tools and platforms for supporting agent development, the proposer(s) will be encouraged to submit a Demonstration paper at AAMAS 2027 summarizing the design, development, and outcomes of their competition at the 2026 conference. At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register and attend the conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to announce the winners. Important Dates (AoE) Workshop Proposals • Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025 • Notification: December 3, 2025 • Workshops Announcement: December 10, 2025 • Deadline to Post CFP & Website: December 17, 2025 • Recommended Paper Deadline: February 4, 2026 • Recommended Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 • Workshops: May 25-26, 2026 Competition Proposals • Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025 • Notification: December 3, 2025 • Competitions: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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CfP - WHISPER 2026 - Workshop co-located with ITASEC & SERICS 2026
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 05 Nov '25

05 Nov '25

1st Edition of the Workshop on Hidden Information, Steganography, Privacy, and Emerging Risks, co-located with ITASEC & SERICS 2026, Cagliari, Italy, February 09-13, 2026 *** Call for Papers *** Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly integrated into a wide range of domains, reshaping the landscape of information security. From synthetic content generation to intelligent system deployment, AI technologies now influence every layer of communication, data processing, and multimedia production. This evolution brings both opportunities and risks. On one hand, AI can enhance defenses by detecting hidden information, tracing content origins, and identifying covert channels; on the other hand, it can empower adversaries to design stealthier data-hiding methods, generate highly realistic steganographic media, and optimize side-channel attacks. Moreover, even AI can be watermarked or targeted by data exfiltration attacks, being a fundamental asset for campanies. In this context, the 1st Workshop on Hidden Information, Steganography, Privacy, and Emerging Risks (WHISPER 2026), co-located with ITASEC & SERICS, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to explore the intersection of AI, steganography, digital watermarking, and privacy. The workshop will focus on emerging risks, defensive and adversarial strategies, and the dual role of AI, as both a potential threat and a powerful safeguard, in the protection, tracing, and authentication of information. Topics of Interest Submissions are invited on all topics related to information hiding, watermarking, and privacy in the era of AI, including but not limited to: * Watermarking schemes, usages, and challenges, including model and content watermarking for intellectual property protection. * Novel cloaking mechanisms within models and/or datasets with robustness and fairness properties. * New threat models leveraging information-hiding techniques. * Secure watermarking of large language models, generative models and traditional machine learning models. * Deep learning solutions for detecting and generating covert communication. * Adversarial attacks and defenses in data hiding and watermarking. * Data-exfiltration attacks to AI models, including membership inference attacks and privacy leakages. *** Submission Guidelines*** Submissions must be written in English and provided in PDF format, adhering to the ITASEC conference template EasyChair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors). Manuscripts should at most 10 pages in length, excluding references. We accept both previously published papers and original submissions presenting new ideas or preliminary results. All submissions will undergo peer review by at least two members of the Program Committee. *** Important dates *** * Paper Submission: 5 December 2025 * Notification: 20 December 2025 * Carmera-ready: 10 January 2026 * Workshop: 09 February 2026 *** Workshop organizers *** * Lorenzo Cazzaro, UNIVE & University of Luxembourg, Italy and Luxembourg * Daniela Gallo, ICAR-CNR & University of Salento, Italy * Angelica Liguori, ICAR-CNR, Italy * Luca Caviglione, IMATI-CNR, Italy * Giuseppe Manco, ICAR-CNR, Italy * Salvatore Orlando, UNIVE, Italy For more information: angelica.liguori(a)icar.cnr.it

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC. The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: • present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment; • explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback provided by the mentors and other DC students; • network and build collaborations with other members of the community; • discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities. Submission and Participation Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach. The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website). Submission Instructions If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org! To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required: • Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by December 17, 2025. • In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025. For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . 1. Cover Letter (1 page max): Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional). 2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references): A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. Key points the submission should include: • motivation for your dissertation research • goal and research questions • related work that frames your research • methods/approach to reach the goal • results, if any • next steps for your research 3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max): List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/ participants. 4. Your CV (3 pages max): Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document. How to Format and Submit Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline. In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively, and press "Go". Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026. Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards. The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 17, 2025 • Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA • Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel • Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Fourth Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks
by Announce 01 Nov '25

01 Nov '25

*** Fourth Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number). Although the deadline for submissions to the Main Track is now over, we welcome submissions to the Special Tracks of AAMAS 2026. AAMAS 2026 will feature five special tracks: AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and Competitions Track, as well as the Doctoral Consortium. AAMAS 2026 also welcomes proposals for workshops and tutorials. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The Competitions Track is an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Workshops and Tutorials Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials. These will be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference. The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com .

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CfP: 1st Workshop on Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production (SciProdLLM 2025)
by Tristan Miller 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

SciProdLLM 2025: 1st Workshop on Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production December 23/24, 2025, Mumbai, India Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2025 https://sciprodllm.github.io/ CALL FOR PAPERS SciProdLLM 2025 is a forum for presenting and discussing research on integrating large language models (LLMs) into the typical research workflow: from ideation to experimentation to scientific writing, with a particular focus on human-centered approaches that ensure ethical and responsible use of LLMs. We also invite work that evaluates the quality of LLM-assisted research workflows and the resulting outputs. We welcome submissions on any aspect of human-LLM collaboration for science production, evaluation of LLMs for science production, and/or evaluation of LLM-assisted scientific papers. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Guiding idea generation through user feedback - Automated experimentation following the experimental workflow used by human scientists (e.g., the workflow from data preprocessing to comparison to baselines) - Human-curated datasets of scientific papers for fine-tuning LLMs for generating ideas and paper content (text, figures, tables, etc.) - Human-LLM co-authored peer reviews (e.g., LLM-assisted peer review platforms) - Benchmark datasets for evaluating LLMs on idea generation, experimentation, multimodal content generation, or scientific writing - Evaluation metrics for detecting problematic papers (e.g., those containing suspicious citations or tortured phrases) - Statistical analyses of collections of LLM-assisted papers (e.g., on topics, citations, or retractions) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS SciProdLLM 2025 welcomes long and short papers. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both types of submissions must follow the same requirements and procedures as for IJCNLP-AACL 2025 main conference papers: <https://2025.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers> Note that papers submitted as non-archival will be allocated presentation time at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. There are three supported submission modes: - Direct submissions: Direct submissions will receive up to three double-blind reviews, and a final decision on acceptance from the workshop organizers. Direct submissions should be made through the SciProdLLM page on OpenReview: <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/SciPro…> - ARR submissions: Unpublished papers that have already been reviewed and meta-reviewed through ACL Rolling Review may be committed to SciProdLLM. These papers will not receive new reviews but may be meta-reviewed by the workshop organizers, who will make a final decision on acceptance. A commitment link will published in a future version of this call. - Previously published papers: We invite non-archival submissions of papers that have already been recently published elsewhere. This allows such papers to gain more visibility from the workshop audience. To submit a previously published paper for presentation, please email SciProdLLM(a)groups.io with the details of your paper (title, authors, abstract, publication venue) and attaching a PDF copy of the paper. (Submissions of previously published papers need not adhere to the IJCNLP-AACL 2025 main conference paper policies on anonymity.) IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 23:59 UTC−12 ("Anywhere on Earth"). - September 29, 2025: Submission deadline for direct submissions - October 27, 2025: ARR commitment deadline - November 3, 2025: Notification of acceptance - November 11, 2025: Camera-ready papers due - December 23 or 24, 2025: Workshop presentations (exact date TBA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen, UK - Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, Germany - Steffen Eger, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany - Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg, Germany - Yufang Hou, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria - Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield, UK - Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada - Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester, UK CONTACT INFORMATION Email: SciProdLLM(a)groups.io WWW: https://sciprodllm.github.io/ -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Postdoc position at Chalmers University of Technology
by Richard Johansson 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

We are hiring a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. All people with a background in NLP are welcome to apply, We are particularly interested in applicants with a background in interpretability, evaluation, or computational social science. You can find more details on the application page: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=jo… If you are thinking of applying and would like to discuss about the position, please contact me (richard.johansson(a)cse.gu.se). The deadline for applying is December 1. Best regards, Richard Johansson

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Responsible AI in 2025: State of the Art and Future Directions
by Matt Lease 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

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Webinar by: Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge / Google DeepMind)
by HiTZ Zentroa 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge / Google DeepMind) Title: On Merging and MoErging Models and Modules Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Despite recent tendencies towards building large "monolithic" neural models, fine-tuned expert models and parameter-efficient specialised modules still offer gains over large monoliths in specific tasks and for specific data distributions (e.g., low-resource languages or specialised domains). Moreover, such modularisation of skills and expertise into dedicated models or modules allows for asynchronous, decentralised, and more efficient continuous model development, as well as module reusability. However, a central question remains: how to combine and compose these modules to enable positive transfer, sample-efficient learning, and improved out-of-domain generalisation. In this talk, after discussing the key advantages of modularisation and modular specialisation, I will provide an overview of prominent module and model composition strategies. I will focus on composition at the parameter level (model merging) and functional level (model MoErging), and then illustrate the usefulness of these techniques across several applications. Bio: Ivan Vulić is currently a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in Zurich after spending a year there as a Visiting Researcher. Before that he was a Research Professor and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge, where he spent 10 years across different research roles. From January 2018 until November 2024 he was also a Senior Scientist at PolyAI in London. Ivan holds a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven awarded summa cum laude. In 2021 he was awarded the annual Karen Spärck Jones Award from the British Computing Society for his research contributions to Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. His core expertise and research interests span, among others, cross-lingual, multilingual and multi-modal representation learning, modularity and composability of ML models, sample-efficient, parameter-efficient and few-shot ML, conversational AI, data-centric ML. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Upcoming webinars: Goran Glavaš (December 4) Thamar Solorio (January 15) Henning Wachsmuth (February 5) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory Access in Language - Utrecht University
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Dear all, There is a two-year postdoctoral position opening in the ERC-funded project 'Memory access in language (MEMLANG): How we store and retrieve linguistic information', led by Jakub Dotlacil, at the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), Utrecht University. The application deadline is November 9, 2025. See the link below for details: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdo… Best regards, Ece https://ecekt.github.io/

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Job: Mission de recrutement et gestion de locuteurs en langue française (H/F)
by info＠elda.org 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dans le cadre de ses activités de production, ELDA propose *plusieurs missions de recrutement (H/F) destinées à la constitution d’un corpus de données audio _en français_*. Langue concernée : français Mission * Recruter des locuteurs natifs francophones afin de réaliser des enregistrements vocaux destinés à la recherche et au développement en traitement automatique de la parole ; * Réaliser avec chacun une conversation téléphonique d’environ 8 à 10 minutes via une plateforme dédiée ; * Contrôler la qualité des enregistrements réalisés par tranche de 12 locuteurs ; * Collecter une courte vidéo (monologue face caméra de 3 à 5 minutes) produite par chaque participant recruté. Profil recherché * Locuteur natif du français ; * Excellente maîtrise de la communication orale ; * Aisance relationnelle et sens du contact. Chaque participant recruté sera gratifié pour sa contribution. Gratification : Entre 65€ et 190€ selon le nombre de locuteurs recrutés. Les candidatures doivent être adressée à dylan(a)elda.org et chomicha(a)elda.org ELDA <www.elda.org> (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency, ) a pour activités principales la distribution et la production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que l’évaluation de technologies de la langue (traduction automatique, reconnaissance de la parole, etc.).

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Second Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ‘𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆’ (𝗡𝗲𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗧’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) [Website - https://nettt-conference.com/2026/] 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 and/or 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 the 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 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 in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. 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) 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 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 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University

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Internship in Computational Linguistics (L3/Master)
by Sarra El Ayari 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

As part of the working group on multilinguism within CORLI2 consortium, we are offering a two-month internship for a student in computational linguistics (L3/Master). The aim is to create an interactive guide for LLMs' usages applied to corpus linguistics. It will take place in Paris, France and start March/April 2026. Web development skills are madatory. Description and application: https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/en/internship-llm-corli

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CFP: PROPOR 2026 - 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

The 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese will be held at Salvador, BA from Apr 13 to 16 of 2026 PROPOR 2026 The 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) will be held in Salvador - Brazil, from the 13th to the 16th of April 2026. https://propor2026.ufba.br PROPOR is the main scientific meeting in the area of language and speech technologies for the Portuguese/Galician language. The event is supported by the PROPOR steering committee. PROPOR is a biennial event hosted in Brazil and in Portugal (and now in Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012), São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), Fortaleza, BR (2022), and Santiago de Compostela, GZ (2024). More details about past events, PROPOR steering committee and the constitution can be found in propor.org. Call for Papers PROPOR 2026: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. Salvador - Bahia April 13th to 16th 2026 The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated language processing, promoting the development of methodologies, resources, and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese and Galician by researchers in industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) - Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) - Natural language generation - Information extraction and information retrieval - Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) - Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) - Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis - Distributional semantics and language modeling - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) - Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2026 will be held from April 13th to April 16th at Salvador - BA, Brazil, the place of contact between the Portuguese language with both indigenous languages of Brazil and the African languages brought to Brazil with the enslaved people coming from Africa, a contact that deeply influenced Brazilian Portuguese and culture. PROPOR 2026 will be the 17th edition of the biannual PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and Portugal. Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014); Tomar, PT (2016); Canela, BR (2018); Évora, PT (2020); Fortaleza, BR (2022); and Santiago de Compostela, GZ (2024) Mandatory Reviewing Workload As the pace of research in the field continues to increase, we need to strengthen the commitment to reviewing for each paper submission. During the submission process, authors will be required to specify which co-authors are committing to cover reviewing in the event. Ethics Policy Authors are advised to follow the ACL Ethics Policy for submission, which can be found here <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy> Authors are also strongly advised to follow the ACL guidelines for generative AI assistance in authorship, which can be found here <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…> Important Dates - *Full and short paper submission deadline*: Nov 16, 2025 (23:59 GMT-12) - *Notification of paper acceptance or rejection*: Feb 02, 2026 - *Camera-ready papers due*: Mar 27, 2026 - *Conference*: April 13th - 16th, 2026 Submissions Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: - Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers can have up to 8 content pages + 2 pages for references. - Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, negative results, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to 4 content pages + 1 page for references. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized. That is, they should not contain the authors' names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like "We previously showed (Freitas, 1991) ...". Instead, they should prefer citations such as "Freitas (1991) previously showed ...". Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to incorporate the reviews' suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to incorporate the reviewsâ€™ suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the ACL style guidelines and use the LaTeX or MS Word stylesheets below: - LaTeX stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex> - MS Word stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word> Multiple-submission policy For submissions that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications, this information must be provided at submission time. If a submission is accepted, authors must notify the program chairs, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. Papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere cannot be accepted for publication or presentation. Papers can be submitted through the CMT submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks
by Announce 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Industry/Short Papers/Posters/ERA/RENE/Tool Demo/JF/RR Tracks *** 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<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 attracted for the research track 213 full paper submissions, the third highest in the 33 years of running. Although the submission deadline for the research track is now over, there are plenty of other tracks for which the submission deadline is still open, for just a few more days! SANER 2026 welcomes high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM Applied to Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering of Software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Security, Safety, Reliability and Quality Analysis; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human Factors and Legal Aspects in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Empirical Studies in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering; • Education and Training in the Context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Industrial Papers: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double- anonymous review process. Please refer to the conference website for details specific to each different track. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> PAPERS INVOLVING AI AND ML Papers involving AI or ML must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI- or ML- intensive software systems (see also "Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective", 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Papers involving AI or ML must explicitly explain how they address a software engineering problem. Papers not meeting these criteria may be more suitable for AI- or ML-focused venues instead. Papers that do not clearly explain how they address a software engineering problem or don't meet the above criteria will be desk-rejected. IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 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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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Second Call for Posters and Demos
by Announce 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Posters and Demos *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI submissions should address HCI challenges using machine intelligence and consider both computational and human- centric aspects. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday technology, understanding its role in meeting human needs is vital for developing effective and responsible systems. This conference fosters collaboration among experts from diverse fields to tackle significant issues in AI and HCI through discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. UI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions relevant to all conference topics. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required, but is recommended. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the poster session. Demos The demonstration track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages (references do not count toward the page limit). Authors further need to submit a video (max. 5 mins) along with their demo paper to showcase their work. Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person during the demo sessions. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission: December 21, 2025 • Decision notification: January 26, 2026 • Camera-ready submission: February 6, 2026 Topics The topics for the Posters and Demos are the same as for the main track. Submission Instructions Papers must be up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the page limit). Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates in a single-column format. We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow. Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. Authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use it is available at: https://dl.acm.org/ccs<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . A video (up to 5 mins) is required for demo submissions. The video should showcase the system that will be demonstrated during the conference. Please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos (https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>). Please submit your demos and posters electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>) by the paper deadlines. In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Posters” or “IUI 2026 Demos”, respectively, and then press “Go”. Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”. Accessibility Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions. If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos. Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines. Usage of Generative AI All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit. While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Posters and Demos Chairs • Julia Sheidin, Braude College of Engineering, Israel • Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska, Slovenia • Ming Yin, Purdue University, USA

