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Call for papers: 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026)
by Mourad Abbas 30 May '26

30 May '26

The 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), will take place at the University of Trento, Italy, on September 25–26, 2026. ICNLSP 2026 will be a hybrid conference. We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field. We welcome contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 15, 2026 11:59 PM Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2026. Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026. Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026. All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). TOPICS of INTEREST We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Generative AI - Large language models (LLMs) - Cognition and NLP - Machine translation - Text categorization - Summarization - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining - Computational social web - Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora - NLP tools for software requirements and engineering - Text annotation tools - Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems - Information extraction - Data mining and information retrieval - Lexical semantics and knowledge representation - Visualization for nlp - Knowledge graphs. Speech Processing - Signal processing and acoustic modeling - Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.) - Speech analysis - Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.) - Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis - Speech translation - Speech synthesis - Speaker verification and identification - Language identification - Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility - Speech perception and production - Brain studies on speech - Phonetics, phonology, and prosody - Speech and hearing disorders - Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language - Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology. For more information, please, check the conference website: https://www.icnlsp.org/2026welcome/

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APCLC -- Deadline extended Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
by Michael Barlow 30 May '26

30 May '26

Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submission of abstracts for APCLC has been extended to June 15. Conference details, including how to submit an abstract, can be found at https://smartconf.jp/content/apclc2026/ The 6th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2026) will be held in Toyama, Japan, from September 8–11, 2026. The main conference runs September 9–10, with pre-conference workshops on September 8 and an excursion on September 11. Conference Theme: Emerging Paradigms of Corpus Linguistics in the Age of AI We look forward to seeing you in Toyama, JAPAN Contact: apclc2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:apclc2026@gmail.com> Michael (on behalf of the organising committee) --- Michael Barlow. www.michaelbarlow.com<http://www.michaelbarlow.com/> Assoc. Prof. Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland Recent publications M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Social Science Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753367/ref=sr_1_1_so_ABIS_BOOK?crid=25EQBROGY…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Humanities Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/s?k=writing+the+humanities+research+article&i=stripb…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Business Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753405/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…> Athelstan M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Economics Research Article<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753383/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…>. Athelstan M. Barlow 2023. Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics<https://brill.com/display/title/61682>. Brill Le, Pham & Barlow 2023. The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering<https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.107>. Benjamins

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Final Call for Participation: Summer School on LLMs and NLP
by Amal Haddad 29 May '26

29 May '26

Final Call for Participation: Summer School on LLMs and NLP Alicante, Spain · 15-17 June We are pleased to invite students, researchers, and practitioners to participate in a three-day Summer School on Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing, taking place from 15 to 17 June in Alicante, Spain. The programme brings together leading researchers and experts to discuss the foundations, applications, and future directions of LLMs and NLP (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/programme/ [1]). The summer school will feature keynote talks by Roberto Navigli on lexical semantics in the LLM era and Preslav Nakov on open, safe, factual, and language-specific large language models, as well as a panel on the paradigm shift and the future of NLP featuring well-known NLP experts. Across three days, participants will explore a wide range of timely topics, including foundations of LLMs, LLMs for low-resource languages, datasets and bias, explainable AI in NLP, machine translation, eye-tracking and gaze data, digital humanities, legal NLP, quantum NLP, sentiment analysis, and model optimisation. Beyond the scientific programme, participants will also have the opportunity to enjoy Alicante's Mediterranean weather, welcoming atmosphere, and excellent local food. The summer school offers an excellent opportunity to learn from international experts, exchange ideas, and discuss current challenges in NLP and language technologies. Further details and registration: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/ We warmly encourage interested participants to join us for this exciting event. -- 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://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummer-sc…

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Post-doc Position (2+1 year): Learning Language with Dialogue Games
by Bernardi Raffaella 29 May '26

29 May '26

Dear all, We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher for a 2+1-year position at the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) within the 3-year project LLADIGA: Learning Language with Dialogue Games. The project is carried out in collaboration with David Schlangen (University of Potsdam), Alessandro Suglia (University of Edinburgh), and Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam). The position is expected to start around 1 September 2026. Further details and the application call are available here: https://tinyurl.com/LLADIGA-bz Application deadline: 29 June 2026, 12:00 PM CEST Raffaella ======================================================================= Room B1.5.01 Faculty of Engineering Free University of Bozen Bolzano NOI Techpark - B. Buozzi 1, 39100 Bozen Bolzano, Italy

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1st CfP: 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
by Elisa Leonardelli 29 May '26

29 May '26

═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026 <https://aixia2026.unipg.it/>) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── Paper Submission deadline: 29 June 2026 🚨 Notification to authors: 31 July 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── We are pleased to invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/). The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Topics include but are not limited to: - NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) - Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics - Natural Language Generation - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Summarization - Information Extraction in AI Applications - Machine Learning for NLP - LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications - Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Natural Language Inference - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Abusive Language Detection and Analysis - NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis - Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Language and other Multimodality - Multimodal (text-image) data sources - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP - NLP and Industrial Challenges Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: - Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of references - Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CEURART-NL4AI-2…> or accessed as a Template in Overleaf <https://it.overleaf.com/read/cfvwgnqpvpys#a7a014>. The submission platform will be announced soon on the Workshop Website and in a Second Call for Papers. Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. *WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS* Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) *We look forward to seeing you in Perugia!* The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- 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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Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense | Specialisation Course in Forensic Linguistics
by Rui Sousa Silva 28 May '26

28 May '26

***ENGLISH VERSION BELOW*** É com prazer que informo que estão abertas as candidaturas ao Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense da Universidade do Porto (7ª edição). Este curso, o primeiro curso de pós-graduação de 60 ECTS no espaço de língua portuguesa dedicado à linguística forense, reflete o papel pioneiro da Universidade do Porto no desenvolvimento de formação académica especializada nesta área. O curso, concebido em modo b-learning para proporcionar preparação avançada na interseção entre linguagem, direito e justiça, oferece um currículo rigoroso, inovador e altamente relevante para graduados e profissionais que desejam aprofundar a sua especialização em linguística forense. Através de uma combinação de fundamentos teóricos e aplicações práticas, o curso visa reforçar a competência analítica e apoiar o desenvolvimento profissional em áreas de crescente relevância social e institucional. Esta formação constitui uma oportunidade distinta para aqueles que desejam envolver-se com uma das áreas mais dinâmicas e especializadas do estudo da linguagem. Enquanto universidade pública, a Universidade do Porto oferece este programa a um nível de propinas comparativamente acessível, tornando a educação especializada de elevada qualidade mais acessível a um leque mais amplo de pessoas candidatas. As candidaturas estão abertas até 7 de julho de 2026. Para mais informações, não hesite em entrar em contacto, ou visite https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881 ***ENGLISH VERSION*** We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Specialisation Course in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Porto (the 7th cohort of the programme). This programme, the first 60 ECTS-credit postgraduate course in the Portuguese-speaking arena dedicated to forensic linguistics, reflects the University of Porto's pioneering role in the development of specialised academic training in this field. The course, which was designed to provide advanced preparation at the intersection of language, law, and justice, offers a rigorous, innovative and highly relevant curriculum for graduates and professionals seeking to further their expertise in forensic linguistics. Through a combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications, the course aims to strengthen analytical competence and support professional development in areas of growing social and institutional relevance. It stands as a distinctive opportunity for those who wish to engage with one of the most dynamic and specialised areas of linguistic study. As a public university, the University of Porto is able to offer this programme at a comparatively accessible tuition level, making high-quality specialised education more attainable for a broader range of candidates. Applications are open until 7 July 2026. Please do not hesitate to reach our to us for further information - or visit https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881 All best Rui Rui Sousa Silva Professor Auxiliar / Assistant Professor NORTE IA+ | Principal Investigator Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto www.linguisticaforense.pt<http://www.linguisticaforense.pt/> | https://s.up.pt/qjur | http://tinyurl.com/37w2ec6x | norteia.pt<http://www.norteia.pt/> Publicação mais recente / Latest publication: “The facts speak for themselves”: dismantling conspiracy theories as disinformation<https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0160/html> Escola Prática, Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense<https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881> Selo INOVPED - Inovação Educativa 2025 NORTE2030-FEDER-02724200 | NORTE 2030 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (NORTE 2030 - Projetos Integrados ICDT), Portugal 2030 e Comissão Europeia.Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte - www.norteia.pt<http://www.norteia.pt/> AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDADE: Esta mensagem e os seus anexos são confidenciais e dirigidos unicamente aos destinatários da mesma. Se não for o destinatário, solicito que não faça qualquer uso do seu conteúdo e proceda à sua eliminação, notificando-me do sucedido. Obrigado. // CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: This message and its attachments are confidential and exclusively addressed to the recipients above. Should you not be one of the recipients, I kindly ask you not to make use of its contents and delete the message and its attachments. Please reply to this e-mail to warn me about this incident. Thank you.

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Discorpus – a new tool for corpus and discourse analysis (feedback welcome)
by Jose Rolanía Navarro 28 May '26

28 May '26

Discorpus is a web-based corpus analysis workbench designed for linguists and discourse researchers. It combines classic corpus linguistics tools (KWIC, collocations, n-grams, lexical diversity) with NLP-powered analysis (lemmatization, named entity recognition, topic modelling, sentiment) — all from a single browser interface, with no programming required. Developed as part of PhD research in Applied Linguistics (Universitat Politècnica de València), with a focus on Critical Discourse Analysis and the automated study of discriminatory language in digital platforms. MIT license. Github repository: https://github.com/joserolania-boop/DIscorpus Feedback from the community is very welcome, as this is an ongoing project aimed at supporting linguistic research and corpus-based work. The tool is freely available for academic and educational use.

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash May 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 28 May '26

28 May '26

The May edition of the CLARIN newsflash is out! Highlights include: * CLARIN Café on Data Citation<https://www.clarin.eu/event/2026/clarin-cafe-data-citation-clarin-part-i> 4 June 2026 * CLARIN Café on JOHD special collection on data reuse<https://www.clarin.eu/event/2026/clarin-cafe-johd-special-collection-langua…> 24 June 2026 * A recap of CLARIN successful presence at LREC2026 * A report of the CLARIN in University Curricula workshop Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-may-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC

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Two year postdoc in Experimental Psycholinguistics and Computational Language Modelling.
by Sussi Olsen 27 May '26

27 May '26

Dear colleagues At the Centre for Language Technology at University of Copenhagen we have an open position for a two year postdoc in Experimental Psycholinguistics and Computational Language Modelling. The successful candidate will contribute to the project METALLM (Exploring Metaphors in LLMS), granted by the Independent Research Fund Denmark 2026-2029; see https://cst.ku.dk/english/projects/metallm. The candidate will contribute to the project’s WP2 – Cognitive Processing of Metaphor. WP2 investigates how people understand metaphorical language and compares human processing with that of large language models (LLMs). Using reading tasks and eye‑tracking, the project examines how human attention and interpretation vary across different types of metaphors, and compares these patterns with the attentional mechanisms of LLMs tested on a comparable range of expressions. The overall goal is to better understand similarities and differences between human cognition and computational language models during metaphor processing. The successful candidate will be attached to the Centre for Language Technology (CST), which is one of the research centres of the department. CST conducts research in different areas of interest for language technology, such as Natural Language Processing, construction of NLP resources, Computational Cognitive Modeling and Multimodality, NLP infrastructure and policy, Representation Learning for NLP and Digital Humanities, among others. It has a strong international profile, at the same time as pursuing the development of language technology methods and resources for the Danish language. More information at https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=161607 Sussi Olsen Research Associate University of Copenhagen Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics Centre for Language Technology Emil Holms Kanal 2 København S DIR +45 35 32 90 64 MOB +45 30 26 70 04 saolsen(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:saolsen@hum.ku.dk> www.cst.ku.dk<http://www.cst.ku.dk/> [Logo for Københavns Universitet] How we protect personal data<https://informationssikkerhed.ku.dk/english/protection-of-information-priva…>

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DiscoExplorer interface for discourse relations
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 27 May '26

27 May '26

Hi everyone, The Georgetown University Corpling Lab <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> is pleased to announce the release of DiscoExplorer, a publicly available open source search engine for discourse relation data: https://gucorpling.org/discoexplorer/ DiscoExplorer indexes all 38 discourse relation datasets from the DISRPT shared task on discourse relation classification, covering 16 languages in 6 frameworks (RST/eRST, PDTB, SDRT, ISO and dependencies) with over 300K relations and 5M tokens, all using a uniform label set. The interface allows searching by relation for tokens and UD annotations such as POS tags, lemmas and dependency functions, as well as offering quantitative breakdowns and dataset distribution comparisons. For more information, check out this paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15304> , which will be presented as a demo at the CODI-CRAC workshop <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/> at ACL in San Diego. We hope this will be useful and look forward to your feedback! Best wishes, Amir ------------ Dr. Amir Zeldes Assoc. Prof. of Computational Linguistics Department of Linguistics Georgetown University 1437 37th St. NW Washington, DC 20057 <https://gucorpling.org/amir> https://gucorpling.org/amir

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47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad Haddad [She/her] 27 May '26

27 May '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 30 June 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! Links: ------ [1] https://asling.org/tc47/ [2] https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026/

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New release: FR-BSKY-ALO-2025-2026 Corpus
by Sangwan Jeon 27 May '26

27 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the release of the FR-BSKY-ALO-2025-2026 Corpus: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19075495 FR-BSKY-ALO-2025-2026 is a corpus of anonymized, publicly available Bluesky posts collected for research and pedagogical purposes to explore lexical variation in French, between “sorte” and “espèce”, on the one hand, and between “enfin”, “finalement”, “au final”, and “à la fin”, on the other. Such terms and expressions have been the subject of several research in linguistic studies (Souza et al., 2011; Hansen & Mosegaard, 2005; Franckel, 1987, among others). The collection comprises 278,786 posts, published between 1 February 2025 and 27 January 2026, from all user accounts. This academic activity has two main objectives. Using Blueskyscraper (Moncomble, 2026: https://corpustools.prendrelangue.fr), data collection was carried out with the participation of students enrolled in the course Analyse linguistique outillée (second-year undergraduate level, academic year 2025–2026), at the Université de Poitiers. The project aimed to introduce students to the practical and methodological aspects of corpus construction and to the analysis of linguistic data using corpus linguistics tools. Students were also invited to explore the corpus in order to invastigate linguistic variation through a corpus-based approach grounded in digitized texts (BlueSky posts), there by encouraging reflection on emerging forms of linguistic data and digital discourse studies. The corpus is available on Zenodo in seveeral formats (CSV, TEI/XML, TSV, TXT), with the aim of ensuring compatibility with a wide range of corpus analysis tools whiled preserving metadata intrinsic to digitized texts, notably posting date and post URLs. Best regards, Sangwan Jeon

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14 Doctoral contracts – MultiLAwa MSCA Horizon
by Alex Boulton 27 May '26

27 May '26

Dear colleagues This may interest you, your students or others around you – please feel free to circulate. Corpus linguistics feature in several of the PhD topics; I'm involved in DC14 in particular for DDL and GenAI for language learning. Best wishes alex We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for 14 fully-funded doctoral contracts in the context of the European Horizon program "Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society" (MultiLAwa) – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). MultiLAwa is coordinated by the Université de Lorraine (France), including the co-supervision of four of the contracts. The topics relate to language awareness with a broad coverage, including computer-assisted language learning, corpus linguistics, multi/plurilingualism, language identity and bias, etc. Please note that English and German are both required to at least B2 level for all contracts, with additional languages preferred. Deadline: 8th July 2026 Open online information session : 16 June 2026, 2pm (France) Successful candidates will spend part of their time in the two partner universities involved, as well as a period on secondment with an associated partner. Further information on the project and how to apply can be found at [ https://www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-positions | https://www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-positions ] Especially: [ https://www.multilawa.eu/recruitment-for-applying/general-information/ | General information ] [ https://www.multilawa.eu/recruitment-for-applying/application-process/ | Application process ] [ https://www.multilawa.eu/recruitment-for-applying/selection-and-evaluation-… | Selection and evaluation process ] [ https://www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-positions/ | Open PhD positions ] Additional information: Contract and salary. Recruitment will be for a single 36-month contract. Gross monthly salary is €4010 (apply country-based coefficient) plus a monthly mobility allowance (€710) and, where relevant, family allowance (€660). Detailed information is provided here on p118: [ https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/hori… | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/hori… ] Eligibility. Applicants must: * not already hold at doctorate at the time of recruitment * have good marks in a graduate degree such as as Master of Arts, Master of Translation, Master of Education, Master of Science or equivalent in a relevant field and providing an appropriate and sufficient background training for the programme * respect the mobility requirements of the MSCA doctoral networks programme * have a level equivalent to at least B2 in English and German; knowledge other languages is preferred, especially where the partner university is in another country Thesis topics: 1: Discourses on Language Awareness and Pluri-/Multilingualism in Digital Society: A Meta-pragmatic Analysis Joint Doctorate: University of Zurich (UZH) and University of Warsaw (UW) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Prof. Ewa Żebrowska Secondment: Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) 2: Language Ideologies in Industry, Science and Politics Joint Doctorate: University of Zurich (UZH) and University of Mannheim (UMA) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Prof. Florence Oloff Planned Secondment: Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET-AI) 3: Multilingual digital practices and digital literacy: Designing and using digital applications in the workplace and higher education Joint Doctorate: University of Mannheim (UMA) and University of Milan (UNIMI) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Florence Oloff, Prof. Carolina Flinz Planned Secondments: Univerbal (UVB), University of Copenhagen (UCPH) 4 : Stereotyped language related to gender, race and ethnicity in digital dictionaries and thesauri Joint Doctorate: Université de Lorraine (UL) and University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Hélène Vinckel-Roisin, Ass. Prof. Mirjam Schmuck Planned Secondments: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Ordbogen (ORBG) 5: Multilingual gender fairness in AI-generated texts Joint Doctorate: University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Université de Lorraine (UL) Academic co-supervisors: Ass. Prof. Mirjam Schmuck, Prof. Hélène Vinckel-Roisin Planned Secondments: Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET-AI), Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) 6: Language policy on the European level: Language Awareness and digitality from a discourse analytical approach Joint Doctorate: Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and University of Vienna (UNIVIE) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Ludwig Fesenmeier, Prof. Eva Vetter Planned Secondment: Charles University (CU) 7: Language policies in France, Germany and Luxembourg: A Multidimensional Comparative Analysis of Institutional Actors and Critical Multilingual Language Awareness Joint Doctorate: Université de Lorraine (UL) and University of Mannheim (UMA) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Hélène Vinckel-Roisin, Prof. Henning Lobin Planned Secondments: Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Zenter fir d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch (ZLS) 8: Promoting culture and identity-building in digital contexts: Focus on indigenous regional and minority languages Joint Doctorate: University of Warsaw (UW) and Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Ewa Žebrowska, Prof. Ludwig Fesenmeier Planned Secondments: Ministère de la Culture (MC / DGLFLF), UNESCO 9: Conception of a specialised multilingual multimedia lexicographic information system for tourism language Joint Doctorate: University of Innsbruck (UIBK) and University of Milan (UNIMI) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Laura Giacomini, Prof. Carolina Flinz Planned Secondments: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW – Germany), Interhome Group (IHG) 10: Dataset and technical design of specialised multilingual lexicographic information systems for circular economy Joint Doctorate: Nova University Lisbon (NOVA) and University of Milan (UNIMI) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Rute Costa, Prof. Carolina Flinz Planned Secondment: Dudenverlag (DUD) 11: Enhancing Language Awareness in Fintech: Terminology Translation and Harmonisation towards Cross-Cultural Communication Joint Doctorate: University of Milan (UNIMI) and Nova University Lisbon (NOVA) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Fabio Mollica, Prof. Rute Costa Planned Secondment: Swiss National Bank (SNB) 12 : Students’ language learning motivation from a Critical Language Awareness perspective Joint Doctorate: University of Mannheim (UMA) and University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Johannes Müller-Lancé, Ass. Prof. Petra Daryai-Hansen Planned Secondments: UNESCO, Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme (OEP) 13: Migration languages in foreign language education in the era of GenAI Joint Doctorate: University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and University of Mannheim (UMA) Academic co-supervisors: Ass. Prof. Petra Daryai-Hansen , Prof. Johannes Müller-Lancé Planned Secondment: Ernst Klett Verlag (EKV) 14: Language Awareness and communicative ability through exposure: data-driven approaches with corpora and GenAI Joint Doctorate: University of Vienna (UNIVIE) and Université de Lorraine (UL) Academic co-supervisors: Prof. Eva Vetter, Prof. Alex Boulton Planned Secondment: Lexical Computing (LC) Participating organisations: The project is led by the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France – ATILF) and includes 9 other partner universities in Europe: * University of Innsbruck (AT), University of Vienna (AT), University of Zurich (CH), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE), University of Mannheim (DE), University of Copenhagen (DK), University of Milan (IT), University of Warsaw (PL), Nova University Lisbon (PT) and 16 associated partners: * Switzerland: Univerbal, Banque Nationale Suisse (CH), Czech Republic: Université Charles de Prague, Lexical Computing (CZ), Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (DE), Berlin-Branderburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (DE), Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (DE), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH (DE), Ordbogen A/S (DK), WeDo – Project Intelligence Made Easy (ES), Ministère de la Culture (FR), Observatoire européen du plurilinguisme (FR), UNESCO (FR), Interhome Group (IT), Zenter fir d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch (LU) Website: [ https://www.multilawa.eu/ | https://www.multilawa.eu ] _____________________________ Alex Boulton (he/him) Professor of English and Applied Linguistics (+33) 06 24 57 28 80 alex.boulton(a)univ-lorraine.fr Just out! Pérez-Paredes, P., & Boulton, A. (2025). [ https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/datadriven-learning-in-and-out-… | Data-driven learning in and out of the language classroom ] . CUP. [ https://www.atilf.fr/ | ATILF ] , UMR 7118 - CNRS & Université de Lorraine UFR Lansad (Université de Lorraine) Editor: [ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/recall | ReCALL ] (CUP) AFLA, EUROCALL, TaLC [ https://perso.atilf.fr/aboulton/ | Homepage ]

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SUD v2.18 — Release announcement
by Bruno Guillaume 27 May '26

27 May '26

Following the recent UD 2.18 release announcement, we’re pleased to announce the synchronized Surface Syntactic Universal Dependencies <https://surfacesyntacticud.org/> (SUD) release 2.18. - Data download and documentation: https://surfacesyntacticud.org/data (see the UD announcement <https://list.elra.info/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/corpora@list.elra.info/thre…> for the full list of languages and contributors). Related tools were also updated: - Grew-match: All UD and SUD treebanks for release 2.18 are available for online queries at https://universal.grew.fr/ - Interactive tables: Feature and dependency-relation summaries for all treebanks are available at https://tables.grew.fr <https://tables.grew.fr/>

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CfP: Doctoral Consortium — ACM IVA 2026
by Stefán Ólafsson 27 May '26

27 May '26

[Apologies for multiple copies. Please distribute to interested Ph.D. students.] CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM at the 26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2026) Consortium Date: September 11, 2026 (Day after the main conference) Website: https://iva.acm.org/2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium/ We invite Ph.D. students working on intelligent virtual agents to apply for the IVA 2026 Doctoral Consortium. This track offers student researchers personalized mentoring from expert panelists, valuable feedback on their ongoing thesis work, and career networking opportunities. We particularly encourage applications from Ph.D. candidates who have a settled topic and research approach but are not yet too close to graduation to benefit from guidance. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Please submit/email the following components by the deadline: 1. A 4-page extended abstract of your thesis work (via the IVA submission site, DC track). 2. A 2-page CV (emailed to Chairs). 3. A recommendation letter from your advisor, sent directly by them (emailed to Chairs). IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 1, 2026 * Notification: July 31, 2026 * Doctoral Consortium: September 11, 2026 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS & CONTACT: * Timothy Bickmore (t.bickmore(a)northeastern.edu<mailto:t.bickmore@northeastern.edu>) * Stefán Ólafsson (stefanola(a)ru.is<mailto:stefanola@ru.is>) Full details and formatting guidelines: https://iva.acm.org/2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium/

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10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: 3rd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 27 May '26

27 May '26

*** Third Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on the 29th of October at EMNLP 2026. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Registration deadline for mentorship programme: April 10, 2026 * Notification of mentor/mentee match: April 25, 2026 * Submission due: June 26, 2026 * ARR reviewed submission due: August 3, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop: 29th October 2026 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers” In its 10th edition, WOAH highlights the theme “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers”. Over the past decade, WOAH has become a central interdisciplinary venue for online harms research. As harms and enabling technologies have evolved, the field has moved beyond an early focus on textual hate speech and harassment to address more complex phenomena. Advances in AI and online ecosystems have expanded the scale and diversity of harms. Transformer models, multimodal platforms, and recommendation systems have contributed to the escalation of issues like misinformation, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation, identity-based abuse, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and AI-mediated harms. Methods tackling this have evolved from monolingual lexicon-based approaches to deep learning, multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, and interdisciplinarity. Despite this progress, fundamental challenges remain. There is limited consensus on what constitutes “harm”, how context and thresholds should be defined, or how harms vary across cultures and modalities. These ambiguities affect datasets and models, constrain comparability, and often marginalise affected communities. The past decade also calls for critical self-reflection. Research has frequently prioritised detection, high-resource languages, and narrowly defined phenomena over intervention, global perspectives, and systemic or structural harms, with insufficient attention to user agency, platform incentives, lived experience, and participatory approaches. Finally, ten years of work have underscored that interdisciplinarity is essential for addressing the sociotechnical nature of the phenomenon. Addressing future online harms will require deeper integration across NLP, ML, social sciences, law, policy, and HCI. WOAH 10 seeks to consolidate lessons from the past decade, identify enduring gaps, and connect research, practice, and policy to guide the next generation of work on online harms. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2026/woah2026/ The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, Cohere Thomas Davidson, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Urja Khurana, Delft University of Technology Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Paloma Piot, Universidade da Coruña Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh 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 PARTICIPATION - NLPAICS 2026
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 27 May '26

27 May '26

Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11–12 June 2026. The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ . Further details about keynote speakers, and submissions are also available on the official conference website. The conference programme will be announced shortly. Researchers and attendees interested in participating are encouraged to register as soon as possible to secure the reduced rates and join the NLPAICS 2026 community. Early registration must be completed before Monday, 25 May 2026 in order to benefit from the discounted registration fees. Special fee rates are also available for participants attending NLPAICS + Summer School: “The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing” (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/) that will be held from 15-17 June 2026 in Alicante. For updates and additional information, please visit the official conference website. Best Regards Organising committee, NLPAICS

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AthNLP2026 – Call for Participation
by ACL Announcements 27 May '26

27 May '26

10 days left to apply for AthNLP 2026 (Sept 2-8, Athens)! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ATHNLP 2026 - 4TH ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL =========================================== We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to participate in the 4th Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus between 2-8 September 2026: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/ Important Dates -------------------------- * Application Deadline: May 31, 2026 * Decision Announcement: June 10, 2026 * Registration: June 30, 2026 * Summer School: September 2-8, 2026 Description ------------------ Following successful AthNLP editions in 2019, 2024, and 2025, AthNLP 2026 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer school is organized jointly by RC "Athena", NCSR "Demokritos", Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics), Heriot-Watt University, Archimedes Unit / Athena RC, and ELLIS - University of Manchester, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon, 20-25 July 2026). The school focuses on Machine Learning methods for NLP, especially Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), offering: Morning lectures on theory, afternoon hands-on lab sessions, evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos. Our target audience is: * Students and researchers in NLP/Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning; * Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML; * Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in Machine Learning and NLP. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. Confirmed Speakers --------------------------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen * Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen * Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi * Lingpeng Kong, University of Hong Kong * Julia Kreutzer, Cohere * Ryan McDonald * Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen * Emine Yilmaz, University College London Participation --------------------- To apply, please fill this [1] form: https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final The fees are the following: * 300 EUR for students * 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute * 500 EUR for everyone else Links: ------ [1] https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final

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Conference anouncement and CfP: Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA)
by VILELMINI SOSONI 27 May '26

27 May '26

Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA) Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting Ionian University, Corfu, Greece 9–11 October 2026 As translation and interpreting practices are reshaped by the accelerating advances of artificial intelligence, neural networks, and automation, new questions arise: What remains distinctly human in the act of translation? How can creativity and critical reflection coexist with algorithmic efficiency? Organised by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting and the MA Science of Translation of the Ionian University, this international conference — Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA)— invites scholars, researchers, professionals, and students to explore the emerging interfaces between technology, translation and interpreting, and language mediation in the 21st century. The event is held within the framework of the 40th anniversary of the Department’s founding, marking four decades of innovation, education, and scholarship in translation and interpreting. 📝 Submit your abstract for papers, posters and panels by 20 June 2026 here: https://conferences.ionio.gr/tiera/en/submission/ 📍 Corfu, Greece 📅 9–11 October 2026 See more: https://conferences.ionio.gr/tiera/en/about/ We can't wait to welcome you to Corfu! Join us in Corfu, 9–11 October 2026, to celebrate this milestone and collectively explore the future of translation and interpreting. Dr Vilelmini Sosoni Associate Professor Associate Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting Director of the Laboratory for Specialised Translation and Language Technologies Ionian University Ippokratis Building, Chr. Tsirigotis Square 49100 Corfu Greece M: +306932623733 Email: Vilelmini(a)hotmail.com<mailto:Vilelmini@hotmail.com>, sosoni(a)ionio.gr<mailto:sosoni@ionio.gr> Skype: vilelmini.sosoni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilelmini-sosoni-74000910/

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NeTTIT 2026: Call for Participation
by Constantin Orasan 27 May '26

27 May '26

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT 2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 https://nettt-conference.com Call for Participation Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to participate in the third edition of the International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT 2026), taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 24 to 27 June 2026. Following the success of previous editions, NeTTIT 2026 continues to serve as a unique bridge between academia and industry, bringing together researchers, developers, practitioners, language service providers, and vendors interested in the latest technologies for translation and interpreting. Why Participate? * Discuss cutting-edge research, tools, and practices in translation, interpreting, subtitling, localisation, and machine translation. * Attend invited talks by renowned experts, including Yves Champollion (Wordfast LLC) and Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute). * Join pre-conference tutorials on: * Post-editing and AI-augmented translation (Marie Escribe) * Machine Translation Quality Evaluation (Tharindu Ranasinghe) * Automatic Speech Recognition for interpreters (Constantin Orasan) * Network with peers and establish research or business collaborations. Accepted Papers The list of accepted papers is available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/28003-2/ Important Dates (Participation) Conference dates: 24-27 June 2026 Early registration finishes on 31 May 2026 Venue The conference will be held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik. Registration Registration details (fees, deadlines, and accommodation recommendations) are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/fees-registration/ Follow and Share Stay updated via social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 Contact For any questions, please contact the organisers at: nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com We look forward to welcoming you to Dubrovnik for an inspiring and collaborative event! NeTTIT 2026 Organising Committee

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Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026)
by Amal Haddad 27 May '26

27 May '26

NLPAICS 2026: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11-12 June 2026. The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accepted-papers/ [1]. Further details about keynote speakers, and submissions are also available on the official conference website https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ [2]. The conference programme will be announced shortly. Researchers and attendees interested in participating are encouraged to register as soon as possible to secure the reduced rates and join the NLPAICS 2026 community. Early registration must be completed before Monday, 25 May 2026 in order to benefit from the discounted registration fees. Special fee rates are also available for participants attending NLPAICS + Summer School: "The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing" (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/ [3]) that will be held from 15-17 June 2026 in Alicante. -- 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://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accepted-papers/__… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!S… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://summer-school.gplsi.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA…

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Relaxed CfP: Mechanistic Interpretability & Neuro-symbolic Approaches by-design: the MeMo Workshop
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 27 May '26

27 May '26

Are you stressfully working for the May 25th ARR deadline? Don't worry, you can relax afterwards by writing a short paper on work in progress and blue sky ideas over Mechanistic Interpretability and Neuro-symbolic Approaches by-design ( <https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/> MeMo Workshop) (deadline: 31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE) Are you surprised about the ability of LLMs to perform complex reasoning tasks? Do you have a particular keenness for cracking the code of their inner workings? If the answer to the three questions is yes, this is the workshop for you! Observing properties and understanding the inner workings are two sides of the same coin. Another way is possible (e.g., <https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo: Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology)! The workshop aims to accept focused contributions on: * Mechanistic Interpretability by-design * Neuro-symbolic approaches by-design Work in progress and blue sky ideas are in the spirit of the workshop. Your contribution must be between four pages and six pages, excluding references, and should be prepared using the <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gyxkgssbstfr#85e729> Overleaf Submission Template. The proceedings will be submitted to <http://ceur-ws.org/> CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please submit your contribution via EasyChair at the designated submission <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memomina2026> link. The reviewing process is single-blind. Submission Deadline: 31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE Acceptance Notification Date: 14/6/2026 Camera ready: 21/6/2026 Workshop Date: 26/6/2026 (MODIFIED, so that you can plan your WE in Rome) Venue: University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) & Online Registration fees: cheaper than cheap (it's free) Web Site: <https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/> MeMo Workshop

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First CFP: The Second Tokenization Workshop @ COLM 2026
by Jindrich Libovicky 27 May '26

27 May '26

*First Call for Papers* TokShop: Second Tokenization Workshop (COLM 2026) https://tokenization-workshop.github.io **Important days** - Deadline for submissions is June 23, 2026, at 11:59 pm (anywhere on earth) - Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on July 24, 2026 - Camera-ready papers will be due shortly afterward at 11:59 pm (anywhere on earth) The workshop will take place at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, CA, USA on October 9, 2026. ***Workshop Description*** The Second Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) at COLM 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from across machine learning to explore tokenization in its broadest sense. We will discuss innovations, challenges, and future directions for tokenization across diverse data types and modalities. ***Call for Papers*** Topics of interest include: - Subword Tokenization in NLP: Analysis of techniques such as BPE, WordPiece, and UnigramLM, as well as improvements for efficiency, interpretability, and adaptability. - Multimodal Tokenization: Tokenization strategies for images, audio, video, and other modalities, including methods to align representations across different types of data. - Multilingual Tokenization: Development of tokenizers that work robustly across languages and scripts, and investigation into failure modes tied to tokenization. - Tokenizer Modification Post-Training: Methods for updating tokenizers after model training to boost performance and/or efficiency without retraining from scratch. - Alternative Input Representations: Exploration of non-traditional tokenization approaches, such as byte-level, pixel-level, or patch-based representations. - Statistical Perspectives on Tokenization: Empirical analysis of token distributions, compression properties, and correlations with model behavior. By broadening the scope of tokenization research beyond language, this workshop seeks to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and inspire new advances at the intersection of representation learning, data efficiency, and model design. ***Submission Guidelines*** Our author guidelines follow the COLM requirements unless otherwise specified. - Paper submission is hosted on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop/TokShop#tab-… - We accept non-archival submissions of two types: - Research papers (up to 9 pages, not including references or appendices) - Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) - Please use the provided LaTeX template (Style Files) for your submission. Please follow the general paper formatting guidelines for COLM, as specified in the style files. - You may use as many pages of references and appendix as you wish, but reviewers are not required to read the appendix. - Posting papers on preprint servers like ArXiv is permitted. - We encourage each submission to discuss the limitations as well as ethical and societal implications of their work, wherever applicable (but neither are required). These sections do not count towards the page limit. - The paper should be anonymized and uploaded to OpenReview as a single PDF. - The review process will be double-blind. Read more: https://tokenization-workshop.github.io/

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2nd CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 27 May '26

27 May '26

Second CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication. Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/ The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided). We welcome work on topics including: - computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose; - cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems; - multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data; - evaluation methods for multimodal interaction; - applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis. Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files. MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers: - Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings. - Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings. Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references). Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous. We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration. MINT will accept submissions through two channels: 1. Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee. 2. ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment **Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)** - ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026 - Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026 Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks. The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/ For questions, please contact: mint.organizers(a)gmail.com On behalf of the workshop organisers: - Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) - Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich) - Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) - Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University) - Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University) - Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) - Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)

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ESU in Digital Humanities 2026 – New Scholarship & Deadline Extension
by Elisabeth Burr 27 May '26

27 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announcea new scholarship opportunity for MA students <https://esudh.github.io/ScholarshipsandFunding/#graduate-school-translation…>coming to European Summer University in Digital Humanities from African and European universities. Ten scholarships will cover the participation fee and are offered by the newly established graduate programme “Translation” at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon. To give students time for their applications, we are extending the deadline to May 31 2026. Apply for school and scholarships via ConfTool <https://www.conftool.org/esudh2026/>. Please find more about the workshop offer and application process on our website <https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/>. ESU DH will be held at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon, France, from July 6 to July 18. We look forward to welcoming you in Besançon. On behalf of Prof. Frederic Spagnoli, Head of the ESU 2026, Dr. Artjoms Šeļa, Chair of the ESU Steering Committee

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Online courses on Deep Learning, LLMs and Speech by HiTZ Chair. Registration is now open!!!
by Eneko Agirre 27 May '26

27 May '26

HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology It is a pleasure to inform you that *registration* for the online training courses organized by the HiTZ center is now open. The courses, offered in June and July, include: *_Deep Learning for NLP (code: DL4NLP)_ *June 01th to 05th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 15th edition. * _Large Language Models (code: LLMS)_ *June 15th to 19th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 15th edition. * _Generative Playground: LLMs made easy (code: GPLLMME) _ *June 29th to July 03th, 20 hours (2 ECTS). 3th edition. * * *_Deep Learning for Speech Processing (code: DL4SP)_* July 13th to 16th, 10 hours (1 ECTS). 1st edition. For further information and registration <https://www.hitz.eus/training/>: https://www.hitz.eus/training/ Best regards, Olatz Arregi -------------------- HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology -- Eneko Agirre HiTZ Hizkuntza Teknologiako Zentroa - Ixa Taldea Centro Vasco de Tecnología de la Lengua - Grupo Ixa Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa NLP Group University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) hitz.ehu.eus/eneko <https://hitz.ehu.eus/eneko>

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[CfP] Second CfP and Deadline Extension - CLiC-it 2026 - Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics | 14-16 September 2026 | Palermo, Italy
by Daniel Russo 27 May '26

27 May '26

════════════════════════════════════════ *CLiC-it 2026 – Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics* *14–16 September 2026 | Palermo, Italy* ════════════════════════════════════════ Conference Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/ Contact Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it ── *IMPORTANT DATES* ───────────────────────── *Submission deadline: 29 May 2026 05 June 2026 (23:59 CEST) *🚨 Notification to authors: 10 July 2026 Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 Conference: 14–16 September 2026 ──────────────────────────────────────── We announce that the *submission deadline* for *CLiC-it 2026*, the *Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics*, has been extended. *New Submission deadline: 05 June 2026 23:59 CEST * *CLiC-it 2026 *will be held in *Palermo* from the *14th to the 16th of September 2026* and is *organized by AILC* (http://www.ai-lc.it/). Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an *important forum* for the *Italian community* of researchers in *Computational Linguistics *(CL) and *Natural Language Processing* (NLP). The conference aims to promote and disseminate *high-quality, original research* covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language, and seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. CLiC-it has an inclusive spirit, bringing together researchers from Computational Linguistics, NLP, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. Contributions in all languages are welcome, with a particular emphasis on Italian. *TOPICS* Topics include, but are not limited to: - Machine Learning and Modeling for NLP - Large Language and Foundation Models - Interpretability, Analysis, and Explainability of NLP Models - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology - Semantics, Discourse, and Pragmatics - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Natural Language Generation and Summarization - Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Information Extraction and Text Mining - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Multilingual and Cross-Lingual NLP - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Multimodal and Grounded Language - Applied NLP and NLP Systems - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP *SUBMISSIONS* *Regular Papers.* Original, complete, and unpublished work. Up to 11 pages of main content (with unlimited references/appendix). One additional page will be granted upon acceptance. Short vs. Regular paper classification will be upon publication, based on paper length (short papers are typically 5-9 pages, regular papers are 10+ pages). Papers may be in English or Italian, with an English abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and presented orally or as a poster during the conference. *Research Communications. *Outstanding papers accepted in 2025–2026 at major CL/NLP venues (A* CORE, Q1 SCImago, ANVUR Class A) may be submitted as a one-page abstract for presentation at the conference (not included in proceedings). All Submissions via START: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2026 Select the "Papers and Research Communications" track. *Note*: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. *Templates:* - LaTeX: https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_L… - ODT: https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_O… - Overleaf (read-only): https://www.overleaf.com/read/qmhnsrbyqskw#96f442 *AWARDS* *Best Paper Award *— for papers with a Master's or PhD student as first author and presenter. Recipients of the award will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to IJCoL. *"Emanuele Pianta" Prize* — for the best Master's Thesis (Tesi di Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university and supervised by an AILC member. Prize: €500 + free AILC membership + free CLiC-it registration. *ORGANIZATION* *Conference Chairs:* Valerio Basile (University of Torino) Danilo Croce (University of Roma Tor Vergata) Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa) Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo) *Senior Program Committee:* Pierpaolo Basile, Alessandro Bondielli, Cristina Bosco, Tommaso Caselli, Gloria Gagliardi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Elisa Leonardelli, Eleonora Litta, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Martina Miliani, Simonetta Montemagni, Giovanni Puccetti, Giulia Rambelli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Fabio Tamburini *Local Organizing Committee (University of Palermo):* Irene Siragusa (Lead), Germano Ammirata, Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata, Francesco Foderà *Publicity and Social Media Chairs:* Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Daniel Russo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) *Proceedings Chairs:* Francesca Grasso (University of Torino) Eliana Di Palma (University of Torino) *Web Chairs:* Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata, Irene Siragusa *CONTACTS * Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/ Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it We look forward to seeing you in Palermo! *The CLiC-it 2026 Organizing Committee* -- -- 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. 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CfP: Pivotal Players: Academic reflections special issue
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 May '26

26 May '26

Dear Colleague, We are writing to invite you to contribute to a curated collection of articles titled Pivotal Players: Academic reflections on major works that have shaped research across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science. ABOUT THE COLLECTION The collection is premised on a deceptively simple observation: while researchers regularly build on prior scholarship, we rarely pause to reflect explicitly on which works have shaped us, and how. This collection creates a dedicated space for exactly that reflection. Contributors are invited to select a publication from before 2000 that has inspired them in their own research; this may include, but is not limited to, a seminal book, article, or comparable scholarly work, and write a reflective piece examining its impact: on the field broadly, on your own intellectual and methodological development, or both. Contributions need not be uncritical. The collection welcomes honest assessments of a work's limitations, contested legacies, or the ways a field has moved beyond, or failed to move beyond, its foundational assumptions. The collection is anchored in Digital Humanities but is explicitly transdisciplinary. Given that Digital Humanities is a relatively young field, contributors are encouraged to draw on influential works from cognate disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, media studies, information science, musicology, education, and beyond, and to articulate how those works connect to current digital scholarship. At a moment when knowledge production is accelerating, and the boundaries of the digital humanities are being actively renegotiated, this kind of reflexive scholarship helps the field understand its own genealogy, surface underrepresented intellectual lineages, and think more carefully about the assumptions embedded in foundational texts. Routledge Open Research uses a transparent, post-publication peer- review model that enables rapid publication and ongoing scholarly dialogue. The format itself, reflective, personal, and rigorous, also offers academics the rare opportunity to be truly transparent about the works that have genuinely formed their thinking. For more information about this new publication format, please contact Kristen Brida <Kristen.Brida(a)taylorandfrancis.com>. SUBMISSION DETAILS Final submission deadline (with rolling submission): 31 March 2027 Collection page and submission portal: https://routledgeopenresearch.org/collections/academic-reflections-major-wo… We would warmly welcome your contribution. If you are interested or would like to discuss a potential piece before committing, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. Janelize Morelli <Janelize.Morelli(a)nwu.ac.za> Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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CfP Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA)
by Menno Van Zaanen 20 May '26

20 May '26

Call for Submissions The Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), ISSN 3006-6492, invites innovative and exploratory contributions that push the boundaries of digital humanities research and practice, especially those engaging with emerging technologies, critical data studies, and culturally situated methodologies. We particularly encourage submissions that foreground underrepresented voices, languages, and epistemologies, or that critically examine the social, political, and ethical dimensions of digital scholarship in the Global South and beyond. Submissions that demonstrate interdisciplinary collaboration or address teaching and pedagogy in digital humanities are especially welcome. JDHASA remains committed to fostering inclusive scholarly exchange and building a vibrant community of practice. Potential topics include, but are not limited to * Digital humanities in the Global South * Artificial intelligence in humanities research * Decolonial and postcolonial approaches to digital scholarship * Infrastructure, access, and digital divides * Computational linguistics and low-resource languages * Human language technologies for African languages * Digital literary studies and text analysis * Digital storytelling and multimedia narratives * Digital arts and creative practice * Media studies in the digital age * Critical data studies and data ethics * Social media analysis and public discourse * Digital archives and preservation * Library and information science in digital contexts * Cultural heritage digitisation * Interdisciplinary methods in digital humanities * Digital pedagogy and teaching practices * DH curriculum development and programme design * Digital mapping and spatial humanities * Community-based and participatory digital projects Contributions may include research articles, case studies, methodological interventions, project reports, book reviews (max. 2 pages), and reflective essays. Research articles may be submitted as short papers, e.g. for work in progress (max. 8 pages), or long papers (max. 20 pages). Articles should follow the ACL style guidelines (https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/). Prospective authors should ensure that submissions align with the journal’s open-access ethos and undergo rigorous peer review. Please consult the journal guidelines for formatting and submission details (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about/submissions#authorGuideli… ), and watch for announcements of upcoming special issues that highlight timely and emerging themes. JDHASA aims to release at least two issues annually. Submission deadline for the first issue of 2026 is the 30th of June, 2026, but rolling submissions are accepted throughout the year. The cut-off date for the second issue is the 31st of December 2026. Link to the journal website and submission system: http://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/ Contact: journal(a)digitalhumanities.org.za About JDHASA The Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), ISSN 3006-6492, is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes research from DHASA members and the wider scholarly community, with a focus on Digital Humanities in the Global South. Its scope spans areas such as computational linguistics and literary studies, digital arts, media, technology criticism, and information and archive studies, among others. Established alongside DHASA in 2016, the journal supports an interdisciplinary network of scholars and aims to foster a “methodological commons” while encouraging dialogue and critical reflection on teaching and research in the field. -- 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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[CFP] 3rd Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC)
by Fred PHILIPPY 20 May '26

20 May '26

We are excited to announce the 3rd Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC) workshop, co-located with IJCAI 2026. The workshop will take place in person and virtually between August 15-17, 2026, in Bremen. LM4UC invites researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address challenges and propose innovative solutions for building and deploying language models (LMs) for underserved languages and communities. Underserved communities often lack adequate access to advanced NLP technologies due to limited linguistic data, insufficient computational resources, or inadequate AI governance frameworks. This gap hinders equitable access to NLP advancements, exacerbating the digital divide. Our workshop aims to address this by fostering a multidisciplinary dialogue around the development of LMs that prioritize cultural sensitivity, resource efficiency, and sustainable AI practices. Topics of Interest We invite submissions of full papers, ongoing work, position papers, and survey papers on topics including, but not limited to: 1. Evaluation Design: Evaluations are no longer passive datasets. They are mechanisms that shape model development. We invite research that focuses on principled, technically grounded benchmark design. 2. Cultural Alignment & Safety: Most alignment research assumes Western norms. We invite papers that focus on technically grounded alignment methods that generalize across cultures and languages. 3. Agentic Systems in Global Environments: As LLMs become agents, we need formal evaluation and control in multilingual, multi-cultural environments. Submission Guidelines We welcome long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references. Submissions must follow the IJCAI 2026 style guidelines. Important Dates * Submission deadline: May 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: August 1, 2026 * Workshop dates: August 15/16/17, 2026 Submit your paper via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ijcai.org/IJCAI/2026/Workshop/LM4UC Contact Us: For inquiries, please contact the workshop organizer: lm4uc.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:lm4uc.organizers@gmail.com> <mailto:lm4uc.organizers@gmail.com>

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Postdoc position, Saarland University
by Alexander Koller 20 May '26

20 May '26

Hello, I am looking for a postdoc to join the Computational Linguistics research group at Saarland University. The position will be initially filled for two years and can be extended. It is paid on the German E13 100% payscale and available immediately. Preference will be given to applications received by June 4. The postdoc position is ideal for developing your own research agenda in natural language processing / computational linguistics / planning and reasoning with LLMs. Have a look at the group website (see below) for our current research interests. I am particularly interested in expanding the group’s expertise in dialogue systems. Saarland University is one of the top institutions for NLP research in Europe, with multiple NLP-related research groups (currently Vera Demberg, Michael Hahn, Dietrich Klakow, Mariya Toneva, and myself) and ~100 scientific staff in our department. We regularly publish together and with other colleagues, and I encourage postdocs to deepen these collaborations further. I am an ACL Fellow, the speaker of the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models in Language, Vision, and Action”, and Associate Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Former postdocs from my group have gone on to faculty positions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Montréal. Please see this website for further details: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/ Best, Alexander Koller.

