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Last CfP and Deadline Extension: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX) @ ACL 2026
by Gessler, Luke David 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 19, 2026 (AoE) Last Call for Papers: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX), co-located with ACL 2026, San Diego Website: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XX-2026/ Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. LAW-XX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. LAW XX will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. Special Theme: Errors in Annotation The special theme of LAW XX is Errors in Annotation. In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the matter of addressing annotations which are in some sense objectively incorrect in their substance or omissions (c.f. Klie et al., CL 2023<https://aclanthology.org/2023.cl-1.4/>)—distinct from annotator disagreement (Weber-Genzel et al., ACL 2024<https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.123/>)—and the role of error analysis in improving data quality for both human-annotated and LLM-generated datasets. As data quality becomes increasingly important (human-annotated or LLM-generated), it is essential to develop techniques or tools to quantify data quality (Swayamdipta et al., EMNLP 2020<https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.746/>). Potential topics covered include but are not limited to: * Annotation error detection * Annotation error correction * Error type classification * Error detection and correction in crowd-sourced annotations * Errors in LLM-generated annotations Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Submission deadline: March 5, 2026 March 19, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: May 12, 2026 * Workshop Date: July 3, 2026 LAW XX will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. Submission Information We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: * Annotation procedures * Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation * Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation * Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data * Annotation evaluation * Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies * Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations * Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality * Annotation access and use * Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations* at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena * Annotation schemes, guidelines, and standards * New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes * Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development * Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes * Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages * Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation * Annotation software and frameworks * Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW Pre-reviewed ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commit…<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commit…> Note on OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles: * 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. Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop (either in-person or virtually) and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Limitation and ethical consideration sections are optional and do not count against these limits as well. Note: The appendix also does not count against the page limit but should not include essential details needed to understand/review the paper (appendices can contain details such as hyperparameters, formulas, proofs, and tables that are informative but not critical to the understanding of the paper). All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop program chairs (law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:law2026workshop@googlegroups.com>). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. Following the ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement.

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Free webinar: Studying Translation in the Age of AI – Why and How?
by Constantin Orasan 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

As part of the events organised by the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the MA Translation, we are pleased to announce the following free webinar. Studying Translation in the Age of AI – Why and How? Free webinar on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT, online Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6fc06c38-5ca1-468f-b93e-59b527c7c9… The translation industry has long been an early adopter of technology. From electronic dictionaries and language corpora to integrating CAT tools and machine translation into professional practice, translators have worked at the forefront of innovation for decades. Today, however, the conversation about translation and technology feels more polarised than ever. Some predict AI will replace translators altogether. Others argue there has never been a more exciting time to enter the field. So, which is it? The human element in the digital age Despite the hype surrounding AI, critical language tasks continue to depend on expert human judgement. Professional communication in medical care, law, diplomacy and international policy leaves no margin for error. Creative content demands cultural nuance that machines cannot normally achieve. Global product marketing requires sophisticated localisation strategies. And the development of AI language models, too, depends on specialists who understand how language works across contexts and cultures. Translation has never been simply about converting words from one language to another; today it increasingly involves managing digital workflows, overseeing quality assurance and collaborating effectively with AI systems. Preparing for a hybrid reality A recent landmark report by the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the Association of Translation Companies, The strategic case for languages in UK higher education<https://www.iti.org.uk/resource/making-the-case.html>, highlights a growing demand for graduates who understand how language AI works, know where it fails, can use it effectively and ethically, and are prepared for a professional future combining linguistic, technological and management expertise. As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of our MA in Translation, we invite you to an exclusive webinar to explore the skills that will define the next generation of language professionals. We will examine * Why translation matters more than ever – socially, culturally, economically * The role of AI – how AI is reshaping (but not replacing) the profession * Employer expectations – what skills and profiles industry leaders are looking for * The postgraduate edge – how a Master’s degree equips you for careers in multilingual, communication, localisation, language technology and beyond University of Surrey hosts * Professor Sabine Braun, Director, Centre for Translation Studies, Co-Director, Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence * Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas, Deputy Director, Centre for Translation Studies, Postgraduate Programme Director Translation & Interpreting Speakers * Lucio Bagnulo, Head of Translation and Language Strategy, Amnesty International * Professor Lynne Bowker, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translation, Technologies and Society at Université Laval * Dr Félix do Carmo, Senior Lecturer in Translation and Natural Language Processing, Lead of Professional Development, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Dr Kevin Lin OBE, Managing Director (Founder), KL Communications Ltd; Visiting Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Raisa McNab, Chief Executive, Association of Translation Companies * Dr Joss Moorkens, Associate Professor of Translation Studies, Dublin City University * Dr JC Penet, Reader in Translation Industry Studies and Leading Edge Curriculum Design Fellow, Newcastle University * Sara Robertson, Chief Executive, Institute of Translation and Interpreting * Professor Margaret Rogers, Professor Emerita, Founding Director, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Giulia Tarditi, Head of Function, Localisation at Revolut * John Worne, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Linguists * Xiaojie Zhang, Director of Conference Division, International Maritime Organisation Join the conversation Whether you are an undergraduate considering your next step, a recent graduate, or a professional curious about the future of the industry, we look forward to seeing you there. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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4th CFP - Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing ,and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security,(NLPAICS'2026)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '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/ Fourth Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS'2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security, including but not limited to: _Societal and Human Security and Safety_ * Content Legitimacy and Quality * Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language * Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * Trust and credibility of online information * User Security and Safety * Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders * Monitoring extremist fora * Suicide prevention * Clickbait and scam detection * Fake profile detection in online social networks * Technical Measures and Solutions * Social engineering identification, phishing detection * NLP for risk assessment * Controlled languages for safe messages * Prevention of malicious use of ai models * Forensic linguistics * Human Factors in Cyber Security _Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security_ * Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * NLP and biometrics in multimodal context _Data and Software Security_ * Cryptography * Digital forensics * Malware detection, obfuscation * Models for documentation * NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) * Addressing dataset "poisoning" attacks _Human-Centric Security and Support_ * Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting * User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour * Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security _Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence_ * Text-Based Anomaly Detection * Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data * Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic * Threat Intelligence Analysis * Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats * Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text _Systems and Infrastructure Security_ * Systems Security * Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity * Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks * Authentication and access control * Enterprise-level mitigation * NLP for software vulnerability detection * Malware Detection through Code Analysis * Analysing code and scripts for malware * Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code _Financial Cyber Security_ * Financial fraud detection * Financial risk detection * Algorithmic trading security * Secure online banking * Risk management in finance * Financial text analytics _Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security_ * Ethical and Legal Issues * Digital privacy and identity management * The ethics of NLP and speech technology * Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools * Legislation against malicious use of AI * Regulatory issues * Bias and Security * Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) * Bias in security related datasets and annotations _Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications_ _Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics_ * Intelligence applications * Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security _Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI_ NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * LLMs for forensic linguistics * Bias in LLMs * Safety benchmarks for LLMs * Legislation against malicious use of LLMs * Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs * Methods to enhance the robustness of language models 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, and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 16 March 2026 * Reviewing process: 1 April - 30 April 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 * Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 * Conference: 11-12 June 2026 Organisation 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) 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 [1]_). Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in March 2026. Links: ------ [1] https://summer-school.gplsi.es/