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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Discontinuation of the MS Word Template
by ACL Announcements 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

Dear ARR authors, The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) rolling review (ARR) has decided to abandon the MS Word Template for conference submissions. The submissions based on the Word template will be desk-rejected starting from March 2026. Our past experience suggests that only a small fraction of the papers submitted through ARR are based on the MS Word Template. However, they receive a comparably high number of desk reject flags, because most reviewers are not used to the considerably different layout resulting from this template. The processing of this desk rejects increases the workload on (S)ACs, PCs and EiCs, and is stressful for the authors. The rationale for maintaining the Word template has been to remain open to research communities from other disciplines who may be less used to LaTeX. However, at this point, Overleaf also offers a WYSIWYG interface, the ACL template is available on this platform, and to the best of our knowledge, it is not banned in any countries that have restrictions on i.e., Google products. This makes the burden for the few authors still relying on the MS Word Template more bearable, and reduces the learning curve to adapt to LaTeX. At the same time, the overall benefit for the community is high enough to justify this move. This move would also facilitate the effort of automating some of the formatting checks post-submission, in order to reduce the workload on Reviewers, (S)ACs, PCs and EiCs. In the long run, we hope it will help to shorten the paper checklist. For information on author guidelines, please keep updated on https://aclrollingreview.org/authors Sincerely, ARR Editors

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[Deadline Extension & Final CFP]: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing-2025)
by Khaled Shaalan 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

========================= 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER (Open Access) URL: https://acling.org/ ========================= ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission Deadline: 10 November 2025 (Extended) * Acceptance Notifications: 15 November 2025 * Final camera-ready Submission: 17 November 2025 * Author ?Registration & Payment: 20 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ========================= ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ========================= ## Keynote Speaker# Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada (https://mageed.arts.ubc.ca/) ========================= ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ========================= ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ========================= ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt ## INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources)## ========================= * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus/CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801 * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLing by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ## FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS ## ========================= * Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on a regular basis). * For general information, please contact us at taher.ghazal(a)ieee.org Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan Professor of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Head of Computer Science Department | Head of PhD in Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Contact Information: Email: khaled.shaalan(a)buid.ac.ae<mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae> / khaled.shaalan(a)acm.org<mailto:khaled.shaalan@acm.org> Website: khaledshaalan.org<https://www.khaledshaalan.org> University Website: www.buid.ac.ae<http://www.buid.ac.ae> Phone: +971 42791400 D: +971 42791434‎ Dubai International Academic City, Block 10 & 11, 1st and 2nd floor, PO Box: 345015, Dubai, UAE Editorial & Leadership Roles: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian & Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)<http://tallip.acm.org/‎> Founder & Chair, ACLing: International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics<http://www.acling.org%20‎> Honors & Recognition: Top 2% Scientists in AI (Stanford Univ. Ranking) Member <https://devpgs.com/mbras2021/public/en/members> of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)<https://devpgs.com/mbras2021/public/en/members> Listed in Top Computer Scientists in UAE<https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science/ae> Academic Profiles: Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=keLKdlgAAAAJ> | Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6507669702> | Web of Science<https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-7377-2016> | ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-8390> | ResearchGate<http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khaled_Shaalan> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/KhaledShaalan>

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WSDM 2026 - Call for Industry Day Talks
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

*** WSDM 2026 - Call for Industry Day Talks - Deadline extension *** Great news! The deadline for Industrial Day Talk submissions has been extended. The 19th ACM International WSDM Conference will take place in Boise, Idaho, USA, as an in-person conference, from February 22nd to February 26th, 2026. The Industry Day event will take place on the first day of the WSDM conference, Monday, February 22nd, 2026. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: November 6th, 2025 Notification Deadline: December 4th, 2025 Camera Ready Deadline: December 17th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. ----------------------------------------------- The WSDM Industry Chairs are inviting submissions for technical talks that cover the usage of web search and data mining in an industrial setting. The talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems as well as applied research in relevant areas. The theme this year is: Large Language Models and Agentic AI in Industrial Settings. Particular consideration will be given to talk proposals that are relevant to the theme. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Challenges, applications, and foundational advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) for industrial applications * User behavior patterns and insights as demonstrated in large-scale web search and data mining applications * Building and optimizing modeling pipelines for high throughput and low latency production systems to deliver business impact. * Case studies addressing practical challenges such as data, privacy, ethics, integrity, scale, and regulation. ----------------------------------------------- *** Submission Guidelines *** Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template, two-column format). Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Please include: * Title * Abstract * Outline of the presentation * A brief company portrait (~60 words) * A short bio of the main presenter (~100 words) WSDM is a technical conference, so preference will be given to talks describing novel applications of existing or new research in industrial settings, and technical challenges in applying novel research at industrial scale. Please do NOT submit a sales speech or a product description that does not contain any novel research, novel application of existing research, or novel insights into solving challenging problems at industrial scale! Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026 ----------------------------------------------- *** Presentation and Publication *** The presentation format will be decided based on submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix of short and long presentations as well as panels. WSDM 2026 is an in-person conference. At least one author of each accepted presentation needs to register and present the work at the WSDM 2026 Industry Day. All talks should be delivered in person. The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a camera-ready copy to be included in the proceedings. *** Industry Day Contact Information *** For more information, contact the Industry Day chairs: WSDM2026-industryday(a)easychair.org * Ilaria Bordino, UniCredit, Italy * Yinglong Xia, Meta, USA

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WSDM 2026 - Call for WSDM Doctoral Consortium
by angelica.liguori＠icar.cnr.it 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

**** Call for WSDM Doctoral Consortium *** The 19th ACM International WSDM Conference will take place in Boise, Idaho, USA, as an in-person conference, from February 22nd to February 26th, 2026. Important Dates: * Submission: November 3, 2025 * Notification: November 24, 2025 * Camera-ready: December 17, 2025 * Doctoral Consortium: February 22, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The WSDM 2026 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with experienced researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The Consortium is designed to: * Foster mentorship by pairing students with experienced researchers from the Consortium Committee, serving as mentors from both academia and industry. * Facilitate community-building by enabling students to network with fellow doctoral students working in similar research areas or at a comparable stage of their dissertation. * Support scholarly growth through presentations, feedback sessions, panel discussions, and informal interactions. Submissions are invited on all topics related to Web Search and Data Mining. Please see the Call for Full Papers (https://wsdm-conference.org/2026/index.php/call-for-papers/) for a comprehensive list of relevant areas. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on February 22, 2026. The format will include student presentations with plenary discussions, individual meetings with experienced researchers, peer feedback, panel discussions, and informal interactions over breaks. Applicants will be evaluated on the clarity and completeness of the submission packet, their research’s potential impact of their research in Web Search and Data Mining, as well as the potential benefits the student will gain from participating in the Consortium. Eligible candidates should have completed a thesis proposal (or equivalent) or be making significant progress toward it. While late-stage students will be considered, the Consortium is most beneficial for those in the earlier stages of their dissertation. Submissions must be singly authored by the student. Content may include published material as well as ongoing work. Students may also submit other papers or posters to WSDM and affiliated workshops. Students accepted to the Consortium will have the option of publishing a 3-page extended abstract summarizing their research in the full conference proceedings. Presenting students will be eligible to apply for travel support through sponsoring organizations such as ACM SIGIR. Application details will be provided upon acceptance. ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Submission Guidelines *** The submission has three parts. ** Part 1: Research statement (up to three (3) pages, including references). It will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium and should include: * Motivation and research questions. The driving motivation for your dissertation research and the main research questions you aim to address. * Background and related work. A concise summary of prior work, including key references. * Research direction. An overview of your research direction, which may include previously presented work and ongoing or proposed research. * Methodology and evaluation. Planned research methodology, proposed experiments (if applicable), and evaluation strategies. You may also include specific perspectives or questions you’d like to receive feedback on or raise for discussion at the Consortium. ** Part 2: Benefits statement (up to one (1) page). It should be added as an appendix to the research statement and must include: * Student statement. It explains why you wish to attend the Consortium and how you expect to benefit. * Advisor statement (1 paragraph). A short paragraph describing how the student would benefit from attending the Consortium. The advisor should also indicate whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student will defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate. ** Part 3: CV (up to two (2) pages). It should also be added as an appendix. ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Format Requirements *** Submissions must be written in English and submitted in the new ACM camera-ready templates (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (use sample-sigconf.tex as the template). The submission should be no more than 3 pages in length, including all figures and references. The appendix, including the benefits statement and CV, does not count toward the page limit. The reviewing process will be single-blind. The first page must contain the title of the submission, full author name, affiliation and contact details, an abstract of up to 250 words, ACM Computing Reviews categories, and up to 3 keywords describing the topic areas. Information about categories and keywords can be found in the ACM Web pages on the computing classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates. ** Important: Submissions that do not comply with the format requirements will be desk-rejected. Submitted manuscripts must adhere to the ACM authorship policy (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship). In particular, the use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work. If you are uncertain about the need to disclose the use of a particular tool, err on the side of caution, and include a disclosure in the acknowledgements section of the Work. ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Submissions *** Consortium submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via the submission system. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium Committee. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026. ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Doctoral Consortium Chairs *** * Antonela Tommasel, CONICET * Xinyi Zhou, Boise State University For more info, please contact: WSDM2026-DC(a)easychair.org

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First Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026 @ EACL)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 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] 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: March 28, 2026- March 29, 2026 (TBD) @ EACL 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 LoResLM 2026 will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 Proceedings of the workshop will appear in ACL Anthology. For the past proceedings, please refer https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=rvm3HOgAAAAJ&hl=en 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 in 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

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Public online talk on 4 November on genAI and corpus linguistics (Sydney Corpus Lab)
by Monika Bednarek 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

We welcome you to an online talk hosted by the Sydney Corpus Lab on 4 November on genAI and corpus linguistics Scheduled: Tuesday 4 November at 7 pm (AEDT - Sydney) Location: Online (https://sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dinnertalk_kklee_fly…) Title: Artificial intelligence in corpus linguistic research Abstract: The advent of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has led to AI being used in many facets of everyday life as well as in education and research. This talk will explore the potential of AI in corpus linguistic research based on a synthesis of recent publications on corpus linguistics and generative AI/LLMs. The focus is on how AI can be incorporated into different stages of corpus linguistic research such as data processing/cleaning and analysis. Additionally, the talk will cover general debates around the use of AI in corpus linguistic research, in particular, the concerns around the lack of transparency and replicability. Speaker: Dr Kelvin Lee is the current Project Manager at the Sydney Corpus Lab. He also teaches Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Aside from corpus linguistics, Kelvin's broad research interests include topics in the areas of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and identity, and media discourse. He is currently working on research that incorporates corpus linguistic analysis in the examination of language use in Japanese speculative telecinematic texts.