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Invitation to Participate in Convergence 2026 – Onsite and Online Options
by Constantin Orasan 20 May '26

20 May '26

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to participate in Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication, which will take place between 17th and 19th June at University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. This year, in addition to onsite participation, we are delighted to offer an online participation option to make the event more accessible to a wider audience. Building on the success of the first Convergence conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023> in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies is proud to organised Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference programme includes keynote talks by leading experts, paper presentations, panel discussions, and poster sessions, providing a rich environment for exchanging ideas and fostering collaboration. For more information about the conference, including important dates, programme details, and registration fees, please visit: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 Online participants will be able to view all scheduled paper presentations, keynote speeches, and panel sessions via our streaming platform. They will have the opportunity to ask questions using the online Q&A facilities provided. We very much hope you will join us, either onsite or online. To register, please visit https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/regist… If you have any questions, please contact us at cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_inquiries@surrey.ac.uk>. Kind regards, Constantin -- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Room 06LC03, Phone extension: 4115 Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey Third Floor | Library | University of Surrey | Guildford | Surrey | GU2 7XH Phone: +44 (0) 1483 684115 Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Industry Track Papers
by Announce 20 May '26

20 May '26

*** Last Call for Industry Track Papers *** 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 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. The Industry Track of VARIABILITY 2026 offers a platform for practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders to share practical experiences in industrial settings with reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems. Building on the industrial tracks of SPLC, VaMoS, and ICSR, this track bridges research and practice by showcasing how variability, reuse, and product line strategies are being applied and developed in today’s fast-changing industrial environments. Software systems are becoming increasingly configurable, data-driven, and AI-enabled (e.g., using foundation models), while also integrating advanced technologies such as quantum computing. This growing complexity calls for balancing flexibility, reuse, and quality amid pressures from emerging technologies and sustainability objectives. The Industry Track welcomes submissions that demonstrate how these challenges are addressed in real-world settings, whether through success stories, lessons learned, or reflections on failures that yielded valuable insights. We especially encourage submissions that demonstrate how variability management, reuse, and configuration approaches are being applied or reimagined in industrial settings, including through AI, digital twins, large language (LLMs) and foundation models, quantum computing, and cyber-physical systems. The industry track aims to: • Showcase practical experiences from industrial settings using variability, reuse, or configuration techniques. • Exchange insights between industry practitioners and researchers. • Identify new industrial challenges and opportunities for future research collaboration. • Share tools, processes, or organizational approaches that improve adaptability, scalability, and efficiency. Topics of Interest We welcome experience reports, case studies, and position papers on any of the topics covered by the VARIABILITY conference. The detailed list of topics can be found on the conference website (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…). In addition to these topics, the industry track welcomes papers also on: Industrial Applications • Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace, quantum computing, etc. • Sustainable technologies for variation and sustainable software reuse approaches • Human, organizational, and social aspects of variable systems and software • Industrial case studies and lessons learned Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Presenting experiences from the application of reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering approaches, preferably in an industrial context. Submissions should provide a clear context for the problem, outline requirements or practical experiences in addressing it, evaluate benefits and drawbacks or other lessons learned, and highlight the innovation or value of the contribution. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Describing early results from new reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems applications. • Extended Abstracts (up to 1 page): A proposal for presentation during the conference. The extended abstract will not be published. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the industry track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Single-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be single- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, rigor, transparency, novelty, and presentation. Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Proceedings which will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 8 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 8 July 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 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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Interest in Generative Grammar and Universal Grammar – Looking for Collaboration
by jrolnav1＠doctor.upv.es 19 May '26

19 May '26

Doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV). I work on Critical Discourse Analysis, focusing mainly on migration discourse on digital platforms, and I also use AI and NLP tools for tasks such as annotation and large-scale text analysis. My work sits at the intersection of qualitative and computational approaches, especially corpus-based analysis, discourse annotation, and machine learning methods, to explore how language is used to represent people, reproduce bias, and shape ideology online. I’m also really interested in theoretical linguistics, especially generative grammar and Universal Grammar, and how formal approaches to language might connect (or not) with computational models. On the side, I like exploring more speculative and interdisciplinary topics, such as xenolinguistics, semiotics, and communication in non-human contexts. Happy to connect with researchers, PhD students, or anyone working in discourse analysis, computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, or related areas. I’m always open to exchanging ideas, joining reading groups, or collaborating on small projects while learning. I hope to hear from you soon! Regards :)

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New resource on preverbs: PrevNet survey
by Andrea Farina 19 May '26

19 May '26

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to share that the first version of PrevNet, an online resource on preverbs developed as part of my PhD project, is now available. PrevNet currently offers a case study on preverbs in Latin and Ancient Greek. The current version includes data on 16 preverbs in each language, examined across 8 motion verbs per language. The aim is to provide a tool that supports cross-disciplinary exploration of preverb usage and meaning. You can access the resource here: https://prevnet.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/ I would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to explore the resource and share your thoughts via this short feedback survey: https://forms.gle/xRAV89sGmofvoGK59 Your input will be extremely valuable in guiding the next stages of development and ensuring the resource is useful across different fields and use cases. Many thanks in advance for your time and feedback. Best wishes, Andrea

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WoLaLa 2026: Final Call for Papers
by Héja Enikő 19 May '26

19 May '26

Final Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Dubrovnik, Croatia | October 12-13 The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote speakers: Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen William Lamb, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Contributions should address one or more of the following areas (but submissions on other closely related topics are also welcome): General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 20 May 2026 31 May 2026: Submission deadline 08 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 12 October – 13 October 2026: Workshop in Dubrovnik 15 December 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Gábor Prószéky, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, ELTE Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2026.zip <https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip> Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/prvhqbxdgmxq#374f7b Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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Search Solutions 2026 — Special Anniversary Edition (Call for Proposals)
by Udo Kruschwitz 19 May '26

19 May '26

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2026 (Call for Proposals) Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval — and this has been the case for 20 years now! 20 year already? Trace back the history via our historic Informer newsletter: https://www.bcs.org/media/7498/informer21.pdf We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the information retrieval (IR) community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2026 will be held at the BCS London office on Wednesday 25th November with tutorials on Tuesday 24th (https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2026/november/search-solutions-2026/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit speaker proposals for talks around the following categories: * Innovative approaches used in IR production systems and products * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Implications of generative AI and large language models * Interdisciplinary collaborations, bridging areas such as information science, data science, user experience, and artificial intelligence * IR practice within different professional communities, spanning eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, and beyond * Case studies showcasing best practices, design principles, evaluation techniques, and practical implementations in the field of information retrieval We encourage presentations from startups and open-source projects. The presentation format of the event will be a combination of presentations, panels and discussions. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and include: * Title * Abstract * Main contribution & take-aways for attendees * A short bio of the presenter and/or a brief organisation outline Proposals should be emailed to udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de cc’ing tgr2uk(a)gmail.com. There will be a separate call for tutorial presentations. IMPORTANT DATES * Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) * Talk proposal due: 5 July * Notifications: 19 July ORGANISERS * Ingo Frommholz * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) PAST EVENTS For a summary of last year’s event, see: https://medium.com/bcs-irsg-informer/looking-back-at-search-solutions-2025-… For further details of previous events with links to slides and videos please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Mile for Journal First Papers Submission
by Announce 19 May '26

19 May '26

*** Last Mile for Journal First Papers Submission *** 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 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted abstracts will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your abstract for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 22 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 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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2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026
by Gabriella Lapesa 18 May '26

18 May '26

######################################################################################################### 2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2026konvens/home-page ######################################################################################################### This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities. ### Special Theme: Human Perspectives and LLMs #### We specifically invite submissions on this year’s special theme, focusing on the highly debated issue of simulation of human perspectives with LLMs. ### General topics ### In addition to the special theme, we also welcome submissions on the following general topics to CPSS: ▪ Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods ▪ Political and social bias in language models ▪ Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) ▪ Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources ▪ Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices ▪ NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making ▪ Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research ▪ Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science. ▪ Data quality in human and synthetic data ▪ Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs ▪ New ways to collect data, i.e., dataset donation ▪ Open science and reproducibility within the CPSS research ▪ and many more ... ### PhD Forum ### CPSS will feature a dedicated PhD Forum inviting submissions from doctoral researchers who wish to present their thesis topic. We warmly welcome contributions from PhD students at all stages of their doctorate, from those who are just beginning to develop their project to those with more advanced work in progress. ### Submission ### We solicit three types of submissions: ▪ archival papers describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines. We will also accept ARR submissions with reviews (see below for Important Dates) ▪ non-archival papers (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work ▪ non-archival PhD project presentations (2-pages abstracts, references excluded) describing the idea, topic, and current state of the PhD project. The three formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations. ### Important dates ### ▪ Submission deadline (direct submission, archival and non archival): July 3rd ▪ Submission deadline ARR (archival only!): July 15th ▪ Notification of acceptance: August 7th ▪ Camera ready deadline: August 15th ▪ Workshop: September 2026 (precise date to be confirmed) ### Organizers ### ▪ Dennis Assenmacher, GESIS ▪ Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart ▪ Christopher Klamm, University of Mannheim & Cologne Center of Comparative Politics ▪ Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf HHU Düsseldorf ▪ Simone Paolo Ponzetto University of Mannheim ▪ Franziska Weeber, University of Stuttgart ### Sponsorship ### We acknowledge the support of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).

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AIST conference announcement
by Maxim Panov 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are excited to invite you to submit a paper to AIST 2026, the 13th research conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts, which will take place on October 16–18, 2026 at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. The conference is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in data science, focusing on innovative applications of data analysis and machine learning techniques to image processing, analysis of network data, text processing, and other domains, such as economics or geographic information systems. The twelve previous editions of the AIST conference held in 2012–2024 attracted a significant number of students, researchers, academics, and engineers working on the analysis of images, texts, and social networks. Similar to the previous years, the main volume of the conference proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The companion volume will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For reference, the proceedings of the previous edition are available here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://link.springer.com/conference/aist__;!!J…>. Traditionally, the conference has no registration fee making a publication of accepted papers free of charge with Springer. We are encouraging submission on any application of AI, deep learning, and data analysis including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Analysis of images and video * Analytics for geoinformation systems * Core data mining and machine learning techniques * Discovering and analyzing processes using event data * Deep learning applications * Educational data mining * Game analytics * Machine learning and data mining for economics and social sciences * Natural language processing and computational linguistics * Optimization problems in complex networks * Recommender systems and collaborative technologies * Semantic web and ontologies * Social network analysis Important Dates * Abstract deadline: July 1, 2026 * Submission deadline: July 10, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: August 18, 2026 * Conference dates: October 16–18, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submission All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers formatted in Springer LNCS template should be submitted through the OpenReview conference management system (see detailed instructions at the web site). We strongly encourage offline participation in Astana, but virtual presentations will be also allowed. Important links * Website: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aistconf.org/__;!!J2_iJ0WgAoU!eH8RezRbW…> https://aistconf.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aistconf.org/__;!!J2_iJ0WgAoU!eH8RezRbW…> * Submission: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org*AI…> https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org/AIST/2026/Conference<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org*AI…> * Contact: org(a)aistconf.org<mailto:org@aistconf.org> Best regards, AIST 2026 Organizing Committee

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AraGenre 2026 shared task - First Call for Participation
by El-Haj, Mo 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear all, I'm pleased to announce our new shared task at ArabicNLP @ EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungry, October 24-29, 2026. AraGenre: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task AraGenre is a challenging shared task designed to test how NLP systems generalise to the unseen through: • Few-shot training and development data • Cross-lingual genre definitions guiding Arabic classification • A large hidden test set of naturally occurring Arabic texts • Unseen genre-definition combinations The task addresses a wider challenge in NLP: building methods that can generalise from limited data and support languages and varieties that remain underrepresented in current NLP research. Registration now open: https://forms.gle/RAi7SpYoRD5RgUnP6 AraGenre Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/16356 Organisers: - Mo El-Haj, VinUniversty, Vietnam / Lancaster University, UK. - Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, KSA - Mustafa Jarrar, HBKU, Qatar - Shadi Abudalfa, KFUPM, KSA

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Call for Abstracts – 2nd Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting CPL 2026
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 18 May '26

18 May '26

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting Conference website: https://cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/ We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of a new recurring workshop dedicated exclusively to computational psycholinguistics. The field has seen significant growth in recent years, not only due to developments in large language models but also to advances in symbolic processing models, Bayesian approaches, mechanistic models, and frameworks such as ACT-R. These diverse models aim to capture various aspects of human language processing, including semantics, syntax, sentence comprehension, speech, and more. This meeting aims to provide a dedicated platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss computational models that explain and predict human linguistic behavior (e.g., as observed in psycholinguistic experiments), to bring together experts from different subfields to advance our understanding of language processing mechanisms, and to analyze the successes and limitations of different modeling approaches. The meeting will cover a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Exploring how models like (large) language models, symbolic models, Bayesian models, connectionist models, and ACT-R based models can explain and predict human behavior in language tasks. - Analyzing where different types of models succeed or fall short in capturing human language processing. - Investigating what linguistic information should be integrated across different levels (words, sentences, discourse) and how this affects comprehension and production - Examining the potential of models that combine neural and symbolic approaches to better mimic human language processing. - Applying computational, algorithmic, and implementational levels of analysis to understand language processing mechanisms. - Focusing on recent developments in computational modeling of semantics, syntax, sentence processing, speech perception and production. The abstract submission deadline is July 3. The abstracts can be submitted at https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2026/CPL Next to the conference abstracts, we are also looking for abstracts for tutorials, which could cover any topic related to computational psycholinguistics and should be planned to run for between 1 and 3 hours. The tutorial abstracts will have the same submission deadline as the main conference, July 3. The conference will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on December 3 and December 4, and it will be preceded by tutorials on the afternoon of December 2. Best regards, CPL Organizing Committee Jakub Dotlacil (Utrecht University) Li Kloostra (Utrecht University) Philine Link (Utrecht University) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University) Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University) Lena Jäger (University of Zurich)

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HealTAC 2026 - Final Call for Participation
by Jaya Chaturvedi 18 May '26

18 May '26

-------------------------------------------- HealTAC 2026 June 8-10th, 2026, Brighton (UK) https://healtac2026.github.io/ -------------------------------------------- We are delighted to share that the conference programme is now almost complete and available on the conference website<https://healtac2026.github.io/programme/>, featuring over 50 contributions on healthcare text analytics, alongside two keynote talks and two pre-conference workshops. Additional workshop details will be added soon. We are also pleased to announce that keynote speaker bios are now available online. -------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers -------------------------------------------- We are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers: * Professor Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter) * Dr Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Their talks will provide inspiring perspectives on this year’s theme: Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice. -------------------------------------------- Registration & Accommodation -------------------------------------------- We hope many of you were able to take advantage of the early-bird registration rates, which are now closed. Registration remains open, and participants can still register at the standard rate. Full registration<https://healtac2026.github.io/registration/> and accommodation<https://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/> details are available on the conference website: : https://healtac2026.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------ Pre-Conference Workshops (June 8, 2026) ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop 1: Free-text healthcare data and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) Focused on the safe and responsible use of free-text healthcare data within Trusted Research Environments (TREs), this session will showcase DARE UK–funded projects (STAR-TRE, FORTRESS, TRExt, SAFETEXT), highlighting emerging tools and best practices for secure, privacy-preserving text analytics. Workshop 2: From patient narratives to insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries An interactive two-hour workshop organized by Dr Saskia Sanderson<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson> <https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson> exploring how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale, bringing together perspectives from NLP, behavioural science, qualitative research, PPIE, and policy communities. ------------------ Key Dates ------------------ * Pre-conference workshops: June 8, 2026 * Conference: June 9–10, 2026 --------------------------------------------- Registration Fees -------------------------------------------- * Full registration: £340 * Student registration: £190 The fee includes participation across all three days (including the pre-conference workshop day), lunches, and the conference dinner on 9 June 2026. Follow conference announcements on social media using #HEALTAC2026. We look forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton! Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD Research Fellow in Health Related Natural Language Processing Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Jah-yah Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi Bluesky: @Jayachatur.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayachaturvedi/ [cid:97A5FED0-D2CD-4120-AC63-21083F54B7BB] If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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New open-access '‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’
by Alan Scott Partington 18 May '26

18 May '26

The open-access, not-for-profit 3rd ed of ‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’ (Alan Partington, Bologna University) is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19732222 This Essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for persuasion, through the different scepticisms of Plato and the Scholastics, to Humboldt’s insight that language is a ‘formative organ of thought’, it follows how successive thinkers imagined the relationship between words, meaning and knowledge. It explores the empirical turn of the Enlightenment, the structural revolutions of the nineteenth century, and the language-conscious philosophy of the twentieth, before concluding with reflections on Large Language Models and their future coexistence with Corpus Linguistics. Written for linguists, philosophers of all stripes and digital humanities alike, the Essay argues that corpus linguistics represents a continuation of a long humanist project: using authentic language data to uncover ‘non-obvious meanings’ and to refine our understanding of mind, society and communication. Alan Scott Partington, Prof di Linguistica inglese https://site.unibo.it/sibol-project/en/members

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New open-access essay: A Short History of the Philosophies of Language Underpinning Corpus Linguistics Alan Partington (UniBo)
by alanscott.partington＠unibo.it 18 May '26

18 May '26

The open-access, not-for-profit 3rd ed of ‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’ (Alan Partington, Bologna University) is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19732222 This Essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for persuasion, through the different scepticisms of Plato and the Scholastics, to Humboldt’s insight that language is a ‘formative organ of thought’, it follows how successive thinkers imagined the relationship between words, meaning and knowledge. It explores the empirical turn of the Enlightenment, the structural revolutions of the nineteenth century, and the language-conscious philosophy of the twentieth, before concluding with reflections on Large Language Models and their future coexistence with Corpus Linguistics. Written for linguists, philosophers of all stripes and digital humanities alike, the Essay argues that corpus linguistics represents a continuation of a long humanist project: using authentic language data to uncover ‘non-obvious meanings’ and to refine our understanding of mind, society and communication.

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Call for Abstracts – Workshop "NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics"
by Andrea Farina 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop NLP<https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf> <https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf> tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics<https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf>, held as part of Languages & Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines (14-16 December 2026, Aix-en-Provence, France). The full call is available here: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf. This workshop seeks to investigate whether current NLP methods and tools can support the annotation of lexical semantic features (word senses, metaphors, concrete/abstract meanings, etc.) in diachronic corpora. In particular, it aims to assess under which conditions high-quality annotation can be achieved and how this may vary depending on (i) the theoretical framework adopted; (ii) the research objective; (iii) the language under investigation; (iv) the chronological dimensions. Submission details We welcome anonymised abstracts (max. 500 words, excluding references) presenting research using NLP tools for diachronic lexical semantics, regardless of framework, language, or period. Abstracts should clearly state research questions, methods, data, and expected results. Submission deadline 25 May 2026 Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2026. Please select: WS4. NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics. Template and full call details are available on the LLcD2026 website: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/. We look forward to your submissions. Best regards, Andrea Farina On behalf of the organising committee: Zinaida Geylikman Andrea Farina Barbara McGillivray Bastien Liétard

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INLG 2026: First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Emiel van Miltenburg 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear SIGGEN members, See below for the INLG call for workshops/tutorials. Please note that the deadline is quite soon (25th of May), but proposals are short. For any questions, please contact Jian Yang (Beihang University (BUAA; jiayang(a)buaa.edu.cn). (If you plan to organise a workshop/tutorial but cannot make the deadline, please also contact Jian.) Best wishes, Emiel ---- INLG 2026: First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026) Utrecht, Netherlands — October 17–21, 2026 ======================================= The 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026) will be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, from October 17–21, 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences, we aim to include a diverse range of independently organized research workshops and tutorials, which will take place immediately before or after the main conference. The INLG organizers, in collaboration with SIGGEN, warmly invite proposals for one-day or half-day workshops. Hosting a workshop at INLG 2026 provides a unique opportunity to connect with leading researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Generation. Workshops offer a platform for networking, fostering collaborations, and exchanging innovative ideas. They allow organizers and participants to gain visibility for emerging topics and help shape future directions in the NLG community. Workshop & Tutorial Topics We welcome proposals on any topic relevant to the NLG community. Submissions focusing on emerging areas or on topics that foster collaboration between the NLG community and other research fields are strongly encouraged. Proposals that continue an existing workshop series are also welcome. Workshops and tutorials should provide an engaging and informal setting for participants to discuss technical topics and exchange ideas. Proposals should outline the format, and interactive formats (e.g., talks, posters, panels, invited speakers) are encouraged. Workshops are expected to be half-day or full-day events. Proposals can be directly sent to the INLG 2026 Workshop Chair, Jian Yang (email: jiayang(a)buaa.edu.cn). Should you have any questions, feel free to contact the Workshop Chair. Proposals should be approximately 2 pages and include: Workshop or tutorial title Names and affiliations of the organizers Duration: half-day or full-day Objectives of the workshop/tutorial Planned activities and format Target research communities Once accepted, organizers are encouraged to develop a dedicated website for their workshop. Links will be provided on the INLG 2026 main conference website. ***Important Dates*** - Deadline for receipt of workshop proposals: 25 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026 ***Suggested Timeline for Workshop Organization*** - Call for workshop papers or abstracts: Immediately after acceptance notification - Submissions due: 1 August 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: 16 September 2026 All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE). ======================================= Submission Contact Proposals should be sent to the INLG 2026 Workshop Chair: Jian Yang (Beihang University (BUAA)) Website & Social Media Website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siggen/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@siggen_acl X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/inlgmeeting

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INLG 2026: First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Emiel van Miltenburg 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear Corpora list members, See below for the INLG call for workshops/tutorials. Please note that the deadline is quite soon (25th of May), but proposals are short. For any questions, please contact Jian Yang (Beihang University (BUAA; jiayang(a)buaa.edu.cn). Also note that the first CFP has also been sent out, but the announcement still needs to be released by the list moderators. For details, see: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Best wishes, Emiel ---- INLG 2026: First Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026) Utrecht, Netherlands — October 17–21, 2026 ======================================= The 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026) will be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, from October 17–21, 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences, we aim to include a diverse range of independently organized research workshops and tutorials, which will take place immediately before or after the main conference. The INLG organizers, in collaboration with SIGGEN, warmly invite proposals for one-day or half-day workshops. Hosting a workshop at INLG 2026 provides a unique opportunity to connect with leading researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Generation. Workshops offer a platform for networking, fostering collaborations, and exchanging innovative ideas. They allow organizers and participants to gain visibility for emerging topics and help shape future directions in the NLG community. Workshop & Tutorial Topics We welcome proposals on any topic relevant to the NLG community. Submissions focusing on emerging areas or on topics that foster collaboration between the NLG community and other research fields are strongly encouraged. Proposals that continue an existing workshop series are also welcome. Workshops and tutorials should provide an engaging and informal setting for participants to discuss technical topics and exchange ideas. Proposals should outline the format, and interactive formats (e.g., talks, posters, panels, invited speakers) are encouraged. Workshops are expected to be half-day or full-day events. Proposals can be directly sent to the INLG 2026 Workshop Chair, Jian Yang (email: jiayang(a)buaa.edu.cn). Should you have any questions, feel free to contact the Workshop Chair. Proposals should be approximately 2 pages and include: Workshop or tutorial title Names and affiliations of the organizers Duration: half-day or full-day Objectives of the workshop/tutorial Planned activities and format Target research communities Once accepted, organizers are encouraged to develop a dedicated website for their workshop. Links will be provided on the INLG 2026 main conference website. ***Important Dates*** - Deadline for receipt of workshop proposals: 25 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026 ***Suggested Timeline for Workshop Organization*** - Call for workshop papers or abstracts: Immediately after acceptance notification - Submissions due: 1 August 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: 16 September 2026 All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE). ======================================= Submission Contact Proposals should be sent to the INLG 2026 Workshop Chair: Jian Yang (Beihang University (BUAA)) Website & Social Media Website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siggen/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@siggen_acl X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/inlgmeeting

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Fast Abstracts and Project Highlights
by Announce 18 May '26

18 May '26

*** Last Call for Fast Abstracts and Project Highlights *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ A Fast Abstract (FA) or Project Highlights (PH) paper is a two-page, lightly reviewed technical article. The FA/PH track at ISSRE 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) to: • Introduce early original ideas. • Discuss relevant work-in-progress and ongoing experiences. • Challenge the SRE status quo on key topics. • Present critical analyses of prior work. • Share lessons learned from real-world SRE applications. • Propose new problems from industrial or academic experience. • Describe approaches to problems of significance that may not yet have complete results. In addition to traditional Fast Abstracts, the track welcomes Project Highlights (PH) papers. PH papers are expected to disseminate results, visions, methodologies, tools, and ongoing activities from national and international research projects (e.g., European, or multi- institutional initiatives). Project Highlights may include, but are not limited to: • Overviews of funded research projects and their objectives. • Project methodologies, architectures, and experimental frameworks. • Early or intermediate results, including lessons learned and preliminary insights. • Datasets, benchmarks, tools, platforms, and other project outcomes released or in progress. • Collaboration experiences, challenges, and emerging research directions from national or international projects. Project Highlights that can stimulate discussion and collaboration within the ISSRE community are welcome. Ongoing projects and projects completed not earlier than October 2025 are eligible. Accepted contributions will be published in the Supplemental Proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and made available via IEEE Xplore. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Reliability, safety, maintainability, security, survivability, resilience, robustness, and other dependability attributes. • Faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures, and other dependability threats. • Reliability of all systems, applications, networks, and software, including problems, solutions, and discussions. • Metrics, measurement, assessment, monitoring, modeling, estimation, and prediction regarding reliability. • Reliability of AI-powered software systems, including large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents, and AI-enabled applications. • Other contents about software reliability, such as normative/regulatory/ethical spaces, societal aspects, etc. Presentations The presentation might be in the form of a short talk in a Fast Abstracts/Project Highlights session or a poster. Further details about presentations and posters will be shared with authors upon notification. Submission Guidelines Manuscripts must be: • submitted via EasyChair as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file with all fonts embedded; • written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines. Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Manuscripts must adhere to IEEE Conference Publishing Policies. Particularly, they should NOT have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere. All submissions will be screened for plagiarized material through the IEEE Cross Check portal. Contacts Please contact the Fast Abstract/Project Highlights Co-chairs (issre2026-fast- abstracts(a)easychair.org) for any questions or further clarifications. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: June 15, 2026 • Notification to authors: August 5, 2026 • Camera ready papers: August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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ACM ICMI 2026 Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
by Gualtiero Volpe 17 May '26

17 May '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS & EXHIBITS =============================================== 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ =============================================== We invite submissions for Demonstrations and Exhibits at the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026), taking place October 5–9, 2026, in Napoli, Italy. This track is your chance to showcase cutting-edge multimodal systems, interactive technologies, and innovative applications—from early-stage prototypes to mature products. Two submission types: * Demonstrations: 2–3 page paper (published in ACM proceedings) + video * Exhibits: Short proposal (no proceedings paper) + video All submissions require a video (<=200MB) to illustrate your system. Accepted presenters will be provided with: * Demo table & poster board * Power access * Shared wireless internet Important Dates * Submission deadline: June 21, 2026 * Notification: July 15, 2026 * Final papers (demos): August 2, 2026 Submission guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/ At least one author must register and attend the conference. Questions? Contact the Demo & Exhibits Chairs: Micol Spitale & Josh Andres – icmi2026-demo-exhibits-chairs(a)acm.org Bring your ideas to life and engage the ICMI community in Napoli!

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CFP:‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 17 May '26

17 May '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] Call for Papers ***Extended submission deadline 15 June 2026*** *** Note the slightly revised conference dates: 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 *** 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 is 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 particularly in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes 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 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 will submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [2] Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [3] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 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). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline has been extended to 15 June 2026. In addition, note the revised conference dates below. * Submissions due: 15 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2026 * Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 * Conference: 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) 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) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Shahin Yousefi (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration. 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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Project Showcases
by Announce 16 May '26

16 May '26

*** Last Call for Project Showcases *** 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 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. As part of this mission, VARIABILITY 2026 invites submissions to its Project Showcase Track, a forum dedicated to presenting ongoing or recently completed research projects. The track offers a stage for research teams to share their vision, goals, early outcomes, intermediate results, final achievements, and lessons learned from funded projects of all scales, including collaborative research centers, EU projects, and nationally or regionally funded initiatives. The goal is to encourage interaction, foster collaboration opportunities, and help disseminate project insights to the broader community. Objectives and Scope We welcome submissions on research projects that address reuse, product lines, and variable/configurable software systems. A list of research topics that are relevant for this track is available from the call for the papers for the VARIABILITY 2026 Research Track, at: https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C… Submissions are expected to describe ongoing or recently completed research projects within this scope. This track is not intended for publishing mature research results. Instead, it focuses on project summaries and overviews, highlighting goals, structure, challenges, insights, and project level impact. Examples of suitable submissions include: • Ongoing projects focusing on goals, challenges, methodology, or early findings • Recently completed projects summarizing outcomes, evidence, and impact • Large scale, collaborative, or multi partner efforts, where visibility and networking are beneficial • Smaller or emerging projects that would benefit from early feedback and exposure PhD thesis projects are not in scope for this track. We warmly encourage PhD candidates to submit their work to the VARIABILITY 2026 Doctoral Symposium. Submission Format • Length: 7 to 10 pages, excluding references • Format: LNCS (Springer), single blind submissions Each submission will receive feedback from three reviewers. All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=variability2026 (Select “Projects Showcase Track”). Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. Accepted submissions will receive a presentation slot. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event Evaluation Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on: • Relevance to the conference scope • Clarity of project goals, context, and contributions • Potential for impact, collaboration, reuse, or technology transfer • Value for discussion and interaction at the conference The focus is on clarity, relevance, and value to the community rather than scientific novelty. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 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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Universal Dependencies, release 2.18
by Dan Zeman 16 May '26

16 May '26

We are very happy to announce the twenty-fourth release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.18, 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 *353* treebanks in v2.18 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *193* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Brahui, 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, Gorontalo, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kadiweu, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, 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 Armenian, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nepali, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Georgian, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Ruuli, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, 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, Zaar and Zazaki. The 193 languages belong to *36* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Guaicuruan, 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 November 2026. The size of the following 41 treebanks changed significantly since the last release: Abkhaz AbNC : 10585 → 13054 Assamese AiW : 0 → 871 Brahui Kholum : 0 → 819 Cappadocian AMGiC : 451 → 820 Egyptian PC : 0 → 34234 Egyptian UJaen : 24375 → 0 Gorontalo BungoLoLombi : 0 → 205 Greek GLCII : 0 → 9868 Greek Lesbian : 5926 → 6840 Hausa EasternAutogramm : 0 → 9485 Hausa NorthernAutogramm : 4158 → 15424 Hebrew PostRab : 0 → 8029 Italian KIParlaForest : 9348 → 18680 Kadiweu Unicamp : 0 → 318 Khunsari AHA : 74 → 0 Korean KSL : 137122 → 155104 Latin CIRCSE : 24899 → 29055 Marathi CMUPAN : 0 → 118198 Mbya Guarani Dooley : 11771 → 0 Middle Armenian ArmTDP : 0 → 1093 Middle French PROFITEROLE : 89809 → 119001 Nayini AHA : 78 → 0 Nepali BK : 0 → 801 Odia ODTB : 1029 → 5818 Old Georgian GLC : 0 → 6884 Old Occitan CorAG : 45389 → 52539 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 17125 → 22027 Ottoman Turkish TueCL : 0 → 929 Pashto Prince : 0 → 1180 Pashto Sikaram : 4067 → 5467 Phrygian KUL : 1687 → 1921 Punjabi CS : 0 → 1903 Punjabi Rang : 0 → 1907 Ruuli RDT : 0 → 6301 Sinhala Appuwa : 0 → 669 Soi AHA : 55 → 0 Swedish SweLL : 8644 → 10895 Turkish English BUTR : 393 → 441 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl ITML : 9461 → 0 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl MesoTree: 0 → 19535 Zazaki ZSD : 0 → 1441 In total, the new release contains *2,337,062* sentences, 37,424,698 surface tokens and *38,181,322* syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Rimsha Abid, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Muhammad Afzal, Željko Agić, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Orly Albek, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Dominick Maia Alexandre, 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, Salwan Aziz, 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, Zarina Begum, 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, Samuel BK, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Morgane Bona, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Elisheva Brauner, 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, Aditi Chaudhary, 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, Anna S. Danielyan, 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, Mahîr Dogan, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Andrew Dyer, Andrew Thomas Dyer, 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, Shlomit Fuchs, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Charlotte Chambelland Galves, 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, Caroline Grand-Clement, 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, María Ximena Juarez Huerta, 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, Ali Haider Khan, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Christina Klironomou, 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, Pranav Kushare, 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, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, 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, Ángeles Márquez Hernández, 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, Ephraim Meiri, 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, 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, Colleen Alena O'Brien, 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, Thelka Pasparaki, 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, Warangana Sammani, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Filomena Spatti Sandalo, 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, Kaushik Sengupta, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Avi Shmidman, 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, Rachel Tal, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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Undergraduate summer position (minimum wage, Ireland)
by Carl Vogel 15 May '26

15 May '26

Hello. A position suitable for a qualified undergraduate student with the right to work in Ireland has become available. Questions may be directed to fintan.obyrne(a)adaptcentre.ie with subject line: Research Assistant UX/Interaction Designer. For details, see: https://www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/research-assistant-ux-interaction-design… Colleagues are seeking a research assistant UX/Interaction Designer to support the team on a temporary basis for the following workloads: ● AI Dataset pre-processing tasks – Review large dataset of CC0 images and carry out batch operations on audited subsets to normalise the data for model training. ● Support the maintenance of a documented design system that will be utilised for the generation of screens for various workflows ● Mocking screenflows using AI assisted design tools and processes ● Visual testing of screens and logging of issues ● Manual content population of art catalogues for pilot projects Qualifications and skills ● This position is ideally suited to an undergraduate studying UX/Interaction Design ● Experience with Photoshop, Figma essential ● Experience with AI assisted design tools like Claude Design essential ● Knowledge and familiarity with the history of art a definite advantage ● Prior experience working with large visual datasets a definite advantage This is a hybrid 3-month specific purpose research assistant position. Candidates must be available to work on site in the ADAPT Centre in Trinity College Dublin as required. Please direct any questions to fintan.obyrne(a)adaptcentre.ie with subject line: Research Assistant UX/Interaction Designer. All my best, Carl Vogel

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May 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 May '26

15 May '26

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> ________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openhart> 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical coordinates of each line and token, digital transcripts, and English translations with content and annotation layers integrated in a single MADCAT XML output. This release includes 1,643 images and corresponding annotation files. Source documents were web text and newswire collected by LDC. Arabic-speaking scribes copied documents by hand, following specific instructions as to the writing style, writing implement, and paper. Each page was scanned and the images annotated. The goal of the MADCAT program was to automatically convert foreign language text images into English transcripts for use by humans and downstream processes, including summarization and information extraction. The core evaluation task in MADCAT was the translation of handwritten Arabic documents. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> was developed by LDC and contains 48 hours of speech from 100 unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME German collection, combining CALLHOME German Speech (LDC97S43)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S43> and CALLHOME German Transcripts (LDC97T15)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T15>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 100 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME German Speech which represented training data (80 calls) and development data (20 calls). Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and region. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification, and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> was developed by LDC and contains 318,809 German words with morphological, phonological, stress, and frequency information. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure, and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME German Lexicon (LDC97L18)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97L18>. The words in the lexicon were derived from the CELEX German lexicon (CELEX2 (LDC96L14)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L14>) and from 100 training and development transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers contained in CALLHOME German Second Edition, LDC2026S04. The lexicon has seven tab-separated information fields: (1) headword: orthographic form; (2) morph: morphological analysis of the headword; (3) pron: pronunciation of the headword; (4) stress: primary stress information of the word; (5) celex: whether the headword appears in the CELEX German lexicon; (6) train_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME training transcripts; and (7) dev_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME development transcripts. This release also includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 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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[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CFP: CLEF 2026 – Submission Deadline Extended to 25 May 2026 (AoE)
by Philipp Schaer 14 May '26

14 May '26

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for CLEF 2026 has been extended to 25 May 2026 (AoE). We invite submissions to the 17th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2026), to be held in Jena, Germany, from 21–24 September 2026. CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ Important Dates (AoE) * 25 May 2026: Extended full paper submission deadline (Long; Short; Past, Present, Future) * 29 May 2026: Best of 2025 Labs paper submission * 26 June 2026: Notification of acceptance * 17 July 2026: Camera-ready version due * 21–24 September 2026: Conference in Jena, Germany Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. CLEF consists of the presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2026 continues the CLEF campaigns running since 2000, contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems through experimentation on shared tasks. The conference focuses on experimental Information Access as carried out within evaluation forums such as CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC, with particular attention to multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. CLEF welcomes submissions describing rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether results are positive or negative. Reproducibility and clear research design are strongly encouraged, as are links to code and data repositories. Topics of Interest * Information retrieval, question answering, recommender systems, image retrieval, search interfaces, and infrastructures * Interactive and conversational search evaluation, including RAG systems * Analytics for information access * Reproducibility and replicability studies * Fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics, and explainability (FATE) * Low-resource and multilingual information access * Collaborative and social data models * User studies and crowdsourcing * Evaluation methodologies, metrics, and statistical tools * Technology transfer and deployment * Domain-specific applications (health, legal, cultural heritage, social media, etc.) * New data collections * Reflections on past achievements and future research directions Paper Categories * Long research papers: 12 pages + references * Short research papers: 6 pages + references * Past, Present, Future papers: up to 12 pages For details on submission and formatting, please refer to https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ Best Paper Award One outstanding paper will receive the CLEF 2026 Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer LNCS, including a certificate and a €500 prize. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Jena for CLEF 2026. Best regards, Philipp Schaer, Eva Zangerle Program Committee Chairs CLEF 2026 ############################

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ACM ICMI 2026 Call for Late-Breaking Results (LBR)
by Gualtiero Volpe 13 May '26

13 May '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS (LBR) =============================================== 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ =============================================== Dear colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for the Late-Breaking Results (LBR) track of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026). Based on the success of the Late-Breaking Results (LBR) track, ICMI 2026 will continue soliciting submissions for this special venue. The goal of this venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. * Online Submission https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi26a * Highlights - Submission deadline: June 21st, 2026 - Notifications: July 15th, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: August 2nd, 2026 - Conference Dates: October 6–8, 2026 - Submission format: Anonymized short paper (four-page paper in a double-column format, not including references), following the submission guidelines - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang * What are Late-Breaking Results? Late-Breaking Results (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting-edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or, in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. * Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting, thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are significant revisions, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. LBR papers will be published as ACM extended abstracts in the Adjunct Proceedings. Under ACM Open, extended abstract article types are not subject to Article Processing Charges (APCs). * Submission Guidelines Extended Abstract An anonymized short paper, four-page paper in a double-column ACM conference format, using LaTeX or Word (excluding references). Papers should follow the same guidelines as papers published in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI conference. The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the "Late-Breaking Results" track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version, and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR relative to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, authors should refer to their own prior work in the third person during submission. After acceptance, such references can be changed to first person if desired. * Review Process LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work, which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors, including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it fits the LBR track, for example, in-progress results. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Authors should clearly justify how the proposed ideas can bring measurable breakthroughs compared to the state of the art. * Attendance Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers as for regular papers. Further information will be made available later on the conference website. * Website For updates, please visit: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/late-breaking-results/ * Contact For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs, Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang, at: icmi2026-latebreaking-chairs(a)acm.org We would be grateful if you could circulate this call among colleagues and interested researchers. Best regards, ICMI 2026 LBR Chairs Daniel Riccio and Hung-Hsuan Huang

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[CfP] Second Call for Papers: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG) Workshop at ISWC 2026
by a.graciotti＠rug.nl 13 May '26

13 May '26

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG) Workshop - Co-located with: International Semantic Web Conference 2026 - Location and dates: Bari, Italy, October 25-29, 2026 - Workshop website: https://2026.rage-kg.org/ - Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ragekg2026 - Abstract registration deadline: July 17, 2026 - Submission deadline: July 24, 2026 RAGE-KG explores the state of the art and goes beyond in integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Graphs as well as the synergies between Large Language Models and the Linked Open Data ecosystem. We aim to foster innovative RAG architectures relying on Semantic Web standards and new approaches to make Linked Open Data usable by LLMs, enhancing their ability to generate reliable, verifiable and context-aware responses based on structured, decentralized and authoritative data sources. Submission Guidelines - Short papers describing novel research contributions and preliminary results. Related to workshop topics. 4-6 pages excluding references. - Full papers describing novel research contributions of extended length. Related to workshop topics. 8-12 pages excluding references. - The papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by multiple researchers. - Upon acceptance, one author must register at the conference and present at the workshop. List of Topics - RAG Architectures - RAG and KAG (Knowledge-Augmented Generation) architectures leveraging Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web standards and Linked Data - RAG and KAG design patterns including GraphRAG and AI Agents - Evaluating RAG and KAG architectures with structured data - LLMs and Structured Data - Training and fine-tuning LLMs with structured data - Prompting Language Models with structured data - Language Model-supported and ontology-supported SPARQL query generation - Innovative Approaches - Neurosymbolic approaches for integrating Language Models with Linked Open Data, Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs - Use Cases, Work-In-Progress and, especially, Bold Proposals for RAG systems - Special track on RAG-systems for Human-AI Value Alignment - RAG-based approaches for content moderation and harm reduction; - Designing RAG systems to deal with human subjectivity Committees - Organizing committee - Daniel Dobriy - Marco Antonio Stranisci - Arianna Graciotti - Blerina Spahiu - Sahar Vahdati Publication - Papers will be submitted to be published with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and must follow the 1-column CEUR format (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART): - Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) - Latex template (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZY4bp2loFKkves6HE7q5j0HaQRT7ov06ZtmO3vZ…) Venue - Where - ISWC 2026 | Bari, Italy - When - October 25–26, 2026 Contact - All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniel.dobriy(a)wu.ac.at

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Final CfP: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NPL-TeMA’26) Track of EPIA’26
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 13 May '26

13 May '26

Call-for-papers : Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NPL-TeMA’26) Track of EPIA’26 NLN-TeMA’26 will be held at the 25th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2026) taking place in Colégio dos Jesuítas do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, from 2-4 September 2026. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2026 . URL https://epia2026.web.uma.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; and [7] Contacts. [1] Track Description The Track on Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2026) brings together researchers and practitioners working in Human Language Technologies, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), Large Language Model Research and Applications (LLMs), and related areas. As text remains the primary medium for creating and sharing knowledge, vast amounts of natural language data are generated daily across the Web and other digital platforms. This continuous growth presents significant opportunities—and challenges—for developing methods that can effectively understand, analyze, and extract value from textual information. Advances in NLP, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning have strengthened the role of language technologies in transforming semi-structured and unstructured data into actionable knowledge. NLP-TeMA 2026 welcomes contributions addressing both theoretical foundations and practical applications, fostering research that connects methodological innovation with real-world impact. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 25th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2026. [2] Topics of Interest Theories, Algorithms and Models • Language and Cognitive Modeling • Tagging, Chunking and Parsing • Morphology and Word Segmentation • Natural Language Generation • Discourse and Pragmatics • Semantics and Text Inference • Language Resources: Acquisition and Lexical Knowledge • Textual Entailment and Paraphrase • Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation • Natural Language Understanding • Language Modeling • Mathematical Properties of Language • NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and NLP Applications • Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization • Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining • Computational Social Science • Multi-Word Units • Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining • Spatio-Temporal and Large-Scale Text Mining • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Approaches • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting • Web Content Annotation • Domain-Specific Text Mining Applications (Health, Biomedical, Legal, etc.) • Large Language Models: Architectures, Tokenization, Prompting and Adaptation • Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis [3] Important dates Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2026 Paper submission deadline: May 29, 2026 (AoE) (strict deadline – no extensions will be granted) Notification of paper acceptance: Julyy 12, 2026 Camera-ready papers: July 25, 2026 (AoE) Conference dates: September 2-4, 2026 [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages, including references. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer’s author guidelines. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2026 [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2026 conference. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, jfs(a)fct.unl.pt, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (+351) 910 211 766 (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Pablo.gamallo(a)usc.gal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (+34) 881816426 . Alípio Jorge, amjorge(a)fc.up.pt, Dep. Ciência de Computadores, Fac. Ciências, Universidade do Porto; 351 220402 959 . [7] Contacts: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: (+351) 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) / (+351) 910 211 766 ‐ Fax: (+351) 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME)
by Rui Sousa Silva 13 May '26