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Webinar by: José Andrés González-López (Universidad de Granada)
by HiTZ Zentroa 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology (https://hitz.eus/katedra). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: José Andrés González-López (Universidad de Granada) Title: From Neural Signals to Fluent Speech: Recent Advances in Neural Speech Interfaces Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 15:00 Summary: Neural speech interfaces aim to restore natural communication in individuals who have lost the ability to speak while preserving cognitive function. Over the past decade, this field has undergone a remarkable transformation, moving from slow and cognitively demanding spelling-based brain–computer interfaces to systems capable of decoding continuous speech directly from neural activity. These advances have been driven by the convergence of high-resolution invasive neural recording technologies, improved experimental paradigms for speech production and perception, and powerful deep learning models inspired by modern automatic speech recognition systems. In this talk, I will review the state of the art in neural speech prostheses, with a particular focus on next-generation BCIs that translate cortical activity into text or synthetic speech. I will discuss key design choices, including neural recording techniques (such as ECoG, sEEG, and intracortical microelectrodes), target brain areas, decoding architectures, and evaluation metrics. I will also highlight recent clinical results demonstrating unprecedented levels of accuracy, fluency, and long-term stability in continuous speech decoding. Finally, I will outline current challenges and future directions, including scalability across users, real-time bidirectional feedback, and the path towards clinical and real-world deployment, illustrated with ongoing work from our research group. Bio: Jose A. Gonzalez-Lopez is an Associate Professor at the University of Granada whose research sits at the frontier of artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and neural speech prostheses. His work addresses the core challenge of how to translate high-dimensional neural activity into fluent, natural speech, bridging invasive neural recordings with modern deep learning and speech–language models. He leads multiple competitive R&D projects on AI-driven speech restoration for individuals with severe neurological and phonatory impairments, with a strong emphasis on long-term robustness, scalability across users, and real-world clinical deployment. He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences. His contributions have been recognized with several awards for scientific excellence and technological innovation, and his research is embedded in a strong international collaboration network built through extended research visits to institutions such as the University of Sheffield, the University of Bremen, and Maastricht University. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea Upcoming webinars: Ranjay Krishna (April 16) Barbara Plank (May 7) You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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FINAL Call for Participation: Shared Task in Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction at BEA Workshop, ACL 2026.
by Skidmore, Lucy (Exams) 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

We invite participation in our Shared Task on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners, which will be hosted at The<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> (co-located with ACL 2026) both online and in person in San Diego, CA, United States. This shared task focuses on predicting the difficulty of English vocabulary for learners with different L1 backgrounds. Evaluation will use the British Council’s Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL), which provide psychometrically calibrated difficulty scores for English learners with Spanish, German, and Mandarin L1s. The task includes a Closed Track, limited to the provided data and standard NLP resources, and an Open Track, which allows external data and use of LLMs, to explore the full potential of current AI approaches. Important Dates 26 January: Release of training data and baseline models<https://github.com/britishcouncil/bea2026st> 20 March: Test data release 27 March: System submissions from teams due 3 April: Announcement of evaluation results by the organisers 24 April: System papers due 1 May: Paper reviews returned 12 May: Final camera-ready submissions 2-3 July: BEA 2026 workshop at ACL Further details can be found at our shared task website<https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st>. Please send any questions to vocabularychallenge(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:vocabularychallenge@britishcouncil.org> or post a new topic in our forum<https://groups.google.com/g/bea-2026-shared-task/>. We look forward to your participation! Organisers: Mariano Felice (British Council) and Lucy Skidmore (British Council). The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: last call for papers
by Chloé Braud 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

*apologies for cross-postings* Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for papers July 4 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the second joint CODI-CRAC workshop which will be held during ACL 2026! More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: March 20 2026 Submission website: https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ The workshop will also host the CRAC shared task. More information at: - CRAC shared task: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26 Aims and scope Recent breakthroughs in NLP and Large Language Models have dramatically expanded our systems’ abilities to interpret and generate not just sentences, but whole documents and conversations. This shift has renewed interest in discourse-level challenges, driving new work on inter-sentential phenomena, coherence modeling, long-form summarization, discourse-aware representation learning, and large-scale resources for discourse understanding and parsing. Discourse sits at the intersection of many NLP subfields, as it is where context, structure, and meaning come together beyond single sentences. Discourse shapes how we capture coherence, cohesion, and inference across long texts, and brings together researchers tackling the shared challenges of document structure, long-range dependencies, and the requirements of extended context. In 2025, we organized the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference phenomena. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse-level problems and have served as a forum for discussing suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. This joint edition corresponds to the 7th CODI workshop and the 9th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state-of-the-art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the 5th edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. The workshop is planned as a 1-day event that brings together different subcommunities. It will feature regular papers and invited talks by Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) and Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research). We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. 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 - 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 Submissions Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. We solicit three categories of papers: § (1) Regular workshop papers § (2) Demos § (3) Extended abstracts Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. 1- Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. § Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. § Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 2- Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 3- Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with existing reviews. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Submission website: * CODI-CRAC: https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ Schedule Important dates for the workshop are listed below: * CODI-CRAC papers due: March 20 * Pre-reviewed ARR fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): April 5 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Grant application: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 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"). Invited Speakers - Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University - Philippe Laban, Microsoft Research Organizers - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) 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: codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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Final call for papers: The Fifth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM@ACL'26)
by Simon Mille 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Conference: GEM at ACL 2026, special Comic-Con edition! *Submission deadline: *March 19th (via Open Review <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/GEM#tab-your-c…> ) Date: July 3nd or July 4rd, 2026 Location: San Diego, California, USA Website: https://gem-workshop.com/ Contact: gem-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com Evaluation of language models has grown to be a central theme in NLP research, while remaining far from solved. As LMs have become more powerful, errors have become tougher to spot and systems harder to distinguish. Evaluation practices are evolving rapidly—from living benchmarks like Chatbot Arena to LMs being used as evaluators themselves (e.g., LM as judge, autoraters). Further research is needed to understand the interplay between metrics, benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop evaluation, and their impact in real-world settings. We will welcome submissions on a variety of topics and encourage themed presentations and posters! See Website <https://gem-workshop.com/> for more information. *Submissions* through Open Review <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/GEM#tab-your-c…> can take any of the following forms: - Archival Papers: Original and unpublished work, for all the following tracks—Main, ReproNLP, and Opinion/Statement. - *Non-Archival Extended Abstracts*: Work already presented or under review at a peer-reviewed venue. This is an excellent opportunity to share recent or ongoing work with the GEM community without precluding future publication. - *Findings Papers*: We additionally welcome presentation of relevant papers accepted to Findings, and will share more information at a later date. *Important Dates* - March 19, 2026: Direct paper submission deadline - April 9, 2026: Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline - April 28, 2026: Notification of acceptance - May 14, 2026: Camera-ready paper due - June 4, 2026: Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) - July 3–4, 2026: Workshop at ACL in San Diego We hope to see you there! *Dublin City University* *Simon Mille *| Postdoctoral Research Fellow ADAPT Centre School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland www.adaptcentre.ie *ADAPT Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Centre for Digital Content Technology* Privileged/confidential information: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Please note that electronic mail to, from or within the College, may be the subject of a request under the Freedom of Information Act. <https://adaptcentre.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1bed8296322695727ba3517…>