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PhD Positions in the RAI (Reasonable Artificial Intelligence) Cluster of Excellence, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

🚀 Join the new RAI Cluster of Excellence and become part of Germany’s leading research network in Reasonable Artificial Intelligence. Are you passionate about advancing Artificial Intelligence and exploring the foundations of reasoning, perception, and adaptability in intelligent systems? You don’t just want to study AI, you want to build it, test it, and understand it. 🔗 More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_rai_phd.e… 📩 Apply via the TU Darmstadt career platform: https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/#/tu-darmstadt/jobs 📅 Application deadline: November 16, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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SemEval-2026 Task 5 CfP: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding.
by Michael Roth 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

# Call for Participation We are delighted to announce SemEval-2026 Task 5: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding. Word Sense Disambiguation tasks commonly assume that only one word sense is "correct", but this does not always reflect how humans perceive meaning. Ambiguity, underspecification and subjective factors such as individual linguistic experience can influence which word senses are perceived as plausible in a given context. For these reasons, human intuitions and model predictions may frequently diverge. This shared task addresses this challenge using the AmbiStory dataset. The dataset consists of five-sentence English short stories, each containing a lexically ambiguous sentence with human plausibility judgements. Surrounding context may provide clues or influence how plausible different word senses appear. Example: > "The detectives followed the track." > Depending on the given context, either the rail track or the piece of evidence sense may be perceived as plausible. ## Task Given a short story with a lexically ambiguous sentence and a pair of candidate word senses, participating systems must predict the plausibility of each sense on a scale from 1 (implausible) to 5 (highly plausible). Systems will be evaluated based on two metrics: * Accuracy within standard deviation (SD): the proportion of predictions that fall within one standard deviation of the average human judgment. * Ranked correlation: the correlation between model predictions and aggregated human judgments. ## Participation Website and Data: https://nlu-lab.github.io/semeval.html Code: https://github.com/Janosch-Gehring/semeval26-05-scripts Registration and Submission: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10877/ We invite researchers and students of all experience levels to participate in this task and help us disambiguate the world, story by story! Do you have any questions? Please join our Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/semeval2026-task5-participants ## Important Dates Development phase: now -- Jan 10, 2026 Evaluation phase: Jan 10 -- Jan 31, 2026 Feb 2026 (tentative): Shared task papers due Mar 2026 (tentative): Notification of acceptance Apr 2026 (tentative): Camera-ready submission Summer 2026: SemEval workshop ## Organizing Committee Janosch Gehring, University of Technology Nuremberg Selina Meyer, University of Technology Nuremberg Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg

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EACL 2026 - Second Call for System Demonstrations
by ACL Announcements 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

EACL 2026 - Second Call for System Demonstrations The EACL 202 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Publicly available open-source or open-access systems are of special interest. We additionally strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems that are technologically innovative, given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in natural language processing. Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied natural language processing, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference website. Submitted systems may be of the following types: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools Papers describing accepted demonstrations will be published in a companion volume of the EACL 2026 conference proceedings. We require at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at EACL 2026, with an accompanying poster. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2026 and present the demo. Please note: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program. Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 * Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 10 February 2026 * Camera-ready submission: Friday, 20 February 2026 * Main Conference: Tuesday-Sunday, 24-29 March 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Note that there is no rebuttal stage. Please check the details at: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/ [1] EACL 2026 Demonstration Co-chairs * Danilo Croce * Jochen Leidner * Nafise Sadat Moosavi Contact: eacl-demo-chairs-2026(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/demos/

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17
by Costas Gabrielatos 25 Oct '25

25 Oct '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org Details and registration: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Calls for Papers, Posters & Workshops/Tutorials | 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

🌐 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 – Calls for Papers, Posters & Workshops/Tutorials Braunschweig, Germany | May 26–29, 2026 🎉 Celebrating 20 Years of Web Science! The 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 (WebSci’26<https://websci26.org/>) invites submissions exploring how the Web shapes—and is shaped by—society, technology, and people. Join us in Braunschweig for an interdisciplinary exchange on the future of the Web! 📝 Call for Papers<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77> * Submission: Dec 10, 2025 * Notification: Feb 4, 2026 * Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77> Topics include*, but are not limited to: * Understanding the web * Making the web inclusive * The web and everyday life * Doing web science *This is only a small selection from the list of examples. 🎨 Call for Posters<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Submission: Feb 18, 2026 * Notification: Mar 11, 2026 * Final version: Apr 1, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Qualitative study of community * Theorizing web behavior, content, and structures * Artwork providing challenges to and imaginings around the web * Emerging legal frontiers around web science * Practitioner perspectives from industry 🧩 Call for Workshops & Tutorials<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Proposal submission: Dec 15, 2025 * Notification: Dec 19, 2025 * Workshops/Tutorials Day: May 26, 2026 * More details here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Responsible web science in the age of generative AI * Resilience against misinformation and disinformation * Web inclusivity and digital justice * Privacy, security, and trust online * New methodologies for web research * The cultural and creative web * Education and capacity building in web science Be part of the global conversation on Web Science—its evolution, inclusivity, ethics, and innovation. 👉 Learn more & submit: www.websci2026.org<http://www.websci2026.org> ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Scientific Coordinator Stuttgart Research Focus – Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Universität Stuttgart Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D | 3.352 | 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte Universitätsstr. 32 | 00.121 | 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 685 84 371 Email: sierra.kaiser(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:sierra.kaiser@iris.uni-stuttgart.de> Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | IRIS Newsletter<https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…> www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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Call for Participation - GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026
by Manuela Speranza 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

*Call for Participation - GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026* We are happy to announce that, in the context of EVALITA 2026 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> (the 9th evaluation campaign of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian), we are organizing GSI:detect, the first shared task on gender stereotypes detection in Italian. *Task Description:* The GSI:detect task aims at evaluating systems' ability to detect and classify gender stereotypes (GSs) in Italian short texts and is organized as follows: - GS Detection (main task): given a text, assign is a numerical score, the GS value, that quantifies the degree to which the text contains or refers to a gender stereotype. - GS Classification (subtask, optional but strongly encouraged): Assign each text to one of the following categories: Role, Personality, Competence, Physical, Sexual, and Relational. *Participation:* We invite participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. Please visit our website <https://gsi-d-evalita.fbk.eu/> where more information is available. To indicate your intention to participate, fill out the EVALITA form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKLnMNzds1oaGwPYOVB7FTbmzWTqhTG5f…> (open until November 21st 2025) selecting GSI:detect as a task of interest. *Data:* We just released the development data at the following link: download devset <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScorCdSGtF_Q3ZYk4AzYWXuMO1yocmPR06…> *Publication:* Participants will submit a report (that will undergo regular peer review) to be presented at the EVALITA 2026 final workshop, which will take place in Bari (Italy), 26-27 February 2026 (submission instructions will be available on the EVALITA website <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/>). *Important Dates *(refer to the EVALITA website <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> for updates): - 1st December - 8thDecember 2025: GSI:detect evaluation window - 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants - 9th January 2026: submission of participants’ reports - 16th January 2026: submission of organizers’ reports - 7th February 2026: review deadline - 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline - 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) *Task Organizers: * - Gloria Comandini - Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici - Manuela Speranza - FBK - Sofia Brenna - FBK ~ Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Davide Testa - FBK ~ Università di Roma La Sapienza - Stefania Cavagnoli - Università di Roma Tor Vergata - Bernardo Magnini - FBK *Contact: *gsievalita(a)gmail.com *Website:* https://gsi-d-evalita.fbk.eu/ -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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CTS Convergence Lecture Series: Professor Susan Hunston
by Constantin Orasan 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Dear all, The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> at University of Surrey is delighted to announce the next lecture in the Convergence Lecture Series<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPICDXUv_Pk&list=PLZSxmBFXjnSWymm6NBNzNo9bE…> . Professor Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham, will present 'Pattern, Construction, System: Reconciling approaches to lexis and grammar' Date & time: Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 GMT Abstract: This presentation describes the outcome of a project which aims to reconcile three different approaches to the lexis and grammar of English: Pattern Grammar (from the Cobuild corpus project); Construction Grammar (from Cognitive Linguistics); and Systemic Functional Grammar (from Systemic Functional Linguistics). In the project, 50 verb complementation patterns were reinterpreted as verb argument constructions, and system networks were produced to show how numerous constructions contribute to specific semantic fields. The presentation will give examples of this work and argue that it demonstrates the advantage of finding common ground between very different approaches to language. Bio: Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham. She has worked previously at the National University of Singapore, the University of Surrey, and the Cobuild project. She has published in Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, and her most recent book is Pattern, Construction, System: a unified approach to grammar and lexis (2025: Cambridge University Press). This book is available Open Access. Participation is free, please register here<https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/de9cc9fa-b86e-4e4c-9a76-d6f30825af…> You are most welcome to share this invitation with others who might be interested in attending. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> | School of Literature and Languages<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/school-literature-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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First CFP: The 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2026)
by Priya Rani 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)* *Workshop description* The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology. In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological research. *SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):* - *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,” what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML algorithms? - *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse languages. - *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging approaches. - *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual data generation/selection, and annotate texts. - *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of cross-linguistic variation and universals. - *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic generalisations? - - *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to typology, and automated approaches to etymology. *Important Dates (23:59 AoE)* - *Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025* - *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026* - *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026* - *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026* - *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)* *Submissions* We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. *Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person.* *Format: * Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. *SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/ *Organizing Committee* Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova *Anti-harassment policy* The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. *Contact* For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com Regards, Priya.

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash October
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, The October edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: - The release of the first CLARIN Data Citation Guidelines - Prof. Dr. Els Lefever’s (CLARIN-BE) insightful contribution on European data sovereignty at the European Parliament - The publication of the fifth volume of Tour de CLARIN Read it here: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-october-2025 Kind regards, CLARIN ERIC --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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Two public online talks in October (16th, 23rd) on Large Language Models, for accessibility or evaluation (NLPV seminars, Exeter)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter. Talk 1 Scheduled: Thursday 16 Oct 2025 at 13:00 to 14:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94505914598?pwd=eXonSrKHuxUNnMCAmiZHic… (Meeting ID: 945 0591 4598 Password: 903478) Title: This One or That One? A Bilingual Study on Accessibility via Demonstratives with Multimodal Large Language Models Abstract: Accessibility describes how easily a speaker can obtain or interact with an object, and it is often conveyed through demonstrative pronouns like “this" and “that" in English or “这” (zhè) and “那” (nà) in Chinese, indicating proximal or distal objects. The proximal vs. distal distinction is not absolute, since it depends on the speaker's viewpoint. Are Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) able to solve accessibility problems based on demonstratives? In this talk, I would like to present some preliminary results on a referent identification task based on a bilingual (English and Chinese), multimodal dataset. In our experiments, all models show significant struggles, and particularly when perspective shifts are introduced. Speaker's bio: Emmanuele Chersoni got a joint PhD in Language Sciences from Aix-Marseille University and the University of Pisa in 2018, under the supervision of Philippe Blache and Alessandro Lenci. Since 2021, he is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Language Science and Technology of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests include classical distributional semantic models, thematic fit modeling, semantic relations and natural language processing for specialized domains. He has also served as a co-organizer of the *ACL workshop series on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics from 2019 to 2022. Talk 2 Scheduled: Thursday 23 Oct 2025 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT+1 Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92868830537?pwd=0yvSNEwhIeC3x2Mxn76zOr… (Meeting ID: 928 6883 0537 Password: 100657) Title: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Inversion Learning for Highly Effective NLG Evaluation Prompts Abstract: Evaluating natural language generation (NLG) systems is inherently challenging. While human evaluation remains the gold standard, it is difficult to scale and often suffers from inconsistencies and demographic biases. LLM-based evaluation offers a scalable alternative but is highly sensitive to prompt design, where small variations can lead to significant discrepancies. In this talk, I will introduce an inversion learning method that learns effective reverse mappings from model outputs back to their input instructions, enabling the automatic generation of highly effective, model-specific evaluation prompts. This method is simple, requires only a single evaluation sample, and eliminates the need for manual prompt engineering, thereby improving both the efficiency and robustness of LLM-based evaluation. Speaker's bio: Chenghua Lin is a Full Professor and Chair in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with a focus on language generation, multimodal LLMs, and evaluation methods. He currently serves as Chair of the ACL SIGGEN Board, a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor for Computer Speech and Language. He has received several prizes and awards for his research and academic leadership, including the CIKM Test-of-Time Award, the INLG Best Paper Runner-up Award, and an Honourable Mention for the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Supervisor of the Year Award. He has also held numerous program and chairing roles for *ACL conferences, including Documentation Chair for ACL’25, Publication Chair for ACL’23, Workshop Chair for AACL-IJCNLP’22, Program Chair for INLG’19, and Senior Area Chair for EMNLP’20, ACL’22–’23, EACL’23, NAACL’25, and AACL’25. We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminar and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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PhD Positions in the Psycholinguistics, Information and Computation Lab (PICoL) at Georgetown University (incl. Computational Cognitive Modeling, Deep Learning, Large Language Models)
by Ethan Wilcox 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

The Psycholinguistics, Information and Computation Lab (PICoL) <https://picol-georgetown.github.io/> in the Department of Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/> at Georgetown University is recruiting candidates for a PhD in Computational Linguistics to start in Fall 2026. The deadline for applying is December 1, 2025. The lab is directed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox <https://wilcoxeg.github.io/>. Please see this link for more details: https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/ In PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) we seek to understand how language is learned and processed in the mind using an interdisciplinary toolbox of methods, including computational simulations, formal mathematical models, and psycholinguistic experiments. In addition, we use insights from linguistics and cognitive science to characterize and improve AI and NLP technologies. Some of our current research projects include: - Building mathematical models of real-time language comprehension - Testing theories of language acquisition using large language models - Characterizing language model pretraining dynamics - Developing new experimental methods for psycholinguistics Applicants with a background in experimental methods are particularly encouraged to apply this cycle. Students in the Computational Linguistics program benefit from a range of courses in NLP and computational modeling techniques, as well as foundational courses in linguistics. Georgetown has a lively computational linguistics community <https://gucl.georgetown.edu/> on campus. Applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s degree by Fall 2026. PhD students in the Department (domestic as well as international students) benefit from a 5-year guaranteed funding package including a stipend, tuition scholarship, and health insurance. For questions, please email ethan.wilcox(a)georgetown.edu Applicants will be most competitive for the PhD in Computational Linguistics if they have a background in Computer Science, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or a related field. Successful applicants have previous experience in computer programming and can articulate a clear area of desired research specialization. Georgetown also offers a 2-year M.S. in computational linguistics for students who wish to obtain a foundation in this field. -- Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics Georgetown University wilcoxeg.github.io

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Linguistics (Applied, Experimental, or NLP) – Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