13 May '26

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME) The LUHME 2026 workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of EMNLP - The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (https://2026.emnlp.org) Workshop description LLMs have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, due to their accessibility to the general public. Significant advances continue to be observed in fields and applications such as multimodal conversational agents, emotionally and socially aware dialogue, hyper-personalized and context-adaptive interaction, human–AI collaboration and symbiotic AI, multi-party and social conversation modelling, immersive and embodied conversational systems, and responsible, controllable, and domain-aware interaction. The use of these interactional AI systems is increasingly widespread, as these models have produced remarkable achievements in several benchmarks. State-of-the-art NLP systems achieve impressive performance, but remain prone to brittleness in language understanding (LU); they often lack robust modelling of communicative intentions, pragmatic inference, and context-sensitive meaning, which are central to many EMNLP tasks (dialogue, QA, safety, content moderation, etc.). This raises doubts about the extent to which such systems can really understand human language(s). The rapid deployment of LLMs raises urgent questions about interpretability, trust, and accountability of systems that produce linguistically plausible but potentially misleading outputs. In this scenario, this dedicated workshop provides a venue for cross-fertilisation between formal/theoretical work and applied NLP, in line with EMNLP’s focus on cutting-edge, high-impact research in NLP. The 3rd Language Understanding the Human-Machine Era workshop (LUHME 2026) focuses on how meaning is represented, inferred, and negotiated across human and machine environments, with particular emphasis on logic-aware, pragmatics-sensitive, and socially grounded approaches to LU in NLP. The workshop brings together researchers in (computational) linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, dialogue and discourse, cognitive science, and AI safety/ethics to discuss what it means for systems to understand language in situated, interactive contexts. Relevant topic areas Submissions are invited on (but not limited to): * Language understanding in LLMs * Language grounding * AI‑mediated communication in high‑stakes domains (law, health, finance, governance) * Psycholinguistic approaches to Language Understanding * Discourse, pragmatics and Language Understanding * Intent detection * Computational treatment of speech acts, dialogue, and communicative intentions in interaction * Conversation analysis, narrative progression, and argumentation * Turn‑taking, repair, and alignment in human–AI interaction * Evaluation of Language Understanding * Human vs. machine Language Understanding * Machine translation/interpreting and Language Understanding * Multimodality and Language Understanding * Socio-cultural aspects in Language Understanding * Effects and risks of language misunderstanding * Manifestations of language (mis)understanding * NLU and toxic content * Ethical issues in Language Understanding * Distributional semantics and Language Understanding * Linguistic theory and LU by machines * Linguistic, world, and commonsense knowledge in Language Understanding * Role of language professionals in the LLM era * Understanding language and explainable AI * Use of LLMs in generating, analysing or evaluating linguistic data Diversity and Inclusion We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups from any demographic or geographic minority, with disability, or others. The LITHME network (the nest of this proposal) is inherently inclusive, as it involves members from all EU countries and promotes participation from linguistic minorities. The workshop expands these principles of inclusion, by bringing language and computer scientists to the discussion on computational approaches to LU. Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work to the LUHME workshop, covering one or more of the workshop topics. Submissions must not have substantial overlap in either contribution or text with work previously accepted for publication as a full paper in another archival forum. Papers at workshops without archival proceedings and preprints are accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by the early registration deadline to present the paper at the workshop. This is a prerequisite for inclusion in the proceedings. Submission Instructions Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ACL LaTeX template, and not exceed 8 pages. Authors are encouraged to include an ethics and/or a limitations section, which, together with references, does not count towards the page limit. Papers must be submitted via OpenReview. (https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/LUHME) Proceedings As in previous editions of the LUHME workshop, we intend to publish accepted papers in the ACL Anthology. Proceedings of the First LUHME Workshop<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.luhme-1/> Proceedings of the Second LUHME Workshop<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2025.luhme-1/> Important dates 30 June 2026: Paper submission deadline 31 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 15 September 2026: Camera-ready papers October 2026: LUHME workshop Programme Committee TBA Workshop Organisers Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal) Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

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CFP - DAAFRICA'2026 - CARI Workshop
by Mathieu ROCHE 13 May '26

13 May '26

CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS DAAFRICA'2026 - Workshop on Data Science and AI for Agriculture in Africa https://cari-conf.bj/calls/cari-workshops/daafrica-read-more Workshop supported by ASDS Event affiliated with CARI’2026 (https://cari-conf.bj/) October 21, 2026 Cotonou, Benin SCOPE Agriculture remains a cornerstone of Africa’s economy and livelihoods, yet the sector faces persistent challenges related to productivity, climate variability, market access, and food security. In response, the African Union Commission has developed a Digital Agriculture Strategy (DAS), adopted in February 2024, to foster universally accessible broadband and unlock the benefits of internet-based services for agriculture. The Inaugural African Union Conference on Digital Agriculture (December 2025, Addis Ababa) further emphasizes the need for innovation, climate-smart practices, and digital transformation to shape agricultural policy for Africa’s future. Data science has become a key enabler in this transformation. With the growing accessibility of data, farmers can now analyze information to facilitate decision-making. Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) enable the collection and storage of farm and environmental data (e.g., soil moisture, water levels, weather conditions) in dedicated databases or data warehouses. These agricultural datasets can be combined with other sources—remote sensing, weather stations, satellites, web platforms, and social media—to address new challenges, including the ingestion and integration of heterogeneous data. Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using a range of techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text mining, and large language models (LLMs). By leveraging these tools, agricultural professionals and decision-makers can generate actionable insights and knowledge to guide agricultural activities across Africa. This aligns with the focus of many African initiatives on digital agriculture: deploying low-cost, equitable digital tools to collect, manage, and analyze reliable data for decision-making, risk management, and support for the agro-ecological transition. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop encompasses all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and IA for agriculture in Africa, including but not limited to: - Smart Farming - Yield and Production - Plant Species Identification - Land Cover Monitoring - Crop Recommendation - Crop Monitoring and Forecasting - Animal and Plant Health Monitoring - Agroecology and Water Management - Food Safety and Security - Nutrition and Health - Forests and Agroforests - Soil Preservation - Policy and Regulation SUBMISSIONS Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes. Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format in latex (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2026 Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: June 26, 2026 - Notification to authors: July 15, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: July 31, 2026 - Workshop: October 21, 2026 PARTICIPATION The workshop will be held in Cotonou, Benin, as an event affiliated to CARI’2026. This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a “live” in-person event with a “virtual” online component. WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun - Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France

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SHROOM-Visions shared task on hallucination detection in language and vision models
by Mickus, Timothee 13 May '26

13 May '26

TL;DR SHROOM-visions<https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2026> is a shared task to advance model-agnostic evaluation of hallucination detection for Vision-and-Language Models (VLMs). Participate in detecting fine-grained hallucination spans across 4 languages (Chinese, English, French, Italian). Stay informed by joining our Google group<https://groups.google.com/g/shroom-visions/> or our Slack<https://join.slack.com/t/shroom-shared-task/shared_invite/zt-2mmn4i8h2-HvRB…>! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the SHROOM-visions shared task on vision-language hallucination detection (link to website<https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2026>). We invite participants to detect and classify hallucination spans in a multilingual, multimodal context, using a dataset designed for enduring evaluation. About As new foundational models emerge monthly, how do we create hallucination evaluations that remain relevant? Current benchmarks are often tied to the idiosyncrasies of specific LLMs/VLMs, risking quick obsolescence. This shared task builds upon the *SHROOM <https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/> series of hallucination detection tasks and datasets, venturing into vision-language multilingual hallucination-span prediction. With this shared-task we aim to advance detection methods that generalize across model generations and focus on the core phenomenon of hallucination. We provide a dataset of 20,000 samples annotated with a fine-grained, span-level labeling scheme: * A train set of ~15,200 samples from 5 different LVLMs. * A closed test set of 4,800 crafted samples. * A submission platform<https://shroom.pythonanywhere.com/> to evaluate the performance of your systems. * Balanced coverage across 4 languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian. * Each sample annotated by 3 annotators using a four-class taxonomy: Invention, Mischaracterization, OCR Problem, Miscounting. Participants are invited to develop systems that accurately identify and classify hallucinated text spans in image-conditioned outputs. Participants will be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them at the UncertaiNLP workshop<https://uncertainlp.github.io/> (co-located with EMNLP 2026). All authors of paper submissions will be asked to review peers' submissions (max 2 papers per author). Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Train set available by: 10.05.2026 * Submission platform open by: 20.05.2026 * Evaluation phase ends: 31.07.2026 * System description papers due: 10.08.2026 (TBC) * Notification of acceptance: 10.09.2026 (TBC) * Camera-ready due: 20.09.2026 (TBC) * UncertaiNLP workshop: end of October 2026 (co-located with EMNLP) Evaluation Metrics: Participants’ models must be able to produce spans corresponding to hallucinations in the text, classified along five possible categories (invention, mischaracterization, OCR problems, miscounting, and other hallucinations). The evaluation will rely on two metrics, evaluating labelled and unlabelled performances separately. Rankings and submissions will be handled separately per language: you are welcome to focus on the languages of your choice! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team before making a submission on https://shroom.pythonanywhere.com * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 31.07.2026 * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 10.08.2026 (TBC, further details will be announced at a later date). Want to be kept in the loop? Join our Google group mailing list<https://groups.google.com/g/shroom-visions/> or the shared task Slack<https://join.slack.com/t/shroom-shared-task/shared_invite/zt-2mmn4i8h2-HvRB…>! We are also open to hosting Q&A sessions for groups interested in participating, you just need to send us an email. We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, Raúl Vázquez and Timothee Mickus On behalf of ALL the SHROOM-Visions organizers

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The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing
by Amal Haddad 12 May '26

12 May '26

The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing International Summer School Alicante, Spain, 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 https://summer-school.gplsi.es Call for Participation See the summer school website for latest details including Preslav Nakov's recently confirmed keynote speech Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models--and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)--have taken the world by storm. Deep Learning models are now used almost everywhere, across nearly every discipline, and Natural Language Processing is no exception. DL has proved highly promising so far, delivering improvements for almost every NLP task and application. However, as observed on numerous occasions, the outputs of DL models are not always ideal, with some studies reporting cases in which machine-learning approaches do not necessarily outperform the 'old-fashioned' rule-based ones. The overarching theme of the summer school will be this paradigm shift, with lectures and practical sessions reflecting the latest trends at both theoretical and practical levels. More specifically, the programme will combine lectures focusing on theoretical foundations with hands-on practical sessions. See the confirmed lectures below. The summer school will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced professionals in NLP, computer science, data science, cybersecurity, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and related disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to deepen expertise and engage with the rapidly evolving world of LLMs. Keynote speech: Roberto Navigli, 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' We are delighted to announce Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) as keynote speaker of the summer school who will deliver a keynote speech 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' Keynote speech: Preslav Nakov, 'Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models We are equally delighted to announce Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi) as a keynote speaker of the school summer as well. Summer school programme In addition to the above keynote speeches, the summer school programme will feature the following invited lectures: Special Invited lecture 'Quantum Natural Language Processing: Foundations, Challenges, and Insights' Ellena Lloret (University of Alicante) 'Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing' Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 'Quality Estimation for Machine Translation' Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 'Understanding Language Models' Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) 'LLMs for low-resource languages' Robiert Sepúlveda Torres and Iván Martínez (University of Alicante) 'Fairness in Machine Learning: Evaluating Gender Bias in LLMs' Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala (University of Alicante) 'Gaze data for NLP research: recording methods and analysis' Cengiz Acarturk (Jagiellonian University) 'Beyond the Single Text: NLP Reading in Digital Humanities' Isuri Anuradha (Lancaster University) 'Automatic hyperparameter optimisation and model selection for NLP pipelines' Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) 'Legal NLP in the LLM era' Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University) 'Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages' Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante) 'Sentiment analysis: from rule-based methods to Large Language Models' Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Most lectures will include a practical component. Panel discussion A panel discussion 'The future of NLP methods and language models' is scheduled as part of the summer school (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/panel/). The panel will be hosted/moderated by Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) and will include contributions from Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi) Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Nasredine Semar (CEA) Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez (University of Alicante) Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) Venue, dates and accommodation The summer school will take place at the Research Institute of Informatics of the University of Alicante and will take place on 15, 16 and 17 June 2026. See the summer school website for recommended accommodation options (prospective participants are advised to book accommodation at their earliest convenience, as availability is limited) or more details in general. Summer School Directors Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Summer School Chair Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Advisory Committee Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz Guillena (University of Alicante) Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (University of Alicante) Organising Committee Raúl García Cerdá (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Iván Martínez Murillo (University of Alicante) Registration Registration can be completed at https://summer-school.gplsi.es/registration/. Kindly note that early-bird registration closes on 25 May 2026. Related events The summer school will follow the second international conference _Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence_ (NLPAICS'2026) which will take place in Alicante on 11 and 12 June 2026 (https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es). Those who register for both events will benefit from a discounted registration fee. Further information The summer school website is updated on regular basis. Alternatively, interested parties can email summer-school(a)dlsi.ua.es for more information.

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Reminder: One postdoc position in NLP/CL at University of Technology Nuremberg
by Michael Roth 12 May '26

12 May '26

Just a reminder of an upcoming application deadline. O:-) The Natural Language Understanding Lab at UTN in Nuremberg [1], Germany, invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral research position (A13/E13 on the German TV-L scale). The position is based in the Department Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence and will be available from 1 July 2026 for an initial period of three years. The position is part of an award-winning research group focusing on implicit and underspecified language, background knowledge in language understanding as well as biases in data, tasks and models. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to develop their own research agenda, support ongoing research and teaching in the group, and collaborate with other groups at the university, including colleagues from the Department Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. Applicants should have a completed PhD in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics as well as a track record of publications in *ACL venues, with a particular interest in semantics and/or pragmatics. They should be able to work in a team and communicate in English (German proficiency is not required). Applications should include a motivation letter outlining a proposed research agenda, a CV, a list of publications, and contact information for one or two references. Please submit all materials _as a single PDF file_ to nlu(a)utn.de. Applications received by 15 May 2026 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Candidates who identify as female, trans* and/or non-binary are particularly encouraged to apply. Feel free to contact michael.roth(a)utn.de for any questions regarding the group or position! [1] https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-computer-science-artificial-in… --- Prof. Michael Roth [he/him] Natural Language Understanding Lab University of Technology Nuremberg Technische Universität Nürnberg

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ConCorDial III (2026) – Call for Papers
by sascha.diwersy＠univ-montp3.fr 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the third edition of ConCorDial, a conference dedicated to diachronic corpus linguistics, to be held on 12–13 November 2026 at the Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, Saint-Charles campus, Montpellier, France. The conference will be held in hybrid format (in-person attendance is preferred). The accepted languages of communication are French and English. THEME: Continuities, Innovations, Transitions — Linguistic and Methodological Challenges Building on the two previous editions (Grenoble 2022, Lyon 2024), ConCorDial III invites contributions on the construction, modelling, and exploration of diachronic textual data. The conference is organised around four thematic areas: 1. Corpus construction & interoperability (heterogeneity of sources, normalisation, metadata, diachronic variation) 2. Quantitative & qualitative diachronic analysis (corpus-based studies of lexical, (morpho-)syntactic, semantic or discursive phenomena) 3. Text genres in diachrony (emergence, disappearance and mutation of genres; modelling and classification) 4. LLMs & generative AI for historical text (tagging, segmentation, lemmatisation, normalisation, genre classification) Contributions may address any period in the history of French or other languages. SUBMISSION Abstracts of 300–500 words (excluding references) should be submitted in the language of the proposed presentation (French or English) via the conference website. Please submit both an anonymised version (pasted into the submission form) and an identified version (Word or PDF) including name(s) and affiliation(s). Submission site: https://concordial.sciencesconf.org KEY DATES Abstract submission deadline: 14 June 2026 Notification of acceptance: 12 July 2026 Final abstract version: 1 October 2026 Registration: 1 September – 15 October 2026 We look forward to welcoming you in Montpellier. The ConCorDial III organising committee Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry https://concordial.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1

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LxGr2026: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 11 May '26

11 May '26

11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026) LxGr2026 will be held online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2026. Invited Speakers Stefan Gries<https://www.stgries.info/> (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Martin Hilpert<http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert> (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Serge Sharoff<https://ssharoff.github.io/> (University of Leeds, UK) Registration (free) is now open: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr The presentation abstracts are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2026-abstracts<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2026-abstracts/> If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@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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Reminder: European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2026
by Elisabeth Burr 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear all, Applications to the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture and Technology" 2026 are open until*May 24 2026*. ESU DH will be held at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon, France, from July 6 to July 18. Submit your application via ConfTool <https://www.conftool.org/esudh2026/>. Please find more about the workshop offer and application process on our website <https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/>. Please note:we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so if you need to arrange visa documents and organize your travel early, do submit your application early! ESU DH 2026 The Summer University offers an intense program of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, project presentations, a poster session, and a panel discussion. At the core of ESU are two-week workshops that run in parallel across the schedule. They are designed as comprehensive, intensive hands-on training in key areas of Digital Humanities. This year we offer 10 workshopsin the areas of: • Critical AI and Large Language Models • Distant Reading and Computational Text Analysis • Digital Archives, Cultural Heritage, and Data Curation • Phonology and Sound Analysis • Spatial Humanities and Mapping • Text Encoding and Digital Philology Building on the spirit of previous editions in Leipzig and Cluj, the ESU in Besançon aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and students in the Humanities, and to strengthen the community of practice established in past years. Scholarships The ESU is generously supported by our partners DARIAH, EADH, and CLARIN. Learn more about possible scholarships on our website <https://esudh.github.io/ScholarshipsandFunding/>, and stay tuned for more opportunities. Venue Besançon is a vibrant city of approximately 120,000 inhabitants and more than 25,000 students from around the world, with a long tradition of teaching French to non-native speakers. Following the two weeks of the ESU, we will offer participants the opportunity to attend two to four weeks of French language classes through our "French for DH" programme. For all relevant information, please visit our website, which will be continuously updated as new details become available. To get a sense of what to expect, we encourage you to explore the archive section. Should you have further questions, please write to esudh2026 [@] umlp.fr <http://umlp.fr> We look forward to welcoming you in Besançon. On behalf of Prof. Frederic Spagnoli, Head of the ESU 2026 Dr. Artjoms Šeļa Institute of Czech Literature, Сzech Academy of Sciences Website <https://artjomsh.github.io/web/> | Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4eYapmIAAAAJ&hl=en> |PoeTree <https://versologie.cz/poetree/>

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NLP4CALL 2026: 1st call for papers
by Arianna Masciolini 11 May '26

11 May '26

15th NLP4CALL in Gothenburg, Sweden ___________________________________ We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day in-person event that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on November 19-20, 2026. The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter includes, among others, the integration of insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, and the promotion of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructures. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research — Intelligent CALL, or short, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into second language acquisition theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop therefore invites a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data and modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application, or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL; - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. Important dates _______________ - paper submission deadline: September 24, 2026 - notification of acceptance: October 15, 2026 - camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2026 - workshop: November 19-20, 2026 All deadlines are AoE. Organizers __________ - Arianna Masciolini, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - David Alfter, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Herbert Lange, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway - Elena Volodina, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Contact _______ For more information about the workshop, you are welcome to reach out to arianna.masciolini(a)gu.se. Funding _______ This workshop is jointly supported by: - Språkbanken – jointly funded by its 10 partner institutions and the Swedish Research Council (2025–2028; project id 2023-00161); - Huminfra; - the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology; - the IncluEdS project.

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NTCIR-19 2nd Call for Participation
by Ramon Ruiz-Dolz (Staff) 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear colleagues, *Apologies in advance if you receive this message multiple times, as we are sharing this announcement across several mailing lists. We are delighted to send you call for NTCIR-19 participants. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-18 conference was held in June 2025. This round, we have 14 interesting tasks (https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/tasks.html), and the topics cover LLMs, IR, biomedical NLP, and financial NLP among others. We also have travel support for some participants every year. Hope you can find some topics that you are also interested in and join NTCIR in December 2026 in Tokyo. Below are more details about NTCIR-19. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Best Regards, The NTCIR-19 Publicity Co-chairs ■□■───────────────────────────────────────────■□■ CALL FOR NTCIR-19 TASK PARTICIPATION　　　 ■□■───────────────────────────────────────────■□■ NTCIR-19 (Dec 8-10, 2026, Tokyo, Japan) now calls for task participation of anyone interested in research on information access technologies and their evaluation, such as retrieval from a large amount of document collections, question answering and natural language processing. We welcome students, young researchers, professors who supervise students, researchers working for a company, and anyone who is interested in informatics. -------------------------------------------------- ■ What is NTCIR? -------------------------------------------------- NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a project aimed at creating a large-scale evaluation framework for technologies that facilitate access to desired information, understanding, and utilization from vast amounts of data. These technologies include information retrieval, question answering, summarization, text mining, and machine translation. It provides a shared common foundation for numerous researchers both domestically and internationally, enabling them to advance their respective research, conduct validation and comparative evaluations, and learn from one another within a collaborative forum. Since it started in 1998, NTCIR has been striving to realize richer information access technologies and create future value. The project operates on a cycle of 1.5 years, during which several tasks (research areas) are selected for focused activities. -------------------------------------------------- ■ NTCIR-19 Tasks -------------------------------------------------- NTCIR-19 Program Committee has selected 14 tasks. The overview slide of each task can be available at the kick-off page: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/kickoffcfp.html For more details, please visit the websites of each task: Task Overview page: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/tasks.html -------------------------------------------------- == Core Tasks == - AEOLLM-2: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2 https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUIR/AEOLLM - FinArg-3: Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finarg3/ - HIDDEN-RAD2: Hidden Causal Reasoning in Radiology Report Generation https://sites.google.com/view/hidden-rad2/ - Lifelog-7: Advancing Lifelog Analytics and Retrieval at NTCIR19 https://lifelog-ntcir-project-bd9eae.gitlab.io/ - MedNLP-CALL: Medical Natural Language Processing for Emergency Call https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-call/ - ToT: Tip-of-the-Tongue https://ntcir-tot.github.io/ == Pilot Tasks == - AgenticInstruction: Instruction Generation for Agentic Search https://geniie-lab.github.io/ntcir/ - CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir-cameo26/ - DAGRI: Data Analytics for aGRicultural Information https://sites.google.com/view/dagri/ - FEHU: Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19fehu - ModelRetrieval: Pre-trained Model Retrieval https://pre-trained-model-retrieval.github.io/ - R2C2: RAG Responses Confident and Correct? http://sakailab.com/r2c2/ - RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19regcom/ - SciClaimEval: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers https://sciclaimeval.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------- ■ How to Participate -------------------------------------------------- 1. Please carefully read "How to Participate to NTCIR-19 Task(s)": https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/howto.html 2. Please register at https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/howto.html The datasets of each task will be delivered to the team after registration (the date may vary depending on the task). -------------------------------------------------- ■ Registration Due (Depend on the task) Apr 20, 2026 - R2C2: RAG Responses Confident and Correct? Jun 1, 2026 - AgenticInstruction: Instruction Generation for Agentic Search - DAGRI: Data Analytics for aGRicultural Information - FEHU: Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding - ModelRetrieval: Pre-trained Model Retrieval - RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking - SciClaimEval: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers - ToT: Tip-of-the-Tongue Jul 1, 2026 - MedNLP-CALL: Medical Natural Language Processing for Emergency Call Jul 10, 2026 - AEOLLM-2: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2 - CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects - FinArg-3: Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements - HIDDEN-RAD2: Hidden Causal Reasoning in Radiology Report Generation - Lifelog-7: Advancing Lifelog Analytics and Retrieval at NTCIR19 -------------------------------------------------- ■ Schedule -------------------------------------------------- (*Schedule can be different in different tasks. Please visit the respective webpages of each task for the details.) Jan-Jun 2026 Dry run* Mar-Jul 2026 Formal run* Aug 1, 2026 Evaluation results return / Task overview release (draft) Sep 1, 2026 Submission due of participant papers (draft) Nov 1, 2026 Camera-ready participant paper due Dec 8-10, 2026 NTCIR-19 Conference (Tokyo, NII) (At the NTCIR-19 Conference, online presentation will be available) -------------------------------------------------- ■ Questions? -------------------------------------------------- For information regarding the task specifications etc., please contact the NTCIR Program Chairs: ntc19-pcc(a)nii.ac.jp<mailto:ntc19-pcc@nii.ac.jp> or task organizers. For information regarding the online registration and previous NTCIR test collections, please contact the NTCIR office: ntc-secretariat(a)nii.ac.jp<mailto:ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp> We are looking forward to your participation! [University of Dundee shield logo]<http://uod.ac.uk/sig-home> Dr Ramon Ruiz-Dolz Lecturer (Teaching and Research) | Open Research Lead Member of the ELLIS Society<https://ellis.eu/person/ramon-ruiz-dolz> | AFHEA School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee rruizdolz001(a)dundee.ac.uk<mailto:rruizdolz001@dundee.ac.uk> | raruidol.github.io<http://raruidol.github.io/> Your Dundee, your University. At the heart of the city since 1881<http://uod.ac.uk/sig-strapline> University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland, UK, DD1 4HN The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

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Call for Abstracts – Workshop “NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics” (LLcD 2026)
by Andrea Farina 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics<https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf>, held as part of Languages & Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines (14-16 December 2026, Aix-en-Provence, France). The full call is available here: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/data/CfP_WS4_NLP_Diachronic_Semantics.pdf. This workshop seeks to investigate whether current NLP methods and tools can support the annotation of lexical semantic features (word senses, metaphors, concrete/abstract meanings, etc.) in diachronic corpora. In particular, it aims to assess under which conditions high-quality annotation can be achieved and how this may vary depending on (i) the theoretical framework adopted; (ii) the research objective; (iii) the language under investigation; (iv) the chronological dimensions. Submission details We welcome anonymised abstracts (max. 500 words, excluding references) presenting research using NLP tools for diachronic lexical semantics, regardless of framework, language, or period. Abstracts should clearly state research questions, methods, data, and expected results. Submission deadline 17 May 2026 Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2026. Please select: WS4. NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics. Template and full call details are available on the LLcD2026 website: https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/. We look forward to your submissions. Best regards, Andrea Farina On behalf of the organising committee: Zinaida Geylikman Andrea Farina Barbara McGillivray Bastien Liétard

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Call for Papers: Mechanistic Interpretability & Neuro-symbolic Approaches by-design: the MeMo Workshop
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 09 May '26

09 May '26

Willing to participate to a workshop where you can discuss work in progress and blue sky ideas ? Are you surprised about the ability of LLMs to perform complex reasoning tasks? Do you have a particular keenness for cracking the code of their inner workings? If the answer to the three questions is yes, this is the workshop for you! Observing properties and understanding the inner workings are two sides of the same coin. Another way is possible (e.g., <https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo: Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology)! The workshop aims to accept focused contributions on: * Mechanistic Interpretability by-design * Neuro-symbolic approaches by-design Work in progress and blue sky ideas are in the spirit of the workshop. Your contribution must be between four pages and six pages, excluding references, and should be prepared using the <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gyxkgssbstfr#85e729> Overleaf Submission Template. The proceedings will be submitted to <http://ceur-ws.org/> CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please submit your contribution via EasyChair at the designated submission <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memomina2026> link. The reviewing process is single-blind. Submission Deadline: 31/5/2026 12:00 PM AoE Acceptance Notification Date: 14/6/2026 Camera ready: 21/6/2026 Workshop Date: 24/6/2026 Venue: University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) & Online Registration fees: cheaper than cheap (it's free)

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Ethics in Clinical AI Applications Workshop @ IJCAI–ECAI 2026
by Karen Fort 09 May '26

09 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop “Ethics in Clinical AI Applications (ETHICAIA)”, to be held in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI 2026. 🌐 Website: https://ethicaia.loria.fr/ 📍 Location: Bremen, Germany 📅 Workshop dates: August 15–17, 2026 (TBC) 📝 Submission deadline: May 15, 2026 *About the workshop* Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in clinical contexts—supporting diagnosis, risk prediction, treatment planning, and patient interaction. However, these applications raise critical ethical challenges related to fairness, bias, accountability, transparency, privacy, and patient safety. ETHICAIA provides a dedicated forum to explore these issues as an integral part of AI research, not as an afterthought. We particularly emphasize the connection between ethical concerns and the robustness and real-world reliability of clinical AI systems, including challenges such as data shifts, uncertainty, and deployment conditions. We welcome contributions from across AI fields, including machine learning, NLP, computer vision, multimodal systems, and foundation models in healthcare. *Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):* * Fairness, bias, and representation in clinical AI * Ethical challenges in clinical decision support * Robustness and resilience under real-world conditions * Multimodal and foundation models in healthcare * Explainability, accountability, and contestability * Human–AI interaction and shared decision-making * Privacy, consent, and secondary use of clinical data * Synthetic data: benefits and ethical risks * Evaluation beyond accuracy (metrics, benchmarks, validation) * Regulatory and governance challenges * Real-world case studies and failure analyses * Ethical-by-design methodologies for clinical AI Best regards Roland Roller <https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-roller-a9017877/>(DFKI <https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23dfki&origin=HASH_T…>),Karën Fort <https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenfort/>(Universite de Lorraine <https://www.linkedin.com/company/universit-de-lorraine/> / LORIA),Massimo Esposito <https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimo-esposito-39134183/>(ICAR-CNR <https://www.linkedin.com/company/icar-cnr/>),Paolo Soda <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-soda-9622197a/>(Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma <https://www.linkedin.com/company/universita-campus-bio-medico/>/Umeå universitet (Umeå University) <https://www.linkedin.com/company/kamla-bhubneswer-b.-ed.-college/>) -- Karën Fort Prof. des Univ. en informatique / Professor in Computer Science Université de Lorraine / Loria Resp. du M2 TAL et resp. locale du Master Erasmus Mundus LCT Présidente du comité d'éthique du cluster IA ENACT Porteuse du projet ANR InExtenso (évaluation des biais dans les LLM) https://members.loria.fr/kfort LORIA : B116 / IDMC : 215 Quelle que soit l'heure de réception de ce message, il n'appelle pas de réponse de votre part en dehors des heures de travail.

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Postdoctoral position in NLP at Linköping University
by Marco Kuhlmann 08 May '26

08 May '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] We are announcing a postdoctoral position at the AI4X Centre of Excellence at Linköping University, Sweden (https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ida/aiics). We are looking for an enthusiastic researcher to join an interdisciplinary research project at the intersection of AI, NLP, and materials science. Here is a link to the full announcement and application details: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/29164 The closing date is 2026-06-01. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the position. Best regards Marco Kuhlmann Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University

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Research Assistant/Associate Opening in Agentic Biomedical AI at the University of Manchester
by Paul Thompson 08 May '26

08 May '26

The University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, is seeking an ambitious AI researcher to join the British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence (BHF-CRE) and the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), a world-leading centre in biomedical NLP and AI. The role focuses on developing the next generation of agentic biomedical AI systems, moving beyond static language models toward adaptive, reasoning-driven AI capable of planning, retrieving, simulating, and interacting with complex biomedical environments to support cardiovascular disease research. The successful candidate will join an existing interdisciplinary team of researchers working across: - Large Language Models (LLMs) - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Machine Learning and AI - Biomedical and Clinical AI - Cardiovascular Disease Research You will work closely with AI researchers, clinicians, and biomedical scientists to design systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, simulation, and scientific discovery in healthcare settings. Research themes include: - Agentic LLM systems - Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures - World models and simulation-informed AI - Retrieval-augmented and tool-augmented reasoning - Trustworthy and interpretable biomedical AI We welcome applications from: - Recent PhD graduates - Candidates close to submitting their PhD thesis - Researchers with strong backgrounds in AI, NLP, machine learning, or biomedical AI You should ideally have: - Experience with LLMs and modern deep learning systems - Strong programming skills (Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow) - A research track record in strong AI/NLP venues - Interest in agentic AI, reasoning systems, MoE, or biomedical applications Why Join Us? - Work in one of the world’s leading biomedical NLP centres - Access substantial dedicated AI compute infrastructure - Collaborate with leading experts in AI, medicine, and cardiovascular science - Publish at leading AI conferences and journals - Receive support for conferences and career development - Help shape AI systems with real-world healthcare impact Contract Duration: Fixed term for 24 months (full time) Salary: £32,080 - £46,049 per annum depending on experience Closing date: 21 May 2026 For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34883 -- 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/ -- 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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CfP Readability and Text Simplification Workshop CLEAR-TEXT 2026 at CLIB 2026
by Irina Temnikova 07 May '26

07 May '26

First Call For Papers: CLEAR-TEXT Workshop at the conference CLIB 2026 (7 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home Free participation IMPORTANT DATES: 1 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) abstract submission deadline (abstracts are not compulsory, but highly recommended) 15 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) all articles submission deadline 23 July 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) review decisions sent to authors 12 August 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) camera-ready submissions due 7 September, 2026 - Workshop date This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Specifically, we invite submissions from scientific researchers, representatives of IT companies, publishers, public institutions (such as the Ministries of Education and public schools), and practitioners (such as authors of children's books, school materials, and teachers). The scientific articles can present completed or ongoing work with methods coming from all related fields, such as Linguistics, Translation and Translation Technologies, Psycholinguistics, Education, Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. The workshop will feature one invited speaker and two panels of representatives from different fields, who will present cutting-edge insights and discuss the existing international and Bulgarian issues and possible solutions to them. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home Irina Temnikova, PhD Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE)

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NLP/AI Researcher for Blasi group, Pompeu Fabra University
by Pablo Contreras Kallens 07 May '26

07 May '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] We are starting the process to hire a NLP/AI Researcher in the Blasi Group at Pompeu Fabra University. The position will focus on applications of computational tools from these fields to interdisciplinary challenges at the intersection of linguistic diversity, human cognition, and foundation models. See here for more details about the position https://dub.sh/blasi_nlp_posting If interested, send a message with the header AI POSITION, your CV and a very brief motivational statement at damian.blasi(a)upf.edu Thanks! Pablo Contreras Kallens Postdoctoral Researcher Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 07 May '26

07 May '26

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ Objectives ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics: • They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication. • They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance software and systems. • They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers and industry practitioners. Recurring Workshops Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning the workshop to ISSRE in 2026. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to: • Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software reliability • Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability • Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures • Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting) • Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems • Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large Language Models • Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks • Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates • Automated debugging and program repair • Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security • Reliability of software services • Reliability of open source software • Reliability in networks softwarization • Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS) • Reliability of software dealing with Big Data • Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software • Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems • Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems) • Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain) • Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability • Societal aspects of software reliability Proposal Submissions Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee and address the following questions: • Workshop length: Half day or one full day • Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups • Outline of themes and goals of the workshop • How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.) • Desired/estimated number of participants • Organizing committee members and their past experience Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for workshop proposals. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Proposal Evaluation Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team. Logistics The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026 • Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026 • Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026 (NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for information about deadlines) • Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026 • Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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PhD and postdoc positions on Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen, start in Autumn 2026
by Isabelle Augenstein 07 May '26

07 May '26

Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student or postdoc in autumn 2026? We have openings on a new project titled “A Mechanistic Framework for Mitigating the Susceptibility of LLMs to Learning False Information”<https://dff.dk/en/about-the-fund/news-and-press/all-news/news-uk/2026/maj/2…> funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark<https://dff.dk/en/>, led by Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. The project goal’s will be to develop a novel theoretical frameworks for LLM security, new mechanistic interpretability methods, and new evaluation protocols, developed through research at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and Explainable AI. In addition to the PIs, the postdoc and PhD student, the project also offers the opportunity to apply as an academic collaborator with NVIDIA as part of an existing relationship. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here<https://www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/>. PhD position The PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on researching mechanistic interpretability methods to curb the effects of false information attacks on LLMs at different stages of the model lifecycle. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP. The PhD student will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team. Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=160571> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Postdoc position The postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to characterise the spectrum of false information used by LLMs at different stages of their life cycle, in order to develop mitigation methods and prevent false information attacks on LLMs. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience on Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and/or Explainable AI. The postdoc will work with Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team. Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=160569> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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CfP for the HeMAI workshop at ICMI 2026
by Stefan Hillmann 06 May '26

06 May '26

========================================================= Call for Papers: HeMAI 2026 Multimodal Interaction with Generative AI Health Applications Workshop at ICMI 2026, Naples, Italy, 9 October 2026 (in person) https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/ ========================================================= Generative AI is changing how people interact with health technology. Large language models, multimodal foundation models, and conversational agents make it possible to combine text, speech, vision, and physiological signals in ways that weren't practical a few years ago, and they raise difficult questions about usability, safety, explainability, trust, and evaluation when the stakes involve someone's health. HeMAI 2026 brings HCI, AI, and health researchers together to work through those questions. We welcome contributions on multimodal interaction techniques for health systems, conversational and embodied agents in healthcare, integration of text/speech/vision/biosignals, explainability and transparency, human-AI collaboration, safety and trust, ethical and regulatory issues, evaluation methodologies, and real-world deployments. Submission types: - Full research papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references) - Short / work-in-progress / position / demo papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references) Submissions follow ICMI 2026 author guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/ Papers rejected from the main ICMI track are welcome if they fit the scope. Important dates (AoE): - Paper submission: 6 July 2026 - Notification: 29 July 2026 - Camera-ready: 1 August 2026 - Workshop: 9 October 2026 Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings to ICMI 2026. Organizers: - Stefan Hillmann (TU Berlin) - Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin) - Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS--ISIR, Sorbonne University) - Lisa Raithel (TU Berlin & BIFOLD & DFKI Berlin & Charité--IKIM) - Roland Roller (DFKI Berlin) Workshop website: https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/ We are looking forward to your submissions! On behalf of the organizing team Stefan Hillmann -- Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hillmann Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Senior Researcher er, ihm / he, his Anrede / Form of address: Herr / Mr. or Du / Stefan ------------------------------------ Technische Universität Berlin Fakultät IV / Faculty 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Quality and Usability Lab Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, GERMANY ------------------------------------ Forschungsschwerpunkte / Research Areas: Usable Dialog Systems, User Experience, AI for Conversational Systems Web: www.tu.berlin/qu ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-9834 LinkeIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-hillmann-81841044

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Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 06 May '26

06 May '26

We’re hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt The UKP Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt<https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp>, led by Prof. Iryna Gurevych<https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/head_ukp/index.en.jsp> is one of the world's leading NLP labs. If you work on LLMs that reason across complex documents, not just within them, this role is for you. You'll develop an original research program within the ERC Advanced Grant InterText, with a focus on: 🔹Multi-document reasoning and long-context LLMs 🔹AI for Science: scientific evidence synthesis, claim verification 🔹Automated fact-checking and multimodal misinformation detection, incl. verification of AI slop 🔹Human-centric and agentic approaches as a complementary focus: LLM agents, tool use, multi-agent collaboration Bottom-up proposals that connect to the InterText vision are very welcome. You bring: * PhD (completed or near completion) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related discipline * a strong publication record at top-tier venues, * and the drive to lead an independent research line. Deadline: 31 May 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so don't wait. Apply: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment Full job ad with all details on the UKP Lab page: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2026_intertext…<https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2026_intertext…>

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 06 May '26

06 May '26

*** Call for Participation *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) July 13-16, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Standard Registration Fee Deadline: June 30, 2026 ***) The 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. This year we had a record number of submissions, so we have a record number of accepted papers (114), a record number of posters and demos (53) and we hope for a record number of participants. Furthermore, we have 8 workshops and 6 tutorials. Finally, the technical program will feature two keynotes, by Antonio Kruger on the role of HCI in trusted A.I. and Pattie Maes on designing A.I. interaction for human flourishing. The detailed program of IUI 2026 can be found on the conference website: https://iui.acm.org/2026/program/ . The standard fee registration deadline is on June 30th and the registration page is: https://iui.acm.org/2026/registration/ We are looking forward to meeting everybody in Limassol. 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 Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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First CfP: 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct, 2026
by Veronika Laippala 06 May '26

06 May '26

First Call for Papers 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct, 2026 https://wacky-workshop.github.io/ The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limited metadata, and the under-representation of many languages and domains. These challenges call for a shift toward Data-Centric AI, focusing on the curation, analysis, and responsible use of web-derived data. The 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for research addressing the full lifecycle of web data. We invite submissions on methods, resources, and applications related to web corpora, with special emphasis on multilingual data and less-resourced languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (e.g., data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification) * Use of web data in empirical linguistic research * Analysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insights * Ethical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data By bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, and the social sciences, WaC aims to advance best practices for one of the field’s most influential data sources. Important dates: Direct paper submission deadline: 7 August, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: 1 September, 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 September, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: 20 September, 2026 Conference dates: 24-29 Oct, 2026 Submissions: Submissions will be possible through ARR commitment and through openreview.net (more details to follow on https://wacky-workshop.github.io/). Workshop Organizers: Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo, Norway Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland Pedro Ortiz Saurez, Common Crawl Jen English, Common Crawl Vuk Dinić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

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LREC2026: call for participation
by Elena Volodina 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to attend LREC 2026<https://lrec2026.info/>, a biennial international conference focusing on natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech and multimodality, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. The conference will take place in picturesque Palma, Mallorca (Spain), on 11-16 May, 2026. Registration: https://lrec2026.info/registration/ This year’s program includes: - Two keynote talks and one invited talk by leading researchers in linguistics and NLP : https://lrec2026.info/keynote-speakers/ - A talk by this year’s Antonio Zampolli’s prize<https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/> winner (to be revealed at the conference, but is very exciting!) - Over 900 peer-reviewed papers: https://lrec2026.info/list-of-accepted-papers/ - 45 workshops: https://lrec2026.info/accepted-workshops/ - 12 tutorials: https://lrec2026.info/lrec2026-tutorials/ - an exhibition area featuring sponsors and exhibitors Besides, there will be two amazing social events - a welcome reception and a gala dinner at Pueblo Espanol<https://pueblo-espanol.com/en/>! The program is already out (main conference<https://lrec2026.info/conference-programme/>, workshops & tutorials<https://lrec2026.info/workshops-and-tutorials/schedule/>), so you can plan your visit with all necessary details in place! Secure your place at the thriving LREC 2026! <https://lrec2026.info/registration/> We look forward to seeing you in Mallorca! The LREC Organizing Committee<https://lrec2026.info/committees/> ___________________ Elena Volodina, Professor Språkbanken Text; Dpt. Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Evaristo.ai - Plain language
by Antonio Branco 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear colleagues in Corpora list, good afternoon Today, May 5, *World Portuguese Language Day* is being celebrated. We are joining in this celebration by expanding our family of AI agents Evaristo.ai <https://evaristo.ai/>. Nurtured within the *PORTULAN <https://portulanclarin.net/>* node of CLARIN Research Infrastructure, and developed in partnership with the *Academy of Sciences of Lisbon* and its grand reference dictionary <https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt/>, we are launching the new chatbot *Evaristo.ai – Linguagem clara* <https://evaristo.ai/linguagem-clara/>, which specialises in rewriting texts into plain language in accordance with the international standard ISO 24495-1. This chatbot joins other chatbots we launched in recent months: Evaristo.ai - Generalist <https://evaristo.ai/> A generalist chatbot, powered by the knowledge in Gervásio 70B <https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN>, the largest open-source LLM specialising in Portuguese (June 2025) Evaristo.ai - Public services <https://evaristo.ai/servicos-publicos/> A chatbot specialising in Portuguese public administration services, based on the gov.pt <https://www.gov.pt/> official website (November 2025) We invite you to try it out. Your feedback is most welcome. Kind regards, António Branco

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Summer Schools: CDHSummer2026 (4th Corpus and Digital Humanities Summer School 2026) (China)
by 李斌 05 May '26

05 May '26

Summer Schools: CDHSummer2026 (4th Corpus and Digital Humanities Summer School 2026) (China) Host Institution: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China Coordinating Institution: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau; School of Humanities and Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University; College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University Dates: 25-Jul-2026 - 04-Aug-2026 Location: Nanjing, China Minimum Education Level: Linguistic/History Students/teachers at University Special Qualifications: Linguistic/History Students/teachers at University with little knowledge of computer science. APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES SUBMISSION WINDOW: May 5 - May 12, 2026 (Beijing Time) The offical language will be Chinese. Applicants are required to complete the official application form and submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV), research background, learning objectives, and academic recommendation letters. The organizing committee will conduct a merit-based selection process. Admission results will be announced by June 1, 2026, via email. Admitted participants are required to sign a letter of commitment. Once successfully enrolled, withdrawing from the program or switching tracks is not permitted without valid, exceptional reasons. PARTICIPANT CAPACITY AND GRADUATION CRITERIA - CAPACITY: Each track is strictly limited to 40 on-site and 40 online participants. The total program capacity is 240 participants. - GRADUATION ASSESSMENT: Each participant must complete an independent research project by the end of the program, such as a humanities database, a statistical analysis report, or a prototype LLM tool. - CERTIFICATION: Participants who successfully pass the final assessment will receive an official Certificate of Completion. Outstanding projects will be awarded an Excellence Certificate. Focus: Driven by the rapid expansion of large-scale data ecosystems and Large Language Models (LLMs), research across the humanities and social sciences is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional disciplines, including linguistics, literature, history, and philology, are increasingly adopting computational technologies to develop innovative, data-driven methodologies. Central to this methodological shift is the development of reliable data infrastructure built upon well-annotated corpora. Furthermore, adapting and deploying artificial intelligence — particularly fine-tuned LLMs — for humanistic inquiry has become an essential skill for the next generation of scholars. To advance interdisciplinary research, empower scholars with both humanistic depth and computational expertise, and foster global academic exchange, Nanjing Normal University is proud to launch this intensive summer program in partnership with our esteemed co-hosts. This program is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to undergraduates, postgraduates, and young researchers specializing in Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Chinese Language and Literature, History, Philology, and related disciplines. Scholars focusing on the intersection of the humanities with large-scale datasets and LLMs are particularly welcome. Description: SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM The curriculum is designed to provide a deep dive into four core modules: Digital Humanities Theory, Cutting-edge Technologies, Corpora Construction and Standards, and Quantitative Statistical Methods. 1. PARALLEL TRAINING WORKSHOPS Applicants must choose exactly ONE of the three parallel tracks. Each track consists of eight systematic lectures and hands-on coding practices, supported by 4 dedicated teaching assistants. - TRACK A: DATABASE PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP - Instructor: Prof. Bin Li (Nanjing Normal University, China). Oriented toward beginners with no prior programming experience. Utilizing MySQL and PHP as the core development platform, the workshop uses classical texts, such as the "Complete Tang Poems", to teach data structuring, SQL querying, and interactive website development. - TRACK B: LINGUISTIC STATISTICAL METHODS WORKSHOP - Instructor: Prof. Wei Shen (Central China Normal University, China). Focusing on quantitative analysis for linguistic and textual corpora, this track covers foundational statistics using SPSS software. Topics include parametric and non-parametric tests, clustering, correlation, chi-square tests, and regression models. - TRACK C: PYTHON LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP - Instructors: Prof. Dongbo Wang and Prof. Liu Liu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China). Designed for participants with foundational Python knowledge, this advanced track connects ancient texts with artificial intelligence. Using the ancient text LLM “Xunzi” as a case study, it covers prompt engineering, instruction fine-tuning, intelligent agent development, and LLM deployment in humanities contexts. 2. SUPPORTING ACADEMIC AND PRACTICAL EVENTS - EXPERT LECTURE SERIES: 20 top-tier international and domestic scholars will deliver 20 premium academic lectures on cutting-edge algorithms and humanities research methodologies. - THEMATIC ROUNDTABLE FORUMS: Specialized panels will host in-depth dialogues on "Opportunities and Challenges for Humanities in the LLM Era" and "The Future Trajectory of Linguistics and Digital Humanities". - CULTURAL EXCURSION AND SEMINARS: Digital humanities field trips in the historical city of Nanjing, complemented by academic networking seminar sessions. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Computational Linguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Registration: 05-May-2026 to 12-May-2026 Apply by Email: dhbase2026(a)126.com Apply on the web: https://v.wjx.cn/vm/rwUUUJ7.aspx Registration Instructions: The lectures and courses will be given in Chinese. The courses are free of charge. All travel, accommodation and catering expenses shall be self-funded.