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Cross-Cultural Misogynistic Meme Detection Grand Challenge (CC-MMD) 2026-ICMI 2026-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

*Cross-Cultural Misogynistic Meme Detection Grand Challenge (CC-MMD) 2026* *Held in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) Napoli, Italy | October 5–9, 2026* *Website link : https://sites.google.com/view/cc-mmd2026/overview <https://sites.google.com/view/cc-mmd2026/overview>* *Codabench link: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/ <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/>* ------------------------------ Online misogyny is increasingly evolving into complex multimodal formats. Memes—the fusion of text and imagery—often leverage humor, irony, and cultural shorthand to mask harmful ideologies. However, what is perceived as misogynistic is rarely universal; it is deeply rooted in local norms, language nuances, and social symbolism. The *CC-MMD Grand Challenge* benchmarks the next generation of culturally robust multimodal systems. We focus on binary misogyny classification across three distinct regions: *Indian*, *Chinese*, and *Western (English)* contexts. This challenge moves beyond single-pool testing to evaluate how well AI generalizes across specific cultural partitions, ensuring that moderation systems are inclusive and reliable for a global digital population. Participants are invited to develop multimodal models that can navigate: - *Implicit Meaning:* Detecting harm when neither the text nor the image is explicitly toxic in isolation. - *Cultural Grounding:* Interpreting symbols and slang unique to Indian, Chinese, and Western contexts. *Task & Data* - *Task:* Binary classification (Misogynistic vs. Non-Misogynistic) of multimodal memes. - *Dataset:* A systematic, cross-culturally annotated dataset featuring multilingual text and diverse imagery. - *Platform:* Competition hosting and data release will be managed via CodaBench *https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/ <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/>*. ------------------------------ *Important Dates* *Task Announcement* February 27, 2026 *Release of Training Data* February 27, 2026 *Release of Test Data* April 1, 2026 *Run Submission Deadline* April 20, 2026 *Results Declared* May 5, 2026 *Paper Submission Deadline* June 10, 2026 *Peer Review Notification* July 8, 2026 *Camera-ready Paper Due* July 23, 2026 <https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ ACL 2026)
by Tristan Miller 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Final call for papers: 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) ====================================================================== The 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) will take place virtually on July 3 or 4, 2026 as part of the 64th Annual Meeting of the the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). Scope and topics ---------------- CHum 2026 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing. We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational processing of humor, including but not limited to the following: * LLMs, knowledge representation * Resources and evaluation * Human-computer interaction * Computer-mediated communication * Assisted content creation * Machine and computer-assisted translation * Digital humanities applications * Formal modeling of humor * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of computational humor systems. Submission instructions ----------------------- Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same guidelines for the main ACL 2026 conference papers <https://2026.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/> and submitted through START: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/chum2026/> Important dates --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Initial submission: March 12, 2026 (extended from March 5, 2026) * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2026 * Workshop: July 3 or 4, 2026 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Ori Amir, Fulbright University Vietnam * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba * Tiansi Dong, University of Cambridge Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chumweb.org/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2026
by Tristan Miller 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Panel ======================================= 36th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2026) Niterói, Brazil, July 6 to 10, 2026 https://ishs2026.org/ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2026 Call for papers --------------- As in previous years, the Humor and AI Special Interest Group <https://humorstudies.org/Forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9> of the International Society for Humor Studies will hold a panel at the 36th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2026). ISHS is a multidisciplinary conference organized and attended by humor researchers in diverse fields, including linguistics, psychology, sociology, computer science, folklore, literary studies, and many others. We invite paper presentations on AI-based technology for generating, processing, or analyzing humor. Contributions should be grounded in humor theory or other relevant theoretical frameworks, demonstrating how theory informs the design, analysis, or application of AI methods. (Submissions that focus solely on AI tools without clear theoretical motivation or connection to humor research are outside the scope of this call.) Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Submission instructions ----------------------- Per ISHS 2026 policy, each (co-)author of the submission must separately register beforehand for the conference using the form at <https://www.ishs2026.eventos.dype.com.br/>. Because the submission is for a pre-organized panel, co-authors should answer "No" to the question "Do you wish to send a proposal/work in your registration?" Payment of the conference fee is not required at submission time, but will be required of _all_ co-authors of submissions accepted for presentation. The corresponding (co-)author should then e-mail the following information to the panel organizers at ishs-ai(a)groups.io: 1. Title 2. 250-word abstract 3. 3 keywords 4. Name, short biography, and conference registration code for each (co-)author Conveners --------- * Kiki Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba * Julia M. Rayz, Purdue University -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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New Paper Submission Deadline - 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