The Department of Linguistics <https://www.montclair.edu/linguistics/> at Montclair State University <https://www.montclair.edu/> invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with a start date of August 2026. We seek a scholar whose work addresses real-world language challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, and is grounded in strong theoretical foundations. We welcome research areas such as language assessment, AI-assisted language learning, first and second language acquisition, speech and language disorders, or mental health communication. We particularly welcome candidates who combine theoretical insight with applied impact, and whose methodological expertise may include experimental techniques, corpus analysis, and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP). The successful candidate will maintain an active research agenda with potential for external funding and will teach both undergraduate and graduate courses spanning both theoretical and applied topics. We value inclusive, student-centered instruction and seek colleagues who bring a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring in a diverse academic environment. *QUALIFICATIONS* - PhD in Linguistics or a closely related field by the start date - Demonstrated excellence in teaching and potential for strong scholarly productivity - Experience in working with diverse student populations - Evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration and/or applied impact - Expertise in experimental, corpus-based, or NLP methods - Ability to teach foundational and advanced courses across theoretical and applied areas of linguistics *STARTING DATE:* August 28, 2026 *REQUIRED MATERIALS: * Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and representative publications, which can be uploaded during the application process. Candidates who are shortlisted will be asked to provide 3 separate letters of recommendation. *APPLY BY:* The position is open until filled, and *application review begins immediately*. *Follow this link <https://montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/JobOpportunities/job/Montclair-NJ/A…>to apply.* *Contact information*: lingsearch2026(a)montclair.edu *Salary Range*: $88,673.69-$97,003.17 Annually The position may also be eligible for comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance. For further details, please visit: https://www.montclair.edu/human-resources/benefits/ *THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS* The Department of Linguistics offers a BA in Linguistics, with an option of a track in Language Engineering, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and both a Graduate Certificate and an MS in Computational Linguistics, offered jointly with the School of Computing. TESL/TESOL certificates are available at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Faculty collaborate across disciplines, including computer science, psychology, education, and communication disorders, regularly apply for and secure external research funding, and conduct research through three labs: the Experimental Linguistics Lab, the Laboratory for Corpus Research in Applied Linguistics (CORAL), and the Natural Language Processing Lab. The department is committed to inclusive teaching that reflects the diversity of the field and supports a broad range of students. *THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES* The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is Montclair State’s largest college, with over 5,000 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students. CHSS facilitates traditional and interdisciplinary learning and is the professional home of many outstanding scholars and instructors across numerous disciplines, all of whom lend to CHSS’s mission to furnish academically rigorous and relevant programs of study that contribute to the development of an informed and engaged civil society. CHSS’s programs develop in students the abilities to discover, create, evaluate, apply, and share knowledge, so that they will be able to think critically, act ethically, and be informed citizen-participants prepared to assume leadership roles in their communities. CHSS also aims to be responsive to the needs of society, including via its championing of use-inspired research collaboratively undertaken by faculty and students, and graduate programs that train students to apply knowledge in constructive, inspiring, and practical ways that benefit our local and broader communities. *MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY* Building on a distinguished history dating back to 1908, Montclair State University has evolved from an institution that was a recognized leader in teacher education to an R2 research institution ranked as one of the 100 best public doctoral universities in the nation. The University serves 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master's and baccalaureate programs provided by 13 colleges and schools. Situated on a beautiful 252-acre campus just 12 miles from New York City, Montclair delivers the instructional and research resources of a large public university while retaining the supportive and personalized academic environment that provides a feeling of community more typical of smaller institutions. Montclair State University is proud to be committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in its recruitment and employment practices. The University is an inclusive, richly diverse community that fosters mutual respect, tolerance and understanding among all students and employees.

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> A workshop proposal must be at most 4 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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First CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Oramas, Sergio 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[??]First Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:nlp4musa2026@gmail.com> == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 1, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM

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SEPLN CFP issue 74 ***Deadline November 22nd***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 76 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics NLP for low-resource languages Efficient and sustainable NLP methods Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP Truthworthy and explainability in NLP Security and privacy in NLP Text and Multimodal Generation Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision Knowledge and common sense Computational lexicography and terminology Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Morphological and Syntactic analysis Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse Machine translation Speech synthesis and recognition Audio indexing and retrieval Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by November 29nd, 2025 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: November 29nd, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2026 Camera ready: February 7th, 2026 Publication: March 2026 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 76 http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.57, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2024 CiteScore: 7.3) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 1,61 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL PNL veraz y explicable Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL Generación Texto y Multimodal Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión Conocimiento y sentido común Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Semántica, pragmática y discurso Traducción automática Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Indexación y recuperación de Audio Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Juridico-administrativo, Educación, etc) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 29 de Noviembre de 2025. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 29 de Noviembre 2025 Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2026 Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2026 Publicación: Marzo de 2026 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects @ EACL
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Dear all, Here is our CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: -- VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/ VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties; - Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects; - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages; - Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instructions for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/). Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD) Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Helsinki (Finland) Noëmi Aepli - University of Pennsylvania (USA) Verena Blaschke - LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi -- Best regards, Verena Blaschke

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Postdoc position at Uppsala University: Multilingual NLP
by Joakim Nivre 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

The Computational Linguistics group at Uppsala University is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on multilingual NLP: https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:866727 The position is not tied to a specific project, so candidates are asked to submit their own project proposal with the application. Questions about the position can be directed to joakim.nivre(a)lingfil.uu.se. När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition
by Tristan Miller 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

Dear all, Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student writers. Contributions from students of computational linguistics are most welcome. Sincerely, Tristan Miller Babel Advisory Panel ---------------------- Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the 11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Competition guidelines: Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 Length: 2000 to 2500 words Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting. Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs. Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the subject "Young Writers' Competition" For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles featured on the magazine's social media accounts: Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social X: @Babelzine Instagram: @babel_zine Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any questions about the competition. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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AAMAS 2026: Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award and the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
by Announce 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award *** *** Last Call for Nominations: 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026 award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop). The criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are: 1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS; 2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals; 3. Broadly inspired the community; 4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field. To nominate a publication for this award, please send by October 31, 2025 the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award committee, Maria Gini (gini(a)umn.edu). 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2026. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission link: https://forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVimTypu5<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by October 31, 2025: a) A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. b) A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. c) A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. d) A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of October 31, 2025. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2025 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: ” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2026 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Gauthier Picard, at gauthier.picard(a)onera.fr.

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Second CFP: SemEval 2026 Task 1 on Humor Generation
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 20 Oct '25

20 Oct '25

*** Second Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) *** Can computers be funny? MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/ While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored frontier. MWAHAHA (Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate) is SemEval 2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating genuinely humorous content under various constraints. Our goal is to push NLP models beyond memorization and towards true humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes. This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI, creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of humor itself. The development data for the evaluation trial phase has just been released, and we are accepting submissions for this phase! The task is organized into two subtasks: - Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English, Spanish, and Chinese. - Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation Systems must generate a caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic effect. Subtask B1 uses only an image, while B2 uses an image and a starting prompt. This subtask is in English only. The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on 1-on-1 arena-style battles. To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/ Important Dates: * Development data release: September 1, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase starts: October 15, 2025 * Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025 * Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026 * Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026 * System description paper submission: February 28, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026 * SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026

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First CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)* *https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>* *@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)* *Rabat, Morocco* *SUBMISSION* ARR submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT *TIMELINE* - Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 - Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD - EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026 *SCOPE* Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. *TOPICS* We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://2026.eacl.org/registration). *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)* Atul Kr. Ojha Chao-Hong Liu Ekaterina Vylomova Flammie Pirinen Jonathan Washington Nathaniel Oco Xiaobing Zhao *PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed)* Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jinliang Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Milind Agarwal, George Mason University Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University Pengwei Li, Meta Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University *CONTACT* Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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Internship in Machine Learning and Semantic Web for Dataset Discovery
by Anaïs Ollagnier UNICA 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

English version below Bonjour, Dans le cadre du projet DataLens, nous proposons un stage de M2 en Machine Learning et Web sémantique visant à améliorer la complétion et la structuration des métadonnées de jeux de données pour faciliter la fédération de sources hétérogènes. Plus d’informations et candidature : https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, As part of the DataLens project, we are offering a Master’s internship in Machine Learning and the Semantic Web focused on improving the completion and structuring of dataset metadata to support the federation of heterogeneous sources. More information and application: https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456. Best regards, -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Assistant Professor at Université Côte d'Azur | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 417, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Multilingual Multicultural Evaluation (MME@EACL'26)
by pinzhen.chen＠ed.ac.uk 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*Workshop co-located with EACL, 24-29 March 2026, Rabat, Morocco* LLMs in so many languages? When can such a claim be substantiated, and how should it be evaluated? This workshop brings together the community to answer these questions through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. *Call for Papers* We invite archival (ACL Anthology) or non-archival submissions, in ACL's short or long format. We accept both direct and ARR-reviewed submissions. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Evaluation resources beyond English or Western-centric perspectives and materials; - Annotation methodology and procedures; - Standardised reporting, and scientific comparison of multilingual performance; - Evaluation protocols: ranking vs direct assessment, rubric-based vs reference-based vs reference-free, prompt variations, etc; - Metrics, LLM judges, and reward models; - Complex tasks: multimodality, fairness, long I/O, tool using, code-switching, literary, etc; - Sociocultural and cognitive variation affecting the use and evaluation across languages; - Scalable evaluation of cultural and factual knowledge; - Efficient evaluation of a massive number of languages and tasks; - AI-assisted evaluation: data, methods, metrics, and standards; - Other position, application-, or theory-focused contributions. *Dates* (tentative, all dates are 23:59 AoE) - Direct submission deadline: 19 Dec 2025 - Pre-reviewed ARR submission deadline: 02 Jan 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 23 Jan 2026 - Camera-ready version due: 03 Feb 2026 - Workshop date: 28 or 29 Mar 2026 --- Website: https://multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io/ Email: mme-workshop(a)googlegroups.com Submission: OpenReview, link TBD Best regards, Pinzhen Chen on behalf of MME organizers

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Call for papers BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025
by Benet Vincent 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025 AI and EAP: New Directions Monday 15th December 2025, Coventry University (in-person event) Generative AI is still a recent development, yet it is having a significant impact in the fields of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Corpus Linguistics. A general consensus is emerging that researchers and practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of the uses of Gen AI, but it can be hard to keep track of developments in such a fast-moving field. The aim of this one-day event is to discuss current and future developments concerning AI in EAP with a specific focus on corpus linguistics and corpus approaches. Abstract submission We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). These will offer short, thought-provoking talks on what speakers feel are essential corpus linguistic elements for EAP teacher training. We encourage early-stage work that focuses on innovation, as well as more advanced research. Please send 250-word abstracts to Hilary Nesi (h.nesi(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk>) with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Notification of successful abstract submissions will be on 31 October 2025. Attendance The Journal of EAP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-o…> is kindly providing sponsorship for the event for those who would like to present but haven't got the financial means to attend. If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please include a maximum 100-word justification for sponsorship with your abstract submission. The BAAL CL SIG<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/about.html__;!!K7…> is also able to offer a number of attendance fee waivers for non-presenters; these are aimed at enabling students and early career researchers to participate. If you would like to be considered for fee waiver, please send a maximum 100-word explanation of the benefits to you of participation to sian.alsop(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:sian.alsop@coventry.ac.uk>, with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. To register for the event, please enter your details and pay the registration fee here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/frontend/re…> (choose the Register tab). Benet Vincent (he/him) Lecturer (Teaching) School of Social Sciences & Humanities Coventry University [cid:1d97cf6f-8f65-4ec3-94af-5bb1df230600] [cid:228a09e9-2e9f-470c-9e37-d7da2cccb039]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/a7809b7442504c0c836457ded745a58c…> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/book/Bookableacademicsupporttutorials@live.coven…> Queen's Award for Enterprise International Trade 2022 Ranked in the top 50% of UK universities for research power Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021 Joint top Modern University for Career Prospects Guardian University Guide 2022 Top 40 in the World for International Students (ratio) QS World University Rankings 2025 NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.

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FINAL CALL: LCRGrad25 – Registration Closes Monday, October 20th!
by Cansu Akan 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear Colleagues, This is the final announcement for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25). Hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, this virtual event takes place from October 22–24, 2025. While LCRGrad25 offers a diverse program for the whole community, it is specifically programmed to support graduate students and early-career researchers with a strong focus on practical development: • Distinguished Keynotes: Featuring talks from Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen, Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, and Dr. Dana Gablasova. • Coffee Chats with Keynotes: Informal, direct engagement with our distinguished keynote speakers immediately after their sessions. • Promising Research & Posters: A full schedule of emerging research papers presented live, plus asynchronous viewing of great emerging research posters on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LCRgradconf/videos • Workshops: Focused training designed to enhance essential academic and soft skills, providing practical takeaways that are applicable to research and career journey. • Research Clinics & AMA Panels: Expert advice on critical topics like building and analyzing corpora, legal/ethical issues, and low-resource languages. We also warmly invite seasoned researchers to attend. Your insights and support are invaluable for mentoring the next generation of scholars during the interactive sessions. Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the secure Zoom links. The registration window CLOSES on Monday, October 20th. Please ensure you register soon if you plan to attend. • View the full program: https://shorturl.at/KsAPj • Book of Abstracts: https://shorturl.at/G2oyX • MANDATORY FREE Registration: https://shorturl.at/CPUUU • Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/duSqy8Xy We look forward to a productive and engaging conference and hope you will join us! Best regards, Cansu Akan

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[Call for Papers] Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"
by Dr. Partha Pakray 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Dear All, We are pleased to invite submissions to the special issue of Natural Language Engineering, now called *Natural Language Processing* (Cambridge University Press), on the theme: "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*" *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Quantum computing Platforms for Algorithm execution - Quantum-enhanced NLP models and embeddings - Quantum Algorithms towards Natural Language Processing - Design and Development of Quantum Machine Learning Hybrid quantum-classical Models - Applications of Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing - Future Direction of Quantum Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing - Quantum Large Language Models - Architectures and Mechanisms and Challenges - Quantum Machine Learning for Low-Resource Language Modeling - Hybrid Quantum-Classical LLMs for Low-Resource Languages - Quantum transformers and compression of large language models - Quantum cognitive NLP for contextual and semantic understanding - Quantum dialogue systems and conversational AI - Quantum knowledge graphs for reasoning and inference - Quantum semantic search and information retrieval - Quantum adversarial learning and robustness in NLP - *any other, which is related to Quantum Computing* *Important Dates:* - *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2025 - *First-round author notification*: Between April 30, 2026 and May 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised versions*: Between July 30, 2026 and August 30, 2026 - *Second-round author notification*: Between Nov 30, 2026 and Dec 30, 2026 - *Submission of revised second versions*: Between Dec 31, 2026 and Feb 28, 2027 - *Final Version*: Between April 30, 2027 and May 30, 2027 *Submissions:* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing"* in the field *Special Issue Section.* *Any questions: *Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology Silchar, India Email: partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in *[Guest Editor]* Thanks & Regards, Thanks & Regards, *Dr. Partha Pakray* Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering National Institute of Technology Silchar Silchar, Assam, India partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17 [correct time]
by Costas Gabrielatos 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

[Posting again with the correct time - apologies] The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #17
by Costas Gabrielatos 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA) Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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IWSDS26 - Deadline extended to October 22, 2025
by info＠elda.org 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) <https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/> has been extended: *Important Dates (Extended):* * Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → *Extended to October 22, 2025* * Paper Update Deadline: October 18 →*Extended to October 28, 2025* * Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 *Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026* We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology. This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models” Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social (s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D. IWSDS'26 Program Chair Assistant Professor (RTD-A), University of Trento https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/

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[Andaluz.IA 2025] CFP III Andaluz.IA Forum
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 16 Oct '25