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📣 [Call for posters] Workshop on AI-Driven Semiconductor Discovery (May 21–22, 2026) | Hannover, Germany
by D'Souza, Jennifer 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear colleagues, In the context of the AWASES project (AI-Aware Pathways to Sustainable Semiconductor Process and Manufacturing Technologies), we are organizing a two-day workshop titled “AI-Driven Semiconductor Discovery”, taking place on May 21–22, 2026 in Hannover, Germany. More information is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/aisem/home We would like to extend an invitation via our call for posters and welcome submissions from your groups, particularly on AI for science topics. The call for posters can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/aisem/call-for-posters We welcome a wide range of contribution types, including original research, early-stage ideas, system demos, use cases, vision papers, and mature preprints. In the spirit of collaborative learning, we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers and welcome multiple contributions. Participation is open to all career stages, and we look forward to an engaging exchange at the workshop. Please feel free to share this call within your networks. If you have any questions about the workshop or venue, I would be happy to provide further information. Best regards, Jennifer D'Souza (on behalf of the AISem'26 organizing team)

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Postdoctoral position in NLP at the University of Bergen, Norway
by Samia Touileb 05 May '26

05 May '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Norwegian Professional Language, at the University of Bergen, Norway (https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-centres/centre-for-norwegian-profe…). We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for a 3-year postdoctoral researcher position focused on the development of resources and models, including post-training of large language models. The position offers flexibility for the candidate to develop and shape their own research directions. The work will be in close collaboration with the work package on terminology and professional language in particular, and the centre as a whole. The position is affiliated with the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen. Check the full announcement and application details here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/300731/postdoctoral-fellow-i… Closing date: June 1st, 2026 If you have any questions or would like additional information, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, Samia --- Samia Touileb Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation Fagspråksenteret: Centre for Norwegian Professional Language

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Tenure track assistant professorship in Language Technology and Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Patrizia Paggio 05 May '26

05 May '26

*** With apologies for multiple postings *** Tenure track assistant professorship in Language Technology and Natural Language Processing, Centre for Language Technology, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, UCPH The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a position as tenure track assistant professor in language technology and natural language processing to be filled by the 1st of November 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be attached to the Centre for Language Technology (CST), which is one of the research centres of the department. CST conducts research in different areas of interest for language technology, such as Natural Language Processing, construction of NLP resources and benchmarks, Computational Cognitive Modeling and Multimodality, NLP infrastructure and policy, Representation Learning for NLP and Digital Humanities, among others, see also: https://cst.ku.dk/english/. The Centre has a strong international profile, at the same time as pursuing the development of language technology methods and resources for the Danish language. The Centre has considerable experience managing international research projects, frequently attracts visiting researchers and has organised major conferences in the field. Together with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen, it offers an international MSc programme in ‘IT and Cognition’. The program, which currently admits about 30 students a year, consists of a range of courses in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science. In addition, we teach at several BA programs and electives, such as the BA for Danish-speaking students ‘Kognitions- and Datavidenskab’ (Cognition and Data Sciences) hosted at the Department of Psychology, and the BA elective package ‘AI, Programmering og Sprogteknologi’ (AI, Programming, and Language Technology) for humanities students. The successful candidate will contribute to one or more of the Centre’s research areas and will teach courses belonging to the above-mentioned study programs. We expect the candidates to have a research profile with a strong publication record from relevant, high impact conferences and journals. Note that the position comes with an opportunity to negotiate a start package that will help leverage the candidate’s scientific deliverables in the initial years of employment. For more information on the position, and on how to apply for it, please see https://jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=160799https://jobportal.ku.dk/te…. The closing date for applications is 23:59 CEST, 10 Juni 2026. *************** Patrizia Paggio Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio(a)hum.ku.dk Professor (retired) University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio(a)um.edu.mt

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CALL: THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 05 May '26

05 May '26

25rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Submission deadline: May 29th, 2026] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 25rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 42th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2026), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2025, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 29th 2026. The final decision will be communicated during the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2026). Submission instructions (here) For more information aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus EDICIÓN XXV PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [Plazo de presentación: 29 de mayo de 2026] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXV del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el XLII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2026), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2025, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 29 de mayo de 2026. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 42 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2026). Documento con las instrucciones (aquí) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus

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MIRROR@IberLEF2026 - Final phase started
by Luis Villaseñor-Pineda 04 May '26

04 May '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> -------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Final Phase Started * -------------------------------------------------------------- MIRROR@IberLEF20206: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via Synthetic cOnversational tuRns Challenge platform: https://www.mirror-iberlef.lat/ The final phase of MIRROR has now started, make your submissions through the platform to be considered for the final ranking. ------------------------------- ****Task description**** ------------------------------- We invite the community to develop Generative AI (GenAI) methods for creating synthetic conversation turns that can substantially improve the performance of models trained to recognize behavior codes (BCs) in the context of motivational interviews. A BC is a discrete, observable clinician action (e.g., asking a question, giving information) that is counted during coding of a motivational interviewing session to quantify specific techniques used. These codes allow raters to tally how often particular clinician behaviours occur, which helps assess adherence to MI-consistent versus MI-inconsistent practice. Our ultimate goal is to generate valuable data for training models for the automatic assessment of clinicians’ motivational-interviewing skills. These skills — crucial for promoting behavior change among patients — can be evaluated by using the “Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)” rubric (https://tinyurl.com/38byjrwy). * * *This is a data-centric competition: *participants are expected to produce high-quality datasets representing a wide range of clinical conversations (rather than training a model) to enhance the performance of a frozen baseline model used for BC classification. We encourage participants to include samples featuring clients from diverse backgrounds, varied conversation topics, and conversing with different types of health professionals. Participants in this competition should provide three datasets (one per pair of considered BCs) of at most 100 labeled conversation turns that will be used to fine-tune pretrained models; the fine-tuned models will then be used to make predictions for a hold-out dataset. The performance of the fine-tuned model will be used as the leading evaluation metric to rank participants. The considered pairs of BCs are: (1) Simple reflection vs. Complex reflection; (2) Open question vs. Closed question; (3) Persuasion vs. Giving Information. Sample submissions, and detailed instructions on the formatting, evaluation criteria and competition platform will be available at the MIRROR website. ------------------------------- ****Important dates**** ------------------------------- * Mar 9th: Start of the development phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the validation set) * May 1st: Start of the final phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the test set) * May 11th: End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) * May 22nd; Publication of official results * Jun 8th: Deadline for paper submission * Jun 23th: Acceptance notification * Jun 30th: Camera-ready submission deadline * Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings * Sep, TBD: Workshop with SEPLN 2026 ------------------------------- ****Organizing team**** ------------------------------- * Luis J. Arellano INAOE, Mexico * Carlos Olachea INAOE, Mexico * John Piette, University of Michigan, USA * Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico * Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico * Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico * Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: Hugo Jair Escalante (hugo.jair(a)gmail.com) ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. 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Call for Participation for the LREC NLE 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data
by Valia Kordoni 04 May '26

04 May '26

Call for Participation Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026) To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 on 11 May 2026, https://www.elra.info/lrec2026 Conference venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nle2026/home Overview Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and summarization. This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g., hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement), rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have very recently started becoming available to the research community and may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing, with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop's focus is on adaptation of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in natural language analysis tasks. The workshop focuses on the use of techniques like self-training for leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work that focuses on the incorporation of external linguistic resources and knowledge injection to enrich features, and also in research that describes work on utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to benefit from related tasks. The workshop highlights the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speaker - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Workshop Program Monday, May 11, 2026 9:00–13:00 Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data Room: 4 Chair: Valia Kordoni 9:00–9:10 Introduction Oral Session 1 9:10–9:50 Challenges in Japanese Euphemism Classification: An Analysis of Pretrained Japanese and Multilingual Models Noriko Takahashi, Whitney Poh, Libby Barak, JIng Peng and Anna Feldman 9:50–10:10 Steering Pragmatic Interpretation in LLMs: A Diagnostic Evaluation of Few- Shot and Reasoning-Based Prompting for Indirect Speech Acts. Massimiliano Orsini and Dominique Brunato 10:10–10:30 Injecting Structured Lexicographic Knowledge into LLMs for Non-Literal Expression Disambiguation: A Controlled Study on Croatian Slobodan Beliga, Ivana Filipovic Petrović and Ana Meštrović 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Poster session - Metaphor Identification in Spanish Oncological Discourse: The Role of Explicit Meaning in Low-Resource Settings Lucia Pitarch, Jordi Bernad and Gemma Bel-Enguix - Exploring Detection of Complex, Non-Literal Expressions of Cultural Motifs Ibrahim H. Alyami and Mark A. Finlayson - Artful Writing, Authentic Emotions: Distinguishing Human-Written from LLM-Generated Metaphors by Annotation and Classification Michaela Regneri, Nooshin Aghajari and Thomas Kroedel - Creation and Validation of a Monolingual Spanish NLI Dataset for MetaphorInterpretation via Model-in-the-Loop Alec Sanchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix and SERGIO LUIS OJEDA TRUEBA - A Hybrid Architecture for Metonymy Detection in Marathi Pratibha Dongare - Contextualising (Im)plausible Events Triggers Figurative Language Annerose Eichel, Tonmoy Rakshit and Sabine Schulte im Walde Oral Session 2 11:40–12:00 A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic Metaphor Detection in German Religious Online Forums Sebastian Reimann and Tatjana Scheffler 12:00–12:20 Decomposing Creativity: Two Small Datasets Combining Originality Ratings and Metaphor Annotations Emilie Sitter, Sina Zarrieß, Omar Momen and Berenike Herrmann Invited Talk 12:20–13:00 Unveiling Reasoning in Small Language Models: Insights into Literal and Non-Literal Understanding Debanjan Gosh Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Programme Committee - Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS, USA - Maria Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Yuri Bizzoni, Aarhus University, Denmark - Kenneth Church, VecML Inc., USA - Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Markus Egg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA - Valia Kordoni, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Emmy Liu, CMU, USA - Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria - Sebastian Padó, IMS Stuttgart, Germany - Gudrun Reijnierse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Sebastian Reimann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Adam Roussel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart - Vered Shwartz, The University of British Columbia, Canada - Caroline Sporleder, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - Egon Stemle, EURAC, Italy Organizers • Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de

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Call for Participation: AthensNLP 2026 summer school (deadline May 31)
by GEORGIOS MOSCHOVIS 03 May '26

03 May '26

Call for Participation AthNLP 2026 - 4th ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL ============================================ ** Preliminary schedule of Speakers, Labs, Events: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/schedule.html ** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J3AC6Yat2sfov0hpRXsCDXnnWLjdm9FI/view> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to participate in the 4th Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School taking place in Athens, Greece at NCSR Demokritos Campus between 2-8 September 2026: https://athnlp.github.io/2026/ Important Dates -------------------------- * Application Deadline: May 31, 2026 * Decision Announcement: June 10, 2026 * Registration: June 30, 2026 * Summer School: September 2-8, 2026 Description ------------------ Following successful AthNLP editions in 2019, 2024, and 2025, AthNLP 2026 returns to the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens. The summer school is organised by NCSR Demokritos, the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC ATHENA, and Heriot-Watt University, in close collaboration with LxMLS (Lisbon, 20–25 July 2026). The school focuses on Machine Learning methods for NLP, especially Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), offering: Morning lectures on theory, afternoon hands-on lab sessions, evening research talks, poster sessions, and demos. Our target audience is: * Students and researchers in NLP/Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning; * Computer scientists with interest in NLP and ML; * Industry professionals seeking deeper understanding of these fields. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the registration ee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in Machine Learning and NLP. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. Confirmed Speakers --------------------------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen * Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen * Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi * Lingpeng Kong, University of Hong Kong * Julia Kreutzer, Cohere * Ryan McDonald * Dong Nguyen, Utrecht University * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen * Emine Yilmaz, University College London Participation --------------------- To apply, please fill this<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final> form. The fees are the following: * 300 EUR for students * 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute * 500 EUR for everyone else AthNLP Summer School Scholarship --------------------- Applicants can apply for the scholarship through the main application form<https://ijerm0co.forms.app/athens-nlp-2026-summer-school-final>. Scholarship recipients will be selected by the Admissions Committee and notified of the outcome after the acceptance decisions have been finalized. The scholarship provided covers only the registration fee for the AthNLP Summer School. Please note that accommodation, travel expenses, and visa costs are not included and remain the responsibility of the scholarship recipients. Any questions should be directed to: athnlp(a)athenarc.gr<mailto:athnlp@athenarc.gr> We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organizers of AthNLP 2026

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2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- program and registration details
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 02 May '26

02 May '26

***** The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is here! ***** Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics! ==> 07-09 May 2026 <== Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420 Thirteen (13 !!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel! The event is **fully online and free** for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 Information concerning access to the online venue will be distributed through the NARNiHS member listserv a few days before the event. We look forward to seeing you there! The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator organizing committee

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[Deadline extension] NALOMA@ESSLLI: Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 01 May '26

01 May '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR The deadline for paper & abstract submission has been extended to May 6th. Time & place: 3-7 August, ESSLLI in Prague, Czech Republic Submission types: ACL Anthology archival (short/long/demo) and non-archival (extended abstract) Website: https://naloma.github.io The 6th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (long, short, and demo) to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings and non-archival extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2026.esslli.eu), 3-7 August, Prague, Czech Republic. The submission deadline is 6 May. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. NALOMA PC chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Hitomi Yanaka Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Third Call for Papers (Industry Track)
by Announce 01 May '26

01 May '26

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

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 30 June 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- 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. 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[CFP] [Auxiliary Papers] Special Session on Games+Spatial Intelligence at IEEE CoG 2026
by Jayannavar, Prashant Arun 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

*Apologies for cross-posting* IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2026 Madrid, September 1–4, 2026 Special session: Evaluating and Advancing Spatial Intelligence through Games CFP for auxiliary papers: https://cog2026.fdi.ucm.es/cfp-spatial Submission deadline: 14 May 2026 LinkedIn announcement: here<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prashantjayannavar_cog2026-ieee-spatialintel…> X announcement: here<https://x.com/p_jayannavar/status/2045141231517192584?s=20> Organizing committee * Prashant Jayannavar — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US (paj3(a)illinois.edu) * Alessandro Suglia — University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (asuglia(a)ed.ac.uk) * Sina Zarrieß — University of Bielefeld, Germany * Massimo Poesio — Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Scope Spatial intelligence, the ability to perceive, reason about, and manipulate spatial relationships, is fundamental to human cognition and essential for artificial intelligence systems operating in both physical and virtual environments. Games provide rich, controlled, and interactive testbeds for evaluating and advancing spatial intelligence in AI, offering diverse scenarios that require understanding spatial configurations, navigation, object manipulation, and communication about spatial concepts. This special session seeks contributions that use games as diagnostic tools or environments for developing and evaluating spatial intelligence in AI systems. We welcome research spanning both embodied and unembodied games, as well as multimodal and unimodal settings. Of particular interest are collaborative and interactive scenarios where spatial intelligence enables AI agents to serve as instruction followers or instruction givers, playing alongside or assisting humans in open-ended gameplay or task-specific applications such as navigation, construction/assembly, object manipulation, etc. Further, reward modeling in such domains also inherently requires spatial understanding, and we encourage work that studies this. The session is in part motivated by prior workshops such as the 4th Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics (SpLU-RoboNLP 2024), When Language meets Games Workshop (Wordplay 2025), with particular inspiration drawn from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games (https://www.dagstuhl.de/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24492). Topics of Interest We are seeking papers that present methodological contributions to relevant tasks as follows. Relevant Tasks Including, but not limited to: * Core instruction following and giving tasks (dialogue-based or single-turn) * Related sub-problems, e.g., referring expression comprehension/generation, clarification question generation, planning * Reward modeling * Novel task formulations to evaluate spatial intelligence capabilities Methodological Contributions For the above tasks, we invite contributions including, but not limited to: Data and Resources * Data collection, synthetic data generation, and simulation frameworks * Data scarcity in embodied or interactive settings * Inverse Dynamics Models and related approaches for pseudo-labeling, enabling scalable dataset creation from abundant unlabeled sources * Resources and environments for interactive/online learning Modeling Approaches * LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, agentic frameworks * Reinforcement Learning * Model design, fine-tuning strategies, in-context learning, parameter-efficient methods, and specific techniques for spatial reasoning or spatio-temporal memory representations Evaluation and Analysis * Automated metrics, human evaluation studies, and benchmark design * Games as diagnostic environments for behavioral analysis (manual or automatic) of models to uncover their strengths and limitations * Evaluating reward modeling ability itself as an effective proxy for spatial reasoning ability Program Committee members * Julia Hockenmaier — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Marc-Alexandre Cote — Microsoft Research – Montreal * Raffaella Bernardi — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * David Schlangen — University of Potsdam * Manling Li — Northwestern University * Parisa Kordjamshidi — Michigan State University * Simon Dobnik — University of Gothenburg * Nikolai Ilinykh — University of Gothenburg * Vardhan Dongre — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Ruiyi Wang — University of California San Diego * Sandro Pezzelle - University of Amsterdam Submission Instructions This is a call for auxiliary papers. We invite the submission of short, competition and vision papers: * Short papers (4 pages page limit) describe work in progress, smaller projects that are not yet ready to be published as a full paper, or new progress on projects that have been reported elsewhere. * Competition papers (8 pages page limit) describe research related to one of the competitions in the Games community, including the design of new competitions and in particular submissions to existing competitions. * Vision papers (8 pages page limit) describe a vision for the future of the Games field or some part of it, be based on extensive research, and include a comprehensive bibliography. Please notice that the standards for vision papers are high: literature reviews and opinion papers with speculations not grounded in research are immediately rejected. All page limits include references and appendices. All accepted auxiliary papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. NONE OF THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL BE EXTENDED. All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE). Relevant dates for this call are as follows: * Submission of auxiliary papers: 14th May 2026 * Notification of acceptance of auxiliary papers: 10th June 2026 * Submission of the camera-ready version of auxiliary papers: 24th June 2006 * Conference dates: 1st – 4th September 2026 Papers must be submitted through the conference submission system available at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ieeecog2026 All paper submissions should follow the recommended IEEE conference author guidelines. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates All submitted papers will be fully peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on IEEE Xplore. CoG will use a *double-anonymous review process*. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions, avoiding obvious identifying statements. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. Papers might be allocated to either poster presentations or oral presentations.

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The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing
by Amal Haddad 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing International Summer School Alicante, Spain, 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 https://summer-school.gplsi.es Third Call for Participation Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models--and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)--have taken the world by storm. Deep Learning models are now used almost everywhere, across nearly every discipline, and Natural Language Processing is no exception. DL has proved highly promising so far, delivering improvements for almost every NLP task and application. However, as observed on numerous occasions, the outputs of DL models are not always ideal, with some studies reporting cases in which machine-learning approaches do not necessarily outperform the 'old-fashioned' rule-based ones. The overarching theme of the summer school will be this paradigm shift, with lectures and practical sessions reflecting the latest trends at both theoretical and practical levels. More specifically, the programme will combine lectures focusing on theoretical foundations with hands-on practical sessions. See the confirmed lectures below. The summer school will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced professionals in NLP, computer science, data science, cybersecurity, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and related disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to deepen expertise and engage with the rapidly evolving world of LLMs. Keynote speech: Roberto Navigli, 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' We are delighted to announce Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) as keynote speaker of the summer school who will deliver a keynote speech 'Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?' Summer school programme The summer school programme will feature the following lectures: Invited lecture 'Quantum Natural Language Processing: Foundations, Challenges, and Insights' Ellena Lloret (University of Alicante) 'Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing' Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) 'Quality Estimation for Machine Translation' Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) 'Understanding Language Models' Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) 'LLMs for low-resource languages' Robiert Sepúlveda Torres and Iván Martínez (University of Alicante) 'Fairness in Machine Learning: Evaluating Gender Bias in LLMs' Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala (University of Alicante) 'Gaze data for NLP research: recording methods and analysis' Cengiz Acarturk (Jagiellonian University) 'Beyond the Single Text: NLP Reading in Digital Humanities' Isuri Anuradha (Lancaster University) 'Automatic hyperparameter optimisation and model selection for NLP pipelines' Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) 'Legal NLP in the LLM era' Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University) 'Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages' Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante) 'Sentiment analysis: from rule-based methods to Large Language Models' Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Panel discussion A panel discussion 'The future of NLP methods and language models' is scheduled as part of the summer school (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/panel/). The panel will be hosted/moderated by Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) and will include contributions from Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Nasredine Semar (CEA) Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez (University of Alicante) Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) Venue, dates and accommodation The summer school will take place at the Research Institute of Informatics of the University of Alicante and will take place on 15, 16 and 17 June 2026. See the summer school website for recommended accommodation options (prospective participants are advised to book accommodation at their earliest convenience, as availability is limited) or more details in general. Summer School Directors Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Summer School Chair Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Advisory Committee Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz Guillena (University of Alicante) Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (University of Alicante) Organising Committee Raúl García Cerdá (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Registration Registration can be completed at https://summer-school.gplsi.es/registration/. Kindly note that early-bird registration closes on 25 May 2026. Related events The summer school will follow the second international conference _Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence_ (NLPAICS'2026) which will take place in Alicante on 11 and 12 June 2026 (https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es). Those who register for both events will benefit from a discounted registration fee. Further information The summer school website is updated on regular basis. Alternatively, interested parties can email summer-school(a)dlsi.ua.es for more information. -- 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. 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WoLaLa 2026: Second call for papers
by Héja Enikő 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

2nd Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Dubrovnik, Croatia | October 12-13 The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. This workshop is designed as a dedicated forum for scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to discuss and evaluate large language models from an SSH perspective, and to share best practices that can advance research and applications within these fields. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 20 May 2026: Submission deadline 08 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 12 October – 13 October 2026: Workshop in Dubrovnik 15 December 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Gábor Prószéky, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2026.zip <https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip> Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/prvhqbxdgmxq#374f7b Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 8
by Andrea Farina 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

The eighth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 11th May 2026 at 5pm BST. Federico Viglino (Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy) will be presenting on "Middle voice in the diachrony of Ancient Greek: a quantitative (and qualitative!) approach”. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 8th May and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/ioQ7qbspf9ebc19J7 Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found at this page<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/monday-11-may-…>. The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2026-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina (King’s College London) and Dr Mathilde Bru and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Join our mailing list<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/>: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/

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GRACE@IberLEF2026 (Deadline Extenssion): Clinical Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Registration open!! ######################################################## GRACE@IberLEF2026: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/ ######################################################## ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** GRACE@IberLEF2026 announces the first edition of a novel shared task on Argument Mining in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine across clinical trials and medical licensing examinations. ⚗️ Argument Mining Argument Mining automatically extracts claims and evidence from clinical text and reveals how they support or challenge each other, enabling transparent, traceable clinical reasoning. 🌍 Spanish, First GRACE is the first Argument Mining shared task in Spanish for the clinical domain, filling a key gap in shared tasks for multilingual biomedical NLP with fine-grained, entity-level annotations. Track 01 🔬 Clinical Trial Evidence & Argumentation This track focuses on abstracts of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). Their standardized design, contrasting an intervention with a control group, provides a transparent path from data to conclusions, making argumentative components more accessible to automated systems. Goal: Identify argumentative components (claims and premises) and detect support/attack relations at the sentence level. Track 02 🩺 Clinical Case Reasoning (MIR) This track uses cases from the MIR (Médico Interno Residente) exam, Spain's national medical specialization test. Each instance pairs a dense clinical narrative with five competing diagnostic or treatment options, only one of which is correct. Goal: Extract fine-grained evidence spans that justify the correct option while refuting the incorrect alternatives. 📅 Important Dates 📂 Release of Training & Dev Sets March 18 🚀 Official Test Set Release April 22 ⏰ Deadline for Result Submission May 15 📊 Publication of Results May 20 📄 System Paper Submission June 6 ✅ Notification of Acceptance June 17 🎤 IberLEF Workshop (at SEPLN) September 22

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NTCIR-19 Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Retrieval/QA Shared Task.
by diazf＠acm.org 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for NTCIR-19 Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task. ToT known-item retrieval is defined as “an item identification task in which the searcher has previously experienced an item but cannot recall a reliable identifier”—i.e., “It’s on the tip of my tongue…”. After 3 successful years as a TREC Track, the ToT shared task is expanding to NTCIR for 2026. The NTCIR-19 ToT Shared Task will focus on open-domain ToT information needs in multiple languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can participate in the shared task in any subset of these languages, and you are also welcome to present your work remotely at the NTCIR conference in Tokyo in December 2026. Please visit the following websites for further information. Task guidelines: https://ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines Registration: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-19/howto.html (Deadline: June 1) Important dates March 27: Release corpus and training queries May: Release test queries June 1st: Deadline for registration July (tentative): Deadline for submitting runs Please consider participating and help us spread the word! Best regards, Fernando Diaz On behalf of the NTCIR-19 ToT Shared Task organizers

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10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: 2nd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: 2nd CFP *** Second Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on 24-29 October at EMNLP 2026. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Registration deadline for mentorship programme: April 10, 2026 * Notification of mentor/mentee match: April 25, 2026 * Submission due: June 26, 2026 * ARR reviewed submission due: August 3, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop: 24-29 October 2026 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers” In its 10th edition, WOAH highlights the theme “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers”. Over the past decade, WOAH has become a central interdisciplinary venue for online harms research. As harms and enabling technologies have evolved, the field has moved beyond an early focus on textual hate speech and harassment to address more complex phenomena. Advances in AI and online ecosystems have expanded the scale and diversity of harms. Transformer models, multimodal platforms, and recommendation systems have contributed to the escalation of issues like misinformation, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation, identity-based abuse, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and AI-mediated harms. Methods tackling this have evolved from monolingual lexicon-based approaches to deep learning, multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, and interdisciplinarity. Despite this progress, fundamental challenges remain. There is limited consensus on what constitutes “harm”, how context and thresholds should be defined, or how harms vary across cultures and modalities. These ambiguities affect datasets and models, constrain comparability, and often marginalise affected communities. The past decade also calls for critical self-reflection. Research has frequently prioritised detection, high-resource languages, and narrowly defined phenomena over intervention, global perspectives, and systemic or structural harms, with insufficient attention to user agency, platform incentives, lived experience, and participatory approaches. Finally, ten years of work have underscored that interdisciplinarity is essential for addressing the sociotechnical nature of the phenomenon. Addressing future online harms will require deeper integration across NLP, ML, social sciences, law, policy, and HCI. WOAH 10 seeks to consolidate lessons from the past decade, identify enduring gaps, and connect research, practice, and policy to guide the next generation of work on online harms. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, Cohere Thomas Davidson, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Urja Khurana, Delft University of Technology Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Paloma Piot, Universidade da Coruña Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh 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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Second Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

*** Second Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026> *** Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation and Automatic Humor Generation https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/haha/ Codabench page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/ NEWS: The trial and development data have been released. You can now submit your systems for the development phase! Can computers be funny? Can humans identify computer-generated humor? While humor has been studied historically from psychological, cognitive, and linguistic perspectives, its computational study is an active area of research in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics that has gained traction in recent years. There has been significant development mainly in the field of automatic humor detection and classification, but a characterization of humor that enables its automatic recognition and generation is far from being solved. This task aims to gain better insight into what is humorous and what causes laughter, and to take some steps forward by assessing the capabilities of current LLMs to generate actual humorous content in Spanish and attempting to see whether it’s possible to automatically distinguish between computer-generated humor and humor written by humans. The target audience is NLP researchers interested in advancing the understanding of highly subjective and creative tasks, though anyone is welcome to participate. Task description This year, the HAHA evaluation campaign proposes three different subtasks related to automatic humor detection and generation, with the aim of deepening our understanding of computational humor. Subtask 1 - Humor Detection: determining if a news headline is satirical or real. The main performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of the 'humorous' class. This subtask is similar to the first subtask proposed in previous editions of the HAHA shared task, but this time it's applied to a particular domain where humorous and non-humorous content might sometimes be difficult to tell apart. Subtask 2 - LLM-generated humor detection: determining if a joke inspired by a news headline was generated by an LLM or written by a human. The main performance metric for this subtask will be the F1 score of the 'automatic' class. Subtask 3 - Humor Generation: generating jokes from a news headline using computational methods. This subtask will be evaluated through human preference judgments, employing LLM arena-style battles between pairs of generated jokes, and ranking the systems using an Elo-based leaderboard. How to Participate The CodaBench page for the competition is available: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14700/ Important Dates March 18th, 2026: team registration page. April 8th, 2026: development sets released and open for dev submissions. May 27th, 2026: test sets released and open for test submissions. June 3rd, 2026: end of test submissions, publication of results of subtasks 1 and 2. June 10th, 2026: publication of results of subtask 3. June 12th, 2026: paper submission. June 23rd, 2026: notification of acceptance. July 1st, 2026: camera-ready paper submission. September 2026: IberLEF 2026 Workshop.

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Call for Participation: PROFE @ IberLEF 2026 (Test data now available!)
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> ------------------------------------------------ Release of test data and registration still open !! PROFE 2026: Language Proficiency Evaluation IberLEF 2026 Shared Task Website URL: https://sites.google.com/view/profe2026 CodaLab site: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/15902/ PROFE 2026 reuses the exams for Spanish proficiency evaluation developed by Instituto Cervantes along many years to evaluate human students. Therefore, automatic systems will be evaluated under the same conditions as humans were. Systems will receive a set of exercises with their corresponding instructions without specific training material. In this way we expect Transfer Learning approaches or the use of Generative Large Language Models. The previous edition proposed exams based only on text. In this new edition, we will include exams with images, which sometimes require interpretation to answer the exercise correctly. We propose evaluating systems on their ability to perform multimodal reasoning, moving beyond text-only comprehension. We will provide a limited set of new image-based exercises while retaining the dataset from the previous edition. This setup encourages participants to develop strategies for handling the scarcity of specific training data. Subtasks PROFE 2026 has three subtasks, one per exercise type. Teams can participate in any combination of them. Each subtask contains several exercises of the same type. The subtasks are: 1. Multiple choice subtask: each exercise includes a text and a set of multiple-choice questions about the text where only one answer is correct. Given a multiple-choice question, systems must select the correct answer among the candidates. 2. Matching subtask: each exercise contains two sets of texts. Systems must find the text in the second set that best matches the first set. There is only one possible matching per text, but the first set can contain extra unnecessary texts. 3. Filling the gap subtask: each exercise contains a text with several gaps corresponding to textual fragments that have been removed and presented disorderly as options. Systems must determine the correct position for each fragment. There is only one correct text per gap, but there could be more candidates than gaps. The different exercises open research on how to approach them, adapting different prompts when using generative models. As the main novelty in this edition, some exercises will contain images. While some of these images will be the candidate answers (rather than text excerpts), others might provide visual information needed to answer the exercise correctly. Conversely, some images will not provide essential information. Consequently, systems participating in this edition must adopt a multimodal approach, capable of discerning when to integrate visual cues and when to disregard them. This necessity to filter visual relevance introduces significant new challenges compared to the previous edition. Dataset We will use the IC-UNED-RC-ES dataset created from real examinations at Instituto Cervantes. These exams were created by human experts to assess language proficiency in Spanish. We have already collected the exams and converted them to a digital format, which is ready to be used in the task. The dataset contains exams at different levels (from A1 to C2). The description of the full dataset was published in the following paper: * Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Javier Fruns-Jiménez, Inés Soria-Pastor, Sergio Moreno-Álvarez, Alberto Pérez García-Plaza, and Julio Reyes-Montesinos. A Spanish Language Proficiency Dataset for AI Evaluation<https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/17/2/159>. Information 17, no. 2: 159. DOI: 10.3390/info17020159<https://doi.org/10.3390/info17020159>. 2026. The complete dataset contains 282 exams with 855 exercises. The total number of evaluation points are 6146 (among 16570 options) distributed by exercise type as: multiple-choice: 3544 responses matching: 2309 responses fill-the-gap: 293 responses In PROFE 2026, we plan to use around 50% of the exams; the other 50% was already used for the PROFE 2025 edition. We intend not to distribute the gold standard to prevent overfitting in post-campaign experiments and data contamination in LLMs. Evaluation measures and baseline We will use traditional accuracy (proportion of correct answers) as the main evaluation measure. Systems will receive evaluation scores from two different perspectives: * At the question level, where correct answers are counted individually without grouping them. * At the exam level, where scores for each exam are considered. Each exam contains several exercises of different types. An exam is considered to be passed if an accuracy score (accounted as the proportion of correct answers) above 0.5 is reached. Then, the proportion of passed exams is given as a global score. This perspective will only apply to those teams participating in the three subtasks. More in detail, the exact evaluation per subtask is as follows: * Multiple choice subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of questions correctly answered * Matching subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of correct texts matched. * Fill in the gap subtask: We will measure accuracy as the proportion of correctly filled gaps. We will use accuracy as the evaluation measure because there is only one correct option among candidates and because it is the measure applied to humans doing the same exams. Thus, we can compare the performance of automatic systems and humans under the same conditions A preliminary baseline using ChatGPT obtains the following results for each exercise type (provided that different prompting can produce slightly different results): * Multiple choice accuracy: 0.64 * Filling the gap accuracy: 0.43 * Matching accuracy: 0.51 Schedule April April 10, 2026 Development data released April 27, 2026 Test set release May May 11, 2026 Deadline for submitting runs May 18, 2026 Release of evaluation results June June 3, 2026 Paper submission deadline Organizers Alvaro Rodrigo<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alvaro-rodrigo-yuste.h…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Anselmo Peñas<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/anselmo-penas-padilla.…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Alberto Pérez<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alberto-perez-garcia-p…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Sergio Moreno<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/en/informatica/sergio-moreno-alvar…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Javier Fruns, Instituto Cervantes Inés Soria, Instituto Cervantes Rodrigo Agerri<https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTz (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU) AVISO LEGAL. 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KONVENS 2026: Final Call For Papers & Deadline Extension
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

(apologies for cross-posting; please redistribute) KONVENS 2026 FINAL Call for Conference Papers & Deadline Extension! https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 – 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers: * Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI * Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich. We invite the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, to be archived in the ACL Anthology, as well as abstract submissions that describe research in progress or published elsewhere. Beyond standard research contributions, submissions are welcome that present negative results, survey an area, introduce new resources, articulate a position, report novel linguistic insights obtained using existing computational methods, or reproduce (successfully or not) previous findings. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (up to 8 pages plus references), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers and demos (up to 4 pages plus references), including small and focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Abstracts (1 page, non-archival), which will be presented at the poster session and printed in the proceedings, but which will be non-archival. We especially invite submission on ongoing projects, student projects, past or ongoing bachelor and master theses, ongoing or recently completed PhD theses, and opinion pieces in this category to foster interaction and discussion in our community. Papers can be submitted either to the main conference track or to the special track “Context Matters”. Context Matters Track The widespread use of large language models (LLMs) and other types of language technology in research and real-world applications has fundamentally reshaped how natural language processing (NLP) systems interact with people and their environments. As NLP systems increasingly operate in socially embedded, high-impact settings like search, conversational agents and recommendation systems in business, education, medicine, law, and beyond, it becomes crucial to move beyond text in isolation and to account for the many forms of context that shape language use and interpretation. These include user-related factors (e.g., identity aspects like socio-demographic characteristics and the resulting perspectival differences), cultural and societal context, interaction history, application constraints, and signals from other modalities. The “Context Matters” track focuses on how different forms of context influence NLP systems, their design, their behavior, and their use. We invite work that studies NLP not as decontextualized text processing, but as situated technology embedded in human, social, disciplinary, and multimodal environments. Here, disciplines and application domains are important not only as areas of use, but as sources of structured contextual knowledge, perspectives, and methodological traditions — particularly from the social sciences and humanities, but also law, education, psychology, economics, and the natural sciences. In particular, the special theme includes: * Research that models user- and group-related context, such as identity aspects, socio-demographic variables, cultural background, or perspectival differences, and examines how these factors affect language use, system behavior, or system impact * Work that draws on or operationalizes concepts from other disciplines like the social sciences and related fields (e.g., social theory, cultural analysis, behavioral perspectives) to better understand linguistic phenomena, system outputs, or evaluation settings * Research analyzing social, societal, and institutional context, including norms, power structures, and real-world deployment environments, especially with respect to ethics, bias, and societal consequences * Studies of application context, where domain-specific constraints (e.g., in education, law, public administration, or the natural sciences) shape both language use and system requirements * Approaches that move beyond text-only processing and integrate multiple modalities (e.g., vision, audio, video, sensor data), with attention to the distinct contextual signals these modalities introduce * Work incorporating interactional context, such as dialogue history, user intent, and evolving human–AI interaction dynamics While the modelling component should include language, we especially encourage contributions that treat language as part of a broader contextual ecosystem, aiming toward more grounded, adaptive, and socially aware NLP systems. Papers must be in English and formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files and submitted via the submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2026/Conference Please consider the OpenReview policy for new accounts: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. KONVENS also adopts the ACL policies for submission, review, and citation, the ACL privacy policy, and the ACL code of ethics. Further information can be found on the conference website: https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ Submissions need to be anonymized to ensure double-blind review. However, we allow for pre-prints to be posted any time before or during the review period. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Important dates: NEW 12.5.2026 Paper Submission Deadline 12.7.2026 Notification of Acceptance 01.8.2026 Camera-Ready Deadline 14.9. – 17.9.2026 KONVENS in Hamburg See you in Hamburg! Your conference chairs, Heike Zinsmeister, Chris Biemann, and Anne Lauscher

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: First Call for Papers
by Daryna Dementieva 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

Dear community! We are delighted to invite you for submission to the 5th Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located at EMNLP 2026! Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact>Call for paper: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2026 Submission methods: OpenReview both direct submissions and ARR May Cycle commitment. We also accept non-archival submissions. Important dates: ARR May Cycle Submission Due: May 25th, 2026 Direct Submissions Due: June 26th, 2026 via https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI<https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI#tab-your-consoles> ARR Reviewed Submissions Commitment Due: July 26th, 2026 (tentative) Notification of Acceptance (both channels): August 15th, 2026 Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10th, 2026 Workshop Date: October 24th-29th 2026 (co-located with EMNLP 2026) All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop Summary The increasing adoption of language-oriented AI systems offers unprecedented opportunities for positive societal impact. NLP technologies have matured to the point where they can meaningfully contribute to addressing global challenges like poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19, and climate change, aligning with the UN sustainability goals. This workshop aims to advance innovative NLP research that benefits society, emphasizing responsible methods and impactful applications. We welcome submissions in areas including, but not limited to: * Grounding NLP in Real-World Impact: Beyond improving model performance, how can NLP systems be directly tied to social outcomes? This could include case studies of real-world deployments or strategies for better deployment and maintenance practices. * Underexplored Applications: While NLP for healthcare and mental well-being is well-established, we encourage research tackling overlooked areas such as poverty, hunger, energy, and climate change. * Interdisciplinary Collaborations: We highly value work that integrates insights from other fields, such as social science, political science, economics, philanthropy, and HCI, and we encourage submissions of case studies or examples that highlight such collaborations. Special Theme: Measuring the Societal Impact of AI and NLP This year we would like to find an answer to the question: How can we measure the social impact of AI and NLP? With even the bigger raise of opportunities of AI and language technologies, we would like to understand how it influences society and if in positive manners. Position, philosophical-grounded, and new evaluation framework suggestion papers are very much welcomed to enhance the discussion! Submission Types We encourage diverse contributions, including: * Identifying social needs and affected demographics. * Proposing new tasks or directions through position papers. * Conducting literature reviews or philosophical discussions on NLP’s societal impact. * Designing user studies, surveys, or ethical frameworks. * Exploring interdisciplinary methods and collaboration strategies. Submissions must address the ethical and societal implications of the work, with a clear focus on defining and achieving positive impact. We look forward to fostering discussions that inspire actionable, responsible advancements in NLP for the greater good. Papers Format Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information, including: Long Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers> (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages). Organizers Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University) Angana Borah (University of Michigan) Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Prof Elisa Kreiss (University of California) Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr) Jiarui Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) Liz Olson (Dataminr) Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University) Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California) Steering Committee Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan) Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr) Dr. Zhijing Jin (University of Toronto) Contact Email: nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:nlp4pi.workshop@gmail.com> All positive regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers

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2nd CFP - Atelier TAL@Santé @ CORIA-TALN 2026
by Aman Sinha 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

* Atelier TAL@Santé 2026 * @ CORIA-TALN 2026 -- 29 juin 2026, Nantes Site Internet : [ https://atelier-tal-sante.github.io/ | https://atelier-tal-sante.github.io/ ] APPEL A COMMUNICATION Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes CORIA-TALN 2026, l'atelier TAL@Santé 2026 vise à fédérer la communauté francophone du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) appliqué à la santé. Il ambitionne de croiser outils, méthodes, ressources, retours d’expérience et perspectives autour des textes cliniques et biomédicaux. DATES IMPORTANTES * Soumission des articles : 29 avril 2026 * Notification aux auteurs : 13 mai 2026 * Version finale : 21 mai 2026 * Atelier : 29 juin 2026, de 9h00 à 17h30 TYPES ET FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS Les types d’articles acceptés sont : * Articles résumés (3 pages max + références) : - Travaux préliminaires en cours - Description d'un projet de recherche - Traduction d’un article récemment accepté (ou en cours de soumission) dans une conférence internationale * Articles classiques (entre 6 et 10 pages + références) : - Contribution nouvelle - Etat de l’art - Résultat négatif apportant une perspective nouvelle à un problème scientifique - Prise de position présentant un point de vue sur l’état des recherches en TAL et santé Les articles acceptés seront présentés au cours de la journée sous la forme d’une présentation orale ou d’un poster. Ils seront également publiés dans les actes de la conférence CORIA-TALN 2026. La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Si tous les auteurs sont francophones, les articles doivent être rédigés en français. Si l’un des auteurs n’est pas francophone, les articles peuvent être rédigés en anglais. Site de soumission : [ https://openreview.net/group?id=ls2n.fr/CORIA-TALN/2026/Workshop/TAL-Sante | https://openreview.net/group?id=ls2n.fr/CORIA-TALN/2026/Workshop/TAL-Sante ] THEMATIQUES DE L’ATELIER Les sujets d’intérêt incluent, mais ne sont pas limités à : - Extraction d’entités, de relations et d’événements complexes - Extraction d’information et classification de textes cliniques ou biomédicaux - Accessibilité : simplification de textes médicaux, littératie en santé, communication patient–soignant - Mésinformation et qualité de l’information en santé - Détection et atténuation des biais - Enjeux éthiques du TAL pour la santé - Approches frugales - Cadres d’évaluation, reproductibilité et métriques orientées vers l’usage - Approches génératives : factualité, traçabilité (RAG, citations, vérification), détection d’hallucinations - Schémas d’annotation et méthodologies de construction de ressources annotées - Annotation assistée par LLM - Création de modèles de langue spécialisés, adaptation de domaine, apprentissage par transfert, apprentissage fédéré, apprentissage faiblement supervisé - Analyse automatique de la littérature scientifique pour la santé CONTACT : atelier-tal-sante(a)univ-nantes.fr ORGANISATEURS Richard Dufour (LS2N, Nantes Université) Yanis Labrak (IDIAP) Emmanuel Morin (LS2N, Nantes Université) Aurélie Névéol (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay) Aman Sinha (ATILF, Université de Lorraine) Laura Zanella (Doctolib) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay)

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by Xavier Bonet Casals 25 Apr '26

25 Apr '26

Xavi On 24 Apr 2026, at 14:00, corpora-request(a)list.elra.info wrote: Send Corpora mailing list submissions to corpora(a)list.elra.info To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to corpora-request(a)list.elra.info You can reach the person managing the list at corpora-owner(a)list.elra.info When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Corpora digest..." Today's Topics: 1. MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar: LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society (Thierry Poibeau) 2. One postdoc position in NLP/CL at University of Technology Nuremberg (Michael Roth) 3. CFP Reminder: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) (Constantin Orasan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:12:54 +0100 From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau(a)ens.psl.eu> Subject: [Corpora-List] MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar: LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society To: corpora(a)list.elra.info Message-ID: <24E07222-5277-4DCF-91DA-D9209F3FF60A(a)ens.psl.eu> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_9FF39057-FF73-44AE-BDF5-05632B17E77A" LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society As part of the MIAI–PRAIRIE seminar series, organized by Caroline Rossi (Université Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry Poibeau (ENS–PSL / PRAIRIE–PSAI). Online, with no registration LLMs have profoundly transformed the way research is conducted and develops across a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences. Beyond their technical performance, these systems raise new questions about language, cognition, interpretation, and the production of knowledge itself. This new online seminar, jointly organized by Caroline Rossi (U. Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry Poibeau (ENS-PSL / Prairie-PSAI) aims to explore recent research in these areas. It will provide a forum for discussing both empirical and theoretical work, bringing together perspectives from different fields to better understand the implications of LLMs for the study of language and mind. The seminar also seeks to foster dialogue between researchers who use these models in practice and those who critically examine their assumptions, limitations, and broader impact. The first speaker will be Steven Piantadosi, from Berkeley. The next speakers will include Adele Goldberg (Princeton), Eloïse Boisseau (AMU, Marseille), and Dallas Card (U. Michigan). The seminar will take place approximately once a month. The full schedule for the coming months will be announced shortly. ---- *** Monday 27 April, 5pm (French time), online (free access, no registration) *** Connexion link: https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/meeting/signin/invite/78275/creator/433… *** Neuroscience, behavior, and what's in-between, *** Steven T. Piantadosi, UC Berkeley (Psychology) & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute I'll present an overview of a forthcoming book about how we can link neuroscience to cognition and behavior. Drawing on several little-known results in early computer science, I'll describe how patterns in behavior can rigorously imply the existence of particular unobserved states and structures. This provides a foundation for linking behavioral regularities to what must be present in neural implementations. The resulting states are often re-describable in abstract terms more familiar to cognitive science, like "sets", "numbers", "stacks", etc. I'll highlight the implementation of "stacks", commonly used for grammars, and show how to characterize the space of possible neural implementations, including with subsystems/circuits operating in serial and parallel. The approach provides a set of concrete hypotheses, a guide for neural data analysis, and points towards a method for understanding structure in modern AI systems, including LLMs. I'll conclude by suggesting a Marr-like framework in which the bridges between levels can be made rigorous, connecting behavior, high-level theorizing, and neural implementation. Steven T. Piantadosi is a professor at UC Berkeley in Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, where he heads the Computation and Language Lab. He has a PhD from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and linguistics. His work spans neural and cognitive research, with a focus on understanding how children come to know language, math, and abstract concepts. He often uses computational methods, including machine learning, cognitive modeling, mathematical analysis, and Bayesian data analysis. His research methods also include anthropological fieldwork, experimental work with children, and collaboration to study non-human primates and human neuroscience.