Call for Papers New Submission Deadline: March 5, 2026 ************************************************************** 19th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 11, 2026 Workshop website: https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/ Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/ ************************************************************** MOTIVATION In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, and unrelated corpora are on the other. Increasingly, these resources are not only collected, but also augmented or even created synthetically, which raises new questions about how to define and measure comparability. In recent years, the use of comparable corpora for pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their impressive multilingual and cross-lingual abilities, which are relevant to a range of applications, including information retrieval, machine translation, cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora are crucial to improve methods to mine such corpora, to assess and document synthetic data, and to improve cross-lingual transfer of LLMs. Therefore, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. PANEL DISCUSSION The panel discusses the impact of synthetic data on comparable corpora research. Fundamental questions about how LLMs transform our understanding and use of multilingual data are addressed. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora - Automatic and semi-automatic methods, including generating comparable corpora using LLMs - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, within and across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Synthetic Data for Comparable Corpora - LLM generation of comparable/parallel data - Improving comparability of synthetic data - Incidental bilingualism & pre-training use of comparable data - Comparability & cross-lingual consistency - Detection & attribution of synthetic vs. human text - English-centric effects & fairness across languages/scripts - Evaluation & reproducibility for downstream tasks Applications of Comparable Corpora - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora. - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES 05 Mar 2026: Paper submission deadline (extended) 22 Mar 2026: Notification of acceptance 29 Mar 2026: Camera-ready final papers 14 Apr 2026: Workshop programme final version 11 May 2026: Workshop date All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”). For updates of the schedule, please see the workshop website. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop is a hybrid event, both in-person and online. Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see https://lrec2026.info/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/BUCC2026/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail immediately upon submission to another venue. For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2026 web page at https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal, Mila, Canada) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) Contact: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI, Germany) - Gabriel Bernier-Colborne (National Research Council, Canada) - Kenneth Church (VecML.com, USA) - Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Alex Fraser (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Natalia Grabar (CNRS, University of Lille, France) - Amal Haddad Haddad (Universidad de Granada, Spain) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) - Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, United Arab Emirates) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal & Mila, Canada) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) - Richard Sproat (Sakana.ai, Tokyo, Japan) - Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) - François Yvon (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) INFORMATION ABOUT THE LRE 2026 MAP AND THE "SHARE YOUR LRs!" INITIATIVE When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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Public talk (5 March 2026) - Privacy-Preserving Generation of Synthetic Clinical Narratives (by Prof Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester) - Exeter NLPV seminar
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminar at the University of Exeter. Zoom scheduled: Thursday 5 March 2026 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/98687933020?pwd=si6Sb2yasZU2s8zw0hMI4n… (Meeting ID: 986 8793 3020 Password: 667296) Title: Privacy-Preserving Generation of Synthetic Clinical Narratives Abstract: Training data is fundamental to the success of modern machine learning models, yet in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the use of real-world training data is severely constrained by concerns over privacy leakage. A potential solution to this challenge is the use of differentially private (DP) synthetic data, which offers formal privacy guarantees while maintaining data utility. However, striking the right balance between privacy protection and utility remains challenging in clinical note synthesis, given its domain specificity and the complexity of long-form text generation. I will discuss the key issues in synthetic clinical text generation and a methodology to synthesise full-length clinical notes under strong DP constraints. The method structurally separates content and form, and generates section-wise note content conditioned on clinical profile of patients, with terms and notes privatised under separate DP constraints. To ensure quality, a DP quality maximiser enhances synthetic notes by selecting high-quality outputs. I will also introduce a validation framework, and demonstrate how the corpus generated by the proposed method aligns with real clinical notes (MIMIC). Speaker's bio: Goran Nenadic is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on making sense of large-scale free-text data by combining rule-based and data-intensive approaches. He mainly works in the healthcare domain, exploring clinical coding, temporal clinical information extraction and anonymisation of clinical free-text data. He currently leads a DARE UK project on federated generation of synthetic textual healthcare records. The project explores how synthetic clinical text can be generated and validated for safe use. Combining differential privacy with strong public and regulatory engagement, the project will test whether synthetic free-text data can meaningfully support research and federated learning while reducing privacy risks. Goran also leads the UK healthcare text analytics network (Healtex) and a DARE UK working group (Safetext) to develop national protocols for the responsible use of healthcare free-text data in AI development. We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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Deadline extension CMCL @ LREC 2026
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

Dear all, We have extended the deadline to February 28, 11:59 pm AOE! ----- The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. Workshop: May 16, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp<https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp?authuser=0> For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com>

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[JOBS] E13, 75%, 3.5 years, Computational Linguistics, Bochum
by Tatjana Scheffler 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, conditional on a funding commitment, we are offering a 75% position leading to a PhD in computational linguistics on the topic of developing computational methods for the analysis of (multimodal) metaphors in contemporary, colloquial communication in online forums. The position is funded (E13, 75%) from July 1 2026 to Dec. 31 2029. Application deadline: March 30, 2026. More details can be found in the job ad: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9… Please feel free to forward this opportunity to suitable candidates! best regards Tatjana Scheffler --- 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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[CfP + DEADLINE EXTENSION] NLP4Ecology 2026 @ LREC 2026 (4 March 2026)
by fr.grasso＠unito.it 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Exciting news! Due to several requests, we are happy to announce a deadline extension for the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology 2026) to be held at LREC 2026 on 12 May 2026 (afternoon). New Submission Deadline: 4 March 2026 (23:59 AoE) All other dates remain unchanged: Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 March 2026 Workshop Date: 12 May 2026 Submissions are handled via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLP4Ecology2026/ Scope: The workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and ecological/environmental studies, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the ecological crisis. Topics include (but are not limited to): Sentiment, argument, and stance analysis of environmental topics Automated linguistic, discourse, frame analysis and topic modeling in ecological communication Detection of anthropocentric and speciesist biases (including in LLMs) Environmental text classification, entity recognition, and monitoring Fact-checking and greenwashing detection Ecofeminism, environmental justice, and language Corpora creation and annotation for ecological discourse Environmental communication in low-resource languages Multimodal approaches to environmental narratives Fairness, ethics, and accountability in environmental NLP NLP for climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, and environmental policy Submission Categories: >> Regular papers (4–8 pages) – research papers or position papers, archival, included in the proceedings (must follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit) >> Non-archival contributions (up to 4 pages) – research communications, work in progress, manifestos, etc. (presented at the workshop but not included in the proceedings) More information: https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/ Contact: nlp4ecology.workshop(a)gmail.com We warmly encourage submissions and look forward to advancing research at the intersection of language, AI, and ecological transformation. Best regards, NLP4Ecology 2026 Organizers

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CfP - Studying the Language of Young Learners: Methodological Advances and Challenges
by Robert Fuchs 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

*Studying the Language of Young Learners: Methodological Advances and Challenges* 16–17 July 2026 Workshop at the University of Bonn, Germany, organized by Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) & Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg) as part of the project /Young German Learner English /(funded by the German Research Foundation). https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/uploads/yglew2_cfp.pdf Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from young learners are of exceptional theoretical and applied importance, they also raise distinct methodological challenges at every stage of the research process, from study design and data elicitation to annotation, analysis, and interpretation (Granger, 2015; Myles, 2015, 2021; Tracy-Ventura & Paquot, 2021). This workshop, organized by the YGLE team (https://www.ygle.de), focuses explicitly on these methodological issues. It is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working with young learner populations, typically situated in institutional (primary or secondary school) contexts, to exchange insights, innovations, and best practices that advance the methodological foundations of our field (Gilquin, 2015, 2021; Paquot & Plonsky, 2017). The workshop will feature keynotes by - Emma Marsden, University of York - Detmar Meurers, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen The workshop will take place jointly with the15th /Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference/ (BAELc15; https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/news-and-events/all-news-and-events/ba…), which will focus on corpus-based research but is open to other fields of applied linguistics as well. While the working language of the event is English, we welcome contributions on all learner and target languages. The conference is planned as an in-person event in Bonn. It will start after 12 pm on Thursday and end (at the latest) at 4 pm on Saturday, leaving room for travel. Please submit your abstracts (in the range of 400–500 words + potentially a data table or figure for illustration + references; please use APA style) before April 15th, 2026 via easyabs (see link below). You will receive feedback on acceptance in early May 2026. We will be able to accommodate a limited number of online presentations. Please indicate your availability in your submission. Submit via easyabs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/YGLEw2/ Please send any inquiries to bael(a)uni-bonn.de Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #20
by Costas Gabrielatos 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 March 2026, 10:00-11:30 am (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topics: LLMs, Corpus Linguistics, Language Learning Speaker: Peter Crosthwaite<https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/profile/2845/peter-crosthwaite> (University of Queensland, Australia) Title: Corpora, Prompts, and Pedagogy: Human-AI Text Comparison in Applied Linguistics The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 March. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Demos and Tools
by Announce 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