16 Oct '25

==================================================================== CFP III Andaluz.IA Forum December 19, 2025, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Sevilla ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission we are organizing the III Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville, the second edition at Universidad de Jaén and this year it will take place at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (Universidad de Sevilla). With this third edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 19, 2025 at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática(Universidad de Sevilla). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers. IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission deadline: October 20, 2025 October 26, 2025 ● Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2025 ● Registration deadline: November 17, 2025 ● III Andaluz.IA Forum: December 19, 2025 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/>

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[EACL WASSA Workshop] 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 1st Call for Papers
by Roman Klinger 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

** *15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 1st Call for Papers* *EACL’26, March 24–29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco, Half Day Workshop* *Background and Envisaged Scope* *Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis has become a highly developed research area, ranging from binary classification of reviews to the detection of complex emotion structures between entities found in text. This field has expanded both on a practical level, finding numerous successful applications in business, as well as on a theoretical level, allowing researchers to explore more complex research questions related to affective computing. Its continuing importance is also shown by the interest it generates in other disciplines such as Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Marketing, Crisis Management & Digital Humanities, where it can support the study of online interactions, group dynamics, and public discourse.* *The aim of WASSA 2026 is to bring together researchers working on Subjectivity, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Detection and Classification and their applications to other NLP or real-world tasks (e.g. public health messaging, fake news, media impact analysis, social media mining, computational literary studies) and researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation from text. We encourage the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but not restricted to the following topics:* * *Resources for subjectivity, sentiment, emotion and social media analysis* * *Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and summarization* * *Humor, Irony and Sarcasm detection* * *Mis- and disinformation analysis and the role of affective attributes* * *Aspect and topic-based sentiment and emotion analysis* * *Analysis of stable traits of social media users, incl. personality analysis and profiling* * *Transfer learning for domain, language and genre portability of sentiment analysis* * *Modelling commonsense knowledge for subjectivity, sentiment or emotion analysis* * *Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis* * *Application of theories from related fields to subjectivity and sentiment analysis* * *Multimodal emotion detection and classification* * *Social Groups analysis and their interactions in Social Media* * *Generation, detection, and evaluation of subjectivity, sentiment, and emotion in NLP tasks with LLMs* * *Risks, challenges, and ethical implications of affective uses of LLMs* * *The role of emotions in argument mining* * *Applications of sentiment and emotion mining* * *Public sentiments and communication patterns of public health emergencies.* * *The analysis of pretrained small and large language models.* *Finally, this year we also propose a special trackon multilinguality and socio-cultural adaptation to lesser-resourced languages/communities. * *In general, we particularly invite contributions from young researchers, work on low-resource languages, multilingual methods, and interdisciplinary work.* *Important dates* * *December 17, 2025: Direct submission deadline* * *January 2, 2026: ARR submission deadline* * *January 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance* * *February 3, 2026: Camera Ready Papers due* * *March 24–29, 2026: EACL with WASSA workshop on one of the days.* *Shared tasks* *We do not offer a shared task this year.* *Papers* *At WASSA 2026, we will accept three types of submissions:* *For the regular research track we accept long& shortpapers.* *Additionally, we accept double submissions and double commitment of ARR reviews in parallel to WASSA and another venue. Please note that you must immediately withdraw your paper from WASSA if you decide to publish it elsewhere. Check with the other venue if they also allow double submissions.* *Longpapers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. A- subset of these papers will be presented orally.* *Shortpapers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with any number of additional pages of references. Most of these papers will be presented as posters.* *Also this year there is an industry track, for which we accept demo papers. Demo papersdescribe system demonstrations, ranging from early prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate for this track. Demo papers may consist of up to six (6) pages of content, these will be presented as a poster and should include a live demonstration.* *Submission procedure and templates* *Submissions without reviews can be done directly through our Open Review side (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/WASSA).* *Authors who received reviews already through the ACL Rolling Review process are invited to commit their reviewed paper to WASSA. To do so, please go to our ARR Website and click on “ACL 2026 Workshop WASSA Commitment Submission”. You will then need to add the title, the URL to the ARR submission with reviews + metareview, and other information.* *Both long and short papers must be anonymised for double-blind reviewing, must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>, and must use the ACL templates (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). The submitting author must have an OpenReview profile* *Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data* *ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide additional information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary materials may include appendices, software or data. For example, pre processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work described in the paper can be put into appendices. However, if the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider material in appendices. Appendices should come after the references in the submitted pdf, but do not count towards the page limit. Software should be submitted as a single .tgz or .zip archive, and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive. Supplementary materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way anonymized reviewing policy and must not exceed 100MB.* *Organizers* * Jeremy Barnes, University of the Basque Country Valentin Barriere, University of Chile Orphée De Clercq, Ghent University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Célia Nouri, Inria and Sciences Po Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Pranaydeep Singh, Ghent University Contact Email: wassaworkshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://workshop-wassa.github.io/ * -- Prof. Dr. Roman Klinger (he/him) Professor for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences (WIAI) Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Office: Room 02.10; Gutenbergstr. 13; 96050 Bamberg; Germany Phone: +49 951 863 3320 Mail:roman.klinger@uni-bamberg.de WWW: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/ https://www.romanklinger.de/

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[CFP] Advanced Visual Interfaces / AVI 2026 / 1st Call for Workshop Proposals
by Daniela FOGLI 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

====================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 ====================================== IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025 - Notification: December 21, 2025 - Workshop website online: January 12, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue. Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form: https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8 Workshop Chairs - Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) - Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics. AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island of Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue to reflect, reframe, and speculate about creative solutions to more sustainable and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality. The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026! Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: / Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities / Brain-Computer Interaction Embodied and Tangible Interaction Material-Centric Interaction Information Visualization Screen-based Interaction Voice and Sound-based Interaction Multimodal Interaction / Theme: Interaction Spaces / Augmented Reality Cross Reality Virtual Reality Interaction between Black-Boxes Dynamic Physical Environments Natural Environments Urban Places / Theme: Human-System Interaction / Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Interfaces Human-Robot Interaction Intelligent Interfaces Interfaces and Recommender Systems / Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies / Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Learning Ecosystems Game and Play Ecosystems Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems / Theme: Values and Moral Principles / Beyond Human Interaction Critical Computing Critical Data Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Responsible Design / Theme: Applications / Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities End User Development AI Art and Creativity Human Factors in Security Systems Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it) Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de) Program Chairs Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it) Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it) Long Papers Chairs Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es) Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it) Short Papers Chairs Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it) María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it) Proceedings Chairs Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it) Workshops Chairs Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it) Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk) Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it) Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at) Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it) Posters Chairs Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it) Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it) Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no) Industry Chairs Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com) Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it) Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it) Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it) Web Chair Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it) Publicity & Social Networks Chairs Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it) Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk) Student Volunteers Chairs Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it) Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Cristina Conati University of British Columbia, Canada Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ilaria Torre University of Genoa, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Gualtiero Volpe University of Genoa, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France -- Informativa sulla Privacy: https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452 <https://www.unibs.it/it/node/1452>

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October 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

In this newsletter: Membership year 2026 publication preview Fall 2025 data scholarship recipients New publications: KAIROS Phase 2 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T15> BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T14> ________________________________ Membership year 2026 publication preview The 2026 membership year is approaching and plans for next year's publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: * 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set: 10,000+ hours of English conversational telephone speech following the Mixer collection protocol, used in NIST's 2012 speaker recognition evaluation * KAIROS schema learning corpus background data and Phase 1 evaluation datasets: multimodal English and Spanish source data and annotations for reasoning about complex real-world events * CALL MY NET 2: 800+ hours of Tunisian-Arabic conversational telephone speech from over 400 speakers to support text independent speaker recognition, used in the 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation * Multi-language conversational telephone speech: multiple releases, hundreds of hours of speech from speakers of confusable linguistic varieties (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Slavic, Spanish) to support language identification * CALLHOME Omnibus releases: combined speech and transcript datasets with updated directory structure, file formats and documentation, and lexicons (Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish) * IARPA MATERIAL language packs: conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries in multiple languages (e.g., Lithuanian, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog) Check your inbox for more information about membership renewal. Fall 2025 data scholarship recipients Congratulations to the recipients of LDC's Fall 2025 data scholarships: Lasidu Dilshan: University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka): BSc, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering. Lasidu is awarded a copy of Asian Elephant Vocalizations LDC2010S05 for his work in elephant voice enhancement and classification. Máté Gedeon: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary): PhD candidate, Department of Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence. Máté is awarded a copy of Switchboard-1 Release 2 LDC97S62 for his work in simulated conversation generation. Ping He: Northeastern University (USA): Student, Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Ping is awarded a copy of ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English LDC2014T06 for their work in native language identification. Thiyazen Iskander: Maulana Azad College of Arts, Science & Commerce (India), affiliated with Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University (India): PhD candidate, Linguistics, Department of English. Thiyazen is awarded copies of Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 LDC2010L01 and Arabic Treebank Part 1 v. 4.1 LDC2010T13 for his work in morphosyntactic analysis of short passives in Standard Arabic. Michael Mooney: University of Glasgow (United Kingdom): PhD candidate, School of Computing Sciences. Michael is awarded copies of Treebank-2 LDC95T7 and BLLIP 1987-89 WSJ Corpus Release LDC2000T43 for their work in eye-tracking for text-centered modeling. Abraham Sanders: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA): PhD candidate, Cognitive Science. Abraham is awarded a copy of Switchboard-1 Release 2 LDC97S62 for his work in spoken dialogue systems. ________________________________ New publications: KAIROS Phase 2 Quizlet<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T15> was developed by LDC and contains English and Spanish text, video and image data, and annotations used for pre-evaluation research and system development during Phase 2 of the DARPA KAIROS program. KAIROS Quizlets were a series of narrowly defined tasks designed to explore specific evaluation objectives enabling KAIROS system developers to exercise individual system components on a small data set prior to the full program evaluation. This corpus contains the complete set of Quizlet data used in Phase 2 which focused on five real-world complex events within the Disease Outbreak scenario. Source data was collected from the web; 66 root web pages were collected and processed, yielding 65 text data files, 890 image files and 10 video files. Annotation steps included labeling scenario-relevant events and relations for each document to develop a structured representation of temporally ordered events, relations and arguments; generating a reference knowledge graph; and linking labeled entries to a knowledge base derived from a Wikidata-based ontology. The DARPA KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program aimed to build technology capable of understanding and reasoning about complex real-world events in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large multilingual, multimedia corpus. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> was developed by LDC and consists of 116 hours of speech from 274 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of the Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt. The calls were collected by LDC in the CALLFRIEND and CALLHOME series where participants called family members or close friends and spoke on topics of their choice. Around 33% of the recordings (92 calls) are publicly released for the first time. The remaining 182 recordings were previously published by LDC in various CALLFRIEND, CALLHOME, and HUB5 Arabic datasets. The DARPA BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program developed machine translation and information retrieval for less formal genres, focusing particularly on user-generated content. LDC supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources -- discussion forums, conversational telephone speech, text messaging, and chat -- in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic, and English. The material in this release represents the unannotated Egyptian Arabic source conversational telephone speech. The telephone data was transcribed, translated, and annotated for various tasks in the BOLT program including word alignment, treebanking, and co-reference. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T14> contains transcripts and corresponding English translations for the conversational telephone speech in BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S09> and was developed by LDC to support the DARPA BOLT program. Transcribers were required to produce a verbatim transcript of all speech within a file using the CODA<https://aclanthology.org/L12-1328/> orthographic approach; diacritics were not included. Some transcripts contain redactions for potential personally identifying information. All speech data was transcribed and is divided into training, development, and evaluation partitions. The goal of the BOLT translation task was to translate the Arabic transcripts into fluent English while preserving the meaning present in the original Arabic text. Transcripts in the development and evaluation partitions received first pass and gold standard translations. 99% of the transcripts were translated into English. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. 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CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 _https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/_ [1]_ _ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 8 January 2026 ARR submissions: 10 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 3 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [2]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [3] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Ayudante doctora Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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Fully Funded PhD position in NLP/AI/Social NLP
by Somnath Banerjee 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

Dear all, Please feel free to share this with your contacts. I am seeking motivated students for a fully funded 4-year PhD in Social NLP. Social NLP is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. The scope of doctoral thesis proposals (but is not restricted to) is based on the following topics: - Information Disorder on Social Media (Fake news, Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, misinformation, etc.) - Disaster Management Using Social Media - Explainable AI in Social NLP Why the University of Tartu<https://ut.ee/en>? - The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. The University of Tartu is known for its high-quality studies and research. The unique intellectual atmosphere and fine living and working environment that characterise Tartu have attracted prominent scientists and experts for almost 390 years. - As of 2025, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. - The University of Tartu is the strongest research university in Estonia. We belong to various networks of renowned research universities, such as ENLIGHT, the Coimbra Group, LERU, etc. - Here, 13 000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity. - Estonia is famous for its digital society and has the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. Estonia is famous for its digital innovations, and it is home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise, and Bolt to name a few. Scholarship: - Scholarship approximately 2300 Euro/month gross amount. - Covers health insurance - Additional benefits: Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc. If you are interested, please drop me an email (somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee) with the following: - CV which must include: - final year undergraduate/graduate project (brief description: max 150 words) - pursued relevant subjects at undergraduate and/or Master level (if any) - relevant work experience (if any) - publications (if any) - The name and email contacts of academic referees(optional) Please Note: * Master-level students, who are in their final semester, can also apply. * Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as the processing of the applications will start soon after receiving them. * Do not send academic certificates, motivation letters, letters of recommendation, etc. * Upon initial selection based on CVs, additional documents (such as motivation letters, certificates) will be requested for further processing. For queries: If you need more information, please contact me with the subject line "SocialNLP: PhD position queries". Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee Assistant Professor, Chair of NLP, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, 51009 Tartu, ESTONIA