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PhD Position: Structural Generalization in Transformer-based LLMs (Saarland University, Germany)
by Michael Hahn 25 Apr '26

25 Apr '26

PhD Position: Structural Generalization in Transformer-based LLMs *Start date:* as soon as possible *Application deadline:* 11 May 2026 The research groups of Michael Hahn <https://www.mhahn.info/> and Alexander Koller <https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/> are jointly looking for a PhD student. The student will be jointly advised by both professors. The position is funded through the new project “Structural generalization in transformer-based LLMs”, which is part of the DFG Special Priority Program Robust Assessment and Safe Applicability of Language Modeling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lasting-spp.org/>. The goal of the SPP is to bring together research in linguistics and LLMs so they can mutually inform each other. The starting point of the project is the observation that transformers struggle with /structural generalization:/ they do not perform well on test instances that are more complex than the training instances. We see this e.g. when parsing complex sentences or when managing complex reasoning chains. In the project, we want to develop theory that explains this limitation, carry out empirical research to pinpoint the transformer’s capabilities, understand them through mechanistic interpretability, and find ways to improve structural generalization in transformers. Methods range from formal language theory to training and prompting-based experiments to circuit analysis. We will carry out the project in collaboration with Will Merrill <https://lambdaviking.com/> and Yuekun Yao <https://ykyaol7.github.io/>. This is a position on the German TV-L E13 scale <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2023> (100%). The starting salary of a 100% TV-L E13 position is a bit over 50,000 Euros per year and increases with experience. The position is funded for three years; we expect to be able to extend it to four. We can be flexible with the start date (within the year 2026). *Requirements* We are looking for candidates who have finished, or are about to complete, an excellent Master’s degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related discipline. The ideal candidate will have outstanding programming skills and algorithmic understanding; a strong understanding of current methods in machine learning; and strong communication skills in English (spoken and written). *About the group* Saarland University is one of the leading centers for computational linguistics in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The Department of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/en/> consists of about 100 research staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language science. It hosts the SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding” <https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>. Michael Hahn and Alexander Koller are members of the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/>, one of the largest centers for research on neurosymbolic models in the world. They actively collaborate with colleagues at the university’s computer science department, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home>, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org>, and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security <https://cispa.de/en>. The Saarland Informatics Campus <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en> brings together 1000 researchers and 2600 students from 81 countries; SIC faculty have won roughly 50 ERC grants. Saarland University is located in Saarbrücken <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken>, a city of roughly 180k people in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg <https://quattropole.org/en>. Saarbrücken combines a lively culture scene with a relaxed atmosphere, and is quite an affordable place to live in. Our department maintains an international and diverse work environment. The primary working language is English; learning German while you are here will make it easier to connect with the local culture, but is not necessary for your work. *How to apply* Please submit your application by email to apply-ak(a)coli.uni-saarland.de and include the reference number W2846 <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf…>. Preference will be given to applications received by 11 May 2026. Include a single PDF file with the following information: 1. a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research agenda; 2. a full CV including your list of publications; 3. scans of transcripts and academic degree certificates; 4. the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you. Saarland University especially welcomes applications from women and people with disabilities. The legally binding version of this job ad is here: W2846 <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf…>.

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MIRROR@IberLEF2026 - Final phase approaching
by Luis Villaseñor-Pineda 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> -------------------------------------- *SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * -------------------------------------- MIRROR@IberLEF20206: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via Synthetic cOnversational tuRns https://mirror-iberlef.vercel.app/ Challenge platform: https://www.mirror-iberlef.lat/ Development phase ends april 30th, make submissions and get feedback. Final phase starts on May 1st. ------------------------------- ****Task description**** ------------------------------- We invite the community to develop Generative AI (GenAI) methods for creating synthetic conversation turns that can substantially improve the performance of models trained to recognize behavior codes (BCs) in the context of motivational interviews. A BC is a discrete, observable clinician action (e.g., asking a question, giving information) that is counted during coding of a motivational interviewing session to quantify specific techniques used. These codes allow raters to tally how often particular clinician behaviours occur, which helps assess adherence to MI-consistent versus MI-inconsistent practice. Our ultimate goal is to generate valuable data for training models for the automatic assessment of clinicians’ motivational-interviewing skills. These skills — crucial for promoting behavior change among patients — can be evaluated by using the “Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)” rubric (https://tinyurl.com/38byjrwy). * * *This is a data-centric competition: *participants are expected to produce high-quality datasets representing a wide range of clinical conversations (rather than training a model) to enhance the performance of a frozen baseline model used for BC classification. We encourage participants to include samples featuring clients from diverse backgrounds, varied conversation topics, and conversing with different types of health professionals. Participants in this competition should provide three datasets (one per pair of considered BCs) of at most 100 labeled conversation turns that will be used to fine-tune pretrained models; the fine-tuned models will then be used to make predictions for a hold-out dataset. The performance of the fine-tuned model will be used as the leading evaluation metric to rank participants. The considered pairs of BCs are: (1) Simple reflection vs. Complex reflection; (2) Open question vs. Closed question; (3) Persuasion vs. Giving Information. Sample submissions, and detailed instructions on the formatting, evaluation criteria and competition platform will be available at the MIRROR website. ------------------------------- ****Important dates**** ------------------------------- * Mar 9th: Start of the development phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the validation set) * May 1st: Start of the final phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the test set) * May 11th: End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) * May 22nd; Publication of official results * Jun 8th: Deadline for paper submission * Jun 23th: Acceptance notification * Jun 30th: Camera-ready submission deadline * Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings * Sep, TBD: Workshop with SEPLN 2026 ------------------------------- ****Organizing team**** ------------------------------- * Luis J. Arellano INAOE, Mexico * Carlos Olachea INAOE, Mexico * John Piette, University of Michigan, USA * Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico * Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico * Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico * Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: Hugo Jair Escalante (hugo.jair(a)gmail.com) ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. 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18th ACM WebSci’26 Program Released + Join Brave Conversations (Free Friday Event)
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, The program for WebSci’26 is now live: https://websci26.org/?page_id=643 📍 Location: Haus der Wissenschaft, TU Braunschweig | Pockelsstraße 11 | 38106 Braunschweig | https://www.hausderwissenschaft.org/ This year’s conference brings together interdisciplinary research on the social, technical, and political dimensions of the Web, including sessions on online discourse, AI and society, platform governance, and computational social science. 👉 New this year: On Friday evening, we are hosting Brave Conversations — an open, facilitated dialogue format designed to foster thoughtful, cross-disciplinary exchange. Participation in this session is completely free and open to all, including those not registered for the conference. * Details: www.braveconversations.org/event/braunschweig-2026<http://www.braveconversations.org/event/braunschweig-2026> If you are interested in how the Web is shaping—and being shaped by—society, we would be delighted to have you join us. * Explore the program: https://websci26.org/?page_id=643 * Learn more about attending: https://websci26.org/ Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues and networks who may be interested. Hope to see you there! Best regards, WebSci’26 Committee ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Koordinatorin / 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…> | BlueSky<https://bsky.app/profile/unistuttgartiris.bsky.social> | 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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CFP Reminder: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> Final Reminder *** Submission deadline 27 April 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 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. The proceedings will be included in the prestigious ACL anthology<https://aclanthology.org/>. While the conference is primarily intended as an on-site event, in light of the current global circumstances and in response to requests received, provisions will be made for remote presentations in cases where participants are unable to travel for justified reasons. If circumstances prevent you from meeting the submission deadline, please contact the organisers as early as possible as we may be able to grant short extensions. Full details of the call and how to submit papers are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com<https://nettt-conference.com/> -- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Room 06LC03, Phone extension: 4115 Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey Third Floor | Library | University of Surrey | Guildford | Surrey | GU2 7XH Phone: +44 (0) 1483 684115 Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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One postdoc position in NLP/CL at University of Technology Nuremberg
by Michael Roth 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

The Natural Language Understanding Lab at UTN in Nuremberg [1], Germany, invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral research position (A13/E13 on the German TV-L scale). The position is based in the Department Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence and will be available from 1 July 2026 for an initial period of three years. The position is part of an award-winning research group focusing on implicit and underspecified language, background knowledge in language understanding as well as biases in data, tasks and models. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to develop their own research agenda, support ongoing research and teaching in the group, and collaborate with other groups at the university, including colleagues from the Department Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. Applicants should have a completed PhD in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics as well as a track record of publications in *ACL venues, with a particular interest in semantics and/or pragmatics. They should be able to work in a team and communicate in English (German proficiency is not required). Applications should include a motivation letter outlining a proposed research agenda, a CV, a list of publications, and contact information for one or two references. Please submit all materials _as a single PDF file_ to nlu(a)utn.de. Applications received by 15 May 2026 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Candidates who identify as female, trans* and/or non-binary are particularly encouraged to apply. Feel free to contact michael.roth(a)utn.de for any questions regarding the group or position! [1] https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-computer-science-artificial-in… --- Prof. Michael Roth [he/him] Natural Language Understanding Lab University of Technology Nuremberg Technische Universität Nürnberg

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MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar: LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society
by Thierry Poibeau 23 Apr '26

23 Apr '26

LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society As part of the MIAI–PRAIRIE seminar series, organized by Caroline Rossi (Université Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry Poibeau (ENS–PSL / PRAIRIE–PSAI). Online, with no registration LLMs have profoundly transformed the way research is conducted and develops across a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences. Beyond their technical performance, these systems raise new questions about language, cognition, interpretation, and the production of knowledge itself. This new online seminar, jointly organized by Caroline Rossi (U. Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry Poibeau (ENS-PSL / Prairie-PSAI) aims to explore recent research in these areas. It will provide a forum for discussing both empirical and theoretical work, bringing together perspectives from different fields to better understand the implications of LLMs for the study of language and mind. The seminar also seeks to foster dialogue between researchers who use these models in practice and those who critically examine their assumptions, limitations, and broader impact. The first speaker will be Steven Piantadosi, from Berkeley. The next speakers will include Adele Goldberg (Princeton), Eloïse Boisseau (AMU, Marseille), and Dallas Card (U. Michigan). The seminar will take place approximately once a month. The full schedule for the coming months will be announced shortly. ---- *** Monday 27 April, 5pm (French time), online (free access, no registration) *** Connexion link: https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/meeting/signin/invite/78275/creator/433… *** Neuroscience, behavior, and what's in-between, *** Steven T. Piantadosi, UC Berkeley (Psychology) & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute I'll present an overview of a forthcoming book about how we can link neuroscience to cognition and behavior. Drawing on several little-known results in early computer science, I'll describe how patterns in behavior can rigorously imply the existence of particular unobserved states and structures. This provides a foundation for linking behavioral regularities to what must be present in neural implementations. The resulting states are often re-describable in abstract terms more familiar to cognitive science, like "sets", "numbers", "stacks", etc. I'll highlight the implementation of "stacks", commonly used for grammars, and show how to characterize the space of possible neural implementations, including with subsystems/circuits operating in serial and parallel. The approach provides a set of concrete hypotheses, a guide for neural data analysis, and points towards a method for understanding structure in modern AI systems, including LLMs. I'll conclude by suggesting a Marr-like framework in which the bridges between levels can be made rigorous, connecting behavior, high-level theorizing, and neural implementation. Steven T. Piantadosi is a professor at UC Berkeley in Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, where he heads the Computation and Language Lab. He has a PhD from MIT in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and linguistics. His work spans neural and cognitive research, with a focus on understanding how children come to know language, math, and abstract concepts. He often uses computational methods, including machine learning, cognitive modeling, mathematical analysis, and Bayesian data analysis. His research methods also include anthropological fieldwork, experimental work with children, and collaboration to study non-human primates and human neuroscience.

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CfP : Topical quiz generation shared task at CLEF 2026
by DIANDRA FABRE 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

CfP : Evaluation lab for generative language model quality - Topical quiz generation shared task at CLEF 2026 We hereby invite you to participate in the shared task on Topical Quiz Generation, one of the four tasks of the ELOQUENT track at CLEF. Can your generative language model, given a textual stimulus, generate relevant, diverse, and pedagogically meaningful quiz questions and answers? The task focuses on generating Question–Answer items inspired by the PISA framework, targeting students aged 10–15 The goal is simple: produce questions that meaningfully engage with the text and reflect different levels of understanding. This is an open and accessible task: use your favorite model, improve prompting strategies, and submit multiple experimental variations to explore what improves your model’s performance. Submit multiple experimental variations to discover what works best! Submissions will be evaluated in cooperation with the OECD, organiser of the PISA test. And there is more! There are three other tasks in ELOQUENT! - Topical quiz question scoring: can your generative language model score responses to topical quiz questions (such as the ones generated in this task)? - Voight-Kampff: does your language model produce human-like text? Can it fool a classifier? Generate text to be matched against human-authored texts in a classification experiment! (You may also submit classifiers through the PAN lab, also at CLEF) - Cultural Robustness and Diversity: how does your language model take cultural context into account? Will it give the same response in every language? Details ======= Find out more: [ https://eloquent-lab.github.io/ | https://eloquent-lab.github.io/ ] Register for the tasks: Contact: [ mailto:eloquent-clef2026-organizers@googlegroups.com | eloquent-clef2026-organizers(a)googlegroups.com ] Important Dates =============== 2026, April 23: Registration closes - register now if you haven't already! 2026, May 07: Experiment submission deadline 2026, May 20: Participant paper submission 2026, June 2: Notification of acceptance 2026, June 23: Paper Camera Ready Submission 2026, Sept 21-24: CLEF Conference in Jena, Germany with Eloquent Workshop Organisers of the Topical quiz generation task ==================================================== Sarah Bouaraba, Said Ettejjari, Diandra Fabre, Lorraine Goeuriot, Jussi Karlgren, Philippe Mulhem, Mario Piacentini, Didier Schwab, Katherina Thomas, Markarit Vartampetian, Luis Francisco Vargas Madriz

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Associate/Full Professor position at NTU Singapore
by Byung-Doh Oh 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

(With apologies for cross-posting) The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies (LMS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, offers a vibrant and interdisciplinary environment for the study of language in its structural, social, cognitive, and technological dimensions. We focus on multilingualism in an Asian/Southeast Asian context. We are internationally recognized for our research on multilingualism, language diversity, and the interface between linguistics and technology. LMS invites applications for faculty appointments at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor (with tenure). We welcome applications in any field of Linguistics. Applicants with demonstrated research experience in languages in the Asia-Pacific area, encompassing Southeast Asia, are especially encouraged to apply. Interest in contributing to NTU’s growing focus on digital humanities and AI-driven language research will be an advantage. The closing date for this application is 15 July 2026. For further information, please refer to this job posting<https://apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095>. Questions about the position may be addressed to the chair of the search committee at lms-search(a)ntu.edu.sg. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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3 PhD Scholarships at Marburg University in the Project Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence
by daniel.braun＠uni-marburg.de 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

We have three PhD scholarships available in the NLP research group at Marburg University within the newly established junior research group "Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence". The project, funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation, aims to investigate how to move from human-in-the-loop towards human-in-control in AI systems, with a particular focus on employee participation, system design, and workplace impact. Research topics include (but are not limited to): - Integrating employee perspectives into AI system design (e.g., requirements engineering) - Technical approaches to strengthen human oversight and control in NLP/AI systems - Organizational processes to improve job quality and worker influence in AI-supported environments Details: - Start: between November 2026 and February 2027 - Duration: 3 years - Location: Marburg, Germany - Language: English or German - Application deadline: May 2, 2026 For full details and application instructions, please see: https://responsible-nlp.net/nfg/

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[2nd CFP] LM Playschool Workshop at EMNLP 2026 —Shared Task Starter Kit Release
by Sabrina McCallum 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

Call for Participation: LM Playschool (LMP 2026) Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Interaction Co-located with EMNLP 2026 — 24-29 October 2026, Budapest Website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ NEW! Starter Kit: https://github.com/lm-playpen/playpen The LM Playschool Workshop (LMP 2026) invites submissions exploring the frontier of language agents that learn and adapt through situated interaction. Following our first announcement, we are excited to issue this second call and officially release the challenge Starter Kit. 📝 SUBMISSION TRACKS We welcome either long or short submissions for the following tracks: 1. Challenge track: Technical reports for the LM Playschool challenge (archival). 2. Paper-only track: Work-in-progress (archival or non-archival) or recently published papers (non-archival). 🏆 CHALLENGE TRACK (SHARED TASK) The shared task focuses on post-training LLMs to master communicative skills in unseen dialogue games while retaining original language capabilities. Participants are free to choose any base model; evaluation is based on improvement relative to that base model on an unseen test set. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/fhpXPH5kZk4psPXp9 🛠️ THE STARTER KIT (NEW!): To support participants in the LM Playschool Challenge, we have released "Playpen," a sandbox designed to bridge the gap between interaction and training. Whether you are interested in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), or zero-shot evaluation, Playpen simplifies the workflow so you can focus on the science. Key features include: * Comprehensive Evaluation: A single command to get your "clemscore" (interactive competence) and "statscore" (classic benchmarks). * Training Recipes: Example scripts for SFT and GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) to help models learn from game-state success. * Resource Friendly: We encourage using the Qwen3.5 family (0.8B to 27B) to ensure participation is possible with modest compute. 🎯PAPER-ONLY TRACK: TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome original research and work-in-progress on: * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents. * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals (RL from game-state success). * Benchmarking via dialogue games. * Data efficiency and social interaction. * Social cognition and Theory of Mind in interactive systems. * Human-agent collaboration and coordination. * Embodied interactive agents. * Communicative and perceptual grounding. 📅 IMPORTANT DATES * Starter pack released! Available on Github: https://github.com/lm-playpen/playpen * ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026 * Challenge submission deadline: July 10, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline: July 17, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2026 * Camera ready due: September 20, 2026 * Workshop at EMNLP 2026: October 24-29, 2026 (Budapest) For more information, visit our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ We look forward to your submissions! The LMP 2026 Organizing Committee: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia.

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational and Experimental Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
by David Arps 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

Job Location: *Düsseldorf, Germany* Web Address: https://www.ling.hhu.de/ Job Title: *Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational and Experimental Linguistics* Job Rank: Post Doc Salary: TV-L E13 (100%) Minimum Education: PhD Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics Specialty Language(s): English (eng) *Project Description*: The position is part of the DFG-funded project Learning Linguistic Inferences and Their Alternatives (PIs: Jacopo Romoli and Yulia Zinova, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf). The project investigates how language models learn linguistic inferences — including implicatures, presuppositions, implicated presuppositions, free choice, and distributive inferences — and whether training on one inference type facilitates learning of others. Combining theoretical, experimental, and computational methods, the project addresses foundational questions about the semantics–pragmatics interface and what language models actually learn about meaning. The project involves constructing novel datasets, running behavioral experiments with human participants, probing inference derivation and its ingredients in both humans and language models as well as training and fine-tuning models using collected data. Broader context: LaSTing Priority Programme This position is embedded within the DFG Priority Programme LaSTing (SPP 2556): "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modeling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology" (https://www.lasting-spp.org) LaSTing brings together researchers across linguistics, cognitive science, and language technology to advance our understanding of language models for safer and more principled use, especially in the language sciences. The programme fosters interdisciplinary community-building, networking, and the training of a new generation of researchers at the interface of language science and language technology. *Position Description*: We invite applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) to join the project team. The postdoc will play a central role across the project's work packages, contributing to the computational components of the project as well as to the design and implementation of online behavioral experiments, dataset construction, and data analysis. The postdoc will also contribute to the writing and dissemination of research outputs, and will collaborate closely with both PIs and with Mercator Fellow Paul Marty (University of Lisbon). *Required Qualifications*: - PhD in Linguistics or a closely related field - Expertise in computational linguistics - Ability to engage with both the experimental and computational aspects of the project *Desirable Qualifications*: - Experience with experimental methods in psycholinguistics - Background in formal semantics and pragmatics and familiarity with formal approaches to pragmatic inferences - Experience working with large language models (LLMs) - Familiarity with natural language inference (NLI) tasks and datasets *Application* Deadline: 18-May-2026 Email Address for Applications: jacopo.romoli(a)hhu.de Application Instructions: Applicants should send the following to jacopo.romoli(a)hhu.de: - A CV - A cover letter describing their research profile and interests, explaining how these match the goals of the project and what they could contribute to it - Informal inquiries are also welcome at the same address. Contact Information: Jacopo Romoli Email: jacopo.romoli(a)hhu.de -- David Arps Institut für Linguistik, Abteilung Computerlinguistik Gebäude 23.21. Etage 04 Raum 101 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany https://davidarps.github.io/

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Efficient Multimodal Question Answering (EMM-QA) @ICML 2026
by Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

The ICML 2026 Workshop on Efficient Multimodal Question Answering (EMM-QA) invites submissions on methods, resources, evaluations, and systems for question answering over multimodal inputs under realistic resource constraints. The workshop focuses on balancing answer quality with efficiency in modern QA systems, especially in the age of large language models. *Website and Contact* - Contact email: emm-qa-organizers(a)googlegroups.com - Workshop website: https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/icml/ Please check the workshop website for updates (current keynotes: Sewon Min and Mrinmaya Sachan), submission instructions, FAQs, and final shared-challenge details. *Important Dates* All deadlines are *Anywhere on Earth (AoE)*. Paper Track - *Submission deadline: May 29, 2026* - Review deadline: June 7, 2026 - Notification date: June 10, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: June 22, 2026 Shared Challenge - Warmup data release: May 22, 2026 - Test data release: June 1, 2026 - Challenge metric / scoring feedback deadline: June 1, 2026 - *Last system submission: June 15, 2026* - System Description Paper Submission: June 22, 2026 - In-person human competition: June 27, 2026 - Online human competition: June 28, 2026 Workshop Date and Venue - Workshop date: July 10 or July 11, 2026 *(final date to be confirmed by ICML)*, The COEX Convention and Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea *Topics of Interest* We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - large language models for question answering - open-domain QA under resource constraints - efficient retrieval and answer lookup - multimodal question answering - synthetic data generation for efficient QA - balancing accuracy against model and system size - token-efficient and compute-efficient QA systems - multimodal retrieval and reasoning for QA - benchmarking and evaluation for efficient multimodal systems - human verification and evaluation of QA outputs - efficiency in human-computer interaction - efficient inference for knowledge-intensive multimodal tasks - system descriptions, negative results, and position papers relevant to efficient QA The scope is intentionally *medium-broad*: the workshop is centered on efficient multimodal QA, while also welcoming closely related work on multimodal retrieval, reasoning, evaluation, and benchmarking when clearly connected to QA or other knowledge-intensive multimodal tasks. *Guidelines for Submission* Submission Categories We invite the following types of submissions: - full papers - short papers - position papers - system description papers - previously published or recently accepted work as non-archival submissions Papers accepted at ICML 2026 may be submitted as *fast-track submissions*. Fast-track submissions must include the acceptance decision and reviews from ICML. They will still be evaluated by the Area Chairs (ACs) and Program Chairs (PCs) for thematic fit. We do not plan to accept extended abstracts or poster-only submissions without a paper. Formatting - Submission platform: OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=ICML.cc/2026/Workshop/EMM-QA#tab-recent-act…> - Review model: double-blind - Paper format: ICML style - Full paper length: up to 8 pages of main content - References: excluded from the page limit - Appendices: excluded from the page limit - Supplementary material: allowed and may be considered during review Review Process - Each submission will receive 3 reviews - Reviews will consider novelty, relevance to the workshop, clarity, technical quality, and discussion value - Preliminary but promising work is welcome - Desk rejection is possible for submissions that are out of scope, non-anonymized, or non-compliant Archival Policy Submissions in both categories may be *archival* or *non-archival*, based on the preference of the authors. All archival papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Non-archival papers may be submitted to any venue in the future, and we will only link to a preprint if the authors provide such a link. All accepted submissions are expected to appear publicly on: - OpenReview - the workshop website Camera-ready versions will be required for accepted archival submissions. Archival submissions The following submissions are eligible to be archival: - newly submitted workshop papers - newly submitted system description papers Non-archival submissions The following submissions are non-archival: - previously published papers - recently accepted conference papers - papers accepted to the main conference and presented again at the workshop - work currently under review elsewhere - any submission explicitly designated as non-archival Non-archival submissions are welcome for presentation and discussion at the workshop, but they will not be published in proceedings of the workshop. Conflict of Interest Policy Workshop organizers will not submit papers. Program committee members and reviewers may submit papers, but they may not review, handle, or make decisions on submissions for which they have a conflict of interest. Conflicts include recent collaboration, shared institutional affiliation, advisor-advisee relationships, family or close personal relationships, or any other circumstance that could impair objective judgment. Conflicted submissions will be handled by non-conflicted organizers and reviewers. *About the Shared Challenge* EMM-QA 2026 will host the *QANTA 2026 shared challenge*, a multimodal quiz bowl competition on efficient question answering with incrementally revealed clues. In QANTA 2026, systems answer pyramid-style questions from streaming text and, for some questions, accompanying images. For computer teams, the core task is to decide when to buzz, produce an answer, and express confidence under realistic efficiency constraints. The challenge is closely aligned with the workshop’s focus on efficient multimodal question answering, retrieval, reasoning, and evaluation. The shared challenge includes both *computer-team submissions* and related *live human competition* events. The key challenge deadlines listed above are the *warmup data release*, *test data release*, *challenge metric / scoring feedback deadline*, *last system submission*, and *system description paper submission*. The live human competition will take place on *June 27, 2026* (in person) and *June 28, 2026* (online). Detailed task definitions, rules, scoring, technical requirements, and participation instructions are available on the following pages: - Computer Teams <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/computer-teams/> — how to build and submit systems - Human Teams <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/human-teams/> — how to register for the live human competition - Rules overview <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/rules/> — high-level competition structure - Computer rules <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/rules/computer/> — official rules for submitted systems and leaderboard scoring - Human rules <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/rules/human/> — official rules for live human–AI gameplay - Prizes and awards <https://qanta-org.github.io/competition/2026/prizes/> — prizes across competition tracks Thanks, and we hope to see you participate! -Jordan Boyd-Graber (on behalf of Ikuya, Martin, Chen, and George) -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber Professor University of Maryland: CS,UMIACS, LSC, INFO Voice: 920.524.9464 jbg(a)umiacs.umd.edu http://boydgraber.org ----------------------------------------------------------

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How Are Researchers Using LLMs? Participate in Our Research Survey
by Ansgar Scherp 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

We invite you to participate in our survey “Investigating the Use of Large Language Models in Academic Research and Coding (LLM-ARCo)”🤖📚 The goal of this study is to better understand how researchers use large language models in their academic work. The survey takes approximately 15 minutes⏱️. All responses are anonymous🔒, and the data will be used only for research purposes. As a small thank-you, 10 participants will be randomly selected🎁 to receive a €50 Amazon voucher💶. You can participate here:👉https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RYBRXQL <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RYBRXQL> Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagueswho might be interested 🔁👩‍🔬👨‍💻.Thank you very much for supporting our research! ❤️ On behalf of Dr. Younes, Ansgar

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Convocatoria premio RutaMdL al mejor artículo en Modelos de Lenguaje
by ANSELMO PEÑAS PADILLA 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

La Red de Investigación para la Asesoría sobre la Construcción, Evaluación y Uso de Modelos de Lenguaje convoca el Primer Premio RutaMdL al mejor artículo científico sobre la construcción o uso de Modelos de Lenguaje Para optar al premio, el primer autor del artículo debe haber estado afiliado a un centro español en el momento de su publicación. Se podrán presentar artículos publicados en abierto en los dos últimos años (2025 y 2026). Únicamente se podrá presentar un artículo con el mismo primer autor. Los artículos se enviarán mediante el siguiente formulario: https://forms.gle/R3hdCjxNKZkEjjeH8 El comité científico valorará tanto indicadores cuantitativos (citas, prestigio del congreso, impacto de la revista, etc.) como indicadores cualitativos (contribuciones del trabajo, resultados, etc.). El ganador del premio recibirá una bolsa de viaje (inscripción y dietas de alojamiento y manutención) para asistir al Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), donde recogerá el premio en un acto oficial. El plazo para la presentación de artículos termina el día 30 de junio de 2026. El comité científico que evaluará los artículos candidatos está formado por: Eneko Agirre, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) Aitor González, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Nombre (BSC) Alfonso Ureña, Universidad de Jaén (UJA) Anselmo Peñas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Nombre (UNED) Senén Barro, Universidade Santiago de Compostela (USC) Manuel Palomar, Universidad de Alicante (UA) David Camacho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Mariona Taulé, Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Lluís Padró, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) Rafael Valencia, Universidad de Murcia (UM) Aitor Soroa, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Nombre (UNED) Rafael Muñoz, Universidad de Alicante (UA) [uned.png] Anselmo Peñas Catedrático de Universidad Director del departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos [separador-uned.png] ETSI Informática, UNED anselmo(a)lsi.uned.es nlp.uned.es/~anselmo @anselpp AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Oficina de Protección de datos<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://uned.sede.gob.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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[CfP] CLiC-it 2026 - Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics | 14-16 September 2026 | Palermo, Italy
by Daniel Russo 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ══════════════════════════════ *CLiC-it 2026 – Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics* *14–16 September 2026 | Palermo, Italy* ══════════════════════════════ Conference Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/ Contact Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it We are pleased to invite submissions to *CLiC-it 2026*, the *Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics*, to be held in *Palermo* from the *14th to the 16th of September 2026* and *organized by AILC* (http://www.ai-lc.it/ ). Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an *important forum* for the *Italian community* of researchers in *Computational Linguistics *(CL) and *Natural Language Processing* (NLP). The conference aims to promote and disseminate *high-quality, original research* covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language, and seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. CLiC-it has an inclusive spirit, bringing together researchers from Computational Linguistics, NLP, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. Contributions on all languages are welcome, with a particular emphasis on Italian. *TOPICS* Topics include but are not limited to: - Machine Learning and Modeling for NLP - Large Language and Foundation Models - Interpretability, Analysis, and Explainability of NLP Models - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology - Semantics, Discourse, and Pragmatics - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Natural Language Generation and Summarization - Dialogue Systems and Conversational AI - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Information Extraction and Text Mining - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Multilingual and Cross-Lingual NLP - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Multimodal and Grounded Language - Applied NLP and NLP Systems - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP *SUBMISSIONS* *Regular Papers.* Original, complete, and unpublished work. Up to 11 pages of main content (with unlimited references/appendix). One additional page will be granted upon acceptance. Short vs. Regular paper classification will be upon publication based on paper length (short papers are typically 5-9 pages, regular papers are 10+ pages). Papers may be in English or Italian, with an English abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and presented orally or as a poster during the conference. *Research Communications. *Outstanding papers accepted in 2025–2026 at major CL/NLP venues (A* CORE, Q1 SCImago, ANVUR Class A) may be submitted as a one-page abstract for presentation at the conference (not included in proceedings). All Submissions via START: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2026 Select the "Papers and Research Communications" track. *Note*: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. *Templates:* - LaTeX: https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_L… - ODT: https://clic2026.unipa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CLiC_it_2026_CEURART_O… - Overleaf (read-only): https://www.overleaf.com/read/qmhnsrbyqskw#96f442 *IMPORTANT DATES* *Submission deadline: **29 May 2026 *🚨 Notification to authors: 10 July 2026 Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 Conference: 14–16 September 2026 *AWARDS* *Best Paper Award *— for papers with a Master's or PhD student as first author and presenter. Recipients of the award will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to IJCoL. *"Emanuele Pianta" Prize* — for the best Master's Thesis (Tesi di Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university and supervised by an AILC member. Prize: €500 + free AILC membership + free CLiC-it registration. *ORGANIZATION* *Conference Chairs:* Valerio Basile (University of Torino) Danilo Croce (University of Roma Tor Vergata) Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa) Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo) *Senior Program Committee:* Pierpaolo Basile, Alessandro Bondielli, Cristina Bosco, Tommaso Caselli, Gloria Gagliardi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Elisa Leonardelli, Eleonora Litta, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Martina Miliani, Simonetta Montemagni, Giovanni Puccetti, Giulia Rambelli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Fabio Tamburini *Local Organizing Committee (University of Palermo):* Irene Siragusa (Lead), Germano Ammirata, Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata, Francesco Foderà *Publicity and Social Media Chairs:* Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Daniel Russo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) *Proceedings Chairs:* Francesca Grasso (University of Torino) Eliana Di Palma (University of Torino) *Web Chairs:* Salvatore Contino, Luca Cruciata, Irene Siragusa *CONTACTS * Website: https://clic2026.unipa.it/ Email: clicit2026(a)unipa.it We look forward to seeing you in Palermo! *The CLiC-it 2026 Organizing Committee* -- -- 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. 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EURALEX Talks: ‘Pattern and Construction in Learner Dictionaries’ Susan Hunston (29 April 2026 at 12pm CET - online)
by REES, GERAINT PAUL 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

On 29 April 2026 at 12pm CET, Professor Susan Hunston will give a talk entitled ‘Pattern and Construction in Learner Dictionaries’ as part of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) Talks series. This talk is based on a Leverhulme-funded project (EM-2022-022) seeking to unify three approaches to grammar and lexis in English: Pattern Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Systemic Functional Grammar. These represent three approaches to the description of grammar and lexis, from the point of view of observation, cognition, and social semiotic respectively. The talk first explores the relationship between patterns and constructions, with examples from the 50 verb complementation patterns analysed in the project. It discusses how a focus on construction might influence the format of learner dictionaries. The talk then considers the relationship between constructions and systemic networks, speculating on potential resources for learners based on meaning networks. Examples are taken from the 10 semantic fields discussed in the project. Further details can be found on the EURALEX talks page <https://euralex.org/euralex-talks/> We hope to see you there. Geraint Rees On behalf of the EURALEX Board

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2 PhD positions at AI4DH European centre of Excellence
by Antoine Doucet 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Doctoral positions - AI4DH - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Ljubljana has 2* open PhD positions *in artificial intelligence for digital humanities (AI4DH) in the context of the *European centre of excellence in AI4DH*. These positions are associated with the ELEXAI (European Lexicographic Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence) project, where newly admitted PhD students will research and develop large language models and agentic interfaces for multilingual knowledge management, using high-quality lexicographic resources. At the heart of the vibrant European capital city of Ljubljana, close to both the Alps and the Mediterranean, you will be part of an AI research group working, dedicated to AI research that can be applied to DH. You will benefit from *competitive salaries* and *top-notch infrastructure*, based in the faculty of computer and information science, yet in an *interdisciplinary context*. Full details are available here: - *Doctoral positions, for up to 3 years*: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/429925 *Important dates: * - *Information sessions:* 22 April at 10am CEST and 5 May at 3pm CEST (see registration details on Euraxess) - Application *deadline: 22 May* CEST (Ljubljana time)

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[CFP] 3rd Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC)
by Fred PHILIPPY 21 Apr '26

21 Apr '26

We are excited to announce the 3rd Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC) workshop, co-located with IJCAI 2026. The workshop will take place in person and virtually between August 15-17, 2026, in Bremen. LM4UC invites researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address challenges and propose innovative solutions for building and deploying language models (LMs) for underserved languages and communities. Underserved communities often lack adequate access to advanced NLP technologies due to limited linguistic data, insufficient computational resources, or inadequate AI governance frameworks. This gap hinders equitable access to NLP advancements, exacerbating the digital divide. Our workshop aims to address this by fostering a multidisciplinary dialogue around the development of LMs that prioritize cultural sensitivity, resource efficiency, and sustainable AI practices. Topics of Interest We invite submissions of full papers, ongoing work, position papers, and survey papers on topics including, but not limited to: 1. Evaluation Design: Evaluations are no longer passive datasets. They are mechanisms that shape model development. We invite research that focuses on principled, technically grounded benchmark design. 2. Cultural Alignment & Safety: Most alignment research assumes Western norms. We invite papers that focus on technically grounded alignment methods that generalize across cultures and languages. 3. Agentic Systems in Global Environments: As LLMs become agents, we need formal evaluation and control in multilingual, multi-cultural environments. Submission Guidelines We welcome long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references. Submissions must follow the IJCAI 2026 style guidelines. Important Dates * Submission deadline: May 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: August 1, 2026 * Workshop dates: August 15/16/17, 2026 Submit your paper via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ijcai.org/IJCAI/2026/Workshop/LM4UC Contact Us: For inquiries, please contact the workshop organizer: lm4uc.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:lm4uc.organizers@gmail.com> <mailto:lm4uc.organizers@gmail.com>

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[RetroEval 2026] Deadline Extension
by Saad Mahamood 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

RetroEval 2026: Symposium on Natural Language Generation Evaluations ============================================ 1-2 June 2026, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom https://retroeval.github.io/ ============================================ Evaluation in the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) has changed considerably over the past several decades. This special symposium in honour of Prof. Ehud Reiter’s retirement provides a forum for academic and industry researchers to look back on the topic of how evaluations in the field of NLG have changed and to explore unaddressed challenges. The two day symposium will be held in-person at the Sir Duncan Rice Library in the historic University of Aberdeen, June 1-2, 2026. For this symposium, we welcome submissions of long papers, short papers, and extended abstracts. *** Workshop Theme *** Ehud Reiter has been a leading light in Natural Language Generation (NLG) research throughout the four decades he worked in this area, in both academia (Aberdeen) and industry (CoGenTech; Arria NLG). Ehud’s influence extends to all aspects of NLG, but the areas in which it has arguably been the strongest is evaluation of NLG systems. On the occasion of his retirement, this workshop, which is held in his honour, will therefore focus on evaluation of NLG systems, highlighting in particular some of the topics that Ehud has tended to emphasize (see below) such as the importance of reproducibility and the risks of data contamination. *** Topics of Interest *** Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: -- The aims of NLG and NLG evaluation -- Intrinsic versus extrinsic NLG evaluation -- Evaluation of NLG systems in the real world -- Impact assessment of NLG systems and LLMs -- New evaluation challenges arising from the use of LLMs -- Hallucination annotation and its role in NLG evaluation -- Statistical analysis for NLG evaluations -- Data contamination in NLG evaluation -- LLMs as evaluators: opportunities and pitfalls -- The role of LLMs in the development of evaluation metrics -- Reproduction and reproducibility of human evaluation experiments -- Publication bias: What to do with negative results? -- Pre-publication of research hypotheses in NLG evaluation -- NLG evaluation versus psycholinguistic experimentation: what can we learn from each other? -- Disciplinary cultures and evaluation methods -- Evaluating NLG systems/LLMs for assistive technology *** Submission Types *** The workshop accepts the following submission types: • Long Papers (archival) • Short Papers (archival) • Extended Abstracts (non-archival) Accepted contributions will be presented as oral or poster presentations. *** Archival Submissions *** • Long papers: • Up to 8 pages (excluding references) • Unlimited references • Up to 2 appendix pages • 1 additional page in the final version to address reviewer comments • Short papers: • Up to 4 pages (excluding references) • Unlimited references • Up to 1 appendix page • 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments *** Non-Archival Submissions *** • Extended abstracts: • Up to 2 pages including references • 1 additional appendix page for tables/figures • Selection based on the symposium fit *** Submission Format *** • Two-column ACL 2026 format • LaTeX template only • PDF submissions only • Submissions via OpenReview *** Important Dates *** Note: All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12. • ARR commitment deadline (archival): 16 March, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline (non-archival): 17 April, 2026 • Extended Direct paper submission deadline (archival): 28 April, 2026 (was 24 April, 2026) • New Notification of acceptance: 11 May, 2026 (was 8 May, 2026) • Camera-ready deadline: 22 May, 2026 • Symposium dates: 1-2 June, 2026 *** Review Policy *** Long and short papers will follow ACL double-blind review policies. Submissions must be anonymized, including self-references and links. Papers violating anonymity requirements will be rejected without review. Demo descriptions are exempt from anonymization. Contact and Information • Website: https://retroeval.github.io/ • Email: retroeval(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:retroeval@googlegroups.com> Workshop Organisers: Saad Mahamood (Shopware), David Howcroft (University of Aberdeen), Kees van Deemter (Utrecht University), Albert Gatt (Utrecht University), Simone Balloccu (TU Darmstadt), Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face), Alberto Bugarín Diz (CiTIUS & University of Santiago de Compostela), Jose María Alonso-Moral (CiTIUS & University of Santiago de Compostela), Adarsa Sivaprasad (University of Aberdeen), Chenghua Lin (Manchester University), and Alexandra Johnstone (University of Aberdeen).