*** First Call for Demos and Tools *** 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 VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). The Demos and Tools Track at VARIABILITY 2026 invites compelling live presentations and submissions of innovative tools, practical demonstrations, and curated datasets that support research and practice in software and systems product line engineering, reuse, and configuration. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase academic or commercial tools, demonstrations of novel techniques, and datasets that contribute to the advancement of software and systems reuse, software product lines and configurable systems. Accepted contributions will be featured both during the main conference (via oral presentations) and in interactive exhibition spaces (e.g., demo booths or poster/demo sessions during breaks). This track provides an opportunity to illustrate the practical impact of new ideas and to foster interaction between researchers and practitioners that address real-world variability challenges. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on all topics related to tool support and datasets for product lines and variable/configurable software systems, including (but not limited to): Core Product Line Engineering Techniques • Feature modeling • Variability management • Product Line Architecture • Validation and verification • Product derivation and generation, including build systems and CI • Product-line testing and further analyses • Optimization and measurement of non-functional properties • Language product lines Application Domains and Contexts • Software-intensive and cyber-physical systems • Web and cloud-based systems, including microservices • Internet of Things • Automotive and industrial automation • Consumer electronics • Software ecosystems and multi-product lines Submission Guidelines Submissions must describe either (1) a new tool or prototype; (2) a novel extension to an existing tool; (3) a practical demonstration of an approach; (4) a new or curated dataset relevant to variability and reuse; (5) a significant update to a previously published tool or dataset (include a clear description of new contributions). Each submission must include: • A paper of up to 4 pages, including references and figures. • An optional appendix of up to 2 pages (not included in the proceedings), describing the planned live demonstration or dataset usage scenario. • A link to a short video (max. 5 minutes) illustrating the tool, demonstration, or dataset in action. Papers should briefly describe the theoretical foundation, with a focus on practical aspects such as software architecture, implementation decisions, usage methodology, and validation through case studies or benchmarks. Public availability of tools and datasets (preferably under open-source/open-data licenses) is strongly encouraged. Where availability is not possible, submissions should explain the reasons. 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/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (select “Demonstrations and Tools Track”). Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Reviewers will evaluate: • Relevance to the VARIABILITY community • Technical soundness and artifact maturity • Novelty of the contribution • Quality of the written description and video demonstration • Clarity in the presentation of implementation details, usage, or dataset structure • Positioning with respect to existing tools/datasets/practices This track follows a single-blind review process. Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings, published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Demos and Posters: 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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CLARIN ERIC : Newsflash February 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, The February 2026 edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * Two vacancies at the CLARIN central Hub * Software developer<https://www.clarin.eu/news/job-opening-software-engineer> * EU Project Finance Officer<https://www.clarin.eu/news/job-opening-eu-project-finance-officer> * A new deadline for the JOHD special collection on language data reuse * A new textbook on ParlaMint * Several call for papers with upcoming deadlines, including: * LREC workshops * CLARIN2026 * SwissText * CMC Corpora 2026 * The Oral Archive Journal Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-february-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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CFP: International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan
by Ahmad Mustafa 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your papers to the 17th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan, May 18th - 21st, 2026 Important Dates: * Full paper submission: March 10th, 2026 * Notification of Decision: March 31st, 2026 * Camera-Ready and Registration: April 10th, 2026 The proceedings of ICICS2026 will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The topics that will be covered in ICICS 2026 include, but are not limited to: 1. AI and Machine Learning 2. Networking and Internet of Things (IoT) 3. Data Science and Big Data 4. Natural Language Processing and Applications 5. Software & web Engineering, and Information Systems 6. Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics 7. Cloud and Fog/Mobile Edge Computing 8. E-Learning Technologies 9. Communication Systems, Electronics, and Signal Processing Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (check the review process on the conference website). Authors are expected to present their papers at the conference (or virtually). The accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The Conference Program includes free trips to Jarash and Umm Qais Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026> Conference website: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics Please send any inquiry to: icics(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:icics@just.edu.jo>

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LREC 2026 Online Registration now open
by info＠elda.org 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] The online registration for LREC 2026 Main conference, Workshops and Tutorials is now open @ https://cvent.me/XakVZG Early-Bird Deadline: March 6, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Fees: https://lrec2026.info/registration-fees/ Registration Policy: https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ LREC 2026 Contacts * Invitation and visa letters: german.rigau(a)ehu.es * ELRA membership, payment, invoices: elrasecretariat(a)lrec2026.info * Scientific programme and Main conference papers: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com * Workshops: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com * Tutorials: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com General contact: info(a)lrec2026.info https://lrec2026.info Follow ELRA on LinkedIn

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Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Final Call for Papers and deadline extension! Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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[CfP + DEADLINE extension] Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026
by Gilles Sérasset 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026 Last CfP — Deadline extended We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026. We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development. More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/ Workshop Overview Large Language Models have become foundational in NLP, yet they continue to face challenges related to bias, hallucination, explainability, environmental impact, and the cost of training. Knowledge Graphs, in contrast, provide high-quality, interpretable, and reusable ontological and linguistic structures that support reasoning, fact checking, and knowledge preservation. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of these two paradigms, exploring how explicit knowledge and implicit statistical learning can enhance each other. We welcome contributions that investigate, demonstrate, or evaluate systems, methods, or resources integrating both KGs and LLMs. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): 1. LLMs for Knowledge Graph Engineering KG modelling, resource creation, and interlinking Relation extraction Corpus annotation Ontology localization Creation or expansion of linguistic or knowledge graphs KG querying and question answering 2. Knowledge Graphs for Large Language Models Using linguistic or knowledge graphs as training data Fine-tuning LLMs using linked linguistic (meta)data Knowledge/linguistic graph embeddings KGs for model explainability, provenance, and source attribution Neural models for under-resourced languages KG-augmented RAG (KG-RAG) 3. Joint Use of KGs and LLMs in Applications Combined KG–LLM use cases with structured linguistic data Digital humanities applications Question answering over graph data Fake news and misinformation detection Educational applications and assisted learning Visualizing academic writing with KGs and LLMs KG-enhanced chatbots for health and medical contexts Application Domains All application domains are welcome (Digital Humanities, FinTech, Linguistics, Education, Cybersecurity, etc.) as long as the work uses both Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. Submission Guidelines Submission Format: Papers up to 8 pages excluding references. Style: All submissions must follow the LREC 2026 format and use the official LREC author kit. (available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ ) Review Process: Double-blind peer review. Submissions must be fully anonymized. Submission System: Papers must be submitted via the START conference system at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/KGLLM/ Language Resources: In line with LREC policies, authors are encouraged to describe, document, and share language resources, datasets, models, evaluation tools, or annotation guidelines used or created in their work. Accepted Papers: All accepted papers will be included in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings. Presentation: Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster sessions during the workshop. Important Dates *All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)* Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026 Notification to authors: 24 March 2026 Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 Contact For questions, please contact the workshop organizers at: kg-llm-26(a)googlegroups.com Organizing Committee Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Katerina Gkirtzou, Athena Research Center, Greece Michael Cochez, Ellis Institute Finland & Åbo Akademi, Finland Jan-Christoph Kalo, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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[Call for Papers] NLPercep: The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing
by Aswathy Velutharambath 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