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CfP SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 Workshop at EACL 2026
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual events which also host the SIGHUM business meetings. Workshop site https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/sighum-latech-clfl-2026/ Important dates Submission deadline: January 5th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 10th, 2026 Description The community of the broadly understood Digital Humanities (DH) has witnessed remarkable growth and transformation, fueled by the rapid advancements in NLP. There is a steady interest in, and a high demand for, NLP methods of semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of primary and secondary data. Even so, the heterogeneous landscape of the DH with their diverse, often multi-lingual or multi-modal sources can be a challenge for NLP. Consider, for example, the growing interest in historical language data and in under-resourced languages. There are unique obstacles in developing comprehensive language models in aid of the linguistic diversity in DH. The handling of noisy and non-standard data, and the need for domain adaptation and intensive annotation, continue to be at the forefront of research effort in the community. The literary studies, which have witnessed substantial progress in the application of NLP methods, bring their own similar problems. Navigating forms of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. A case in point might be the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, the recognition of certain literary devices, or the quantitative analysis of poetry. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) expands the DH toolkit. There is support for automatic text cleaning and annotation, creation of semantic resources, analysis of narrative, genre and literary style, and linking information across sources. LLMs can support historical or low-resource languages, particularly when complemented with domain-specific fine-tuning and careful evaluation. One must note, however, that even with careful adaptation, curation and attention to interpretability, LLM outputs remain prone to errors, biases and lack of transparency; that requires rigorous assessment to ensure their suitability for scholarly research. There is growing emphasis on the importance of explanation in NLP models. That applied equally to DH, whose various domains enjoy the effect of NLP. Transparency and clarity of the results are critical if one is to accept the processed data, and gain valuable insights. That is why one must carefully consider a balance between raw performance scores and interpretability, in keeping with the specific research objectives. For many years now, this broad research context has drawn together NLP experts, data specialists and researchers in Digital Humanities who work in and across their domains. Our long-standing series of workshops has shown that cross-disciplinary exchange supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage communities. It encourages the Computational Linguistics community to build rich, effective tools and, above all, interpretable models. Topics Our workshops attract original work on a wide variety of topics, including – but as usual not restricted to – these: adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; identification and analysis of literary genres; information/knowledge modelling in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage; interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI); linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; low-resource and historical language processing; modelling dialogue literary style for generation; profiling and authorship attribution; search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language Information for authors We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. We will consider long papers, short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. A short paper / demo presenting work in progress or the description of a system may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word) available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2026 submission website on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it). Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Please keep references to your own work at a reasonable minimum, and do not use anonymous citations. In accordance with the EACL 2026 policy on multiple submission, we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. During the review period, papers submitted to our workshop cannot also be submitted elsewhere. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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LREC 2026: Deadline Extended to October 24, 2025 - Main conference papers, Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by info＠elda.org 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] The submission deadline for LREC 2026 Main conference papers, and workshop and tutorial proposals is extended to October 24, 2025. All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission pages on START * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/main * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/tutorials/ * https://softconf.com/lrec2026/workshops/ All information, including Calls for papers/proposals, can be found on the Conference Website: https://lrec2026.info/ General contact: info(a)lrec2026.info

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026
by ACL Announcements 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

This is a reminder that the deadline to submit tutorial proposals for EACL'26 & ACL'26 is coming soon: October 20, 2025! * Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP * Introductory tutorials in related fields: offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. More information: https://aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl-2026 [1] Links: ------ [1] https://aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-tutorial-proposals-eaclacl-2026

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1st call Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026)
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

**1st CALL FOR PAPERS** 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026, https://2026.eacl.org/), Rabat, Morocco. Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). ******************************************* Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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NEJLT is looking for assistant editors
by Marcel Bollmann 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

NEJLT, the Northern European Journal of Language Technology<https://www.nejlt.org/>, is looking for one or more volunteers to act as assistant editor(s) for the journal. What is NEJLT? NEJLT is a gold open-access journal on language technology and computational linguistics research with a global focus. We explicitly welcome submissions from anywhere in the world and on any language; if a paper would be suitable for a *ACL conference, it is suitable for NEJLT. Papers published in NEJLT also appear on the ACL Anthology. The motivation for NEJLT<https://www.nejlt.org/about/> in its current form is, in a nutshell, to offer an additional publication venue outside the usual conference cycles with a journal-style review process and fast turnaround times. Who is NEJLT looking for? As an assistant editor for NEJLT, your task would be to help with: * finding and contacting suitable action editors when a new submission is made * identifying submissions that require attention from action editors and sending out reminders * checking camera-ready versions before publication * advertising newly published papers on social media Finding, contacting, and recruiting suitable volunteers, such as those who can take over a new submission as action editor, is currently the most time-consuming task and the journal’s biggest bottleneck. All of this is currently handled by me in my role as the elected NEALT editor-in-chief, but after 21 months of running the journal, it is clear to me that NEJLT will not work in its intended form without spreading the load across more people. Therefore, I am looking for motivated volunteers who like to improve the journal’s operations together with me. How active is NEJLT? Between January 1st and September 30th of 2025, NEJLT has handled 18 submissions. Out of these submissions: * 2 are currently still awaiting their first decision * 2 were desk-rejected (wrong template/out of scope) * 2 received a reject decision after reviews * 1 was withdrawn by the authors * 10 received a decision of major or minor edits * 1 was published The average time until a first decision (not counting desk rejections, withdrawn papers, or revisions) in this period was 78.5 days. However, the variance here is rather high: the quickest decision was taken after 39 days, while the longest took 190 days. This is mainly due to delays in assigning action editors and reviewers, and is also the reason I have not more actively advertised the journal in the past two years. I might be interested in volunteering, what do I do? If you are interested in volunteering for NEJLT, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail! I am happy to answer any questions you might have or arrange a Zoom call to discuss this further. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested! You can also share it via this post on our website: https://www.nejlt.org/post/asst-editor-wanted/ Best regards, Marcel Bollmann -- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: 19 December, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, Eindhoven University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

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Deadline approaching: Call for Nominations: BCS Search Industry Awards 2025
by Udo Kruschwitz 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

BCS Search Industry Awards 2025 We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2025. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services. If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> today. Categories This year we are offering four awards: Best Search Project recognises the most impactful implementation of search technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous winners include: Datafari Enterprise Search <https://www.datafari.com/en/index.html>, an open-source end-to-end solution covering the needs of enterprise search scenarios Wikiframe Visual Graph <https://wikiframe.library.unlv.edu/>, a search capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata CiteSeerX <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/>, one of the largest open-source academic search engines with over 10 million documents Search Professional of the Year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include: Jayaprakash Sundararaj <https://www.linkedin.com/in/osjayaprakash/>, Lead Engineer at Google Amey Porobo Dharwadker <https://ameydhar.com/>, Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta Adam Tocock <https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/mini-apps/staff/profile/?id=2478>, Library Assistant at NHS Most promising Start-up (or new Enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include: deepset.ai <http://deepset.ai/>, a leader in framework and platform technology that accelerates AI application development with large language models (LLMs); and the creator of the Haystack open-source framework batteryincluded.ai <http://batteryincluded.ai/>, First BI Product Discovery Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevance within global product listings Giotto AI <https://www.giotto.ai/>, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report Best Presentation at Search Solutions Previous winners include: Taketomo Isazawa, Microsoft Research: “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs" Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid”. Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation” The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…>! Judging Panel Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly). Awards Ceremony The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2025 <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…>. Apply We’ve designed the application process <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxTx0oN3xCRcy1rgktug-k4e8kmVvvLQL…> to be simple to complete. If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… <https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…> Nominations will remain open until 31st October 2025. Contact If you have any questions on the above, please contact the Awards Chair at udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de <mailto:udo.kruschwitz@ur.de> with a copy to the IRSG Events Organiser at tgr2uk+irsg(a)gmail.com <mailto:tgr2uk+irsg@gmail.com> About IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS <https://www.bcs.org/>. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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CFP: MultiPRIDE shared task at EVALITA 2026
by Viviana Patti 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

[apologies for cross-posting] Call for Participation for MultiPRIDE task at EVALITA 2026 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/> MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the LGBTQ+ Context - https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ <https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> With this task, we invite researchers, practitioners and students to explore features and issues related to reclaimed language in the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, we suggest participants to focus on both the textual content of the inputs (such as arguments, slurs, denigratory words, self-labeling, figures of speech), and the contextual information that can be inferred from the users’ profile (when available), such as their being part of the LGBTQ+ community. This is a binary classification task, in which systems must classify whether a term related to LGBTQ+ context in a sentence is used with a reclamatory intent or not. We propose two different tasks that can be addressed according to a constrained or unconstrained approach: • Task A - Textual Content: participants are provided only with the textual content of the tweet. • Task B - Contextual Content: in addition to the textual content of the tweet, participants can use contextual information related to the author’s profile, such as their biography (when available). MultiPRIDE is a multilingual task and involves one or more languages among Italian, Spanish and English data. Although not mandatory, participants are encouraged to foster cross-linguistic analysis. Important Dates: • September 29, 2025: release of training data • November 21, 2025: Call for Interest deadline • November 27 – December 4, 2025: evaluation window • December 15, 2025: results to participants • January 9, 2026: submission of participants’ report • February 7, 2026: reviews to participants • February 16, 2026: camera ready • February 26 – 27, 2026: EVALITA workshop (Bari) More details available on MultiPRIDE website https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ <https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> and on Evalita26 website https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/ <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/> If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to write to us at multipride-evalita(a)gmail.com <mailto:multipride-evalita@gmail.com> The MultiPRIDE team

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[2nd CFP]: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing-2025)
by Khaled Shaalan 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

========================= 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2025), December 6-7, 2025 (Hybrid Conference) Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Website: https://acling.org/ ========================= ## IMPORTANT DATES ## * Submission deadline: 27 October 2025 * Acceptance Notification: 3 November 2025 * Final Camera-ready submission: 10 November 2025 * Author Registration & Payment: 17 November 2025 * Conference Date: 6-7 December 2025 ========================= ## INTRODUCTION ## The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and application of AI-driven methods in computational linguistics. ACLing welcomes high-quality contributions that address theoretical foundations, novel algorithms, and practical implementations across all dimensions of AI and ML in language technologies. The conference seeks to promote dialogue on emerging trends, innovative solutions, and critical challenges in the field, reflecting the growing importance and societal impact of AI-powered language processing. This year, the conference will be hosted by The British University in Dubai (BUiD), an institution recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, impactful research, and global engagement. BUiD’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary innovation makes it an ideal venue for this prestigious event. ========================= ## Keynote Speaker# Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada (https://mageed.arts.ubc.ca/) ========================= ## TOPICS ## We welcome submissions in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Knowledge and Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Formal Resources for AI * Statistical and Neural Language Modeling * Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces * Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP * Multilinguality, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages * Domain-Specific NLP (e.g., Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, Educational) * Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning * Emotion Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Social Signal Processing * NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science * Conversational AI, Spoken Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarization * Natural Language Generation, Storytelling, and Creative AI * Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding * Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery * Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI * Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI in Language Technologies * Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications * Responsible and Interpretable AI for Language Understanding * Generative AI: Models, Evaluation, and Emerging Applications * Reinforcement Learning and Prompt Engineering for NLP Tasks * AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages * Human-Centered NLP and User-Aware Language Interfaces * Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability in NLP * AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools This wide-ranging list reflects the dynamic nature of the field and aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that advances the frontiers of AI-driven language technologies. ========================= ## Submission Guidelines ## All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/ Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acling2025 ========================= ## CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ## * Prof. Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt ## INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT (web sources)## ========================= * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus/CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801 * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLing by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ## FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS ## ========================= * Visit the conference website link https://acling.org/ (will be updated on a regular basis). * For general information, please contact us at ACLing2025(a)gmail.com or taher.ghazal(a)ieee.org Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan Professor of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Head of Computer Science Department | Head of PhD in Computer Science Program Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Contact Information: Email: khaled.shaalan(a)buid.ac.ae<mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae> / khaled.shaalan(a)acm.org<mailto:khaled.shaalan@acm.org> Website: khaledshaalan.org<https://www.khaledshaalan.org> University Website: www.buid.ac.ae<http://www.buid.ac.ae> Phone: +971 42791400 D: +971 42791434‎ Dubai International Academic City, Block 10 & 11, 1st and 2nd floor, PO Box: 345015, Dubai, UAE Editorial & Leadership Roles: Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian & Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)<http://tallip.acm.org/‎> Founder & Chair, ACLing: International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics<http://www.acling.org%20‎> Honors & Recognition: Top 2% Scientists in AI (Stanford Univ. 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Call for Participation DHASA and RAIL
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

Call for Participation DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025 https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za https://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/ DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025 RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025 Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/ DHASA CONFERENCE Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence. In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of- the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. RAIL WORKSHOP Theme: Language resources in the age of large language models The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages of Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. Organising Committees DHASA conference Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research RAIL workshop Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun
by Piotr Przybyła 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

📢 PolEval 2025 Challenge Has Begun! We are pleased to announce the launch of the 8th edition of the PolEval competition – an annual evaluation campaign for natural language processing (NLP) tools for Polish. PolEval aims to improve the quality of existing solutions, test new algorithms, and promote linguistic engineering and AI research for the Polish language. Participants are invited to submit their NLP systems to compete in several shared tasks using standardized datasets and evaluation procedures. 🧩 PolEval 2025 Tasks This year’s edition includes the following tasks: - ŚMIGIEL – Spotting Machine-Generated Text from Language Models for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task1> - Gender-Inclusive LLMs for Polish <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task2> - Polish Language Document Layout Detection <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task3> - Polish Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge <https://poleval.pl/tasks/task4> 📅 Important Dates - Submissions are now open! The deadline for submitting systems is November 10th, 2025. 🏆 Awards and Opportunities Winners of individual tasks will receive awards, and all participants will be invited to: - Present their solutions during Data Science Summit 2025 <https://main.dssconf.pl/>, and - Publish their results in a dedicated PolEval 2025 proceedings volume. 🔗 More Information - Official website: http://poleval.pl/ - Submission platform: https://poleval.amueval.pl/ We kindly invite all researchers, students, and enthusiasts of linguistic engineering to take part and spread the word about PolEval 2025 among potential participants. International participants are welcome, as all the information about the challenge is provided in English. With best regards, Łukasz Kobyliński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, and the Task Organizers

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

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2nd call for papers: EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026)
by Dimitar Kazakov 11 Oct '25