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Deadline extension: BriGap-3, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

*Deadline extension: BriGap-3, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics* Venue: Université Paris Cité, campus des Grands moulins, *Paris, France* Event date: *July 11th, 2026* Event website: https://brigap-workshop.github.io/ *BriGap-3 is a venue for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work?* ** Context ** Due to the groundbreaking achievements of the last decade, the ongoing discourse in NLP has shifted more to what can be achieved through language than studying language for its own sake, and traditional conferences are increasingly dominated by engineering-oriented work. It could thus appear that computational and formal linguistics are more than ever separate domains. Yet, we are also witnessing a growing interest in linguistics in both explaining the successes of neural models and uncovering their limitations. Conversely, all kinds of computational methods have proven their usefulness for linguistics time and again. To what extent are these traditions truly divorced, and what fruitful bridges can be (re)built? To answer these questions, the third iteration of the workshop on Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-3) intends to provide a space for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to exchange their perspectives on how their different domains of research can build upon one another. ** Event topics ** - investigation of the linguistic properties of machine learning models, - linguistic representations, vector space semantics, and their relations with theoretical concepts such as compositionality, - use of computational and information-theoretical methods for linguistic inquiry, - formal distributional semantics and neural-symbolic integration for NLP, - formal grammars, symbolic structures and their applications for computational linguistics and NLP, - trends in the history of computational linguistics and NLP, - … ** Invited speakers ** - *Raquel FERNÁNDEZ*, Universiteit van Amsterdam - *Tal LINZEN*, New York University (online) ** Submission details ** The event is designed with a widely inclusive submission policy so as to foster as vibrant a discussion as possible. In particular, we will accept: - Archival submissions, corresponding to novel and unpublished research, to be included in the event proceedings, - Non-archival submissions, corresponding to work in progress, early results, and articles presented in other venues that engage with the topics of the event. The event accepts both archival (original and unpublished research) submissions in either short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) format, and non-archival (work-in-progress, dissemination of research published or accepted elsewhere, etc.) submissions in short (up to 4 pages) format. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Each submission should mention whether it targets archival or non-archival status. Archival papers accepted at BriGap-3 will be indexed in the ACL Anthology. Please use the ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=BriGap/2026/Workshop Please be aware that to submit on OpenReview, you need an OpenReview profile, and that the activation process might take up to two weeks (in case you do not use an institutional email). While it is often syntactically correct and coherent to some extent, the text produced by current generative AI systems falls below our expectations in terms of depth, clarity, and precision. Conceptual clarity and argumentation will be key criteria in the evaluation of submissions. We therefore *strongly* discourage the use of AI systems. In addition, the detection of any hallucinations in a submission (whether in the bibliography or elsewhere) will lead to rejection, regardless of the other qualities of the text. ** Important dates *- Extended submission deadline: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026* (23:59 AoE) - Notification of acceptance: Monday, May 11th 2026 - Event: Saturday, July 11th, 2026 ** Contact ** For questions, please send an email to brigapworkshop(a)gmail.com or contact one of the event chairs: - Timothée Bernard, Université Paris Cité - Emmanuele Chersoni, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Giulia Rambelli, Università di Bologna

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HealTAC 2026 – Early Bird Deadline Approaching
by Jaya Chaturvedi 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

-------------------------------------------- HealTAC 2026 June 8-10th, 2026, Brighton (UK) https://healtac2026.github.io/ -------------------------------------------- Following the notification of decisions, we’re excited to share the next steps as we look ahead to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton this June. -------------------------------------------- Register Early & Plan Your Stay -------------------------------------------- Registration is open, and we encourage you to secure your place ahead of the early-bird deadline (May 4, 2026). Discounted hotel rates are also available for a limited time, so we recommend booking soon to take advantage of these offers. Please book your accommodation before 11 May, when the discount will be removed. Full details on registration<https://healtac2026.github.io/registration/> and accommodation are available on the conference<https://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/> website. -------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers -------------------------------------------- We are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers: * Professor Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter) * Dr Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Their talks will provide inspiring perspectives on this year’s theme: Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice. ------------------------------------------------------ Pre-Conference Workshops (June 8, 2026) ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop 1 Focused on the safe and responsible use of free-text healthcare data within Trusted Research Environments (TREs), this session will showcase DARE UK–funded projects (STAR-TRE, FORTRESS, TRExt, SAFETEXT), highlighting emerging tools and best practices for secure, privacy-preserving text analytics. Workshop 2 From patient narratives to insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries An interactive two-hour workshop exploring how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale, bringing together perspectives from NLP, behavioural science, qualitative research, PPIE, and policy communities. ------------------ Key Dates ------------------ * Early-bird registration deadline: May 4, 2026 * Discounted hotel bookings deadline: May 11, 2026 * Pre-conference workshops: June 8, 2026 * Conference: June 9–10, 2026 --------------------------------------------- Registration Fees -------------------------------------------- Early registration fees (by 4th May, 2026): Full registration: £240 Student registration: £140 Presenting student registration: £40 Late registration fees (after 4th May, 2026): Full registration: £340 Student registration: £190 The fee includes participation for three days (including the pre-conference workshop day). All fees include a conference dinner on 9 June 2026. Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2026 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton! Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD Research Associate in Health Related Natural Language Processing Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Jah-yah Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi Bluesky: @Jayachatur.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayachaturvedi/ [cid:image001.png@01DAF499.ADF8D370] If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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CfP: RAGE-KG Workshop at ISWC 2026
by a.graciotti＠rug.nl 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Dear subscribers of Corpora, We are happy to share the Call for Papers for the 3rd Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG) workshop, which will be co-hosted with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2026 in Bari, Italy, October 25-29, 2026. We share all the details below. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Arianna Graciotti —-- RAGE-KG 2026: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs - International Semantic Web Conference - Bari, Italy, October 25-29, 2026 - Conference website: https://2026.rage-kg.org/ - Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ragekg2026 - Abstract registration deadline: July 17, 2026 - Submission deadline: July 24, 2026 RAGE-KG explores the state of the art and goes beyond in integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Graphs as well as the synergies between Large Language Models and the Linked Open Data ecosystem. We aim to foster innovative RAG architectures relying on Semantic Web standards and new approaches to make Linked Open Data usable by LLMs, enhancing their ability to generate reliable, verifiable and context-aware responses based on structured, decentralized and authoritative data sources. Submission Guidelines - Short papers describing novel research contributions and preliminary results. Related to workshop topics. 4-6 pages excluding references. - Full papers describing novel research contributions of extended length. Related to workshop topics. 8-12 pages excluding references. The papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by multiple researchers. Upon acceptance, one author must register at the conference and present at the workshop. List of Topics: - RAG Architectures - RAG and KAG (Knowledge-Augmented Generation) architectures leveraging Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web standards and Linked Data - RAG and KAG design patterns, including GraphRAG and AI Agents - Evaluating RAG and KAG architectures with structured data - LLMs and Structured Data - Training and fine-tuning LLMs with structured data - Prompting Language Models with structured data - Language Model-supported and ontology-supported SPARQL query generation Innovative Approaches: - Neurosymbolic approaches for integrating Language Models with Linked Open Data, Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs - Use Cases, Work-In-Progress and, especially, Bold Proposals for RAG systems Special track on RAG-systems for Human-AI Value Alignment: - RAG-based approaches for content moderation and harm reduction; - Designing RAG systems to deal with human subjectivity Committees: - Organizing committee: - Daniel Dobriy - Marco Antonio Stranisci - Arianna Graciotti - Blerina Spahiu - Sahar Vahdati Publication: Papers will be submitted to be published with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and must follow the 1-column CEUR format: - Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) - Latex template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip) Venue - Where: ISWC 2026 | Bari, Italy - When: October 25–26, 2026 Contact - All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniel.dobriy(a)wu.ac.at

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Stellenausschreibung bei der Universität Hildesheim
by Gertrud Faaß 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Am Institut für Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie der Universität Hildesheim ist eine 100%-Stelle für wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen oder Mitarbeiter zu besetzen. Die Besetzung erfolgt baldmöglichst, bis 31.10.2029, mit evtl. Verlängerung um 6 Monate (TV-L E 13), Bewerbungsschluss ist der 7. Mai 2026. Im Verbundprojekt EDIKILEX, 'Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und digitale Methoden im Umgang mit frühneuhochdeutschen Texten', werden KI-Verfahren entwickelt, die die Lemmatisierung und Semantisierung frühneuhochdeutscher Wörter und Wortverbindungen erlauben. Die Ergebnisse sollen für Editionsarbeiten und für die Weiterentwicklung des 'Frühneuhochdeutschen Wörterbuchs' der AdW Göttingen nutzbar gemacht werden können. Dafür sollen in Hildesheim eine modulare Architektur des Gesamtsystems und Schnittstellen für unterschiedliche Zielgruppen entwickelt werden. Aufgaben: * Mitwirkung am Design und der Implementierung einer modularen Architektur des EDIKILEX-Systems; * Mitwirkung am Design und der Implementierung von Nutzerschnittstellen für verschiedene Nutzergruppen des EDIKILEX-Systems; * Dokumentation und Publikation der eigenen Projektarbeiten innerhalb des Projekts und auf wissenschaftlichen Tagungen; * Mitwirkung am Forschungsdatenmanagement. Voraussetzungen: * Abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium in Computerlinguistik, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, Digital Humanities, Software Engineering oder in einem Studiengang mit vergleichbaren Inhalten; * Kompetenz des Deutschen auf Niveau C1 des Europäischen Referenzrahmens und gute Englischkenntnisse; * Programmiererfahrung (Skript- und Auszeichnungssprachen); * Erfahrung im Aufbau kollaborativ entwickelter Softwaresysteme (Architekturen, Modularisierung, Schnittstellen, Datenaustausch, ...) und/oder in der Gestaltung von Nutzerschnittstellen (Methoden des user-centered design, agile Erstellung von Prototypen, ...). Wünschenswert: * Erfahrungen in der Entwicklung von Datenbanken; * Interesse an früheren Sprachstufen (speziell Frühneuhochdeutsch). Weitere Infos: Stellenausschreibung i.A. Prof Ulrich Heid (ulrich.heid(a)uni-hildesheim.de), Gertrud Faaß -- Gertrud Faaß, PhD/University of Pretoria Universität Hildesheim Institut für Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie Arbeitsgruppe Computerlinguistik (IwiSt-CL) Orcid-ID Email: gertrud.faass(a)uni-hildesheim.de Büro: Bühler Campus, LN129 Tel. 05121 883 30314 Fax. 05121 883 30315 Mein Pronomen: sie | Gerne können Sie mir mitteilen, wie Sie angesprochen werden möchten.

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CFP: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
by Kiril Simov 18 Apr '26

18 Apr '26

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2026 Conference Sofia, Bulgaria Venue: tba 25-26 June 2026 CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. This is the fifth edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research. Topics of Interest The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones: • Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support, applications • Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H • Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H • Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data, etc. • The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research • Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H • Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H • Large Language Models for DH • Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history Invited Speakers The invited speakers will be announced soon Important Dates Submission deadline: 19.04.2026 Notification of acceptance: 24.05.2026 Final Submission: 20.06.2026 Conference: 25-26.06.2026 Submissions We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). We conform to CEUR-WS.org proceedings but the proceedings will not be published there. The instructions for preparing the submissions are here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART We invite two types of papers: regular papers (between 10 and 12 "standard" pages) and short papers (5-9 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. A "standard" is 2500 characters. We also accept extended abstract submissions (3-5 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. They will be presented at the conference and will be published in a Book of Abstracts in electronic form. Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org For contacting organizers, please use the following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org The CLaDA-BG Organizers

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EMNLP/AACL-IJCNLP 2026)
by Yuki Arase 18 Apr '26

18 Apr '26

Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EMNLP/AACL-IJCNLP) 2026 The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the EMNLP 2026 and AACL-IJCNLP 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 EMNLP, AACL, IJCNLP, ACL, NAACL-HLT, or EACL. 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: EMNLP 2026 (the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: https://2026.emnlp.org/), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Budapest, Hungary from October 24th to October 29th, 2026. AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics & the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: https://2026.aaclnet.org/), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in Hengqin, China from November 6th to November 10th, 2026. Important Dates EMNLP/AACL-IJCNLP 2026 shared dates: Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2026 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2026 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 (http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/), Black in AI (https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership), Disability in AI (https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/), Indigenous AI (https://www.indigenous-ai.net/), LatinX in AI (https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY), Masakhane (https://www.masakhane.io/), 500 Queer Scientists (https://500queerscientists.com/), and Women-in-ML's directory (https://www.wiml.org/directory). Submission Details Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download the LaTeX template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) or use the Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…). 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: A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. Type of the tutorial: "cutting-edge in CL/NLP" vs "introductory to fields related to CL/NLP". 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" 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. 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". 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. 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, if relevant. 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. 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. A description of special requirements for technical equipment. 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. An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EMNLP or AACL-IJCNLP). 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. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EMNLP (theme "New Missions for NLP Research"), then please explain why this is the case. 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 on OpenReview at the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Tutorials. 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 July 15, 2026. 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 EMNLP Goran Glavaš, University of Würzburg, Germany Ana Marasović, University of Utah, USA AACL-IJCNLP Zhongqing Wang, Soochow University, China Naoaki Okazaki, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at emnlp-aacl-ijcnlp-2026-tutorial(a)googlegroups.com.

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science, AI & the Mind
by maria.pacheco＠colorado.edu 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

Deadline: 31-Jul-2026 The Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of AI and the Mind, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2027. Highly qualified candidates who have been recently promoted to Associate Professor level may also be considered. We seek applicants advancing research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, broadly construed, and human cognition. Candidates may bridge artificial and natural intelligence through modeling, experimentation, or theory; candidates pursuing interdisciplinary and innovative approaches are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will have an outstanding track record of research, as evidenced by a notable publication history and a demonstrated record of seeking and securing funding as a Principal Investigator, as appropriate to their current academic rank. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational Models of Cognition: using AI methods to model perception, memory, learning, decision-making, or language, including their neural bases. - AI Tools for Cognitive Neuroscience: leveraging machine learning to analyze brain/behavioral data or to explore neural mechanisms. - Human-AI Interaction: understanding how humans perceive, collaborate with, and may be enhanced or augmented by AI systems. - Brain-Computer Interfaces: connecting neural processes to computational systems for communication, control, or rehabilitation. - Algorithmic Bias & Cognitive Bias: studying parallels between human biases and AI decision-making; ensuring fair and ethical systems. - Philosophy of Mind & AI: investigating conceptual questions about consciousness, representation, and machine intelligence. Apply: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=71179

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Doctoral positions RTG KEMAI - Knowledge Infusion and Extraction for Explainable Medical AI - Computer Science, Medicine, and Ethics
by Christiane Böhm 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

Dear all, starting January 2027, 8 doctoral positions are available within RTG KEMAI (Knowledge Infusion and Extraction for Explainable Medical AI) at Ulm University, funded by DFG. The KEMAI team aims at combining the benefits of knowledge- and learning-based systems, to not only allow for state-of-the-art accuracy in medical diagnosis, but to also clearly communicate the obtained predictions to physicians, considering ethical implications within the medical decision process. KEMAI’s main purpose is to interdisciplenarily train doctoral students from computer science, medicine, and ethics in the area of explainable medical AI. The RTG offers a structured doctoral program that creates an environment in which young scientists can conduct research at the highest level in the field of medical AI. We invite highly motivated candidates with a passion for research and a desire to contribute to an interdisciplinary academic environment to apply for these positions. (The positions are fully funded for 3+1 years and come with an E13 salary.) Applications are now being accepted, with a deadline at the end of each month until all positions have been filled. For further information and application please visit the RTG's webiste: https://kemai.uni-ulm.de/ Best regards Christiane Boehm Coordinator Ulm University *KEMAI* *Knowledge Infusion and Extraction for Explainable Medical AI* Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) https://kemai.uni-ulm.de James-Franck-Ring 1 | room: O27/3217 | 89081 Ulm | Germany Phone: +49 (0)731 50-31321 | e-mail: christiane.boehm(a)uni-ulm.de *contact hours:* Monday & Thursday morning Tuesday & Wednesday afternoon Phone: +49 (0)731 50-31321 | e-mail: christiane.boehm(a)uni-ulm.de *contact hours:* Monday & Thursday morning Tuesday & Wednesday afternoon

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PhD thesis offer: CookBot - Assistive robot for cooking
by Christophe Lohr 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

*Summary:* * Subject: CookBot - Assistive robot for cooking * Keywords: Robotics manipulation, Tasks Planning, Assistive Technologies * Research Unit: Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS 6285) * Team: RAMBO - Robot interaction, Ambient system, Machine learning, Behaviour, Optimization * Location: IMT Atlantique, Brest * Start: September/October 2026 * Duration: 3 years * Supervision: Christophe Lohr, Mihai Andries * Full subject description and Application instructions:* https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/sites/default/files/recherche/Offres%20de%20t… *Application* The candidate must hold (or is about to obtain) a Master Degree in Computer Science with theoretical and practical skills in AI algorithms and associated deep-learning tools, and a solid background in robotics. The candidate should be fluent in English (working and publishing main language). A detailed application should be addressed to Christophe Lohr and Mihai Andries, including a cover letter, an up-to-date CV, transcripts of grades (last two years), and a list of referees. *Deadline:* 15 May 2026

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Call for participation: Translation in Transition 8, Aachen, Germany
by Neumann, Stella 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

*** apologies for cross-posting *** Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open! Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under Accommodation [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants. The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in translation and interpreting studies (TIS), including at the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts. Our invited keynote speakers are Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve), Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) and Jean Nitzke (University of Agder, Kristiansand). In addition to this, the 2026 edition will host a workshop on the topic of transfer from Translation and Interpreting Studies into other fields both within and outside of academia in cooperation with the Institute of Translatology [3]. For further information, please visit the conference website or contact the conference organisers at <mailto:events@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de> events(a)ifaar.rwth-aachen.de. We hope to welcome you in Aachen this September! Best wishes, The TT8 organising committee [1] <https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve ranstaltungen/Translation-in-Transition-Conference/~bofdjv/Registration-Subm ission/> https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ver anstaltungen/Translation-in-Transition-Conference/~bofdjv/Registration-Submi ssion/ [2] <https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve ranstaltungen/Translation-in-Transition-Conference/~bofdtn/Venue/> https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ver anstaltungen/Translation-in-Transition-Conference/~bofdtn/Venue/ [3] https://institut-translatologie.de/ 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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CFP- WOCHAT2026: Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies
by mahed.mousavi＠unitn.it 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

Dear all, WOCHAT 2026 (Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies) is calling for papers. The venue is co-located with SIGDIAL 2026 @ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2nd, 2026. We're looking for original research on: → Agentic & goal-driven dialogue systems → Multi-agent coordination & negotiation → Multimodal grounding (text, speech, vision) → Commonsense reasoning & theory of mind in dialogue → Emotion modeling beyond basic categories → Robustness, safety & trustworthiness in conversational AI → Evaluation beyond surface fluency → Dialogue in finance, healthcare, legal, cybersecurity & more Important Dates: 📅 Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2026 (AoE) 📅 Notification of acceptance: June 22nd, 2026 Format: 📄 Long papers (max 8 pages) | Short papers (max 4 pages) 🔒 Double-blind | ACL two-column format | Original & unpublished work only If your work pushes dialogue systems beyond surface-level responses, this is your venue. 📋 Full CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/wochat2026/call-for-papers See you in Atlanta! (s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (RTD-A) Dept. of Information Engineering & Computer Science University of Trento

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Re: Lancaster Uni Open research group - starts 22 April
by Brezina, Vaclav 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

Dear all, I would like to invite you to join our Open Research Group organised by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, beginning on Wednesday 22 April at 12:00 (UK time). This term��s theme is Collocations and how to compute collocation measures, alongside a gentle introduction to R for beginners. The sessions are designed to be accessible and practical, with opportunities to explore key concepts in corpus linguistics and gain hands-on experience with basic statistical analysis in R. Schedule (all sessions 12:00�C12:50 UK time, online or County South B089): * Wednesday, 22/04/2026 * Wednesday, 06/05/2026 * Wednesday, 20/05/2026 * Wednesday, 03/06/2026 FREE registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Suggested readings: * Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D. (2026). A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English: Core Phrases and Exercises for Learners. Routledge. * Brezina, V. (2018). Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. CUP, Chapter 3 (collocation section): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Statistics_in_Corpus_Linguistics/zLB… * Evert, S. (2008). ��Corpora and collocations.�� In Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook: https://stephanie-evert.de/PUB/Evert2007HSK_extended_manuscript.pdf * Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., & McEnery, T. (2017). ��Collocations in corpus�\based language learning research.�� Language Learning, 67(S1), 155�C179: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/lang.12225 * Sinclair, J., Jones, S., & Daley, R. (2004). English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report. Continuum: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/English_Collocation_Studies/1kTkHAXe… Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room B46 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina

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Reminder: Call for Book Chapters- Springer Volume on Data-Driven Learning
by Cansu Akan 17 Apr '26

17 Apr '26

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to share a brief reminder regarding the call for chapter proposals for our upcoming Springer edited volume, "Data-Driven Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice." We have already received a range of fascinating proposals, and we would love to see your work represented in this collection. We are specifically seeking contributions that span the full spectrum of Data-Driven Learning, from theoretical frameworks offering new perspectives on data-informed pedagogy to conceptual models for innovative instructional design and practical applications rooted in classroom-based research. Whether your research focuses on AI-assisted feedback, corpus-based materials development, or the unique challenges of implementing DDL in multilingual settings, we warmly invite you to share your insights. Key Deadlines & Details: Abstract Submission (400-600 words): 1 May 2026 Notification of Acceptance: June 2026 Full Chapters (7,000-9,000 words): October 2026 Review Process: Double-blind peer review For full details on submission guidelines and the volume's scope, please refer to the Call for Chapters: https://tinyurl.com/3dbhk97f Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like to discuss a potential topic. We also encourage you to share this invitation with any colleagues or researchers who may be interested. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! Best, Cansu Akan

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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: New paper: Schwa density as a phonological register classifier (pre-registered, four-corpus replication)
by Kyle Townsend 16 Apr '26

16 Apr '26

Dear Professor Wan, Thank you for the pointer to your work — I'll read through the site and your posts. I appreciate the quickness of your response and look forward to reading more of it. I think our concerns may be partly orthogonal. The paper's headline measure is phone-level (schwa proportion in CMUdict transcriptions), not word-level; "word" enters only as an operational unit for the Flesch-Kincaid baseline we compare against, and the scope is bounded to English prose register classification on four named corpora. We don't claim cross-linguistic generality or make prescriptive claims about "language." That said, your point about the undefined status of "word" across writing systems is well-taken, and I'll add a scope/limitations note making the English-and-CMUdict dependency explicit rather than implicit. It does seem important to identify and accommodate implicit anglophone bias in scientific contexts. Best, Kyle On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM Ada Wan <adawan919(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Kyle > > Please be notified of my findings from 2019 on (see > sites.google.com/view/adawan) as well as all my posts and > replies/comments on X.com since 2021 (@adawan919) and on LinkedIn.com. > Please note that working on/with "word(s)" can be considered a violation > of research integrity and/or of the law. > > Feedback: > While I understand that most of my findings might seem distant to those > from "linguistics proper", the most important takeaway is the same: "word" > is not a reliable unit for scientific work. And working on "grammar" and > "language" is / can be unethical. If you can transition to research without > working on or leveraging "w/s/ls/g/l", that'd be optimal. Otherwise, an > immediate feedback to your work would be just do it without "word(s)". > At the first sight, evaluating schwa density of a particular dataset is > not wrong in itself --- in fact, from the perspective of linguistics or > "'language' science" (except my findings show that there cannot be any more > science with "language"), it could even be avant-garde work to estimate, > without "words", schwa density of a given document and/or compare it with > another document. But when one considers how in the context of "language" > (or "w/s/ls/g/l") being un- and under-defined, and often defaulting > subliminally to a prescriptive grammarian perspective, it'd be better and > safer to simply refrain from publishing this kind of philological > contributions (and yes, I understand that within linguistics, this work > would/could be considered scientific/rigorous already, but that is not > enough). > > Feel free to let me know if you should have any questions. > > Best regards > Ada Wan > https://sites.google.com/view/adawan > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM Kyle Townsend via Corpora < > corpora(a)list.elra.info> wrote: > >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I'd like to share a new preprint on single-feature register >> classification in English text: >> >> "Schwa Density as a Phonological Stylistic Classifier: Primary >> Stylistic, Secondary Modality -- A Four-Corpus Pre-Registered >> Replication" >> >> Preprint: >> https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009926/current.pdf?_s=WPGovroKhmABLC0P >> Materials/code: >> https://github.com/kylegtownsend-collab/schwa-density-spgc >> Paper site: https://papers.letsharkness.com/schwa-density/ >> >> The paper tests whether schwa density -- the proportion of vowel >> phones in a text that are unstressed schwa (CMUdict AH0) -- can >> serve as a phonologically motivated single-feature register >> classifier. A pre-registered confirmatory plan was applied to NLTK >> multi-source (N=164) and the Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus >> (N=2,767), with sensitivity analyses on Brown (N=313) and OANC >> (N=4,375). >> >> Headline findings: >> >> - Schwa density matches or exceeds Flesch-Kincaid on all >> pre-registered corpora. >> >> - A function-word ablation (masking the 198 NLTK English stopwords >> before computing schwa density) preserves or amplifies register >> discrimination on all four corpora (eta^2 retention 0.93-1.27), >> ruling out stopword frequency as a confound. >> >> - The ablation operationalises a two-regime finding: schwa density >> functions as a Primary Stylistic Feature on within-prose >> variation (NLTK, SPGC, Brown) and a Secondary Modality Feature on >> speech-versus-writing variation (OANC). >> >> - Joint partial-eta^2 retains 46-53% of the register signal on the >> pre-registered corpora after controlling jointly for syllables >> per word, mean word length, and Latinate ratio. >> >> The pre-registration, deviation log, analyser, ablation and >> G2P-fallback scripts, per-corpus feature tables, and >> figure-generation code are all openly available in the repository >> (MIT / CC-BY-4.0). >> >> Comments and criticisms welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Kyle Townsend >> Independent >> ktownsend(a)spfk12.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Corpora mailing list -- corpora(a)list.elra.info >> https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-leave(a)list.elra.info >> > -- Thanks, Kyle Townsend Instructor, English IIA, Humanities, Yearbook I/II Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School Pronouns: he/him/his (What's This? <https://www.mypronouns.org/>)

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New paper: Schwa density as a phonological register classifier (pre-registered, four-corpus replication)
by Kyle Townsend 16 Apr '26

16 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, I'd like to share a new preprint on single-feature register classification in English text: "Schwa Density as a Phonological Stylistic Classifier: Primary Stylistic, Secondary Modality -- A Four-Corpus Pre-Registered Replication" Preprint: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009926/current.pdf?_s=WPGovroKhmABLC0P Materials/code: https://github.com/kylegtownsend-collab/schwa-density-spgc Paper site: https://papers.letsharkness.com/schwa-density/ The paper tests whether schwa density -- the proportion of vowel phones in a text that are unstressed schwa (CMUdict AH0) -- can serve as a phonologically motivated single-feature register classifier. A pre-registered confirmatory plan was applied to NLTK multi-source (N=164) and the Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus (N=2,767), with sensitivity analyses on Brown (N=313) and OANC (N=4,375). Headline findings: - Schwa density matches or exceeds Flesch-Kincaid on all pre-registered corpora. - A function-word ablation (masking the 198 NLTK English stopwords before computing schwa density) preserves or amplifies register discrimination on all four corpora (eta^2 retention 0.93-1.27), ruling out stopword frequency as a confound. - The ablation operationalises a two-regime finding: schwa density functions as a Primary Stylistic Feature on within-prose variation (NLTK, SPGC, Brown) and a Secondary Modality Feature on speech-versus-writing variation (OANC). - Joint partial-eta^2 retains 46-53% of the register signal on the pre-registered corpora after controlling jointly for syllables per word, mean word length, and Latinate ratio. The pre-registration, deviation log, analyser, ablation and G2P-fallback scripts, per-corpus feature tables, and figure-generation code are all openly available in the repository (MIT / CC-BY-4.0). Comments and criticisms welcome. Thanks, Kyle Townsend Independent ktownsend(a)spfk12.org

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 16 Apr '26

16 Apr '26

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

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CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Amal Haddad 15 Apr '26

15 Apr '26

International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT'2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 https://nettt-conference.com Extended Deadline Call for Papers *** Extended submission deadline 27 April 2026 *** # 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 speakers Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute # 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. Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the ACL format using the templates available on the conference website. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/submissions-and-publication/ 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. The conference organisers will seek the inclusion of the conference proceedings in the ACL anthology. # Important dates - Extended submissions deadline: 27 April 2026 - Reviewing process: 28 April -18 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2026 - Camera-ready due: 5 June 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 19 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 Papers submitted before the submission deadline will be reviewed on a rolling basis so that authors requiring visas can be notified earlier and have sufficient time to obtain them # Pre-conference Tutorials The pre-conference tutorials will include: Post-editing and AI-augmented translation - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) Machine Translation Quality Evaluation - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) # 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) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) # Organising Committee and Programme Committee coordination -- Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) - Xiaojing Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee For a list of the programme committee members visit: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/programme-committee/ # 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. # Sponsor Juremy.com # 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/ is 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 -- 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. 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April 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '26

15 Apr '26

In this newsletter: New publications: DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T04> MATERIAL Tagalog-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S05> LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T03> ________________________________ New publications: DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T04> was developed by LDC and consists of 179 Chinese discussion forum documents and their English translations annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation labels entity mentions for the target set of entity, relation, and event types between and among those entities including coreference. Rich ERE annotation expands types and tagging in the entities, relations, and events annotation tasks and replaces strict event coreference with a more loosely defined event hopper annotation. 179 Chinese-English document pairs were annotated following Light ERE annotation guidelines; a subset of 171 Chinese-English document pairs were also labeled with Rich ERE annotation. The source data and English translations were drawn from BOLT Chinese Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data (LDC2017T05)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T05>, originally collected and translated by LDC under the DARPA BOLT program. DARPA's Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) program aimed to address remaining capability gaps in state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies related to inference, causal relationships, and anomaly detection. LDC supported the DEFT program by collecting, creating, and annotating a variety of data sources. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Tagalog-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S05> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> program and contains 100 hours of Tagalog conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 30% of the speech files, 2% of which were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T03> contains over 13 million words of Somali monolingual text, 800,00 words of which were translated into English, and 106,000 Somali words translated from English data. Approximately 73,000 words were annotated for simple named entities, around 23,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), and over 10,000 words were covered by noun phrase chunking annotation. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. 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. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2026 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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Model Compression Shared Task @ WMT 2026 - First Call for Participation
by Marco Gaido 15 Apr '26

15 Apr '26

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the second round of the Model Compression Shared Task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-compression.html> at WMT 2026 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/>. This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression techniques in reducing the size of general-purpose large language models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation (MT) scenarios. The task’s broader objectives include fostering research into the efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT, establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model compression across a wide range of languages, and enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized evaluation protocols designed to assess not only translation quality but also computational efficiency. Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned with the General MT shared task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/translation-task.html>, sharing test data from a subset of its language directions, as well as protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation. Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task. We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring innovative, cutting-edge approaches. THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a balance between model compactness and MT performance. Languages: The second round of the task will focus on a subset of the languages covered by the General MT task, namely: Czech to German, English to Chinese (Simplified), and English to Arabic (Egyptian). Conditions: - Constrained: Participants will compress a specific model, using a predefined pool of data for calibration and fine-tuning (if needed) to ensure directly comparable results. - Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model, provided its original size is below 20B parameters, and use any additional data for calibration and fine-tuning. Participation format: Participants will share their compressed models to be run on a standardized hardware environment provided by the organizers. Evaluation Criteria: - Translation quality: Automatically assessed using multiple metrics, e.g. Comet, MetricX, and an LLM-as-a-judge framework. - Model size: Defined by memory usage. - Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set. IMPORTANT DATES - Test data released: June 18, 2026 - Model Submission deadline: July 2, 2026 - System description paper submission: in line with WMT26 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/index.html> - Camera-ready submission: in line with WMT26 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/index.html> - WMT 2026 Conference (co-located with EMNLP2026 <https://2026.emnlp.org/> in Budapest, Hungary): November, 2026 WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-compression.html ORGANIZERS: Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator CONTACTS: Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu Matteo Negri - negri(a)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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Final Call For Participation - CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts (HIPE 2026 – CLEF)
by Juri Alexander Opitz 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

Final Call For Participation HIPE 2026 – CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts (apologies for cross-postings) ________________________________ HIPE: Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities. Website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ Tasks: Person-Location Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts. Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ (until 23 April 2026) Training data releases: 19 Dec 2025 (partial); 19 Jan 2026 (full) Evaluation period: 5–7 May 2026 Workshop venue: during CLEF conference, 21–24 September 2026, Jena, Germany. LinkedIn: @ImpressoProject / #HIPE2026 / @clef_initiative / #clef2026 ________________________________ "Who was where when?" We invite participation in the third edition of the HIPE shared task, dedicated to the extraction of person–place relations in multilingual historical documents. Building on the success of HIPE-2020 and HIPE-2022, which focused on entity recognition and linking, HIPE-2026 aims to enable finer-grained analysis of entities and support the accurate reconstruction of individuals’ geographical and temporal trajectories. The objective of HIPE-2026 is to build systems capable of determining whether a relation holds between a person and a location (place) mentioned in a document, and classify its temporal scope. Participants are asked to develop systems that determine, for each (person, location) pair associated with a historical document, whether the text implies that the person is at that location within the document’s temporal horizon (isAt relation), or that the person was there at some earlier moment in their life (a more general At relation), or that no such link can be established. Can large language models take up the challenges? Simple co-occurrences of entity mentions in a text are not sufficient to uncover the implicit and explicit, temporally anchored relations between person and locations. Addressing this challenge requires temporal reasoning, geographical inference, and the interpretation of noisy historical texts (often with only fragmentary contextual cues) to classify person–location relations with varying degrees of certainty. The task is designed to be tackled by generative AI systems/LLMs as well as by more traditional classification approaches. HIPE-2026 features two evaluation profiles * Accuracy Profile: Focusing on system performance in relation classification. * Efficiency Profile: Rewarding scalable, lightweight approaches considering model size and compute cost. * Generalization Profile: An unseen dataset from a different domain will be included to evaluate systems’ ability to generalise beyond the newspaper domain data. For the accuracy and efficiency profile, training and test data originate from historical newspapers in English, German, French and Luxembourgish. Entity pairs will be provided. For further information on data, tasks, and evaluation settings * HIPE-2026 website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ * Participation Guidelines: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17800136 * HIPE-2026-data GitHub repository: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-2026-data On HIPE shared tasks HIPE evaluation lab series is part of the ongoing efforts of the natural language processing and digital humanities communities to adapt and develop technologies to efficiently retrieving and exploring information from historical texts. Important upcoming dates * 23 Apr 2026: Lab registration closes. * 05 May 2026: Test data release (10:00 CEST). * 07 May 2026: Participant run submission deadline. * 13 May 2026: Publication of results and release of test data. * 28 May 2026: Submission of participant notebook paper. * 10 Jul 2026 / 31 Aug 2026: CLEF conference regular/late registration DL. * 21 Sep 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference. Best regards, HIPE-2026 Shared Task Organizers https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/

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TSD 2026 - extended deadline and Last Call for Papers
by TSD 2026 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] ********************************************************* TSD 2026 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2026) Brno, Czech Republic, 1-4 September 2026 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to: April 25 2026 ............ Submission of full papers You may get updates by following new https://www.linkedin.com/company/tsdconference/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. Proceedings papers do not differentiate the presentation format. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2026 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Publishing on preprint servers is not forbidden, but authors are warned that when doing so this might influence the blind reviewing conditions. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Anders Soegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2026 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2026(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Tomas Arias-Vergara, Germany Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Daniel Hládek, Slovakia Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Spain Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy David Mareček, Czech Republic Jindrich Matousek, Czech Republic Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Daša Munková, Slovakia Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Paula Andrea Perez-toro, Germany Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Ján Staš, Slovakia Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. IMPORTANT DATES April 25 2026 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2026 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2026 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2026 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2026 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 1-4 2026 ....... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - please submit your abstract as soon as possible. For the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2026 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2026(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2026 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tsdconference/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400,000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-eastern part of the Czech Republic and is known for its wide range of cultural, natural, and technical attractions. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Milano, and Malaga, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat (UNESCO) designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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Fully-funded Ph.D. Positions in Mechanistic Interpretability and Neurosymbolic NN by-design
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

The project: <https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo: Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology Do YOU have a strong mathematical background, good programming skills, passion and curiosity, the ability to think out of the box? This is the Ph.D. Program for YOU: * Position 1) Mechanistic Interpretability by-design in Neural-Network-based Large Language Models: This theme is in the context of the MeMo project that aims to build alternative ways to build transparent Large Language Models by explicitly using Associative Memories. * Position 2) Injecting Neuro-symbolic Natural Language Processing Capabilities in Neural-Network-based Large Language Models: This theme is in the context of the MeMo project that aims to build alternative ways to build transparent Large Language Models by explicitly using Associative Memories. The positions will formally open in mid-April 2026 and will start on November 1st, 2026. If you want to see if you fit the position, take this test <https://forms.office.com/e/sSCGhP9MgF> Open Fully-funded Ph.D. Positions in the Data Science Ph.D. School and book an informal chat to understand if the positions fit you. Positions are based in Ph.D. on Data Science at University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) in the <https://humancentricart.github.io/> HumanCentricART Group

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GITT-2026 at EAMT: deadline extension to 26 April
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

Fourth International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2026 15 June 2026, Tilburg, The Netherlands https://sites.google.com/view/gitt2026/ @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) (NEW) Submission deadline: 26 April, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 13 May, 2026 Camera Ready Copy due: 20 May, 2026 Workshop: 15 June, 2026 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2025 and 2026. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2026 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eamt2026) **Workshop organizers** Manuel Lardelli, University of Padova Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eleni Gkovedarou, University of Ghent

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Call for Participation for the 7th RAIL WORKSHOP
by Menno Van Zaanen 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

Call for Participation for the 7th RAIL WORKSHOP RAIL workshop https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Co-located with LREC 2026 https://www.elra.info/lrec2026 RAIL workshop date: 12 May 2026 Conference venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) Theme: Creating resources for less-resourced African languages The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the LREC 2026 conference in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), on 12 May 2026. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on African indigenous language resources such as natural language 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 the sharing of knowledge regarding the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as the availability of the resources. Organising Committee Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Rooweither Mabuya, 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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GRACE@IberLEF2026: Clinical Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 14 Apr '26

14 Apr '26

Registration open!! ######################################################## GRACE@IberLEF2026: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/ ######################################################## ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** GRACE@IberLEF2026 announces the first edition of a novel task on Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine across clinical trials and medical licensing examinations. ⚗️ Argument Mining Argument Mining automatically extracts claims and evidence from clinical text and reveals how they support or challenge each other, enabling transparent, traceable clinical reasoning. 🌍 Spanish, First GRACE is the first Argument Mining task in Spanish for the clinical domain, filling a key gap in multilingual biomedical NLP with fine-grained, entity-level annotations. Track 01 🔬 Clinical Trial Evidence & Argumentation This track focuses on abstracts of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). Their standardized design, contrasting an intervention with a control group, provides a transparent path from data to conclusions, making argumentative components more accessible to automated systems. Goal: Identify argumentative components (claims and premises) and detect support/attack relations at the sentence level. Track 02 🩺 Clinical Case Reasoning (MIR) This track uses cases from the MIR (Médico Interno Residente) exam, Spain's national medical specialization test. Each instance pairs a dense clinical narrative with five competing diagnostic or treatment options, only one of which is correct. Goal: Extract fine-grained evidence spans that justify the correct option while refuting the incorrect alternatives. 📅 Important Dates 📂 Release of Training & Dev Sets March 18 🚀 Official Test Set Release April 22 ⏰ Deadline for Result Submission May 3 📊 Publication of Results May 8 📄 System Paper Submission May 24 ✅ Notification of Acceptance June 17 🎤 IberLEF Workshop (at SEPLN) September 22

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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for fast-track papers
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

(apologies for cross-postings) Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for fast-track papers � July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA Deadline for CODI CRAC fast-track papers: May 1st 2026 � CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. More information about the workshop : <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ � � CODI-CRAC 2026 invites you to submit your accepted or rejected conference submission as a fast track paper in either the archival or non-archival track: * We invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference, workshop or journal. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings (non-archival). � * We also invite submissions of papers rejected at another main conference, workshop or journal. The reviews should be submitted along with the paper. If accepted, the papers will be presented during the workshop and included in the proceedings (archival). � � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp. � Please indicate the type “non archival” if your paper has been accepted at another conference. � Use the following link: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/> https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ � � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - long-form question answering - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Schedule Important dates for the workshop are listed below: * Pre-reviewed fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): May 1st � * Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2026 * Student D&I Grant application: May 19, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 19, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 3 or 4, 2026 � All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Organizers - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC � To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com � �

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KONVENS 2026 2nd Call For Papers
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

(apologies for cross-posting; please circulate) KONVENS 2026 Second Call for Conference Papers https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 – 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers: * Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI * Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich. We invite the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, to be archived in the ACL Anthology, as well as abstract submissions that describe research in progress or published elsewhere. Beyond standard research contributions, submissions are welcome that present negative results, survey an area, introduce new resources, articulate a position, report novel linguistic insights obtained using existing computational methods, or reproduce (successfully or not) previous findings. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (up to 8 pages plus references), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers and demos (up to 4 pages plus references), including small and focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Abstracts (1 page, non-archival), which will be presented at the poster session and printed in the proceedings, but which will be non-archival. We especially invite submission on ongoing projects, student projects, past or ongoing bachelor and master theses, ongoing or recently completed PhD theses, and opinion pieces in this category to foster interaction and discussion in our community. Papers can be submitted either to the main conference track or to the special track “Context Matters”. Context Matters Track The widespread use of large language models (LLMs) and other types of language technology in research and real-world applications has fundamentally reshaped how natural language processing (NLP) systems interact with people and their environments. As NLP systems increasingly operate in socially embedded, high-impact settings like search, conversational agents and recommendation systems in business, education, medicine, law, and beyond, it becomes crucial to move beyond text in isolation and to account for the many forms of context that shape language use and interpretation. These include user-related factors (e.g., identity aspects like socio-demographic characteristics and the resulting perspectival differences), cultural and societal context, interaction history, application constraints, and signals from other modalities. The “Context Matters” track focuses on how different forms of context influence NLP systems, their design, their behavior, and their use. We invite work that studies NLP not as decontextualized text processing, but as situated technology embedded in human, social, disciplinary, and multimodal environments. Here, disciplines and application domains are important not only as areas of use, but as sources of structured contextual knowledge, perspectives, and methodological traditions — particularly from the social sciences and humanities, but also law, education, psychology, economics, and the natural sciences. In particular, the special theme includes: * Research that models user- and group-related context, such as identity aspects, socio-demographic variables, cultural background, or perspectival differences, and examines how these factors affect language use, system behavior, or system impact * Work that draws on or operationalizes concepts from other disciplines like the social sciences and related fields (e.g., social theory, cultural analysis, behavioral perspectives) to better understand linguistic phenomena, system outputs, or evaluation settings * Research analyzing social, societal, and institutional context, including norms, power structures, and real-world deployment environments, especially with respect to ethics, bias, and societal consequences * Studies of application context, where domain-specific constraints (e.g., in education, law, public administration, or the natural sciences) shape both language use and system requirements * Approaches that move beyond text-only processing and integrate multiple modalities (e.g., vision, audio, video, sensor data), with attention to the distinct contextual signals these modalities introduce * Work incorporating interactional context, such as dialogue history, user intent, and evolving human–AI interaction dynamics While the modelling component should include language, we especially encourage contributions that treat language as part of a broader contextual ecosystem, aiming toward more grounded, adaptive, and socially aware NLP systems. Papers must be in English and formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet and submitted via the submission link :https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2026/Conference Please consider the OpenReview policy for new accounts: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. KONVENS also adopts the ACL policies for submission, review, and citation, the ACL privacy policy, and the ACL code of ethics. Further information can be found on the conference website: https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ Submissions need to be anonymized to ensure double-blind review. However, we allow for pre-prints to be posted any time before or during the review period. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Important dates: 30.4.2026 Paper Submission Deadline 12.7.2026 Notification of Acceptance 01.8.2026 Camera-Ready Deadline 14.9. – 17.9.2026 KONVENS in Hamburg See you in Hamburg! Your conference chairs, Chris Biemann, Anne Lauscher, and Heike Zinsmeister --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister (sie/ihr) Linguistik des Deutschen / Korpuslinguistik Universität Hamburg, Institut für Germanistik, Raum C7012 Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (40) 2395-27119 heike.zinsmeister(a)uni-hamburg.de http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/zinsmeister.html

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Lectures on CL: Bolzano (Italy) 15-17 June 2026: Registration open
by Bernardi Raffaella 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

Dear all, The registration to the 2026 edition of the Lectures on Computational Linguistics is open. It will close on May 27, or earlier — as soon as the maximum number of participants (150) is reached. https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/ The 2026 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) together with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) and EURAC Research Center. It focuses on Natural Language Processing for the Society, covering topics from Low Resources Languages, Speech and Text, Embodied AI, Interpretability and Small Language Models for education in schools. Featuring frontal classes, evening lectures and hands-on labs, it provides both a high-level overview of the field as well as an introduction to specific topics, and practical experiences. SPEAKERS Tutorials: Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) Elia Bruni (University of Osnabrück) Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz) Evening Lectures: Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois) Aurelie Herbelot (Denotation UG) Labs: Loredana Schettino and Alessandro Vietti (Faculty of Education, UNIBZ) Leonardo Bertolazzi (University of Trento) Egon Stemle and Luca Ducceschi (EURAC Research Center) The detailed programme is available at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2026/program/ Student Presentations Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a 500-word abstract to ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com<mailto:ailc.lectures@gmail.com> by May 16, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 23, 2026. Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile, University of Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia Local Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi, Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Alessandro Vietti, Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Luca Ducceschi, EURAC Research Center Contacts: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com<mailto:ailc.lectures@gmail.com> ======================================================================= Room B1.5.01 Faculty of Engineering Free University of Bozen Bolzano NOI Techpark - B. Buozzi 1, 39100 Bozen Bolzano, Italy

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Final Call for Papers - StyGenAI Workshop@EAMT 2026
by Sami Ul Haq 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

Final Call for Papers - StyGenAI Workshop @EAMT 2026 The StyGenAI workshop will take place in conjunction with EAMT 2026 (European Association for Machine Translation) from 15–18 June 2026 at the Schaumburg Concertzaal in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The workshop will be part of a vibrant international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners at the forefront of machine translation and language technologies. More information about the main conference is available at https://eamt2026.org/ → Important Dates - Workshop paper submission deadline: 27 April 2026 (there will be no extension to this deadline) - Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: 20 May 2026 → Submission Information The workshop invites research papers reporting original work. Papers should be 4–10 pages in length, excluding references. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and made available online via the ACL Anthology. Submissions must follow the EAMT 2026 formatting guidelines and templates <https://eamt2026.org/calls-for-papers> and be submitted via the EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35628372> system. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshopstygenai?usp=sharing About the workshop: The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence has profoundly reshaped the landscape of translation. Moving beyond traditional machine translation paradigms, large language models (LLMs) now operate as translation agents capable of producing linguistically fluent and stylistically complex texts. As a result, translation is no longer only a matter of accuracy or adequacy, but increasingly one of style. As LLMs are adopted for translation tasks, their outputs reveal distinctive linguistic and stylistic patterns. These patterns differ in subtle but consequential ways from those found in both human translation and conventional MT systems. While such differences are often perceived intuitively by readers and practitioners, they remain underexplored from a systematic, research-driven perspective. This evolving scenario raises a set of pressing questions: -What are the stylistic features of GenAI-produced translations? -How do they differ from those generated by traditional MT systems? -And how do they compare to human translations across genres, languages, and contexts? StyGenAI is the first workshop dedicated specifically to the study of style in GenAI-translated content. The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in AI translation stylistics, including recurrent stylistic patterns, departures from human translation style, and the linguistic, technical, and contextual factors that modulate AI-generated output. Particular attention is given to the role of text genre, language pair, and prompt design or prompting strategies in shaping the stylistic profile of GenAI translations. The workshop provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and AI evaluation. Contributions are welcomed from both empirical and conceptual perspectives, as well as from research that bridges academic inquiry and professional practice. The workshop welcomes empirical, methodological, and conceptual contributions from translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and related fields. We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - Stylistic fingerprints of LLM-based translation in comparison with conventional MT systems and professional human translation - The influence of prompting strategies (for example, role prompting, constraints, zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot approaches) on stylistic outcomes - Cross-genre analyses of AI translation style in literary, academic, journalistic, technical, and social media texts - Authorial voice and style preservation across languages in GenAI-mediated translation - Language-specific manifestations of machine-like or synthetic stylistic patterns - Methodologies for evaluating stylistic adequacy and stylistic variation in AI-generated translations - Cognitive effort and decision-making in post-editing LLM output for stylistic quality as opposed to content accuracy - Cultural, pragmatic, or discourse-level mismatches introduced by AI translation choices - The handling of irony, humour, voice, and other stylistically marked devices in GenAI translation - Human–AI hybrid workflows for style-sensitive translation tasks - Pedagogical approaches to training translators to identify, assess, and correct AI-generated stylistic patterns - Diachronic or longitudinal analyses of stylistic change as LLMs and prompting practices evolve -- *Sami Ul Haq (He/Him)* Doctoral Researcher | ADAPT Centre | McNulty Building (L115) | Dublin City University | Glasnevin Campus | Dublin, Ireland Website: https://sami-haq99.github.io/ Email: sami.haq2(a)mail.dcu.ie <https://sami-haq99.github.io/> -- __ Séanadh Ríomhphoist/_ Email Disclaimer__ ** Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. 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[CFP] Call for papers for EvalMG 2026
by ACL Announcements 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