# CfP: NLPercep: The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing (NLPercep’26) will be co-located with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26) and will take place on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in *Los Angeles, California, USA. **Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2026** Social perception plays a central role in how language is interpreted: readers form impressions about intent, politeness, credibility, identity, and more from subtle linguistic cues. However, most NLP systems model these phenomena using surface-level proxies (e.g., fixed labels for “toxicity,” “politeness,” or “demographic information”), often treating socially grounded judgments as fixed properties of text. As a result, they can blur the distinction between what a text is intended to convey and how it is perceived in context, limiting our ability to build systems that reflect how people interpret language across contexts and communities. NLPercep’26 aims to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers from NLP, computational social science, sociolinguistics, psychology, and related fields to study how language is perceived and not just what it encodes. The workshop places particular emphasis on the role of social perception in the era of large language models (LLMs) and evolving communication norms. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that advance theoretical grounding, computational modeling, and empirical understanding of social perception in language. We welcome submissions on topics including, but not restricted to, the following: - self-perception, identity, and self-expression in language; - social group perception, stereotypes, and bias; - sociolinguistic perception and language attitude; - social norms, moral values, and evaluative judgments; - computational and NLP approaches to social perception; - large language models (LLMs) and social perception. **Submission types** We invite the following types of submissions: Archival: - Long papers (5 to 8 pages) that present original research, from preliminary findings to established contributions, including theory, experiments, or applications. - Short papers (up to 4 pages) that introduce emerging ideas, work in progress, or early-stage research with clear significance. Non-archival: - Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)that present ongoing work, position papers, previously published work, or research projects. Abstracts can be submitted either for inclusion in the proceedings (archival) or as non-archival contributions. All papers must follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper (available templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word and LaTeX]). The review process will be double-blind. Please anonymize your papers by removing identifying information such as author names, affiliations, and funding details. **Important Dates** Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026 Camera ready: May 15, 2026 NLPercep Workshop day: May 26, 2026 Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth). **Organizers** Hongyu Chen, University of Stuttgart Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Stuttgart Amelie Wührl, IT University of Copenhagen Sofie Labat, Ghent University, Harvard University Lindsay Goolsby, University of Denver Aidan Combs, The Ohio State University Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg **Website and Contact** For further information and updates, visit the NLPercep website: https://nlpercep.github.io/workshop/ If you have any questions, please contact: nlpercep-workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de

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Charles (Chuck) F. Meyer, RIP
by jk＠etinu.com 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Dear friends, I've only just discovered this morning that Chuck had died, actually last October, others who knew him - especially from ICAME conferences and for his work in Corpus Linguistics – might not be aware of his passing either, and hence I thought I would post this wholesome obituary which I found online. https://blogs.umb.edu/umasslinguistics/2025/11/06/obituary-professor-charle… His mentor was Sid Greenbaum, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He compiled the written component of ICE-USA and collaborated with Jack DuBois on the spoken component, which uses material from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The first edition of his book _English Corpus Linguistics_ (CUP, 2008) is an excellent introduction to ICE-corpora. As the obituary stresses, he was a kind and warm-hearted guy and great good company. We enjoyed many beers and laughs together at ICAME conferences. I had visited him in Boston and he me in Belfast. May he rest in peace. -- Dr John Kirk Email: jk(a)etinu.com

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Funded PhD Position to work on Community-led Development of Technology for Under-Resourced Languages
by Ekaterina Vylomova 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

The PhD position is funded by ARC DECRA titled "Harnessing AI to Protect Endangered Languages" for 3 years, with Katerina Vylomova as a primary supervisor. The PhD student's research is expected to focus on technology for languages of Oceania, with a particular emphasis on collaboration (co-design) with local communities. The candidate is expected to have technical competence, ability to develop & improve contemporary NLP models, propose novel research ideas and innovative approaches. An ideal candidate would have existing connections to communities in Oceania, strong motivation to work on language technology, and increased interest in languages in general. Before you apply, please send me your CV, research proposal, and transcripts on vylomovae AT unimelb edu au. More information about the application process: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/doctor-of-philosophy-eng…

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CFP: READIxTSAR 2026 - deadline extended to 2nd of March
by Rémi Cardon 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

READIxTSAR 2026 Last Call for Papers **Deadline Extended to March 2nd (AoE / UTC-12:00)** Website: https://readixtsar.github.io/ Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/user/ READIxTSAR is a joint initiative between two previous workshops of mutual interest: Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI, hosted at LREC 2020,22,24) and Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR, EMNLP 2022,24,25, RANLP 2023). This year at LREC, the committees of the two events have merged to deliver a joint event, uniting accessibility research communities under a common umbrella. We aim for READIxTSAR to be a focal point for communities of researchers working on reading difficulties, accessibility and simplification to network, share best practice and form new collaborations. *Motivation and Context* The growth of educational and assistive technologies for reading, aimed at enhancing the performance of individuals with disabilities, provides an important setting for Text Simplification research. The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). This workshop aims to present state-of-the-art applications and approaches in technology-enhanced reading and innovations in text accessibility. The workshop will address specialized technology, tools, and resources, their impact on learning to read and comprehension, and innovative works spanning research to fieldwork, particularly in light of recent AI advances. Research in automatic text simplification has evolved from deep learning methods (Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021) to leveraging foundational large language models (Kew et al. 2023; Cripwell et al. 2023; Farajidizaji et al. 2024) through fine-tuning and prompt-engineering. Despite these advancements, the Text Accessibility and Text Simplification communities must address critical areas, including: designing better evaluation metrics, developing context-aware simplification solutions, creating appropriate language resources, deploying simplification in real-world environments, studying discourse factors, and identifying factors affecting readability. Addressing these issues requires collaboration across CL/NLP, machine learning, UI/UX, accessibility professionals, and public organizations, whom we invite to participate through publication and attendance. *Topics of Interest* The event will accept submissions at the intersection of the research areas of the two workshops, as well as submissions that are targeted to the specific research interests of either workshop. An indicative list of topics of interest are listed below. - Lexical, syntactic and discourse adaptations or simplifications; - ATS for sentences, paragraphs, or documents; - Controllable text simplification and text generation of adapted contents; - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity; - LLMs and agentic LLMs for text simplification, text adaptation and readability - The role of LLMs in supporting reading - Complex word identification (CWI) and lexical complexity prediction (LCP); - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation and text assessment; - Evaluation of text adaptation or ATS systems; - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation; - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for supporting reading and learning; - Domain specific applications of the above topics (e.g. health, legal). *Important Dates (All deadlines AoE/UTC-12).* - Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2026 - Notification of Results: 16th March 2026 - Camera Ready: 30th March 2026 - READIxTSAR Workshop: 11th May 2026 *Submission Instructions* We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet, available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. All submissions must be made via START (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted, out-of-scope or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map, which provides metadata for the resource. *“Share your LRs!” Initiative* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). As in previous editions for Camera Ready a Plain Summary will be requested. *Organisers* Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Thomas François, UCLouvain, Belgium Raquel Amaro, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Eugénio Ribeiro, Iscte-IUL & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Regina Stodden, University Bielefeld, Germany Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France *Programme Committee* Akio Hayakawa, Pompeu Fabra University Anna Dmitrieva, University of East Anglia Arne Jonsson, Linköping University Christina Niklaus, University of St.Gallen Daniele Schicchi, CNR-ITD David Kauchak, Pomona College Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jan Bakker, University of Amsterdam Jasper Degraeuwe, University of Ghent Kai North, Cambium Assessment Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Lourdes Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University Martina Miliani, Università di Pisa Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Michael Gille, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Mounica Maddela, Bloomberg Natalia Grabar, CNRS, University of Lille Nouran Khallaf, University of Leeds Raquel Hervas, University Complutense of Madrid Regina Stodden, University of Bielefeld Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Reno Kriz, Johns Hopkins Sandaru Seneviratne, The Australian National University Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature Tannon Kew, University of Zurich Thomas François, UCLouvain Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Ehime University Yannick Parmentier, LORIA Yingqiang Gao, University of Zurich Zihao LI, University of Manchester