11 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the 2026 edition of the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference, to be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.About the Conference https://evolang2026.org The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) conference series is the leading international forum for researchers investigating the origins and evolution of language. Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, including—but not limited to—anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, genetics, linguistics, computational modelling (mathematical, agent-based, and neural-network approaches), palaeontology, physiology, primatology, philosophy, semiotics, and psychology. The 2026 edition of EVOLANG will feature invited talks by Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin, USA), Katie Slocombe (University of York, UK) and Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Italy). Full details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/invited-speakers EVOLANG 2026 will also host six thematic workshops: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages • AI in Language Evolution • Great-Ape Pragmatics • Swarm Robotics for the Study of Language Emergence • Triangulating Human Diversity through Linguistic, Biological and Socio-Cultural Differences • The Geography of Linguistic Evolution Details: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/workshops . The conference will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria—often described as Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city, renowned for its rich historical layers and lively cultural scene. Plovdiv offers affordable accommodation and excellent transport links by land and air, including daily low-cost flights to nearby Sofia and direct flights from London, Milan, and Bratislava. Bulgaria is an EU member state, part of the Schengen Area, and is expected to have joined the Eurozone by the time of the conference. 2. Submission Link and Deadline The deadline for submissions to EvoLang XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026) is 26 October 2025 (Anywhere on Earth). Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EVOLANG.org/2026/Conference 3. Submission Guidance Submissions must meet normal standards of academic excellence. Papers should clearly state how they advance the study of language evolution and relate their findings to up-to-date scientific literature. Each submission should articulate: - the substantive claim being made, - the method by which that claim is supported, and - the nature of the relevant data and/or theoretical argument. Empirical studies should be based on completed analyses, not preliminary results. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three experts, and acceptance decisions are based on a scoring scheme that aggregates reviewers’ reports. In recent conferences, the acceptance rate has been around 50%. EVOLANG features both oral and poster presentations. Please read the submission guidelines and consult the templates provided before uploading your paper. Alongside your submission, you will be asked to supply a 150-word summary of your contribution. Submissions that lack clear relevance to the field or that fail to adhere to the formatting requirements may be rejected without review. If you experience any difficulties with the submission system, please contact: scientific-committee(a)evolang.org The conference language will be English, with additional accessibility support in the form of captions. All submission information and templates are available here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/submission The Evolang 2026 team evolang2026(a)gmail.com Disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 - deadline approaching
by Aline Paes 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

*Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026* The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the ACL 2026 and EACL 2026 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for two types of tutorials: * *Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP*: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, or EMNLP. * *Introductory tutorials in related fields*: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. In both cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: * *EACL 2026* (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026. * *ACL 2026* (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centers EACL and ACL 2026. **Important Dates*EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: *October 20, 2025* * Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2025 * Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials one month prior to the date of the tutorial* /All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)./ *Fee Waivers* Up to *3 instructors per tutorial* can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. *Diversity & Inclusion* To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to *topics promoting diversity* (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), *participation diversity* (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and *representation diversity* among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory [1], Black in AI [2], Disability in AI [3], Indigenous AI [4], LatinX in AI [5], Masakhane [6], 500 Queer Scientists [7], and Women-in-ML’s directory [8]. *Submission Details* 1Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download [9] the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template [10]. Proposals *should not exceed 4 pages of content* (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1) A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. 2) A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. 3) Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs ”introductory to fields related to CL/NLP”. 4) Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: * Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus” * Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars” * Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron” * Neural Network: e.g., “Familiarity with transformers” * Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools” 5) An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. 6) Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. 7) Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. 8) Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. 9) For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. 10) An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. 11) A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 12) We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. 13) An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 14) A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. 15) OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. 16) OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-tutorials2026 [11]. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. *Evaluation Criteria* Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. *Instructor Responsibilities* Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by *Dec 08, 2025*. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide *tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference*. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). *Tutorial Chairs* * EACL * Aline Paes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil * Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK * Chenghua Lin, The University of Manchester, UK * ACL * Kenton Murray, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Jacob Andreas, MIT, USA If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eaclacl2026_tutorials [at] googlegroups.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate Professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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IMPOLS Shared Task at EVALITA 2026
by lorenzo.gregori＠unifi.it 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Dear All, we are happy to announce IMPOLS (IMplicit contents in POLitical Speech) shared task within EVALITA 2026 campaign. IMPOLS website: https://liu-dilef.github.io/IMPOLS-task/ IMPOLS demo video: https://youtu.be/Tu7A1U759FI EVALITA website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/ IMPOLS focuses on the automatic recognition of implicit content in political speech. Given an utterance in a context, we ask participants to develop a system capable of detecting and classifying the implicit contents that are non-bona fide true: these are implicit, questionable contents that are not conveyed in good faith but are still understood as true, albeit non-explicitly, within a given context. This kind of content is widely employed in political communication as a strategic tool to convey messages implicitly, thereby enabling the transmission of potentially manipulative content without overt expression. There are three subtasks: 1. a binary detection task, in which the systems are asked to detect the presence of questionable implicit contents in speech excerpts; 2. a binary classification task, in which the systems are asked to discriminate between two types of implicit contents: implicatures and presuppositions; 3. a multiclass classification task, in which the systems have to identify if implicatures are particularized conversational, generalized conversational, or conventional. IMPOLS is a monolingual (Italian) multimodal task: both the speech and the manually revised transcription are provided to the participants in the three subtasks. We encourage participation of teams in one or more subtasks, exploiting textual or multimodal data. Important Dates: -- NOW! Training data available to participants -- 1st December 2025 - 8th December 2025: IMPOLS evaluation window -- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants -- 9th January 2026: final reports due to task participants -- 16th January 2026: final reports due to task organizers -- 7th February 2026: review deadline -- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline -- 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy) Organizers and Contacts: -- Lorenzo Gregori (University of Florence), lorenzo.gregori(a)unifi.it -- Walter Paci (University of Florence), walter.paci(a)unifi.it -- Valentina Saccone (University of Florence), valentina.saccone(a)unifi.it

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Help Shape a Mentorship Program for the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
by Agostina Calabrese 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hi everyone, We’re exploring the creation of a mentorship program for next year’s Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)<https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/>. Our goal is to make WOAH a more welcoming and accessible venue for researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines - not just core NLP or computer science, but also fields such as social sciences, law, psychology, policy, and beyond. To help us design a program that truly supports this diversity, we’d love your input. Whether you might be interested in joining as a mentor, mentee, or just want to share your perspective, please take a minute to fill out this short survey: 👉 WOAH Mentorship Interest Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgC1QFL91-uzTl0B5sRQVh9j0zzvgSpu1zdT-zrghP…> Your feedback will help us shape a mentorship initiative that lowers barriers to participation and builds stronger interdisciplinary connections within the WOAH community. Thanks so much for your time and insights! Best, Agostina on behalf of the WOAH organizing team The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Call for submissions: Social Media Access Days 2026
by Tatjana Scheffler 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Social Media Access Days Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access 17.3.-19.3.2026 Submission deadline: 31.10.2025 Online platforms, especially social media platforms, are both research objects and sources of data for a variety of research approaches in the humanities and social sciences, computer science, and the natural and life sciences. The historical evolution of social media makes them a part of our digital cultural heritage. However, the processes used by institutions to archive and document social media data are still only rudimentary, not least because of their economic, social and aesthetic characteristics and the unique attributes of media technology. Researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions therefore face a wide range of problems in terms of their archiving, indexing and use. Researchers who wish to work with social media data also encounter numerous new challenges, especially when fundamental changes such as the elimination of application programming interfaces (APIs) impact access to specific data from online platforms. The archiving, indexing and use of dynamic data from social media are therefore fraught with problems which researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives have to tackle in a consistent manner. Ideally, solutions to these problems should be developed cooperatively, since this requires extensive effort which would be beyond the scope of a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is therefore to enable libraries, archives, infrastructural facilities, research institutions and researchers to network and exchange experiences with archiving and the sustainable use of data and digital objects from social media. We explicitly welcome case studies and presentations on solutions and their practical implementation as well as reports on research findings. We are particularly interested in contributions on the following key topics: • Sustainable infrastructure for collecting and providing access to social media content • Interaction between researchers and archiving institutions • Ethical issues and best practices • Legal issues and solutions • Challenges posed by restrictive data access from social media platforms • Experiences with data access in the context of the Digital Services Act • Status and preservation of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions, platform elements • Consolidation of collections, corpora, holdings • Metadata, data documentation and indexing social media data • Use of AI & LLMs for data documentation and indexing purposes • Initiatives focusing on archiving and access • Concepts for the provision and use of derivatives (aggregated or derivative formats) from social media • Experiences with the reusability of available data Keynote We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker: Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane). https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/a.bruns Date The conference will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. The main conference language is German. However, contributions can also be submitted in English. We aim to schedule all English-language presentations together in one day, if possible. Submissions We look forward to receiving your submissions for presentations and your proposals for tutorials, workshops or interactive formats. - Presentations / posters: Please submit your proposals in the form of abstracts containing a maximum of 500 words (plus bibliographies and max. 1 illustration). Contributions can be based on research findings or personal experience and may be presented in German or English. The programme committee will decide which contributions to accept as oral presentations and which as posters. - Further formats: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, themed sessions and other interactive formats should not exceed two pages and should contain the following information: proposed format and realisation, language, target group (potential number of participants), motivation and goals. In addition, please tell us whether you require special technical equipment or facilities. We will then determine how these can be provided on site. Please send your submissions as a PDF document to: twarchiv(a)dnb.deTimeline Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 October 2025 Response by 30 November 2025 Conference: 17.-19.03.2026 Program Committee Stefan Dietze (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Philippe Genêt (German National Library) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (UB der HU Berlin) Katrin Weller (GESIS and HHU Düsseldorf) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners BERD@NFDI German National Library GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences NFDI4DataScience Text+ --- 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

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CNRS Research Associate Positions (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)
by Olivier Bonami 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle ([http://]www.llf.cnrs.fr, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr <http://cnrs.fr/>). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr <http://u-paris.fr/>), the LLF has about 70 members, including 33 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published in early December, 2025 with an application deadline in early January, 2026 (https://carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-competitions-for-researchers-m-f/). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by December 12, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr <mailto:direction.llf@listes.u-paris.fr>. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by December 19. Heather Burnett Directrice de recherches au CNRS Directrice du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université Paris Cité & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique Université Paris Cité & Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris Bureau 640

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International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026) in Leuven
by Patrizia Paggio 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We would like to draw your attention to the 3rd edition of the International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2026), which will be held in Leuven (Belgium) from 9-11 September 2026. http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/> The third edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held in Frankfurt am Main (2024) and Barcelona (2023). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of semiotic resources in spoken and signed language. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. This overarching goal of the symposium is rooted in the conviction that investigating multimodality is key to understanding how language and communication work. For MMSYM 2026, we welcome contributions approaching multimodal communication from different methodological and disciplinary angles. The main topic of this edition of the symposium is “Embodied communication in (inter)action”. We particularly encourage submissions that approach the main theme from one of the following angles: (1) multimodal pragmatics and interaction analysis, (2) (generative) multimodal behavior modelling, (3) creating and sharing sustainable multimodal data, and (4) exploring the interface of gesture and signed language. For MMSYM 2026, we particularly encourage contributions relating to these conference themes but are open for all submissions related to multimodal communication. TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO - Gesture-speech interaction & integration - Prosody-Gesture-coordination - Multimodal language processing - Gesture & sign language interaction - Sequential organization of multimodal behavior in (face-to-face) interaction - Semantics-pragmatics interface & multimodal communication - Multimodal communication & spatial configurations - Kinematics of bodily movements - Multimodal corpus development - Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data processing - Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data - Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents - Intercultural aspects of embodied behavior - Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) - Multimodal communication disorders and communication support - Multimodal health communication IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submissions welcome from 15th November 2025 - Abstract submission deadline: 1st March 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 3rd April 2026 - Conference dates: 9-11th September 2026 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are delighted to announce four keynote speakers whose work relates to the main themes of the conference: - Pamela Perniss (Universität zu Köln) - Elisabeth Zima (Universität Zürich) - Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University) - Wim Pouw (Tilburg University) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion) or posters of original, unpublished work on any aspect of multimodal communication. Abstracts should be written in English and should be submitted via OpenReview.net<http://openreview.net/> (submissions will be welcome starting from 15th November 2025). Please check the website (http://www.mmsym.org/<http://www.mmsym.org/>) with the call for papers, important deadlines and keynote speakers for more details. We hope to welcome you in Leuven for an exciting MMSYM conference! On behalf of the organizers Geert Brône, Bert Oben and Julie Janssens **** Patrizia Paggio Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk> Professor (retired) University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt> Selected recent publications and upcoming projects: Paggio, P., Mitterer, H., Attard, G., & Vella, A. (2025). Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances? Language and Cognition, 17, e54. doi:10.1017/langcog.2025.20 MultiplEYE DK - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection - Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-stoettet/cf24-2005/

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Postdoc position: Text Simplification + Machine Translation for Horizon Europe project, Barcelona, Spain
by Horacio Saggion 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

We are hiring: Postdoctoral position to carry out research and development in the areas of (i) multilingual text simplification and (ii) multilingual and multicultural machine translation relying on state-of-the-art deep neural models and architectures (LLMs). The work is to be carried out in the context of the Horizon Europe project IDEAL (Inclusive Democratic Engagement and Language Technologies in Europe) which addresses several languages. TALN group, Department of Engineering, Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona, Spain How to apply: https://lnkd.in/dpssFU7a TALN: https://lnkd.in/ePKttcZX Department: https://lnkd.in/dGEWbHsb UPF: https://www.upf.edu/ -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) Co-PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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[Deadline Extension] 3rd Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

****Call for Papers WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025**** *https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/ <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/>* Building on the success of the First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and the Second WIESP at IJCNLP-AACL 2023, the Third Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 aims to establish itself as a pivotal platform for promoting discussions and research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This gathering will bring together esteemed experts and renowned organizations with students and early-career researchers who are interested and invested in efforts to extract and mine the world’s scientific knowledge from research papers. Their collaboration will be focused on developing advanced algorithms, models, and tools that will lay the foundation for future machine comprehension of scientific literature. The third iteration of WASP will specifically concentrate on various topics related to Artificial Intelligence research for scientific publications: ****Topics (not limited to)**** - *Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction* - *Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification* - *Citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining* - *Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis* - *Scientific article summarization and headline generation* - *Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature* - *Prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for science Q&A* - *Chain-of-thought reasoning and scientific problem-solving with LLMs* - *LLM-powered information extraction from scientific texts* - *Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora* - *Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding* - *AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation* - *Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing* - *Large Language Reasoning Models for Scientific Discovery* - *LLM hallucinations and impact on scientific knowledge, publications* - *Challenges, Future of AI in Scientific Publishing* - *AI, Peer Review, and Scientific Publishing* - *Impact of Generative AI on Scientific Publishing* *In addition to papers, WASP will also host a shared task. * ****Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared (TRACS)**** https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task We will publish a separate CfP on the shared task. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions, which will then undergo light peer review. All accepted papers and shared task system papers will be published in the WASP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2025 and indexed in the ACL Anthology. ****Important Dates**** - *NEW Paper submission deadline (WASP): October 13, 2025* - *ARR commitment deadline: October 27, 2025* - Notification of paper acceptance (WASP+TRACS): November 3, 2025 - Camera-ready submission deadline (WASP+TRACS): November 11, 2025 - Workshop: December 23, 2025 (hybrid) - All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) ****Paper Submission Site**** *https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WASP>* Submission will be via OpenReview. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines and use the provided template files. Paper formatting guidelines - ACLPUB <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2025 regarding anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Please reach out to the organizers (cc'ed) for any queries. Thank you! -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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First Call for Papers : Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗦’𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS’2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: - 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 - Content Legitimacy and Quality - Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language - Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety - Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders - Monitoring extremist fora - Suicide prevention - Clickbait and scam detection - Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions - Social engineering identification, phishing detection - NLP for risk assessment - Controlled languages for safe messages - Prevention of malicious use of ai models - Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security - 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 - Text-Based Anomaly Detection - Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data - Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis - Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats - Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text - 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Systems Security - Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity - Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks - Authentication and access control - Enterprise-level mitigation - NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis - Analysing code and scripts for malware - Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code - 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics - 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 - Ethical and Legal Issues - Digital privacy and identity management - The ethics of NLP and speech technology - Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools - Legislation against malicious use of AI - Regulatory issues - Bias and Security - Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) - Bias in security related datasets and annotations - 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤s - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 - 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various 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: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available in the Second Call for Papers due in October 2025. The conference will feature a student workshop and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Submissions due: 16 March 2026 • Reviewing process: 1 April – 30 April 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚏̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ ̲ Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) 𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚝̲𝚞̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚆̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚙̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 𝙱̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚊̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙰̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚍̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) 𝙿̲𝚞̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚢̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙿̲𝚛̲𝚘̲𝚐̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚖̲𝚖̲𝚎̲ ̲𝙲̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚒̲𝚛̲ Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in February 2026. Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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3rd call, training data ready: UniDive shared tasks on idiomaticity and multiword expressions
by Agata Savary 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