The Second Workshop on Evaluation for Multimodal Generation Multimodal generation and retrieval systems are increasingly central to modern information retrieval, powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal search, recommendation, and knowledge-intensive applications. Despite rapid progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), robust and principled evaluation of multimodal generation and retrieval remains a major open challenge for the IR community. This workshop aims to foster discussions and research efforts by bringing together researchers and practitioners in information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Our goal is to establish evaluation methods for multimodal research and advance research efforts in this direction. CALL FOR PAPERS Both long papers and short papers (up to 9 pages and 4 pages respectively, with unlimited references and appendices) are welcome for submission. A list of topics relevant to this workshop (but not limited to): * Multimodal retrieval for RAG, Agentic AI, recommendation systems * Evaluation of retrieved cross-modal samples, without relying on augmented generation * Multi-aspect evaluation methods capturing inter- and intra-modal coherence, relevance, grounding, and contextual consistency * Benchmark retrieval datasets, evaluation protocols and annotations for text-image-audio-video-3D generation * Automatic and human-centric metrics for informativeness, factuality, fluency, faithfulness, calibration, and usability for multimodal generation * Methodology for detecting, analysing, and mitigating multimodal bias, stereotypes, toxicity, and hallucinations * Evaluation in multimodal low-resource and multilingual settings, including culturally aware and cross-lingual metrics * Agent-based evaluation of multimodal generation in multi-turn, tool-use, or iterative editing scenarios * Game-theoretic or optimization-based formulations of evaluation objectives and protocols * Evaluation of the generation quality of synthetic multimodal data, provenance/attribution, and downstream impact on training and deployment * Ethical considerations in the evaluation of multimodal text generation, including bias detection and mitigation strategies * Evaluation of Security and Privacy Dimensions in Multimodal Applications * SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS For direct paper submission, you are invited to submit your papers in our OpenReview portal [1]. Papers are required to strictly follow the SIGIR submission guidelines [2]. We invite both long papers [2] (9 pages) and short papers [3] (4 pages) submissions. All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES * Mar 25, 2026: Submission Open * May 2, 2026: Workshop Paper Direct Submission Deadline * May 27, 2026: ARR Commitment Date * June 2, 2026: Workshop Paper Notification * July 24, 2026: Workshop Day Note: All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth") More Information: https://evalmg.github.io/#submission [4] Links: ------ [1] https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGIR/2026/Workshop/EvalMG [2] https://sigir2026.org/en-AU/pages/submissions/full-papers-track [3] https://sigir2026.org/en-AU/pages/submissions/short-papers-track [4] https://evalmg.github.io/#submission

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CMC2026: Extended deadline
by Steven Coats 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, We announce an extension of the submission deadline for CMC2026: Extended deadline: 22 April 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026) 📍 University of Oulu, Finland 📅 27–28 August 2026 🌐 https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> We invite submissions for CMC-Corpora 2026, the 13th edition of the conference series focusing on corpora and computational approaches to computer-mediated communication and social media. The conference welcomes research on the development, analysis, and computational processing of CMC and social media corpora, including multimodal and large-scale datasets from contemporary platforms such as messaging apps, social networks, and video-sharing environments. Submission types • Short papers (3–5 pages) – oral presentations • Poster abstracts (max. 300 words) – work-in-progress and demos Topics include (but are not limited to) • Development and annotation of CMC and social media corpora • Sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of online communication • Multimodal communication and social media data • Multilingualism and code-switching in digital contexts • NLP and AI methods for CMC analysis • Large language models and computational approaches to social media data Important dates Submission deadline: 22 April 2026 Notification: 1 June 2026 Conference: 27–28 August 2026 Submission portal https://www.conftool.net/cmc2026 Full call for papers, templates, and guidelines https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Oulu. The organizing committee Steven Coats Maarit Siromaa Jarkko Toikkanen Hanne Juntunen University Lecturer, Docent English, Faculty of Humanities University of Oulu P.O. Box 8000, FI-90014 University of Oulu Finland https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats

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NLPAICS'2026 - extended submissions deadline 27 April 2026
by Amal Haddad 12 Apr '26

12 Apr '26

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/ *** Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline is extended to 27 April 2026 *** 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 Keynote Speaker We are delighted to announce that Preslav Nakov from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Abu Dhabi) (https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/) will be keynote speaker at NLPAICS 2026. 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 c in an 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 in Overleaf: 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. Submissions to the student workshop can be in the form of both regular and short papers but will be evaluated separately and will be presented as a separate session at the conference. Awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates • Submission deadline (extended due to multiple requests): 27April 2026 • Reviewing process: 28April 2026 – 17 May 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 18 May 2026 • Camera-ready due: 28 May 2026 • Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 5 June 2026 • Conference: 11-12 June 2026 Organisation Conference Chairs Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Publication Chair Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Sponsorship Chair Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) Student Workshop Chair Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Best Paper Award Chair Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Publicity Chair Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) Social Programme Chair Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) Programme Committee • Vivek Kumar, University of Bundeswehr München, Germany. • Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK. • Rui Sousa Silva, University of Porto, Portugal. • Cengiz Acartürk, Jagiellonian University, Poland • Lena Podoletz, Lancaster University, UK • Nasredine Semmar, CEA/University of Paris-Saclay, France • Sevil Sen, Hacettepe University, Turkey • Wajdi Zaghouani, Northwest University, Qatar • Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA • Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg • Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK • Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland • Matthew Bradbury, Lancaster University, UK • Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK • Daniel Prince, Lancaster University, UK • Basil Germond, Lancaster University, UK • Hongmei He, University of Salford, UK • Rafael Valencia García, University of Murcia, Spain, • Angela Almela Sanchez-Lafuente, University of Murcia, Spain • Eugenio Martínez Cámara, University of Jaén, Spain • Alfonso Ureña López, University of Jaén, Spain • Dan Fretwell, Lancaster University, UK • Sedat Akleylek, University of Tartu, Estonia • Ozkan Kilic, Cisco Systems Inc., USA • Ilker Ozcelik, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey • Ozgur Ural, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA 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. Related events The conference school will precede the summer school The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 (https://summer-school.gplsi.es). Further information and contact details 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 -- 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. 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LCR 2026 Prague (registration is open)
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 12 Apr '26

12 Apr '26

Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR 2026) – Prague, September 16–19 2026 Registration now open for LCR 2026 We are pleased to announce that registration for the Learner Corpus Research (LCR) 2026 conference is now open. You can find all details and register here: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz/registration/ Please feel free to share this information with colleagues who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you there! Tomáš Gráf

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Call for Track proposals - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2026 - fire.irsi.org.in
by Thomas Mandl 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear Colleagues, Call for Evaluation and Benchmarking Track 2026 is out now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite proposals for the Evaluation and Benchmarking Track at FIRE 2026. FIRE 2026 is the 18th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in <https://fire.irsi.org.in>). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks should focus on solving specific problems in the area of information access and, more importantly, on generating high quality evaluation datasets for the research community. In line with this objective, this year the FIRE tracks emphasize selecting tasks that either introduce a new paradigm in the field or generate a substantial amount of valuable benchmark data that can support future research and experimentation. It is not required for the tasks to focus on a specific language, and they can broadly cover any problem in the fields related (but not limited) to IR, NLP, multi-modal information access, and ML. However, the organizers especially encourage proposals for tracks related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages. In the past, FIRE has hosted tracks from Arabic, Persian, German, Russian, and Urdu languages besides several Indian languages. We aim to continue these efforts and include more language groups from these regions. For knowing more about tracks in past FIRE meetings, you can visit fire.irsi.org.in <https://fire.irsi.org.in> Informal inquiries can also be sent to the track chairs. Please include the following details in your proposal: 1. Track name 2. Track description 3. Use case/s 4. Target Audience and number of expected submissions 5. Data(*) (Fair Details) 6. Evaluation plan 7. Timeline: Please try to align with the FIRE conference dates as given below 8. Organizer/s Details 9. Prior experience in organizing shared task/workshop at relevant venues *Tentative Timeline* *5th April, 2026* Track proposals due *24th April, 2026* Track acceptance notification *15th May, 2026* Open track websites and release of training data *15th June, 2026* Test data release *30th June, 2026* Run submission deadline *15th July, 2026* Track results declaration *30th August, 2026* Working notes due *30th September, 2026* Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due *December, 2026 - Dates TBD* FIRE 2026 Conference Please send these details in a pdf format to clia(a)isical.ac.in with a copy to majumdar.srijoni(a)gmail.com <mailto:majumbdar.srijoni@gmail.com>, kripa.ghosh(a)gmail.com and mandl(a)uni-hildesheim.de (*) We require that after FIRE, the data should be made publicly available through Information Retrieval Society of India. In case, data can not be distributed publicly (e.g., Twitter data), a unique identifier that can be used to recreate the original corpus can be provided (e.g., tweet ids in case of Twitter data). This disbursal will be governed by a copyright form, which the users have to sign before getting the data. A sample form is available at ( fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data <https://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data> ). In case, it is not preferable/possible for the track organizers to share the data, please mention this in the proposal with specific concerns. Exceptions can be made for tracks where data from industry is used or in case of other serious legal or ethical concerns. The aim of organizing these tracks at FIRE is to have debates and discussions on focused topics and give feedback to participants. As a result, at least one of the track organizers from each track is expected to attend FIRE and present the overview of track in person. In case of non-attendance of any of the organizers, the team will not be allowed to offer a track next year. We will try to provide student volunteers for support in the proposed tracks. They will basically be undergraduate students interested in IR and related fields and can help with corpus creation, evaluation, correspondence with participants, etc. If you require any such support, kindly mention that in the track proposals along with the number of students required. Hoping to have an enthusiastic response from your end. *Overall Track Coordinators, FIRE 2026* Thomas Mandl (Universitat Hildesheim, Germany) Kripabandhu Ghosh (IISER Kolkata, India) Srijoni Majumdar (University of Leeds, UK)

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PROFE 2026 @ IberLEF 2026 - Call for Participation and release of development data
by ALVARO RODRIGO YUSTE 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> ------------------------------------------------ Call for Participation PROFE 2026: Language Proficiency Evaluation IberLEF 2026 Shared Task https://sites.google.com/view/profe2026 PROFE 2026 reuses the exams for Spanish proficiency evaluation developed by Instituto Cervantes along many years to evaluate human students. Therefore, automatic systems will be evaluated under the same conditions as humans were. Systems will receive a set of exercises with their corresponding instructions without specific training material. In this way we expect Transfer Learning approaches or the use of Generative Large Language Models. The previous edition proposed exams based only on text. In this new edition, we will include exams with images, which sometimes require interpretation to answer the exercise correctly. We propose evaluating systems on their ability to perform multimodal reasoning, moving beyond text-only comprehension. We will provide a limited set of new image-based exercises while retaining the dataset from the previous edition. This setup encourages participants to develop strategies for handling the scarcity of specific training data. Subtasks PROFE 2026 has three subtasks, one per exercise type. Teams can participate in any combination of them. Each subtask contains several exercises of the same type. The subtasks are: 1. Multiple choice subtask: each exercise includes a text and a set of multiple-choice questions about the text where only one answer is correct. Given a multiple-choice question, systems must select the correct answer among the candidates. 2. Matching subtask: each exercise contains two sets of texts. Systems must find the text in the second set that best matches the first set. There is only one possible matching per text, but the first set can contain extra unnecessary texts. 3. Filling the gap subtask: each exercise contains a text with several gaps corresponding to textual fragments that have been removed and presented disorderly as options. Systems must determine the correct position for each fragment. There is only one correct text per gap, but there could be more candidates than gaps. The different exercises open research on how to approach them, adapting different prompts when using generative models. As the main novelty in this edition, some exercises will contain images. While some of these images will be the candidate answers (rather than text excerpts), others might provide visual information needed to answer the exercise correctly. Conversely, some images will not provide essential information. Consequently, systems participating in this edition must adopt a multimodal approach, capable of discerning when to integrate visual cues and when to disregard them. This necessity to filter visual relevance introduces significant new challenges compared to the previous edition. Dataset We will use the IC-UNED-RC-ES dataset created from real examinations at Instituto Cervantes. These exams were created by human experts to assess language proficiency in Spanish. We have already collected the exams and converted them to a digital format, which is ready to be used in the task. The dataset contains exams at different levels (from A1 to C2). The description of the full dataset was published in the following paper: * Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Javier Fruns-Jiménez, Inés Soria-Pastor, Sergio Moreno-Álvarez, Alberto Pérez García-Plaza, and Julio Reyes-Montesinos. A Spanish Language Proficiency Dataset for AI Evaluation<https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/17/2/159>. Information 17, no. 2: 159. DOI: 10.3390/info17020159<https://doi.org/10.3390/info17020159>. 2026. The complete dataset contains 282 exams with 855 exercises. The total number of evaluation points are 6146 (among 16570 options) distributed by exercise type as: multiple-choice: 3544 responses matching: 2309 responses fill-the-gap: 293 responses In PROFE 2026, we plan to use around 50% of the exams; the other 50% was already used for the PROFE 2025 edition. We intend not to distribute the gold standard to prevent overfitting in post-campaign experiments and data contamination in LLMs. Evaluation measures and baseline We will use traditional accuracy (proportion of correct answers) as the main evaluation measure. Systems will receive evaluation scores from two different perspectives: * At the question level, where correct answers are counted individually without grouping them. * At the exam level, where scores for each exam are considered. Each exam contains several exercises of different types. An exam is considered to be passed if an accuracy score (accounted as the proportion of correct answers) above 0.5 is reached. Then, the proportion of passed exams is given as a global score. This perspective will only apply to those teams participating in the three subtasks. More in detail, the exact evaluation per subtask is as follows: * Multiple choice subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of questions correctly answered * Matching subtask: we will measure accuracy as the proportion of correct texts matched. * Fill in the gap subtask: We will measure accuracy as the proportion of correctly filled gaps. We will use accuracy as the evaluation measure because there is only one correct option among candidates and because it is the measure applied to humans doing the same exams. Thus, we can compare the performance of automatic systems and humans under the same conditions A preliminary baseline using ChatGPT obtains the following results for each exercise type (provided that different prompting can produce slightly different results): * Multiple choice accuracy: 0.64 * Filling the gap accuracy: 0.43 * Matching accuracy: 0.51 Schedule April April 10, 2026 Development data released April 27, 2026 Test set release May May 11, 2026 Deadline for submitting runs May 18, 2026 Release of evaluation results June June 3, 2026 Paper submission deadline Organizers Alvaro Rodrigo<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alvaro-rodrigo-yuste.h…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Anselmo Peñas<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/anselmo-penas-padilla.…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Alberto Pérez<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/informatica/alberto-perez-garcia-p…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Sergio Moreno<https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/en/informatica/sergio-moreno-alvar…>, UNED NLP & IR Group (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Javier Fruns, Instituto Cervantes Inés Soria, Instituto Cervantes Rodrigo Agerri<https://ragerri.github.io/>, HiTz (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU) AVISO LEGAL. 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Call for Participation in iKAT 2026 as Part of SCAI@SIGIR 2026
by Marcel Ewald Gohsen 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

We invite participation to the 4th shared task on interactive (personalized) knowledge assistance (iKAT 2026), which will be hosted as part of the 10th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI)<https://scai.info/scai-2026/> , colocated with SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. * Name: Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT) * Organizers: Marcel Gohsen<https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/chairs/computer-science-department/webis…>, Mohammad Aliannejadi<https://aliannejadi.com/>, Simon Lupart<https://simonlupart.github.io/>, Zahra Abbasiantaeb<https://zahraabbasiantaeb.github.io/>, Nailia Mirzakhmedova<https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/chairs/computer-science-department/webis…>, Johannes Kiesel<https://kiesels.de/johannes>, Jeff Dalton<https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jeff/> * Preliminary timeline (exact dates might still be subject of change): * Registration deadline: May 27, 2026 * System submission opens: May 27, 2026 * System submission deadline: June 10, 2026 * Report submission deadline: July 17, 2026 * SCAI Workshop: July 24, 2026 * Website: https://www.trecikat.com/ * Registration: https://form.jotform.com/260753949743066 Motivation While the conversational interaction paradigm becomes more and more prevalent for search, the challenge of adapting system responses to individual users (i.e., personalization) still remains a challenge for conversational retrieval systems. Since answer relevance is highly subjective, personalization is necessary to build effective user-centric retrieval systems. From the beginning, personalization of conversational search is the central goal of the Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT). The iKAT shared task can look back on four years under former name, Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT), and three years under the current name, iKAT, hosted at TREC. In 2026, iKAT will be organized in collaboration with the SCAI workshop that will take place at SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. Task Overview Participants of iKAT will receive the following resources to provide their run submissions. 1. Test dataset that contains the following information: a) Topics b) Example conversations c) Personal Text Knowledge Bases (PTKB) of the users 2. Passage collection (iKAT subset of ClueWeb22-B) 3. Access to the user simulation API (Sim.API<https://github.com/marcel-gohsen/user-simulation-api>) and documentation. Participants submit conversational search systems that, for each real-time simulated user turn, retrieves and ranks relevant passages from the passage collection. Then, the system use the ranked passages to generate a personalized response based on the user’s PTKB, utterance, and context. This response will be passed back to the simulated user, which again produces an utterance. This process will be repeated until the user terminates the conversation. The systems have to provide the generated text response, the ranked list of passages (citations), and the PTKB statements that were deemed relevant for each produced turn. Submission Participants submit their runs via an API and submit a report to describe their approaches. Every participating team will be invited to present their approaches during the SCAI workshop and the reports will be released as part of our proceedings. Further Details For more information and updates on the task please keep an eye on our guidelines and on our iKAT website<https://www.trecikat.com/>.

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[Jobs@ELDA] Offre de missions de traduction en anglais, français, allemand et russe (H/F) / English, French, German and Russian Translators (F/M)
by info＠elda.org 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] English, French, German and Russian translators (F/M) (English version below) Context: In order to create high-quality linguistic resources, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) is hiring translators to work in the following language pairs: • French to English • German to French • English to German • Russian to English Mission details: • Document type: political newspaper articles (defense-oriented); • Volume: 15.000 words ; • Modality: full translation (target text to be created from scratch); • Technical terminology: journalistic discourse - may contain political, judicial or military jargon; • Start date: as soon as possible; • End date: May 22nd, 2026; • Location: ELDA main office (Paris, 13th district). Remote work allowed; • Contract type: freelance (possible fixed-term contract upon request); • Send estimate to: <menel(a)elda.org> Additional job specificities: • Knowledge of annotation softwares (Label Studio) is a great-to-have. • You are able to quickly understand and apply complex annotation guidelines. How to apply : • Send your resume to <menel(a)elda.org>. ------------------------------------------------------- Offre de missions de traduction - anglais, français, allemand et russe (H/F) Contexte : Dans le cadre de ses activités de production de ressources linguistiques, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) recherche des traducteurs (F/H) amenés à travailler dans les paires de langues suivantes : • Français vers anglais • Allemand vers français • Anglais vers allemand • Russe vers anglais Détails de la mission : • Documents : articles politiques contemporains (axés défense) ; • Volume : 15 000 mots ; • Modalité : traduction complète (production du texte cible) ; • Langage technique : discours journalistique, avec jargons politique, juridique et/ou militaire occasionnels ; • Date d’embauche prévue : Dès que possible ; • Date de fin de mission : 22 mai 2026 ; • Lieu : Locaux d’ELDA (Paris 13ème arrondissement), télétravail possible ; • Type de contrat : freelance (CDD envisageable sur demande) ; • Envoi de devis : <menel(a)elda.org> Autres spécificités du poste : • La connaissance du logiciel d’annotation Label Studio est très appréciée. • Capacité à intégrer et appliquer rapidement des règles d’annotation complexes. Candidature : • Envoyer un CV à <menel(a)elda.org>

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[Jobs@ELDA] Annotateurs (H/F) en allemand, anglais et russe / Annotators (M/F) in German, English and Russian
by info＠elda.org 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] Contexte : ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) recherche, dans le cadre de ses activités de production de ressources linguistiques, des annotateurs (F/H) pour une mission de deux semaines (renouvelable) à temps plein. Langues concernées : • Allemand • Anglais • Russe Mission : Dans le cadre d’un projet européen, nous constituons des corpus d’évaluation des technologies langagières. L’annotateur sera amené à travailler sur les tâches suivantes : • Entités nommées (NER), • Reconnaissance de la parole (ASR), • Reconnaissance automatique de caractères (OCR). La mission aura lieu dans les locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e) et peut démarrer dès que possible. Profil recherché : • Locuteur natif (ou niveau C2 minimum) d’une des langues concernées ; • Connaissances dans le domaine des langues et/ou de la linguistique afin de comprendre et mobiliser des concepts fins (sémantique, phonétique) ; • Connaissances en traitement automatique des langues ou humanités numériques très appréciées ; • Capacité à travailler sur les types de textes suivants : presse politique, documentation technique en lien avec la défense, données de défense européenne ; • Capacité à travailler avec les formats de données suivants : images, audio, texte ; • Bonne maîtrise de l’outil informatique ; la connaissance de logiciels d'annotation (Label Studio, Praat en particulier) est très appréciée ; • Capacité à intégrer rapidement et suivre des règles d’annotation complexes ; • Curiosité, minutie, attention au détail, rigueur. Modalités du contrat : • Rémunération SMIC +20% soit 2162,16€ brut mensuel ; • Premiers jours de formation sur site, télétravail possible par la suite ; • CDD de 2 semaines renouvelable. Candidature : • Envoyer un CV à <menel(a)elda.org>. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Context: In order to create high-quality language resources, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) is hiring full-time annotators. Targeted Languages: • German • English • Russian Mission : Currently taking part in a European-funded project, ELDA is developing evaluation datasets for language technologies. The annotators will work on the following tasks: • Named Entity Recognition (NER), • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), • Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The position will be based at the ELDA main office (Paris, 13th district) and can start as soon as possible. Requirements and qualifications : • You are a native (or at least C2 level) speaker in one of the targeted languages; • You have extensive knowledge in language sciences and/or linguistics. This will be necessary to discuss advanced concepts such as semantics or phonetics; • Ideally, you have knowledge in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or in Digital Humanities (DH); • You can handle the following textual types: political news, technical documentation on the defense domain, European defense data; • You can handle the following data types: image, audio and text; • You have solid computer skills; knowing annotation software (esp. Label Studio and Praat) is a great-to-have; • You are able to quickly understand and apply complex annotation guidelines; • You are curious, meticulous and detail-oriented. Contract specifications: • Compensation: French minimum wage (SMIC) +20%, amounting to €2162.16 (gross monthly salary); • Location: on-site for the first days of training, then remote work is allowed for the remaining days; • Duration: 2-week renewable fixed-term contract (CDD). How to apply : • Send your resume to <menel(a)elda.org>.

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[2nd CFP] NALOMA: Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning
by Abzianidze, L. (Lasha) 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] TL;DR Time & place: 3-7 August, ESSLLI in Prague, Czech Republic Submission types: ACL Anthology archival (short/long/demo) and non-archival (extended abstract) Deadline: 30 April Website: https://naloma.github.io The 6th iteration of the NALOMA (Natural Language Meets Logic and Machine Learning) workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) aspect of hybrid methods concerning Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning (NLU&R). The topics include but are not limited to: - Hybrid NLU&R systems that integrate logic-based/symbolic methods with neural networks - Explainable NLU&R (with structured explanations) - Opening the black-box of deep learning in NLU&R - Downstream applications of hybrid NLU&R systems - Probabilistic semantics for NLU&R - Comparison and contrast between symbolic and deep learning work on NLU&R - Creation, criticism, refinement, and augmentation of NLU&R datasets - (Dis)Alignment of humans and machines on NLU&R tasks - Addressing inherent human disagreements in NLU&R tasks - Generalization of NLU&R systems - Fine-grained evaluation of NLU&R systems NALOMA accepts archival papers (long, short, and demo) to appear in the ACL anthology proceedings and non-archival extended abstracts. The workshop is co-located with ESSLLI (https://2026.esslli.eu), 3-7 August, Prague, Czech Republic. The submission deadline is 30 April. Please visit https://naloma.github.io for more details about the call. NALOMA PC chairs, Lasha Abzianidze and Hitomi Yanaka Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University

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Summer Corpus Intensive
by Daniel HENKEL 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Paris 8 University is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer Intensive Program "*Corpus Methods in Linguistics--compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis*", to be held 26-29 May 2026. This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of: --morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building --afternoon sessions focusing on statistical analysis of the data produced during the morning sessions --several half-day sessions on automatic annotation and manual annotation methods Participants will learn how to: --formulate advanced search queries in a concordancer (e.g. TextSTAT, AntConc) --compile a text corpus with BootCaT --automatically annotate a text corpus in TreeTagger --measure keyword specificity and collocation strength using AntConc --perform statistical analyses of categorical variables in R This program is intended primarily for researchers and upper-level students (Masters or Doctorate). Tuition will be 90€. To participate*, or request further information, please send an email to the organizers indicating name, status (e.g. Doctoral student, Post-doctoral researcher, Faculty) and 5 keywords describing your research interests using this link <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. Please note that this is an international Summer School and that we will work with corpora in English, French and possibly other languages. Knowledge of French is thus an advantage but is not strictly necessary. /*Pending confirmation/ *** Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer l'ouverture prochaine du Séminaire Intensif « *Méthodes en Linguistique de Corpus--compilation, annotation et analyse quantitative* », de l'Université Paris 8 qui aura lieu du 26 au 29 mai 2026. Ce programme, d'une durée d'une semaine, comprend 30h de cours répartis de la manière suivante : --le matin, des séances consacrées à la récolte et à la préparation des données --l'après-midi, des cours dédiés à l'analyse statistique des données récoltées lors des séances du matin --plusieurs demi-journées d'entraînement à l'annotation automatique et manuelle. Les participants apprendront à : --concevoir des formules de recherche complexes dans un concordancier (p.ex. TextSTAT, AntConc) --rassembler un corpus thématique avec BootCaT --étiqueter un corpus de texte automatiquement avec TreeTagger --mesurer la spécificité des mots clefs et la force des collocations dans AntConc --réaliser des analyses statistiques de variables catégoriques dans R Ce programme s'adresse principalement à des enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants de deuxième ou troisième cycle (Master, Doctorat). Les frais de participation seront de 90€. Pour y participer*, ou pour tout complément d'information, envoyez un courriel aux organisateurs indiquant votre nom, statut (p.ex. Doctorant, Post-doc, Enseignant-chercheur) et 5 mots clefs décrivant vos intérêts de recherche en cliquant ici <mailto:daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr?subject=Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive&body=Name:%0D%0A%0D%0AStatus%2FAffiliation:%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords:%0D%0A%0D%0AHow%2FWhere%20did%20you%20learn%20about%20the%20Paris%208%20Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%3F:%0D%0A%0D%0AMessage:%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ANB.%20Please%20leave%20the%20subject%20line%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22%20unchanged.%0D%0AVeuillez%20ne%20pas%20modifier%20la%20ligne%20objet%20%22Summer%20Corpus%20Intensive%22.&cc=dsg.up8@gmail.com,summer.school.paris8@gmail.com>. /*Sous réserve de confirmation/

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ACM ICMI 2026 Call for Tutorials
by Gualtiero Volpe 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR TUTORIALS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 seeks half-day tutorial proposals addressing current and emerging topics within the scope of context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction. Tutorials are designed to offer a high-quality learning experience to participants with diverse backgrounds. It is expected that tutorials are self-contained. Prospective organizers should submit a 4-page (maximum) proposal containing the following information: 1. Title. 2. Abstract, appropriate for possible Web promotion of the tutorial. 3. A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed. 4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives). 5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pre-requisite knowledge, field of study). 6. Detailed description of the tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction. 7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration. 8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practical aspects). 9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval). 10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic. 11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was delivered. Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: - Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2026. - Presenters’ experience. - Adequacy of the presentation format to the topic. - Targeted audience interest and impact. - Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access). Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters’ own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable. However, we encourage non-academic researchers to propose tutorials. Contact Details Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2026 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik at: icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Important Dates Tutorial proposal deadline: April 30th, 2026 Tutorial acceptance notification: May 23th, 2026 Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract: August 2nd, 2026 Tutorial date: October 5th or October 9th 2026 ICMI organization will provide rooms, coffee, and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer for each tutorial.

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Post-doc position in archive digital valorization (computer science & digital humanities)
by Antonin Descampe 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

[Version française ci-dessous, apologies for cross-posting, mes excuses en cas d’envoi multiple] Job offer summary In the context of the BELSPO FED-tWIN<https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_en.stm> research program (ARKEY funded proposal), the MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab from UCLouvain<https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html>, Belgium) and the States Archives of Belgium<https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=en> (SAB) are looking for a post-doc researcher in computer science or digital humanities, with a significant experience in the automatic processing of digital documents involving both text and images. The proposed contract is an open-ended FTE contract (50% UCLouvain, 50% SAB). The funding is guaranteed over a period of 7.5 years, with the intention of securing the position. The main objective of this ARKEY research profile will be to improve the digital valorization of archive collections through long-term tools and recent advances in artificial intelligence. It involves (1) the research and development of an enhanced access key to digitized content (through text and layout recognition, and enriched digital archival representation), and (2) the improvement of the navigation experience within archive collections, through semantic search and conversational interfaces. It builds on the expertise of a multidisciplinary team from SAB and from several research groups within UCLouvain (MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil>, Cental<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH<https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives>, and GEMCA<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY aims to bring added value for society and public service, by improving the accessibility and intelligibility of archives: a priority for many researchers and a foundation of democratic states. The complete offer is available here<https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil/jobs>. Application should be sent to Antonin Descampe (antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>) and Johan Van Der Eycken (johan.vandereycken(a)arch.be<mailto:johan.vandereycken@arch.be>) as soon as possible and no later than May 10, 2026. Résumé de l’offre Dans le cadre du programme de recherche BELSPO FED-tWIN<https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_fr.stm> (proposition financée « ARKEY »), le MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab de l'UCLouvain<https://uclouvain.be/fr/index.html>, Belgique) et les Archives de l’Etat en Belgique<https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr> (AGR) recherchent un post-doctorant en informatique ou en humanités numériques, avec une expérience importante dans le le traitement automatique de documents numériques impliquant à la fois du texte et des images. Le contrat proposé est un contrat à temps plein à durée indéterminée (50% UCLouvain, 50% AGR). Le financement est garanti sur 7,5 ans, avec une intention de pérennisation du poste. L'objectif principal de ce profil de recherche ARKEY sera d’optimiser la valorisation numérique des collections d'archives grâce à des outils informatiques pérennes et aux avancées récentes en intelligence artificielle. Il propose (1) la recherche et le développement de moyens d'accès enrichis au contenu numérisé (grâce à la reconnaissance de texte et de structure, ainsi qu’à une représentation enrichie des archives), et (2) l'amélioration de l'expérience de navigation au sein des collections d’archives, notamment via des interfaces de recherche sémantique et conversationnelle. Il s'appuie sur l'expertise d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire des AGR et de plusieurs groupes de recherche au sein de l'UCLouvain (MiiL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil>, Cental<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH<https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives> et GEMCA<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY vise à apporter une valeur ajoutée pour la société et le service public en améliorant l'accessibilité et l'intelligibilité des archives : une priorité pour de nombreux chercheurs et chercheuses, et un fondement des États démocratiques. L'offre complète est également disponible ici<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil/offres-d-emploi.html>. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées à Antonin Descampe (antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>) et Johan Van Der Eycken (johan.vandereycken(a)arch.be<mailto:johan.vandereycken@arch.be>) dès que possible et au plus tard le 10 mai 2026. Antonin Descampe - PhD Assistant Professor @ UCLouvain<https://www.uclouvain.be/> (personal page<https://www.uclouvain.be/people/antonin.descampe>) Teacher @ Louvain School of Communication and Journalism (COMU<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/espo/comu>/EjL<https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/espo/comu/master-en-journalisme.html>) Researcher @ Observatory for Research on Media and journalism (ILC<https://www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc>/ORM<https://www.uclouvain.be/orm>) Academic Supervisor @ Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab (MiiL<https://www.uclouvain.be/miil>) Special Advisor to the Rector for Digital Communication Place de l'Université, 16, bur. b.405 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) Tel. +32 (0)10 47 27 87 antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:antonin.descampe@uclouvain.be>

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Call for Participation in Touché @ CLEF 2026: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems (Fallacies, Causality, Generalizability, RAG Advertisements)
by Johannes.Kiesel＠gesis.org 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

We invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at Touché 2026 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference. 1. Fallacy Detection. Given an argument, determine whether it is fallacious and what type of fallacy it is. https://touche.webis.de/clef26/touche26-web/fallacy-detection.html 2. Causality Extraction. Given a text, determine whether it contains causal information, identify the information in the text, and classify the expressed relationship. https://touche.webis.de/clef26/touche26-web/causality-extraction.html 3. Generalizability of Argument Identification in Context. Given a sentence from some argumentation dataset, determine whether the sentence was annotated as argument (using annotator guidelines etc.). https://touche.webis.de/clef26/touche26-web/generalizable-argument-mining.h… 4. Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Given a query and response of an RAG system, determine whether the response contains an ad, identify the ad in the response, and remove the ad. https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/advertisement-detection.html Find out more at https://touche.webis.de/clef26/touche26-web/ and join our mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/touche-lab for staying up to date. Awards -------------------------- The best submission for each task will receive an award. In addition, our partners at Methods Hub (https://methodshub.gesis.org/) have agreed to provide priority support to the award-winning teams in developing their submissions into fully reusable software packages to maximize your impact. Important Dates -------------------------- 2026-05-07: Approaches submission deadline 2026-05-28: Participant paper submission 2026-06-30: Peer review notification 2026-07-06: Camera-ready participant papers submission 2026-09 21-24: CLEF Conference in Jena and Touché Workshop Links -------------------------- Touché: https://touche.webis.de Contact: touche(a)webis.de We are looking forward to your submission! The Touché team

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7th Call for Papers – LaTeLL 2026 (Low-Resource Languages)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] 7th 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 range of themes 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. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… [2] Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [3] Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [4] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 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). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 1 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2026 * Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 * Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) 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) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration. 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 before the end of April 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/ [2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [4] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/latell-26-template/kfcvbgxmccvb

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CfP: RiCL Journal special issue - Learner Corpus Research meets the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume
by María Belén Díez Bedmar 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

*CFPs special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL)* *‘Learner Corpus Research meets the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume’* Due to the importance of the *Common European Framework of Reference for Languages* (CEFR) and the *Companion Volume* (CV) (Council of Europe, 2001, 2020) for the learning, teaching and assessment of languages, most learner corpora nowadays employ the learner’s CEFR level to specify the student’s communicative language competence level or proficiency level. Most learner corpora compiled in CEFR-aligned high-stakes foreign language accreditation/certification exams - for instance, the *Cambridge Learner Corpus* (O’Keeffe & Mark, 2017), the *FineDesc Learner Corpus *(Díez-Bedmar, 2025) - are composed of learners of English production in successful certification/accreditation exams at different CEFR levels. Other target languages are compiled in similar foreign language accreditation/certification exam conditions, such as the CELI corpus for Italian (Spina et al., 2023) or the Merlin corpus for Italian, German and Czech (Wisniewski, 2020). Other learner corpora composed of accreditation/certification exams that are not aligned to the CEFR or learner corpora compiled in other contexts have also been partially or fully aligned to the CEFR levels, as reported by Gablasova et al., (2019) regarding the *Trinity Lancaster* *Corpus*, Thewissen (2013) concerning *ICLE* or Tono (2018) as to the *JEFLL corpus*. The use of LCR results from CEFR-aligned learner corpora to inform or facilitate the implementation of the CEFR/CV is, however, still limited. Among the most important LCR contributions in this respect are those by the *English Profile Project* (Salamoura, 2008) and the CEFR-J Project (Tono, 2019). The former used the *Cambridge Learner Corpus* to provide linguistic information on the language produced at each CEFR level (UCLES/CUP, 2011) and freely available online resources (eg., the English Grammar Profile and the English Vocabulary Profile). The latter employed learner corpora, among other corpora types, to adapt the CEFR for the L1 Japanese EFL context (12 sublevels), create the Vocabulary Profile and the Grammar Profile. Despite these efforts, CEFR/CV end-users and stake-holders find difficulties in the implementation of the CEFR/CV in their L1-contexts, on most occasions due to the language neutral nature of the CEFR/CV descriptors (see Díez-Bedmar & Byram, 2019; Díez-Bedmar & Luque-Agulló, 2023; Luque-Agulló & Díez-Bedmar, 2025). It is for this reason that they demand fine-tuned descriptors, i.e., CEFR/CV descriptors informed by CEFR-aligned L1-specific learner corpus results (Díez-Bedmar, 2018). In the Spanish context, the *FineDesc Project* (Grant PID2020-117041GA-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) has provided L1 Spanish CEFR/CV end-users and stake-holders’ with fine-tuned descriptors thanks to the analysis of the 1.3-million-word *FineDesc Learner* *Corpus* (Díez-Bedmar, 2025), a freely available L1-specific learner corpus by L1 Spanish monolingual students (or bilingual L1 Spanish/a co-official language in Spain). The learner corpus results have informed fine-tuned descriptors not only for the linguistic competence, but also for the sociolinguistic and pragmatic ones, when students engage in different communicative language activities at B1, B2 and C1 levels (see Díez-Bedmar et al., 2026). These fine-tuned descriptors aim at paving the way for the implementation of the CEFR/CV in the L1 Spanish context. These are just some examples which show how LCR may inform the CEFR/CV and facilitate its implementation in different contexts. Other efforts are being made by the LCR community by using either general CEFR-aligned learner corpora or L1-specific ones, as shown in some papers presented at the International Online Conference ‘Bringing together research on the CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors’ which was organized by the FineDesc Project (https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php). It is the objective of this special issue to bring together research on the different ways how LCR may meet the CEFR/CV. Contributions which employ any reliably CEFR-aligned learner corpus with this objective in mind are welcome, whether they were presented at the conference or not. Researchers who do not have access to any CEFR-aligned learner corpus are encouraged to use the *FineDesc Learner Corpus*, freely available at www.finedesc.com. *Potential topics for this special issue are (but are not limited to):* -The fine-tuning of CEFR/CV descriptors for L1-specific contexts thanks to LCR. -The integration of CAF results in fine-tuned descriptors. -The (cross-sectional) analysis of CEFR-aligned learner corpora considering the linguistic, sociolinguistic or pragmatic competences to inform CEFR-aligned pedagogical resources/language assessment. -The exploitation of CEFR-aligned learner corpora to design tools/software which may help analyse learner corpora at different CEFR levels. -The overcoming of any difficulties in CEFR/CV implementation with the help of LCR. *Important dates* Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2026 Outcome of proposal review: May 21, 2026 Deadline for manuscript first drafts: December 1,2026 Notification of reviewer outcome: March 5, 2027 Deadline for manuscript final drafts: May 28th, 2027 Special issue publication: Autumn 2027 *Proposal format and submission* Potential contributors should prepare an extended 800-word abstract of the proposed paper following RiCL’s submission guidelines, which can be found at https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions The abstract should include a tentative title, motivate the study, state the research questions, provide methodological information (learner corpus or learner corpora analysed and the procedure employed to align it/them to CEFR/CV levels as well as the statistical tests employed), tentative results and clear information on the way how the results inform the CEFR/CV and its implementation. Please submit your proposal to the special issue editor, María Belén Díez-Bedmar (belendb(a)ujaen.es), before the deadline (April 30, 2026) including in your proposal your name(s), email(s) and affiliation(s). *Peer review* All accepted manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review. *References* Council of Europe (2001). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment. Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe (2020). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment – Companion Volume. Council of Europe Publishing. Díez-Bedmar, M. B. (2018). Fine-tuning descriptors for CEFR B1 level: insights from learner corpora. *ELT Journal*, 72(2), 199-209. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccx052 Díez-Bedmar, M. B. (2025). FineDesc Learner Corpus 2.0 (España, 2510243469857). SafeCreative. https://www.safecreative.org/validity Díez-Bedmar, M. B., & Byram, M. (2019). The current influence of the CEFR in secondary education: teachers’ perceptions. *Language, Culture and Curriculum*,* 32*(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2018.1493492 Díez-Bedmar, M. B., Laso-Martín, N. J., Maíz-Arévalo, C., & Carrió-Pastor, M. L. (2026). Supplement to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume: L1 Spanish users (Spain, 2601214327051). SafeCreative. https://www.safecreative.org/validity Díez-Bedmar, M. B. & Luque-Agulló, G. (2023). Analysing the CEFR/CV in University Language Centres in Spain: The Raters' Perspective. In M. Fernández Álvarez & A. L. Gordenstein Montes (Eds.), *Global Perspectives on Effective Assessment in English Language Teaching* (pp. 1-33). IGI Global. Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., & McEnery, T. (2019). The Trinity Lancaster Corpus. Development, description and application. *International Journal of Learner Corpus Research*, *5*(2), 126-158. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.19001.gab Luque-Agulló, G. & Díez-Bedmar, M.B. (2025). Listening to the teachers: CEFR implementation in University language Centres in Spain. *Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas* (RLyLA),*20*, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2025.21285 O’Keeffe, A., and Mark, G. 2017. The English Grammar Profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings. *International Journal of Corpus Linguistics,* *22*(4), 457-489. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14086.oke Salamoura, A. (2008). Aligning English Profile research data to the CEFR. Cambridge ESOL: *Research Notes*, *33*, 5–7. Spina, S., Fioravanti, I., Forti, L., & Zanda, F. (2023). The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus. *Second Language Research*, 40(2), 457-477. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231176370 Thewissen, J. (2013). Capturing L2 accuracy developmental patterns: Insights from an error-tagged EFL learner corpus. *The Modern Language Journal*, *97*(S1), 77-101. Tono, Y. (2018). Corpus approaches to L2 Learner Profiling Research. In Y. N. Leung, J. Katchen, S. Y. Hwang & Y. Chen (Eds.), Reconceptualizing English language teaching and learning in the 21st century: A special monograph in memory of Professor Kai-Chong Cheung (pp. 390-402). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company. Tono, Y. (2019). Coming full circle – from CEFR to CEFR-J and back. CEFR Journal. *Research and Practice*, *1*, 5-17. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTSIG.CEFR1-1 UCLES/CUP (2011). *English Profile. Introducing the CEFR for English Version 1.1*. Cambridge University Press. Wisniewski, K. (2020). SLA developmental stages in the CEFR-related learner corpus MERLIN: Inversion and verb-end structures in German A2 and B1 learner texts. *International Journal of* *Learner Corpus Research*, *6*(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.18008.wis <https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.18008.wis> <https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.18008.wis>