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AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility Summer School 2026
by Constantin Orasan 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility Summer School 2026 15-17 June 2026 | University of Surrey, UK https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… The inaugural ADA Summer School on AI-enabled Digital Accessibility will take place from 15 to 17 June 2026 at the University of Surrey, hosted by the Centre for Translation Studies with support from the ADA Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Network. The summer school precedes the Convergence 2026 conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026>: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. About the Summer School AI-enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA) is an exciting field that brings together expertise from artificial intelligence, computer science, translation studies, accessible communication, cognitive and social sciences, and inclusive design. ADA explores how advances in AI can work alongside human expertise to improve digital media access for a wide range of users. The specific focus of ADA is on enhancing accessible communication and creating high-quality accessible content at scale. Current ADA projects focus on the use of AI in accessibility practices such as subtitling, captioning and audio description, as well as on approaches to improve cognitive access, text simplification and multilingual accessibility. This emerging field represents a paradigm shift from purely engineering-led, AI-driven methods towards an AI-enabled approach where user needs guide the development of responsible, nuanced solutions for accessible digital content. At ADA's core is the principle that only human-in-control approaches can effectively mitigate AI risks, such as bias, errors, and privacy concerns. ADA therefore aims to establish a new interdisciplinary research paradigm leading to truly responsible research designs and solutions. This intensive 2.5-day Summer School will equip participants with critical knowledge, research insights, and methodological skills essential to kickstart and/or refine cutting-edge research in this area. You'll explore interdisciplinary approaches based on the latest projects in this field and develop collaborative research skills that prioritise human-centred integration of AI technologies in digital accessible communication. Application process will open on the 15th Feb 2026. More details can be found at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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2nd CfA: Conference "How does artificial intelligence challenge our traditional understanding of legal reasoning?" August 27-28, 2026, University of St.Gallen
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a conference that I’m co-organizing. Please find the call for Abstracts below. For further inquiries, please contact the Organizing Committee at: conference-ile(a)unisg.ch . All best, Reto Gubelmann University of Zurich ********************************* CALL FOR ABSTRACTS How does artificial intelligence challenge our traditional understanding of legal reasoning? August 27-28, 2026, University of St. Gallen This international conference invites scholars, practitioners, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) researchers to explore how contemporary Language AI Systems—especially large language models (LLMs) and Deep Learning Methods—reshape fundamental assumptions and methods about legal method, interpretation, and decision-making. Legal practice often presents itself as value-laden, interpretive, and methodologically disciplined. Yet current Language AI predominantly operate through statistical pattern recognition and representation rather than propositional argument. This tension raises pressing questions: Does Language AI merely automate inessential aspects of legal work, or does it reveal that legal reasoning itself has long contained implicit statistical or probabilistic elements? Do machine-generated legal outputs expose hidden (ir)regularities in judicial and administrative practice? And how should legal theory respond when computational systems appear to “mimic” legal judgment without en-gaging, for all we know, in human-like, propositional reasoning? We especially welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes: • Statistical Aspects in Legal Reasoning: What role do probabilistic or statistical considerations already play—implicitly or explicitly—in legal interpretation and decision-making? • AI and the Transformation of Legal Method: Does the rise of generative Language AI undermine traditional conceptions of doctrinal reasoning, hermeneutics, or precedent? • Values, Normativity, and Language: How do values enter legal language, and can AI systems meaningfully represent or operationalize normative commitments? • AI as Mirror or Distortion of Legal Practice: Does AI reveal the latent patterns of legal discourse, contributing to a more objective practice, or does it impose new biases and structures that distort legal meaning? • Epistemic, Democratic, and Ethical Implications: What does the integration of (currently largely private and often closed-sourced) AI into legal institutions (public administration or courts) imply for legitimacy, transparency, and the rule of law? We invite submissions from law, philosophy, NLP, (computational) linguistics, computer science, statistics and related fields. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Confirmed Keynote Speakers • Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute, Bonn • Dr. Joel Niklaus, Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face Submission Guidelines: Abstract • Scope: 300–500 words • Submission deadline: February 28, 2026, to conference-ile(a)unisg.ch • Form: Anonymized PDF. Please indicate your name, affiliation and contact information in the body of your email • Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2026 Paper and presentation • Paper scope: 3,000 words • Submission deadline: August 14, 2025 • Presentations of 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes discussion, online presentations are possible Scientific and Organizing Committee • Désirée Klingler, University of St. Gallen • Peter Hongler, University of St. Gallen • Reto Gubelmann, University of Zurich

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Second Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation ACL – 23rd IWSLT 2026 – First Call for Participation July 3-4, 2026 - San Diego, CA, USA http://iwslt.org The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low-latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 22 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 23rd edition of IWSLT will be run as an ELRA/ACL event and co-located with ACL 202 <https://2026.aclweb.org/>6 on July 3-4, 2026. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 1, 2026: Release of shared task training and dev data March 15, 2026: Scientific paper submission deadline Apr 1-15, 2026: Evaluation period April 24, 2026: System description paper submission deadline May 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance June 1, 2026: Camera-ready deadline (all papers) July 3-4, 2026: IWSLT conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2026 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2026/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech to Text Translation track: Offline, Low-resource - Customized Speech Translation track: Compression, Subtitling, Simultaneous - Speech Generation track: Indic S2S, African S2S, Cross-lingual Voice Cloning - Instruction Following track - Speech Translation Metrics track Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the website). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced at the conference website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., ACL 2026 Findings papers, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced at the conference website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marcello, Alex, Antonios, Luisa, Matteo, Jan, Sebastian, Marco Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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Call for Papers - StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content in conjunction with EAMT 2026
by resenden＠tcd.ie 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content We are excited to announce the StyGenAI workshop, which 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/ 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 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 and be submitted via the EasyChair system. Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 27 April 2026 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026 Camera-ready papers due: 20 May 2026