**3rd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Two peas in a pod:PARSEME 2.0 and AdMiRe 2.0 multilingual UniDive shared tasks on idiomaticity and multiword expressions https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st… <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> Expression of interest: https://forms.gle/rwSfUmNR1sTsHDfx6 <https://forms.gle/rwSfUmNR1sTsHDfx6> ==================================================================== The UniDive COST Action <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>is happy to announce ADMIRE 2 and the PARSEME 2.0 shared tasks dedicated to detecting and interpreting idiomaticity and multiword expressions(MWEs). MWEs are groups of words that have non-compositional semantics, i.e. their meanings cannot be straightforwardly deduced from the meanings of their components. For instance, a bad appleis a person who has a bad influence on others. Both shared tasks will take place together and we hope to co-organise the workshop with SIGLEX-MWE section <https://multiword.org/>and co-locate it with EACL 2026 in Morocco(24-29 March 2026). The participating teams are to submit the results of their systems on CodaBench <https://www.codabench.org/>. The submission links will be published at the same time as the test data. We are delighted to confirm that UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>will provide funding <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…>for selected system presenters. Important dates ----------------- * [1 OCTOBER] Training data and baseline systems released * [3 DECEMBER] Publication of test blind data * [8 DECEMBER] Submission of system predictions * [19 DECEMBER] Systems evaluated * [5 JANUARY] Submission deadline for system description papers * [9-23 JANUARY] Reviewing period (system teams will participate as reviewers) * [3 FEBRUARY] Submission deadline for camera-ready papers * [24-29 MARCH 2026] EACL, including the MWE workshop(to confirm) PARSEME 2.0is a shared task whose main objective is to identify and paraphrase multiword expressions (MWEs) in written text. We propose two subtasks: the first corresponds to the classical identification task in running text. The second consists in paraphrasing a sentence containing a MWE, so as to remove idiomaticity. Data annotation is finished and 17 languages are covered: Dutch, Egyptian (ca. 2700-2000 BC), French, Georgian, Greek (Ancient), Greek (Modern), Hebrew, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Subtask 1 is on MWEs identification and Subtask 2 on paraphrasing MWEs. AdMIRe 2.0 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation) addresses the challenge of multilingual and multimodal idiomatic language understanding by evaluating how well models interpret potentially idiomatic expressions (PIEs) across languages and across modalities using both text and images. This new edition extends the AdMIRe 1 task <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15358>adding more languages from the UNIDIVE network and beyond. Given a context sentence containing a PIE and a set of five images, the task is to rank the images based on how accurately they depict the meaning of the PIE used in that sentence. The task will be zero-shot for newly introduced languages. While the task is designed to encourage participation from teams working on multilingual and multimodal technologies, it also accommodates approaches focused only on a subset of the languages and on a single modality (text) with automatically generated descriptive captions for each image, allowing models to rely exclusively on text input if desired. Data ----------------- * Training data for AdMiRe 2.0: https://semeval2025-task1.github.io/data/training/training_data.html <https://semeval2025-task1.github.io/data/training/training_data.html> * Training data for PARSEME 2.0: https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/2.0 <https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/2.0> Organizing team --------------- PARSEME 2.0: * Manon Scholivet, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Takuya Nakamura, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Agata Savary, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Éric Bilinski, Université Paris Saclay, LISN, FR * Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université, LIS, FR ADMIRE 2 : * Adriana Pagano <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1YAGKjWKddhtqiA-9wwpTzBrRHqMWqraLLDCi63yoSQPHp…>, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR * Aline Villavicencio <https://secure-web.cisco.com/17hRYtc48CxUTuQ_Lm5LvtIDhREp6JpTTNFu3smb4Yyjp1…>, University of Exeter, UK * Dilara Torunoğlu Selamet <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1U3Kz5oRS8032U7C3ikqTwLrLuHnRujaiXILauGPxfilqd…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Doğukan Arslan <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1iCwzaJ-FPO1KSa7r0luNlHcUTrCy6K9Wm8I3pk9d_-iG8…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Gülşen Eryiğit <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1nP_yCeZKo55vzyCSp6J79GtmP_8EODYLoOnic4AHIQmdV…>, Istanbul Technical University, TR * Rodrigo Wilkens <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1zTIs9aO7VfKy_Sg1CYj8xiCPOZhZHkSPR2xYyMQE456pF…>, University of Exeter, UK * Tom Pickard <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1AbiBJ6cGhN9SrjpkIlBYQeo08-8YJIDUds7Qfs3H5_KpL…>, University of Sheffield, UK * Wei He <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1HrUa3BUU6pl9p4Ia2mMqmEqrPU834VAhFFDUvAV6PbjrP…>, University of Exeter, UK

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Shared task for spontaneous speech ASR
by Robert Pugh 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Mozilla Data Collective (the new platform where Mozilla Common Voice datasets, among other datasets, are hosted) just kicked off a Shared Task on Spontaneous Speech ASR. It targets 21 underrepresented languages (from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia), brand-new datasets, and prizes for the best systems in each task. For more information, visit https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/shared-task-mozilla-common-voic… Robert Pugh Senior Community Manager mozillafoundation.org (UTC-7)

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics. The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc - 2025/10/15 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: *Noga Zaslavsky* (New York University) Title: *Cultural evolution of efficient semantic systems in humans and AI* Abstract: *Human languages efficiently compress meanings into words, but how did our semantic systems evolve to be that way? Are AI systems capable of evolving efficient semantic systems and representing meaning as we do? In this talk, I address these open questions from cognitive, cultural, and computational perspectives. First, I show that individual human learners favor efficiently compressed semantic representations. This inductive learning bias, when amplified via cultural transmission, drives the evolution of near-optimally efficient semantic systems. Second, I consider large language models (LLMs) and show that while they vary widely in their semantic alignment with humans, they nevertheless exhibit a similar tendency toward efficient compression: when simulating cultural evolution with LLMs, they iteratively restructure initially random semantic systems towards greater efficiency. Finally, I show that introducing an explicit pressure for efficient compression, grounded in the information bottleneck principle, enables multi-agent reinforcement learning systems to evolve efficient, human-like semantic systems without any human supervision. Taken together, these results demonstrate how humans and AI can evolve efficient semantic systems through social interaction and cultural transmission, and more broadly, they suggest that efficient compression may be a fundamental principle of intelligence.* - 2025/11/26 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Ece Takmaz* (Utrecht University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2025/12/17 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Ethan Wilcox* (Georgetown University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2026/01/21 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Gemma Boleda* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2026/03/18 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: *Adele Goldberg* (Princeton University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA]

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Deadline Extension – International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue (IWSDS) 2026 (Trento, Italy)
by Giuseppe Riccardi 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) has been extended: 📅 Important Dates (Extended): 📝 Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → October 22, 2025 🔄 Paper Update Deadline: October 18 → October 28, 2025 ✅ Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 🎤 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026 We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology. This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models” Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social --- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering University of Trento Room D206, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy Home Page: http://disi.unitn.it/~riccardi/

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Release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset
by Andrey Kutuzov 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

October is back and so are HPLT datasets (we've been doing this for three consecutive years now!) This time, we announce the release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset which can be considered a major upgrade for large-scale multilingual corpora. Accounting for 29 billion documents, 198 language-script combinations and 112 trillion characters, v3.0 shows significant gains over v2, driven by several improvements, including a new global deduplication process: - Unique content boosted from 52% to 73% on average. - Data substance and robustness remains high with better extraction and improved language identification. - Shows increased variety and better representativeness of natural web content. This release provides a cleaner, more robust dataset for building powerful LLMs and machine translation systems, including a myriad of low- to medium-resourced languages. And we have not said our last word: wait for more data soon because we are already working on it. Special thanks to all the collaborators and funding bodies, including the European Union's Horizon Europe program and UK Research and Innovation. Explore the data and see the full analysis and evaluation highlights on our website: https://hplt-project.org/datasets/v3.0 -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Online talks Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are sharing the following details about the online event Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025, hosted by the University of Murcia from 3 to 27 November 2025. This year’s talks will focus on the impact of AI on corpus linguistics. Speakers: * Dr Lisa Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, & Dr Peter Crosthwaite, The University of Queensland — 3 Nov * Prof Qing Ma, The Education University of Hong Kong — 11 Nov * Prof Laurence Anthony, Waseda University — 25 Nov * Prof Atsushi Mizumoto, Kansai University, Osaka — 27 Nov Info: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/clresearch2025/ The talks will take place via ZOOM at 11:00 a.m. (Madrid) / 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong). Registration link: https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NAQ8nFTgSCO2obOFNNgc1A#/registr… For this edition, attendees who request it will receive a certificate of participation. Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2025 is organized by the University of Murcia research group E020-07 “Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento”, with support from the Faculty of Arts, the Department of English Philology at the University of Murcia, and The Education University of Hong Kong. Follow updates on X: @languagecorpora Watch talks from previous editions: https://www.youtube.com/@corporaappliedlinguistics8358/playlists Kind regards from the organizing committee, Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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1st CfP: 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26)
by Andrey Kutuzov 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** First Call for Papers: 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/ 📧 Contact: lchange(a)changeiskey.org == About the Workshop == The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in computational modeling of language change — both historical and synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop at EACL 2026 conference in Rabat. We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language. In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. == Important Dates (tentative) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 == Submission Information == We accept the following types of submissions: - Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) - Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model release papers should be submitted as short papers. Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. == Review Process == Papers must be submitted anonymously. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please email us at lchange(a)changeiskey.org! == Topics of Interest == We invite original research papers on (but not limited to): - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language == Organizers == Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Multimodal AI @ Queen’s University Belfast, UK
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear Colleagues, We are looking for a PhD student in Multimodal AI for Proactive Herd Health and Dairy Farm Management (CLÁR Project) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. This fully funded PhD studentship is supported by SUSTAIN (https://www.sustain-cdt.ai/), the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial Intelligence. SUSTAIN empowers the next generation of AI scientists to invent, develop, and deploy technologies co-created with growers and agri-food practitioners, facilitating meaningful partnerships between academia and industry. The successful candidate will work with our multidisciplinary supervisory team and our industry partner, CattleEye, gaining access to global real-world data and industry expertise. This project offers a unique opportunity to develop a skill set in AI applied to globally significant sustainability challenges in dairy farming. If you have a background in NLP, Data Science, ML/DL, or Computer Vision and are motivated to apply your expertise to real-world sustainability challenges in agriculture, this could be a fantastic opportunity for you. [??] Location: Queen’s University Belfast, UK [??] Eligibility: Open to students worldwide [??] Funding: Fully funded PhD studentship (tuition fees, tax-free stipend, Research Training Support Grant, and additional development support) [??] Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2025 [??] More details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/project-q3138-cl-r-multimodal-ai-for-… For enquiries, contact m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:m.hasanuzzaman@qub.ac.uk> with your CV. Best, M [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=83b4a8df94&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg…]

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PhD position in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (LIACS, Leiden University)
by Plaza del Arco, F.M. (Flor Miriam) 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We are looking for a PhD candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing at LIACS, Leiden University<https://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/>. The PhD will be supervised by myself, Prof. Suzan Verberne<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/suzan-verberne#tab-1>, and Prof. Joost Broekens<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/joost-broekens#tab-1>. The position is part of the Human-AI cluster<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/computer-science/research/huma…>, a great environment for interdisciplinary research where AI and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. This PhD position focuses on advancing AI models that don’t just optimize for accuracy, but also recognize and respond to emotions responsibly and adapt to social context. Current systems often reproduce or amplify social biases, generate toxic context, or do not respond safely to emotional cues. The goal of this PhD is to design AI systems that promote inclusivity, fairness, and emotional intelligence in human-AI interaction, with a particular focus on applications in mental well-being, education, and other socially sensitive contexts where how AI interacts with people has a big impact. The deadline to apply is November 17, 2025. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q4/16038-phd-candidate-… Please send me an email if you have any questions regarding the position. Best regards, Flor Plaza ------------------------------------------------ Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Human AI Leiden University Office: BM 3.03, Gorlaeus Gebouw – BE-vleugel Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, Netherlands 🌐 Website<https://fmplaza.github.io/> | 🦋 BlueSky<http://florplaza.bsky.social/>

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Research Internship Opportunities (Master) – TALN Team, LS2N (Nantes Université)
by Florian Boudin 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

The TALN team (Natural Language Processing (https://taln.ls2n.fr/) of the LS2N laboratory (https://www.ls2n.fr/, Nantes Université) is offering 5 research internships at the Master 2 level (duration: 5 to 6 months), starting in February 2026. These internships will take place within the research themes of the team on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for specialized domains, in particular healthcare and science, with a focus on the study and adaptation of large language models (LLMs). Possible topics include: - Study and evaluation of LLMs in limited contexts (specialized data, constrained domains); - Recommendation and navigation systems to explore the scientific literature; - Text revision and scientific writing assistance tools; - Verification of claims in scientific articles, including text/image multimodality (in collaboration with the IPI team); - Clinical text analysis for estimating patient autonomy score. Candidate profile: Master’s students in computer science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, or related fields, with solid programming skills (Python) and a strong interest in research. Contacts: - Florian Boudin - florian.boudin(a)inria.fr - Richard Dufour - richard.dufour(a)univ-nantes.fr

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