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[Job] Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x) - emoji semantics (April 28, 2026)
by Tatjana Scheffler 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

website for applications: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88… deadline: April 28, 2026 In order to fill a fixed-term position in full-time (39.83 hours/week = 100%) by July 01, 2026 or at the earliest possible date, we are looking for one Post-doctoral researcher (m/f/x) The project EmDiCom 2 "Decompositional Semantics of Face Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the DFG priority program ViCom ("Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives"). The project is led by co-PIs Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (University of Oslo, Norway). The project plans to investigate emojis from a formal semantics perspective informed by experimental data. Our research primarily concentrates on the semantics of face emojis, and builds on the hypothesis that face emojis have partly conventionalized (symbolic) meaning, but also incorporate iconic meaning due to their resemblance to human faces, which they are meant to depict. We aim to delineate the formal semantic denotation of face emojis, and whether it can be decomposed into smaller meaning components. Second, we aim to empirically establish the semantic type of expressive face emojis, i.e., whether or not they serve as functions, taking a propositional argument that they comment on. Your tasks: - Independent research on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis in the reseearch project "Decompositional Semantics of Face Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom 2)". - Participation in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program "Visual Communication" (e.g., participation in network meetings and short-term collaborations) - Planning and conducting linguistic online experiments (acceptability studies, reading time measurements) - Collaboration on publications and presentations at international conferences - Supervision of research assistants - Organization of scientific events (workshops) Your profile: - An above-average linguistics PhD is required - Background in theoretical linguistics, preferably formal semantics/pragmatics - Demonstrated experience in experimental linguistics and statistical methods - Knowledge of tools for creating and conducting online experiments is an advantage - Interest in visual communication (e.g., gestures, facial expressions, emojis, Sign Language) - Excellent English skills We offer: - Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility - Exciting research on a current topic - International cooperation with the "Super Linguistics" group at the University of Oslo and within the "Visual Communication" DFG priority program - A friendly and enthusiastic team at the interface of formal, digital, and computational linguistics - The opportunity to join one of the largest universities in Germany, part of the University Alliance Ruhr - Professional development, mentoring, and training Further information: The position is salaried and based on the collective agreement of the Länder (TV-L). If the personal and collective agreement requirements are met, the employee will receive pay grade E13 TV-L. Further information can be found at https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/ (in German). The place of work is Ruhr University Bochum. Interviews are expected to take place via Zoom in April and May 2026. Applicants should submit (1) a brief cover letter explaining their interest in the position, (2) a full CV including a list of publications, (3) two examples of their work, and (4) the names and email addresses of two potential referees, all as a single PDF document via the application portal. RUB sees itself as a university with an international presence. The campus languages are German and English. Competence in at least one of the two languages and the willingness to learn the other are a prerequisite. RUB provides corresponding free courses for employees. German language courses are offered by the University Language Center (ZFA) in the field of German as a Foreign Language (DaF). https://www.daf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sbgk/index.html.en The Staff Council has the right to participate in all selection interviews. At the request of a candidate (m/f/x), it will ensure its participation in the entire procedure. Please contact wpr(a)rub.de. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum is one of Germany’s leading research universities, addressing the whole range of academic disciplines. A highly dynamic setting enables researchers and students to work across the traditional boundaries of academic subjects and faculties. To create knowledge networks within and beyond the university is Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s declared aim. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum stands for diversity and equal opportunities. For this reason, we favour a working environment composed of heterogeneous teams, and seek to promote the careers of individuals who are underrepresented in our respective professional areas. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum expressly requests job applications from women. In areas in which they are underrepresented they will be given preference in the case of equivalent qualifications with male candidates. Applications from individuals with disabilities are most welcome. Contact persons for further information: Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler +49 234 32 21471 Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz Travel costs, accommodation costs and loss of earnings or other application costs for job interviews can unfortunately not be reimbursed. We look forward to receiving your application via our online application portal by 2026-04-28. Please make sure to mention the reference number ANR 5610. --- 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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CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab -- 3rd Call for Participation
by Julia Maria Struß 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2026 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2026. This year, we feature three tasks ---two follow-up and one new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims: Given a social media post that contains a scientific claim and an implicit reference to a scientific paper (mentions it without a URL), retrieve the mentioned paper from a pool of candidate papers. Available in English, German, and French. Task 2 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims:Given claims, potential evidence, and possible reasoning paths, rank the reasoning paths and provide an output of verdict. Available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Task 3 Generating Full Fact-Checking Articles:Given a claim, its veracity, and a set of evidence documents consulted for fact-checking the claim, generate a full fact-checking article. Register and participate:https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ <https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/> Further information:https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ <https://checkthat.gitlab.io/> Datasets:https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab <https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab>(training and validation materials released) Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV <https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV> Important Dates --------------------- - 23 April 2026: Lab registration closes - 24 April 2026: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 7 May 2026 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 28 May 2026: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 29 May – 27 June 2026: Review process of participant papers - 30 June 2026: Notification of Acceptance for working notes [CEUR-WS] - 6 July 2026: Camera Ready Copy of working note papers [CEUR-WS] - 10 July 2026: Regular Conference Registration Ends - 31 August 2026: Late Conference Registration Ends - 21-24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Best regards, The CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam Telefon: +49 331 580 4532 Zoom:https://fh-potsdam.zoom-x.de/my/juliamstruss

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HPSG 2026 -- Final CfP (and deadline extension)
by Antonio Machicao y Priemer 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

THIRD CfP: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Norway) Short Title: HPSG 2026 Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026 Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway) Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer Email: hpsg2026(a)easychair.org Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/ Conference fee: 68€ (faculty) / 43€ (student) Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science; Meeting Description: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (03-04 August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July). Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Presentations are in-person by default, although exceptions can be negotiated. All abstracts should be submitted by 17 April 2026 (deadline extended), via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2026 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion. Deadline for abstracts: 17 April 2026 (Old deadline: 10 April 2026) Reviews due: 10 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026 Conference: 03-04 August 2026 Keynote speakers: * Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) * Nurit Melnik (Open University, Israel) Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2026 A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings will undergo a separate (final) round of reviews (accept/reject), to enable indexing of the proceedings. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ Programme Committee: - Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université de Paris) - Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (Universität Zürich) - Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) - Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) - Felix Bildhauer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) - Olivier Bonami (Universite Paris Diderot) - Francis Bond (Palacký University) - Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, Université de Paris) - Petter Haugereid (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) - Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) - Anke Holler (University of Göttingen) - Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) - Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) - Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Jakob Maché (Universidade de Lisboa) - Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) - Luis Morgado Da Costa (Palacký University Olomouc) - Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Tsuneko Nakazawa (The University of Tokyo) - Joanna Nykiel (UC Davis) - David Oshima (Nagoya University) - Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) - Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Manfred Sailer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Frank Van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Elodie Winckel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Shûichi Yatabe (The University of Tokyo) - Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University) - Olga Zamaraeva (Universidade da Coruña) -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Phone (office): +49/30/2093-9702 Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Address (office): Dorotheenstr. 24 (Room: 3.305), 10117 Berlin Address (post): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik) Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Department of German Studies and Linguistics - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Project: Building register into the architecture of language – an HPSG account (CRC 1412, Project A04) Series: Textbooks in Language Science (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tbls)

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Open PhD position on ethical challenges in NLP at the University of Bergen, Norway
by Samia Touileb 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen, Norway. We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for a 4-year PhD position focused on ethical challenges in NLP, including topics such as bias, fairness, safety, and value alignment. The position offers flexibility for the candidate to develop and shape their own research questions, while contributing to the broader goal of developing and advancing responsible and ethically grounded NLP systems. Check the full announcement and application details here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298789/phd-position-at-the-d… Closing date: June 7th, 2026 If you have any questions or would like additional information, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, Samia --- Samia Touileb Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation Fagspråksenteret: Centre for Norwegian Professional Language

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[CFP] AACL-IJCNLP 2026
by ACL Announcements 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear all, AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (the 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP) invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. == CFP: https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [1] The conference will be held in Hengqin, China, from November 6th to November 10th, 2026. Important Dates ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) May 25, 2026 Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors May 27, 2026 Author response and author-reviewer discussion July 7 - 13, 2026 Meta review released July 30, 2026 Commitment deadline August 26, 2026 Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) September 7, 2026 Camera-ready papers due (long & short) September 30, 2026 Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD) November 6 - 10, 2026 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). AACL-IJCNLP 2026 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Safety and Alignment in LLMs AI/LLM Agents Human-AI Interaction/Cooperation Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP Computational Social Science, Cultural Analytics, and NLP for Social Good Code Models Interpretability, Model Editing, Transparency, and Explainability LLM Efficiency Generalizability and Transfer Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning Low-resource Methods for NLP Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Natural Language Generation Information Extraction and Retrieval Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Machine Translation Multilinguality and Language Diversity Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond Neurosymbolic approaches to NLP Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Resources and Evaluation Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization Hierarchical Structure Prediction, Syntax, and Parsing NLP Applications == Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Links: ------ [1] https://2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_conference_papers/

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*SEM 2026: Direct Commitment for ARR-Reviewed Papers (Deadline: 10 April 2026)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear corpora list members, *SEM 2026 (The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics), co-located with ACL 2026, welcomes direct commitments of pre-reviewed papers from ARR. If your paper has already been reviewed through ARR and you would like it to be considered for *SEM 2026, you can submit it through the direct commitment process. Deadline: April 10, 2026 Commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2026/Conference Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12h, Anywhere on Earth) * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 26, 2026 * Conference date: July 3, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) Following ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. More information: Website: https://starsem2026.github.io/ Call for Papers: https://starsem2026.github.io/calls/ Blog post: https://starsem2026.github.io/blog/ We look forward to your submissions. Best regards, *SEM Program Chairs.

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CFP: Data-driven Storytelling Workshop (DDS 2026) at ISWC – Submit by July 24th
by Pasquale Lisena 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Data-driven Storytelling: Bridging Semantics, AI, and Narrative (DDS 2026) workshop, co-located with ISWC 2026. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of knowledge graphs, NLP, HCI, and generative AI to explore how semantic technologies can enhance narrative creation and engagement. Submission Deadline: July 24th, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Notifications: August 21st, 2026 Camera-ready Version: September 18th, 2026 Workshop Dates: October 25-26, 2026 We invite submissions of research papers, demos, and short papers that address (but are not limited to) the following topics: • Knowledge graphs and ontologies for storytelling • AI-driven narrative generation (LLMs, GenAI) • Benchmarking narrative quality and coherence • Interactive and participatory storytelling tools • Ethics and explainability in automated storytelling Submission Link: https://data-driven-storytelling-workshop.replit.app/ We encourage submissions from interdisciplinary fields, including semantic web, NLP, HCI, and creative industries. For more details, visit the workshop website. Looking forward to your contributions! Best regards, Pasquale Lisena, EURECOM, France Maria Angela Pellegrino, University of Salerno, Italy Lisa-Yao Gan, Technical University Munich, Germany Yihang Zhao, King's College London, UK Yiwen Xing, University of Oxford, UK

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Miscelánea Joins EU Diamond Discovery Hub – Call for Papers
by Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am writing in my capacity as Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics at_ Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies_: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en. I am really pleased to share with you all that _Miscelanea _has been included in the European Union's _Diamond Discovery Hub_ platform for high quality open-access journals: https://ddh.edch.eu/en/journals/3198 _Miscelanea_, with 72 issues published to date, and with number 73 coming out in June, is one of the longest-running international journals on English Studies in Spain. It is published and produced at the University of Zaragoza, and more specifically, by the Department of English and German Philology. _Miscelanea _is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (in December and June), and publishes articles on English language and linguistics, on literatures written in English, and on cinema and cultural studies from the English-speaking world. We welcome submissions all year round. As Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics, I will welcome any submission that draws upon any of the following areas and/or methodological approaches (to name but a few): * Descriptive linguistics; * Applied linguistics; * Discourse analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; * Sociolinguistics; * Systemic-Functional Linguistics; * Translation Studies; Etc. I hope you will consider our publication as a potential outlet for your research. Looking forward to receiving and reading your work. With all my best wishes, Miguel-Angel -- Dr. Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) C/ Atarazanas, 4, 44003, Teruel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5943 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Angel-Benitez-Castro https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [1] Member of: _IUI Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) [2]_ Universidad de Zaragoza Language and Linguistics Editor _- Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [3]_ Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [2] https://bifi.es/ [3] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/index

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2nd Call for SemEval Task Proposals 2027
by Ekaterina Kochmar 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Introduction We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2027. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks investigate the nature of meaning in natural languages, exploring how to characterize and compute meaning. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2027, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g., SemEval-2020 (http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/) and SemEval-2021/2026 (https://semeval.github.io<https://semeval.github.io/>). We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures, and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road that may delay the task. We suggest providing a reasonable baseline (e.g., providing a Transformer / LLM baseline for a classification task) apart from the majority vote / random guess. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at <semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:semevalorganizers@gmail.com>> to discuss your idea. The submission webpage is: https://softconf.com/acl2026/semevaltasks2027/ Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc. - one addition is not sufficient)? Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available, or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? Is the task significantly challenging (e.g., room for improvement over the baselines)? Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? Ethical – The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted. Avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health). These are representative and not exhaustive. Roles: Lead Organizer - main point of contact, expected to ensure deliverables are met on time and participate in contributing to task duties (see below). Co-Organizers - provide significant contributions to ensuring the task runs smoothly. Some examples include maintaining communication with task participants, preparing data, creating and running evaluation scripts, leading paper reviewing, and acceptance. Advisory Organizers - more of a supervisor role, may not contribute to detailed tasks, but will provide guidance and support. New Tasks vs. Task Reruns We welcome both new tasks and task reruns. For a new task, the proposal should address whether the task would be able to attract participants. Preference will be given to novel tasks that have not received much attention yet. For reruns of previous shared tasks (whether or not the previous task was part of SemEval), the proposal should address the need for another iteration of the task. Valid reasons include: a new form of evaluation (e.g., a new evaluation metric, a new application-oriented scenario), new genres or domains (e.g., social media, domain-specific corpora), or a significant expansion in scale. We further discourage carrying over a previous task and just adding new subtasks, as this can lead to the accumulation of too many subtasks. Evaluating on a different dataset with the same task formulation, or evaluating on the same dataset with a different evaluation metric, typically should not be considered a separate subtask. Task Organization We welcome people who have never organized a SemEval task before, as well as those who have. Apart from providing a dataset, task organizers are expected to: - Verify the data annotations have sufficient inter-annotator agreement. - Verify licenses for the data allow its use in the competition and afterwards. In particular, text that is publicly available online is not necessarily in the public domain; unless a license has been provided, the author retains all rights associated with their work, including copying, sharing and publishing. For more information, see: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-copyright-and-why-does-it-matter - Resolve any potential security, privacy, or ethical concerns about the data. - Commit to make the data available also after the task in a long-term repository under an appropriate license, preferably using Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/semeval/ - Provide task participants with format checkers and standard scorers. - Provide task participants with baseline systems to use as a starting point (in order to lower the obstacles to participation). A baseline system typically contains code that reads the data, creates a baseline response (e.g., random guessing, majority class prediction), and outputs the evaluation results. Whenever possible, baseline systems should be written in widely used programming languages and/or should be implemented as a component for standard NLP pipelines. - Create a mailing list and website for the task and post all relevant information there. - Create a CodaLab or other similar competition for the task and upload the evaluation script. - Manage submissions on CodaLab or a similar competition site. - Write a task description paper to be included in SemEval proceedings, and present it at the workshop. - Manage participants’ submissions of system description papers, manage participants’ peer review of each other’s papers, and possibly shepherd papers that need additional help in improving the writing. - Review other task description papers. Desk Rejects - To ensure tasks have sufficient support, we require a minimum of two organizers at the time of proposal submission. A task proposal with only one organizer will be desk-rejected. Running a SemEval task is a significant time commitment; therefore, we highly recommend that a task have at least three-four organizers. - A person can be a lead organizer on only one task. The second mandatory organizer on the task must be committed to the task as a key co-organizer. Any other organizers (beyond the lead and co-organizer) can participate in other tasks. - All data should have a research-friendly license. The licensing must be provided in the proposal. - Task organizers must commit to keeping the data available after the task, either by keeping the task alive, by uploading it to Zenodo or some other public data storage location that will be permanent, and sharing the link with the organizers. === Important dates === - Task proposals due 13 April 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification 25 May 2026 === Preliminary timetable === - Sample data ready 15 July 2026 - Training data ready 1 September 2026 - Evaluation data ready 1 December 2026 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation start 10 January 2027 - Evaluation end by 31 January 2027 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2027 - Notification to authors March 2027 - Camera ready due April 2027 - SemEval workshop Summer 2027 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the ACL template: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Each proposal should contain the following: - Overview - Summary of the task - Why this task is needed and which communities would be interested in participating - Expected impact of the task - Data & Resources - How the training/testing data will be produced. Please discuss whether existing corpora will be reused. - Details of copyright and license, so that the data can be used by the research community both during the SemEval evaluation and afterwards - How much data will be produced - How data quality will be ensured and evaluated - An example of what the data would look like - Resources required to produce the data and prepare the task for participants (annotation cost, annotation time, computation time, etc.) - Assessment of any concerns with respect to ethics, privacy, or security (e.g., personally identifiable information of private individuals; potential for systems to cause harm) - Pilot Task (strongly recommended) - Details of the pilot task - What lessons were learned, and how these will impact the task design - Evaluation - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - For Task Reruns - Justification for why a new iteration of the task is needed (see criteria above) - What will differ from the previous iteration - Expected impact of the rerun compared with the previous iteration - Task organizers - Names, affiliations, email addresses - (optional) brief description of relevant experience or expertise - (if applicable) years and task numbers of any SemEval tasks you have run in the past Proposals will be reviewed by an independent group of area experts who may not have familiarity with recent SemEval tasks, and therefore, all proposals should be written in a self-explanatory manner and contain sufficient examples. The submission webpage is: https://softconf.com/acl2026/semevaltasks2027/ === Chairs === Debanjan Ghosh, Analog Devices, USA Kai North, Cambium Assessment, USA Ekaterina Kochmar, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE Mamoru Komachi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA Contact: semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:semevalorganizers@gmail.com>

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M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

The MA in Applied Linguistics at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) is accepting applications for Fall 2026. This interdisciplinary program provides training in language, communication, and society, with a focus on real-world applications of linguistic analysis. *About the Program:* *Core areas:* The curriculum covers second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, multilingualism, and language in education, alongside training in corpus-based and computational approaches to language. *Research-active faculty:* Faculty research spans second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, corpus linguistics, register variation, academic discourse, second language writing, prosody and speech processing, language documentation, and conversation analysis, alongside computational approaches to language. Students may participate in mentored research and applied projects across corpus, NLP, and experimental labs. *Interdisciplinary training:* The program draws on expertise across Linguistics and related fields, supporting both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including corpus analysis and data-driven methods. *Flexible pathways:* The program is open to students from any academic background, with options tailored to interests in research, education, or language-related careers. *Professional outcomes:* Graduates pursue careers in education, language services, communication, research, and related fields, supported by faculty mentorship and a growing alumni network. *Location:* Montclair, NJ is located 12 miles from New York City, providing access to a diverse linguistic environment and professional opportunities. *Funding:* A limited number of graduate assistantship positions may be available in Fall 2026, awarded on a competitive, merit basis. More information and application details: https://www.montclair.edu/academics/programs/ma-applied-linguistics/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested students and colleagues. For questions, email Dr. Larissa Goulart (M.A. in Applied Linguistics Program Coordinator) at goulartl(a)montclair.edu or Dr. Anna Feldman (Chair of Linguistics) at feldmana(a)montclair.edu.

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M.S. in Computational Linguistics at Montclair State University
by Anna Feldman 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

The MS in Computational Linguistics at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) is accepting applications for Fall 2026. This interdisciplinary program is jointly offered by the Departments of Linguistics and the School of Computing, combining theoretical linguistics with training in NLP, machine learning, and language technologies. *About the Program:* *Cutting-edge coursework:* The curriculum integrates NLP, corpus linguistics, annotation, machine learning, deep learning, and large language models (LLMs), alongside strong foundations in syntax, semantics, and phonetics. *Research-active faculty: *Faculty research spans NLP, speech processing, and computational modeling of language learning and processing. Areas of work include figurative language, psycholinguistically informed approaches, multilingual and low-resource NLP, corpus development and annotation, and machine learning, including transformer-based methods. Students may participate in ongoing research and lab-based projects, including work in dedicated research labs (NLP Lab, Corpus Linguistics Lab, and Experimental Linguistics Lab). *Interdisciplinary training:* As a joint program between Linguistics and the School of Computing, the curriculum integrates coursework in programming, data structures, and machine learning with linguistics and NLP. *Flexible pathways:* The program is open to students from any academic background, with preparatory coursework available as needed. *Industry relevance:* An active Industry Advisory Board helps align the curriculum with current needs in AI and language technology, and supports connections to internships, applied projects, and career opportunities. *Career outcomes:* A growing alumni network supports placements across industry, government, and academia. *Location:* Montclair, NJ is approximately 12 miles from New York City, providing direct access to a major hub for tech, AI, and research opportunities. *Funding:* A limited number of graduate assistantship positions will be available for Fall 2026, awarded on a competitive, merit basis. More information and application details: https://www.montclair.edu/academics/programs/ms-computational-linguistics/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested students and colleagues. For questions, email Dr. Libby Barak (M.S. in Computational Linguistics Program Coordinator) at barakl(a)montclair.edu or Dr. Anna Feldman (Chair of Linguistics) at feldmana(a)montclair.edu. *Anna Feldman, Ph.D.* Professor of Linguistics <https://www.montclair.edu/linguistics/>and Computer Science <https://www.montclair.edu/school-of-computing/> Chair of Linguistics Phone: *973-655-7500* Email: *feldmana(a)montclair.edu* <feldmana(a)montclair.edu> [image: Montclair State University]

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Appel : Journée d'étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie »
by Laperrière, Gaëlle 04 Apr '26

04 Apr '26

Appel : Journée d'étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie » Jeudi 30 avril, Montréal, Canada **Date limite de réponse : 4 avril 2026** https://dcsf.cirst.ca/journees-ia-decouvrabilite-appel/ Créée en 2024 par le Fonds de recherche du Québec, la Chaire de recherche du Québec sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français (DCSF) s'intéresse aux conditions d'accès, de diffusion et d'usage des savoirs scientifiques en français. Elle étudie les pratiques de publication et les outils technologiques qui influencent la découvrabilité des contenus. Elle développe des solutions pour infléchir le recul de l'usage du français en recherche et pour bonifier les capacités de découverte des principales plateformes de diffusion de contenus scientifiques en français utilisées au Québec. En soutenant des stratégies et des outils adaptés, la Chaire vise ainsi à renforcer durablement la présence du français dans les communautés de recherche. ________________________________ La journée d’étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie », organisée le 30 avril 2026, propose une réflexion collective sur les effets des outils d’intelligence artificielle dans la circulation des savoirs scientifiques en français. Des tables rondes, des présentations, une session de posters et un atelier pratique permettront d’examiner les enjeux de l’IA pour la recherche francophone : promesses et limites de l’IA générative, biais linguistiques et sociaux des modèles multilingues, enjeux de souveraineté des données et propriété intellectuelle, standardisation du savoir. Cette journée entend ouvrir un espace de débat sur l’avenir de la publication scientifique en français et identifier des leviers d’action pour renforcer la découvrabilité des contenus francophones dans les environnements numériques contemporains. Outre la consolidation d’un réseau de recherche interdisciplinaire, cette journée a pour objectif de favoriser l’identification de pistes de recherche sur les transformations induites par l’IA dans la circulation des savoirs scientifiques en français. Appel à présentations Public visé Personnes utilisatrices (journalisme, communication scientifique, milieux communautaires, etc.), communauté de recherche (IA, communication, sciences de l’information, sciences humaines et sociales, études linguistiques, etc.). Format Communication de 15 minutes + 5 minutes de questions. Participation en mode hybride (en personne ou à distance). Thématiques * Biais linguistiques et sociaux des modèles multilingues * Standardisation du savoir et biais d’indexation * Secteur privé, propriété intellectuelle et souveraineté des données * Place de la francophonie (Afrique, Europe, Québec, etc.) dans les modèles d’IA * Recherche documentaire : les LLM face aux moteurs de recherche * Découvrabilité scientifique et vulgarisation * Publication scientifique en français (enjeux globaux et responsabilités locales) * Les propositions hors de ces thèmes mais en cohérence avec la thématique générale des journées sont les bienvenues. Soumission Un seul document pdf contenant : * Titre * Auteur.e.s * Affiliation.s * Résumé (250 mots) * Courte biographie Appel à posters Public visé Personnes utilisatrices (journalisme, communication scientifique, milieux communautaires, etc.), personnes étudiantes de cycles supérieurs, postdoctorantes. Format Session posters de 45 minutes à 1 heure. Présentation sur place. Si vous souhaitez présenter un poster à distance, merci de nous contacter. Poster au format A0. Thématiques Les posters peuvent porter sur tous les enjeux en lien avec l’IA, la recherche d’information, la traduction, la publication scientifique, la découvrabilité ou les langues de diffusion de la science. Soumission Un seul document pdf contenant: * Titre * Auteur.e.s * Affiliation.s * Résumé (250 mots) * 3 à 5 mots-clés Pour les personnes étudiantes : cycle d’étude et stade de la recherche (exploratoire, résultats préliminaires, finalisée) Modalités générales * Langue des soumissions et des communications : français et anglais * Envoi des propositions : chaire.dcsf(a)proton.me * Date limite : 4 avril 2026 Les propositions seront évaluées au fur et à mesure de leurs réceptions. Aucune contribution ne sera évaluée après le 4 avril. Les communications feront l’objet d’une captation vidéo et d’une valorisation sur le site de la Chaire.

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Workshop Announcement TALA 2026
by Romane Werner 03 Apr '26

03 Apr '26

[Workshop Announcement] TALA 2026 – New Trends in Automatized Language Assessment (7th of April 2026, Louvain-la-Neuve + online) We are pleased to announce the Workshop on New Trends in Automatized Language Assessment (TALA), which will take place on the 7th of April 2026 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and online (hybrid event). This workshop aims to provide an overview of recent approaches in automatized language assessment and to offer researchers, academics and (PhD) students an opportunity to discuss current trends and methods in language assessment research. The workshop will focus on proficiency assessment, with particular attention to: * Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), an interdisciplinary field investigating linguistic, cognitive and typographic factors influencing text comprehension across audiences and domains, such as education, institutional communication, digital accessibility and automated proficiency evaluation; * Automated Essay Scoring (AES), which aims to analyse written productions in order to evaluate writers’ competence, especially linguistic proficiency and to support both assessment practices and formative feedback generation. The full program can be found below and includes an invited keynote talk and presentations selected through abstract submission. It includes detailed instructions to reach the venue and the specific room. Invited speaker Rodrigo Wilkens (University of Exeter) Talk title: From Simplification to Readability-Guided Text Adaptation Rodrigo Wilkens specialises in computational readability modelling and automated essay scoring. His research focuses on multilingual proficiency assessment, linguistic feature modelling and the use of large language models for educational applications. His work includes the development and evaluation of ARA and AES systems, with particular attention to non-English languages, as well as research on transformer-based proficiency prediction, interpretability in automated assessment, and readability-guided text generation. If you are interested, please register using this link<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=1JCwei76z068fEEntN…>. We look forward to welcome you to TALA 2026. Best regards, The TALA Organizing Team Program: * 14:00 - 14:10 - Session d’accueil  * 14:10 – 14:50 – Session 1 * 14:10 – 14:30 Cognitive Grounding of Linguistic Variables for Automatic Readability Assessment Elodie Vanzeveren, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François * 14:30 – 14:50 Automated CEFR-Level Assignment for Ukrainian Texts Olha Kanishcheva, Mikhail Kopotev * 14:50 – 15:40 – Keynote From Simplification to Readability-Guided Text Adaptation Rodrigo Wilkens * 15:40 – 16:00 – Coffee break  * 16:00 – 17:00 – Session 2 * 16:00 – 16:20 Automatic Essay Scoring and Feedback Generation in Basque Language Learning Ekhi Azurmendi, Xabier Arregi, Oier Lopez de Lacalle * 16:20 – 16:40 AI, Human, or Hybrid? Evaluating the Reliability of AI Text Detection Tools in Multi-Authored Contexts Laura C. Úbeda-Cuspinera, Sheila Queralt * 16:40 – 17:00 Assessing L2 Writing with Generative AI: Comparing Models, Prompts, and Human Raters Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska, Jiří Milička * 17:00 – 17:30 – Roundtable discussion and closing  Access  The event will take place at the Salle du Conseil de la Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres (FIAL), Collège Erasme, Place Blaise Pascal, 1 in 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 02 Apr '26

02 Apr '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 30 June 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- 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. 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CFP: Promoting machine translation and GenAI translation literacy: an approach towards professional translation and interpreting labour market
by Amal Haddad 02 Apr '26

02 Apr '26

Promoting machine translation and GenAI translation literacy: an approach towards professional translation and interpreting labour market University of Granada, Spain 2-3 June 2026 Call for papers The labour market associated with most careers has evolved rapidly in the recent years, requiring a workforce with extensive digital skills. The same applies to the current landscape of the translation profession, which is also being reshaped by the forces of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digitisation and the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Furthermore, recently, the most frequent discussion among academics and industry revolves around the danger of AI encroaching on the profession of translators, terminologists and interpreters, putting their job positions at risk, or even causing the eventual disappearance of translation careers. Some universities warn of the risk of terminating translation career paths due to the sharp decline in the number of students or the demise of translation careers as an independent field of study. Additionally, the hypothesis that technology is more efficient than humans in performing translation and interpreting tasks is becoming a threat itself, leading to a sharp decline in the number of students enrolled in translation and foreign languages careers worldwide. In most universities, this panorama is the case in most translation careers, and Spanish universities are no exception. One of the solutions to this problem is machine translation literacy, GenAI literacy and reducing the gap between technological developments and the technological competencies of translation and interpreting teachers. This event aims at offering solutions and training translation and interpreting teachers in this direction, in a way that they know how to follow the pace of technology and acquire basic technological notions, so that they keep up with the high quality teaching, required to keep a good ranking for their universities, provide excellent teaching to their students, and be part of the solution to protect translation careers from a humanistic point of view. Rationale and objectives The current landscape of translation education faces a critical juncture. While the profession is being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, the velocity of technological advancement has outpaced the capacity of educators to integrate these tools effectively into their teaching. This gap manifests in three interconnected problems. First: Digital literacy deficit Research on university students' perceptions of GenAI-assisted translation reveals concerns about declining translation creativity, independent thinking, and a notable deficiency in digital literacy among both educators and learners. Many translation educators lack training in how these tools function, their limitations, and appropriate pedagogical approaches for teaching with them. The European Association for Machine Translation's 2024 Translation Education Week emphasized that transversal skills, particularly AI literacy, data quality assessment, and communication abilities, are now more crucial than ever in translator education. Second: Disconnection between academic training and labour market realities While general content translation is increasingly automated, specialized domains requiring nuanced language skills, cultural adaptation, and subject-matter expertise remain essential human territories. The translation industry has transitioned to a hybrid model where Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) offers 30-50% cost reductions while maintaining accuracy, yet many graduates lack training in these workflows. Studies demonstrate that solid grammatical proficiency combined with MT literacy produces significantly higher quality translations than either factor alone, highlighting the need for integrated training approaches. Third: Insufficient understanding of quality distinctions and ethical responsibilities The widespread adoption of tools like Google Translate and DeepL by professionals and students often occurs with relatively little reflection, leading to potential risks in high-stakes contexts such as legal documents, medical translations, or patient forms where errors can have severe consequences. Educators must develop "MT literacy consultant" capabilities, the ability to assess when and how MT can be appropriately deployed, and to advise others on its responsible use. Objectives This event addresses these challenges through three core objectives: * Bridging the Technological Gap We will provide practical training in basic MT and GenAI literacies, equipping educators with foundational understanding of how neural machine translation, large language models, and generative AI tools function. This includes hands-on experience with current technologies, understanding their capabilities and limitations, and learning pedagogical strategies for integrating them into curricula. * Aligning Education with Labour Market Demands We will present current industry trends and expectations, helping educators understand the evolution from traditional translation to AI-augmented workflows. This includes exploring post-editing skills, quality assessment frameworks, and specialized domain knowledge that differentiate human expertise from automated output. By understanding what employers seek, professionals who can work effectively alongside AI while maintaining quality standards, educators can better prepare graduates for meaningful careers. * Promoting Ethical and Quality-Conscious Practice We will emphasize the critical importance of understanding translation quality gradations and the responsibilities associated with different contexts. This includes teaching students to assess risk levels (high-stakes vs. low-stakes scenarios), recognize when human expertise is non-negotiable, and communicate the value of professional translation to clients and the public. We will also address environmental and social implications of translation choices, fostering responsible professional citizenship. Added Value The added value of this event lies in its practical, forward-looking approach. Rather than resisting technological change or uncritically embracing it, we advocate for informed integration, recognizing AI as a powerful tool that augments rather than replaces human expertise. By equipping educators with confidence and competence in these areas, we strengthen the entire educational ecosystem: better-prepared teachers lead to better-trained students, who in turn become the skilled professionals needed in today's translation market. Furthermore, this initiative contributes to the broader mission of protecting and promoting translation studies as a vital humanistic discipline. By demonstrating how translation professionals can thrive in an AI-enhanced landscape, we empower educators to attract and retain students with realistic, compelling visions of rewarding careers. We welcome any contributions related to this timely topic. Presentation format: Talk (20 mins), non-archival. Selection for places will be made by the conference scientific committee (blind peer review). SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xrgG09Xnu95cAPQlXTLrSGDste08qKhETQ8vLYN-gY… Important dates: Deadline for Abstracts: 14 April 2026 Notification of Outcome: 30 April 2026 Conference award: Conference award granted by AIETI, the Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies. No registration fees required but registration is mandatory Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSed_1KAdpoho8Ay9m9-DPPhnAdg3Sl0yzW… [1] -- 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. 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Open PhD position on cognitively-inspired language modeling in Göttingen
by Beinborn, Lisa 02 Apr '26

02 Apr '26

Dear fellow NLPers, we are looking for a PhD candidate to join our Human-Centered Data Science group at the University of Göttingen, Germany. We take a human-centered perspective on natural language processing research and focus on cognitively inspired representation learning, multilingual NLP, and interpretability methods. The KIND-LM project is a collaboration between Lisa Beinborn and Nivedita Mani, who leads the Psychology of Language group. It advances research on cognitively-inspired sample-efficient modelling and contributes to the Priority Programme LaSTing (“Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology”). If you’d like to join our group and conduct research at the intersection of computational modeling and psycholinguistics, please read the details of the job posting. The application deadline is April 15th. If the timing isn’t right for you (but everything else is), feel free to reach out anyway. Job Posting: https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_Kindlm.pdf HuDS group: https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/ LaSTing Programme: https://www.lasting-spp.org/ We are looking forward to your application. Best regards, Lisa Beinborn ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Lisa Beinborn Human-Centered Data Science https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute for Computer Science University of Göttingen -------------------------------------------------

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[IEEE FG2026] Last reminder CFP: 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology
by Arianna De Vecchi 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

Wearable movement and physiology sensors offer lightweight, non-invasive, and ecologically valid means to monitor human activity, affective state, and social behavior. With the rise of commercially deployed devices and new wearable foundation models, opportunities for scalable human behavior analysis continue to grow. However, challenges such as personalized modeling, on-device integration, or multimodal fusion prevail, limiting in-the-wild deployment of wearable devices. The 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT) aims to foster collaboration between researchers from various backgrounds (ML, HCI, biomedical engineering) around the topic of wearable devices for human behavioral analysis. The workshop will be held in Kyoto as part of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2026), taking place on May 25, 2026. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Machine Learning and computational models for movement and physiological wearables * Resource efficient and lightweight models * Multimodal fusion and synchronization strategies * Methods for irregularly sampled or missing data * Individual differences, personalization, and context-awareness * Ethical and privacy-preserving AI in wearable systems * Novel wearables and applications * Experimental methods for validation of wearable systems * Lab-controlled experiments and In-the-wild deployment * Datasets and Benchmarks * Responsible data management and user consent * Applications in Affective Computing / Mobile Health / Action Recognition / Social Interaction / HRI Submission Details: (1) Main Track (Original Research): 4 up to 8-pages work (2) Non-Archival Track (Published Work): 1-page summary Important Dates: Main track: * Paper registration deadline: April 3, 2026 * Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 * Camera-ready paper deadline: April 20, 2026 Non-archival track: * Summary submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 For more details, please visit our website: https://beat-workshop.github.io/ For further questions, contact us via beat-workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:beat-workshop@googlegroups.com> General Chairs: Louis Simon, Arianna de Vecchi, Cristina Palmero, Felix Dollack, Ting Dang, Mohamed Chetouani (modificato) beat-workshop.github.io Behavior and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT)<https://beat-workshop.github.io/> Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2026, Kyoto, Japan

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CFP: 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop (22-23 June 2026, Cardiff, Wales, UK)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

Dear all, We are organising the 5th Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, which will take place on 22–23 June 2026 in the Abacws Building in Cardiff (Wales, UK). The workshop is especially aimed for PhD students and early-career researchers (and anyone interested in NLP). Registration is free for all participants. Please fill in the expression of interest form<https://forms.gle/ypUBEpVhfoUhSgY16> by 11 April if you are interested in joining the workshop. Workshop activities include: * Invited speakers from academia and industry. * Tutorials. * Poster session and networking. * Panel discussion. Important dates: * Application period: 28 January – 11 April 2026. * Notification of acceptance: Late April 2026. * Workshop: 22–23 June 2026, Cardiff. For more details, please visit the workshop website: https://www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/. Best regards, The Cardiff NLP Organising Team.

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WoLaLa 2026: First call for papers
by Héja Enikő 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

1st Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Dubrovnik, Croatia | October 12-13 The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. This workshop is designed as a dedicated forum for scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to discuss and evaluate large language models from an SSH perspective, and to share best practices that can advance research and applications within these fields. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 20 May 2026: Submission deadline 08 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 12 October – 13 October 2026: Workshop in Dubrovnik 15 December 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Gábor Prószéky, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2026.zip <https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip> Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/prvhqbxdgmxq#374f7b Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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Associate Professor position at the University of Bergen, Norway
by Samia Touileb 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

There is a vacancy for a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen, Norway. The position focuses on intelligent information systems, including areas such as natural language processing, neuro‑symbolic methods, semantic technologies, multimedia processing, and ethical and trustworthy AI. Bergen is a beautiful city surrounded by fjords and mountains, and the position offers generous conditions. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. More information is available in the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/297764/associate-professor-i… Kind regards, Samia --- Samia Touileb Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation Fagspråksenteret: Centre for Norwegian Professional Language

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Second Call For Participation: MIRROR@IberLEF2026: Platform online
by Luis Villaseñor-Pineda 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

<Apologies for cross-postings> -------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -------------------------------------- MIRROR@IberLEF20206: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via Synthetic cOnversational tuRns https://mirror-iberlef.vercel.app/ Challenge platform now online: https://www.mirror-iberlef.lat/dashboard Just register, log in, and start making submissions. ------------------------------- ***Task description*** ------------------------------- We invite the community to develop Generative AI (GenAI) methods for creating synthetic conversation turns that can substantially improve the performance of models trained to recognize behavior codes (BCs) in the context of motivational interviews. A BC is a discrete, observable clinician action (e.g., asking a question, giving information) that is counted during coding of a motivational interviewing session to quantify specific techniques used. These codes allow raters to tally how often particular clinician behaviours occur, which helps assess adherence to MI-consistent versus MI-inconsistent practice. Our ultimate goal is to generate valuable data for training models for the automatic assessment of clinicians’ motivational-interviewing skills. These skills — crucial for promoting behavior change among patients — can be evaluated by using the “Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)” rubric (https://tinyurl.com/38byjrwy). This is a data-centric competition: participants are expected to produce high-quality datasets representing a wide range of clinical conversations (rather than training a model) to enhance the performance of a frozen baseline model used for BC classification. We encourage participants to include samples featuring clients from diverse backgrounds, varied conversation topics, and conversing with different types of health professionals. Participants in this competition should provide three datasets (one per pair of considered BCs) of at most 100 labeled conversation turns that will be used to fine-tune pretrained models; the fine-tuned models will then be used to make predictions for a hold-out dataset. The performance of the fine-tuned model will be used as the leading evaluation metric to rank participants. The considered pairs of BCs are: (1) Simple reflection vs. Complex reflection; (2) Open question vs. Closed question; (3) Persuasion vs. Giving Information. Sample submissions, and detailed instructions on the formatting, evaluation criteria and competition platform will be available at the MIRROR website. ------------------------------- ***Important dates*** ------------------------------- * Mar 9th: Start of the development phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the validation set) * May 1st: Start of the final phase (platform starts receiving submissions for the test set) * May 11th: End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) * May 22nd; Publication of official results * Jun 8th: Deadline for paper submission * Jun 23th: Acceptance notification * Jun 30th: Camera-ready submission deadline * Sep, TBD: Publication of proceedings * Sep, TBD: Workshop with SEPLN 2026 ------------------------------- ***Organizing team*** ------------------------------- * Luis J. Arellano INAOE, Mexico * Carlos Olachea INAOE, Mexico * John Piette, University of Michigan, USA * Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico * Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico * Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico * Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Contact: Hugo Jair Escalante (hugo.jair(a)gmail.com)

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The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing
by Amal Haddad 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing International Summer School Alicante, Spain, 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 https://summer-school.gplsi.es Second Call for Participation Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models--and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)--have taken the world by storm. Deep Learning models are now used almost everywhere, across nearly every discipline, and Natural Language Processing is no exception. DL has proved highly promising so far, delivering improvements for almost every NLP task and application. However, as observed on numerous occasions, the outputs of DL models are not always ideal, with some studies reporting cases in which machine-learning approaches do not necessarily outperform the 'old-fashioned' rule-based ones. The overarching theme of the summer school will be this paradigm shift, with lectures and practical sessions reflecting the latest trends at both theoretical and practical levels. More specifically, the programme will combine lectures focusing on theoretical foundations with hands-on practical sessions. Specific topics will include an Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs), Explainable AI in LLMs, Datasets and bias in LLMs, Building foundational LLMs for low-resource languages, Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages, LLMs and sentiment analysis, Model and hyperparameter optimisation and Eye-tracking and gaze data for NLP and language models, among others. The summer school will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced professionals in NLP, computer science, data science, cybersecurity, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and related disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to deepen expertise and engage with the rapidly evolving world of LLMs. Panel discussion A panel discussion on the future of NLP methods and LLMs is scheduled as part of the summer school. The panel composition is available here: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/panel/ Venue and dates The summer school will take place at the research institute of Informatics of the University of Alicante and will take place on 15, 16 and 17 June 2026. Keynote speaker Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Lecturers The list of summer school lecturers includes: Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) Juan Pablo Consuegra Ayala (University of Alicante) Robiert Sepulveda Torres (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Isuri Anuradha (Lancaster University) Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Summer school Directors Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Summer School Chair Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Advisory Committee Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz Guillena (University of Alicante) Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (University of Alicante) Organising Committee Raúl García Cerdá (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Registration Registration will open in early April 2026. In the meantime, please see the registration fees here: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/registration/ Related events The summer school will follow the second international conference _Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence_ (NLPAICS'2026) which will take place in Alicante on 11 and 12 June 2026 (https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es). Those who register for both events will benefit from a discounted registration fee. Further information Further information will be provided in subsequent calls. Alternatively, interested parties can email summer-school(a)dlsi.ua.es for more information. -- 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. 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Postdoc-level researcher position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] A 2-year research fellowship in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is affiliated with the research project MORALCHANGE<https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/projects/aktive/moralchange-eng.ht…>, a cross-disciplinary collaboration between social scientists and NLP researchers exploring how changes in moral values shape political discourse and cultural divides over time. For more information about the position and the research environment, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298838/researcher-in-natural… Closing date: 5th May 2026 Best regards, -e -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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PhD in Ireland (4 years): Agentic RAG for Terminology Translation in Neural Machine Translation
by Antoine Doucet 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

Apologies for cross-posting. PhD grant with deadline on 22 April. https://www.setu.ie/research-innovation/researcher-support/current-funding-… https://www.setu.ie/Craft/assets/ctas/PIS_-PhD-Programme-2025_Advert-Sheet_… Cheers, Antoine

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Final call for papers: ESSLLI 2026 Workshop on Referring expression choice in grounded contexts: Linguistic, cognitive, and computational aspects
by Gemma Boleda 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

Final call for papers: CORE Project Workshop @ESSLLI 2026 Referring expression choice in grounded contexts: Linguistic, cognitive, and computational aspects ESSLLI 2026 Workshop 3-7 August 2026, Prague, Czech Republic Extended abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2026 Workshop URL: https://www.upf.edu/web/glif/esslli2026-workshop ESSLLI 2026 URL: https://2026.esslli.eu Workshop description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation in referring expression (RE) choice has become evident in recent large-scale datasets (Monroe et al. 2017, Silberer et al. 2020, He et al. 2023). Some of the factors influencing some kinds of choices in RE use have been amply studied – for example, between full noun phrases and shorter expressions involving demonstratives or pronouns (Ariel 1990, Gundel et al. 1993 and much later work), or between noun phrases with and without modification (e.g., Degen et al. 2020, Rubio-Fernandez and Jara-Ettinger 2020, and literature cited there). Others have received less attention – these include choices among noun phrases that reflect different levels of taxonomic granularity ("dog" vs. "husky", Graf et al. 2016, Kobrock et al. 2024, Liang and Liao 2024), choices arising from the cross-classifiability of referents (woman vs. runner, Mädebach et al. 2022, Gualdoni et al. 2023), choices based on salience or contrast (Clarke et al. 2013, Rubio-Fernández 2024, Bolea et al. to appear) or options for referring to individuals based on what they are doing or the scenes they appear in ("person running" vs. "runner", Tagliaferri et al. 2023), sometimes with the goal of producing particular sorts of causal inferences (Sasaki et al. 2025). The goals of this workshop are 1) to further document and gain insight into the range of this variation; 2) to highlight its relevance for semantic/pragmatic theory, for theories of language and cognition, and for the use of language in computation; and 3) to promote communication and synergies between researchers at the interfaces of linguistics, cognitive science, and computation who have studied different aspects of referring expression choice in grounded contexts. We welcome contributions on the following and other related questions: - Cognitive biases that influence tendencies in RE choice in grounded contexts. - The role of contrast in RE choice. - The role of the specific available linguistic alternatives and alternative-based reasoning in influencing RE choice. - The information load a referring expression has to bear given extralinguistic sources of information in the context, especially visual information. - Lexical/constructional effects and association strength between RE options and the referent in question. - RE variability and language change Invited speakers: Raffaella Bernardi (Bolzano) Laia Mayol (UPF) Denis Paperno (Utrecht) Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be at most two pages in 12pt font (plus up to one extra page for data and references). Since we want to promote participation and discussion and no proceedings will be published, workshop submissions are not limited to unpublished work. We welcome proposals for both long (30 min. + discussion) and short (15 min. + discussion) presentations. We also plan to devote one day to a poster session accompanied by lightening talks. Please indicate on your abstract which type(s) of participation you are interested in. Submission deadline: March 31, 2026. Submission is through Open Review at: https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2026/Workshop/CORE Contact email: louise.mcnally(a)upf.edu Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: March 31, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026 Workshop dates: August 3-7, 2026

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Associate Professor position at the University of Bergen, Norway
by Samia Touileb 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

There is a vacancy for a position as Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, at the University of Bergen. The position focuses on intelligent information systems, including areas such as natural language processing, neuro‑symbolic methods, semantic technologies, multimedia processing, and ethical and trustworthy AI. Bergen is a beautiful city surrounded by fjords and mountains, and the position offers generous conditions. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. More information is available in the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/297764/associate-professor-i… Kind regards, Samia

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Call for participation: MultiLexNorm 2026: Multilingual Lexical Normalization
by Rob van der Goot 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

Dear all, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the MultiLexNorm 2026 shared task, which will be hosted at EMNLP 2026. Our shared task operates at the word level and focuses on lexical normalization, that is, transforming an utterance into its standard form (e.g., ppl → people) on the word level. It also includes one-to-many (1-to-n) and many-to-one (n-to-1) replacements. Participants will develop systems for lexical normalization across 17 languages. Building on the previous task, which focused on Indo-European languages written in the Latin script, we now focus on languages written in other scripts, and have new benchmarks for Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. The data and more information about the task can be found on: https://noisy-text.github.io/2026/multi-lexnorm.html Dates: 21-Jul Test data 01-Aug Final Evaluation 20-Aug Paper deadline 05-Sep Paper reviewed 15-Sep Camera ready TBA Workshop Best, The organizers: Rob van der Goot Weerayut Buaphet

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