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PhD Position in project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds" at University of Bamberg
by Sean Papay 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear all, A reminder about our open position: We are looking to hire a PhD student for a term of three years at the Chair for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/nlproc/) at the University of Bamberg in Germany, starting either May 1 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position will be for 100% time, according to the TV-L 13 payscale (see https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/allg/). The application deadline is *February 28.* The position will be part of the project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds (PoWPoW)", to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Programme LaSTing (https://www.lasting-spp.org/). The project’s goal is to investigate how LLMs represent and reason about probabilistic world knowledge. Within this scope, the project will explore methods for eliciting probability judgments from LLMs, test how well such judgments agree with empirical probabilities, investigate the internal consistency of related probability judgments, and compare LLMs’ probabilistic reasoning to that of humans. The full details can be found here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_St… Applicants should have: * M.Sc. or comparable degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related area. * Experience working with NLP methods and LLMs. * Strong grasp of probability theory – experience with graphical models or formal logic a bonus. * Good knowledge and practical experience with deep learning. * Very good command of English; German knowledge is not essential. * Ability to work in a team, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm, and intrinsic motivation. If you would like to apply, please send your application to Sean Papay <sean.papay(a)uni-bamberg.de>. Your application should be a single .pdf file, comprising a brief motivation letter, your CV, the contact details of two references, and an academic writing sample -- for example, your Master's Thesis or an academic paper previously written by you. Please send your application by *February 28*. Best regards, --Sean Papay

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NEW CALL FOR PAPERS | Oral Archives Journal | 3 - 2027
by Dario Del Fante 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Please forward as appropriate. *NEW CALL FOR PAPERS | Oral Archives Journal | 3 - 2027* *From Production to Use and Reuse* <https://journals.fupress.net/call-for-paper/from-production-to-use-and-reus…> The open access, peer-reviewed Oral Archives Journal (OAr), <https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/about> published by Firenze University Press and USiena Press, is dedicated to all aspects of oral archives – from their creation to their dissemination and reuse– and aims to foster collaboration and exchange among scholars, researchers, and cultural institutions dealing with oral sources. The journal collaborates with CLARIN-IT and is connected to the K-OAr Centre. The call for papers for the next issue is currently open - link <https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index>. -- *Dario Del Fante, PhD* Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) English Language and Linguistics *Humanities Department - University of Ferrara* Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara E-mail: dario.delfante(a)unife.it Recent Publications Del Fante, D. (2024). *Migrating across times and cultures. Metaphorical images of migration in the U.S. and Italian newspaper discourse between the 20th and 21st century.* Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b21857 Del Fante, D. (2025a). Positive perspectives on migration discourse in Italy between 1900 and 1915. In C. Taylor (Ed.), *The Discursive constructions of Migrant Identities* (pp. 85–112). Bloomsbury Academic. 10.5040/9781350442900.0010 <https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350442900.0010> Del Fante, D. (2025b). The Self-representation of Refugees through Pronominal Choice. A Case-study on Migration Counter-discourse in a Collection of Narratives on Refugees by Refugees. *The Cerlis Journal: Studies on Specialised Languages and Discourse Analysis*, *1*(1), 41–82. Del Fante, D., & Federici, E. (2025). Open to Meraviglia? Can Automated Translation Change Tourism Promotional Campaigns? *International Journal of English Linguistics*, *15*(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v15n4p89 Del Fante, D., & Iori, I. (2025). Translating Metaphors at Table: Figurative Language and Food in Emilia-Romagna Tourism Discourse. *International Journal of Linguistics*, *17*(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v17i5.22887 Parnell, T., Van Hout, T., & Del Fante, D. (2025). *Critical Approaches to Polycrisis: Discourses of conflict, migration, risk*. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN.

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Post Doc positions (24 months) in digital linguistics / NLP at TurkuNLP
by Veronika Laippala 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear all, The TurkuNLP research group at the University of Turku, Finland, invites applications for 2–4 fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions in Digital Linguistics and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP). Employment begins in March–April 2026 at the earliest (or as agreed) and continues for 24 months or until the end of May 2028. The positions are part of several research projects targeting web language use and massively multilingual web-crawled data. All projects are funded by the Research Council of Finland, including the newly selected Centre of Excellence Human Diversity through Contacts. The research topics include, but are not limited to: - Modeling and linguistically analyzing language use across varieties such as registers (genres) in massively multilingual web-scale data, using multilingual deep learning methods, LLMs, and corpus-linguistic statistical approaches - Developing NLP methods for advanced semantic analysis and labeling of multilingual web data - Theoretical and methodological advances for web language use and web-as-corpus research The closing date for applications is February 26, 2026 at 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki). For more information, please contact me or visit https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkijatohtorin-maaraaikaisia-tehtavia-di… and https://sites.utu.fi/humandiversity/news/positions-open-in-human-diversity-…. Best regards, Veronika Laippala

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CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab -- 2nd Call for Participation
by Julia Maria Struß 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '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 materials released) Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV <https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV> Important Dates --------------------- - November 2025: Lab registration opened - December 2025: sample materials released - December - February 2026: training materials released - 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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AILC Lectures on Computational Linguistics, 15-17 June 2026
by Bernardi Raffaella 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the 2026 edition of the Lectures on Computational Linguistics, a series of lectures dedicated to central topics in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, will be held in Bolzano from 15 to 17 June. The 2026 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics/Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (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) Oliver Lemon (Edinburgh Center for Robotic) 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 on the Lectures website<https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2026/> 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. Registration The school is mainly aimed at Doctoral and Master's degree students, although a minimum qualification is not required for access. Participation is free but subject to registration and association with AILC, and places are limited to 150. The registration link will be open soon and will close on May 27, or when the maximum number of participants is reached. Accommodation: Information and suggestions will be published on the website soon. We recommend booking your accommodation well in advance to avoid higher prices. 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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Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science at LREC 2026
by ACL Announcements 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 1ST WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL AFFECTIVE SCIENCE AT LREC 2026 December 15, 2025 | BY vk22priya Event Notification Type: Call for Papers Abbreviated Title: First CfP: CAS Workshop@LREC 2026 Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain State: Mallorca Country: Spain Contact Email: Christopher.Bagdon(a)uni-bamberg.de vkpriya(a)cs.toronto.edu City: Palma de Mallorca Contact: Christopher Bagdon Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 16 February 2026 First Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <workshop.cas1(a)gmail.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS will accept archival long and short paper submissions, featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research. We also encourage submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. **Motivation** Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. **Interdisciplinary Scope** The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and Affective Science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. **Submissions** We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: * theories and nature of emotion * the biology or neuroscience of emotions * appraisal models * dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) * models of constructed emotion * cognitive-affective architectures * emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) * emotion granularity * emotion regulation * affective embodiment * evolutionary and developmental affect * emotion-cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: * emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) * emotion intensity estimation * emotion cause detection * context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) * structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: * creating emotion arcs * determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations * tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) * document-level and cross-document emotion analysis * labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: * Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders * Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) * Affect and education * Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities * Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications * Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics * Privacy and ethics in affective data collection * Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion * The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect * Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents **Important Dates (tentative):** · Submission deadline:16 Feb 2026 · Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 · Camera Ready Paper due: 23 March 2026 · Workshop date: TBA (11-16 May 2026) **Submission Details:** We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival long and short papers should feature novel and unpublished work relating to the topics detailed above. We also invite submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. Archival Track: · Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. · Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. (When preparing camera ready papers, you will be allowed one extra page to address comments by the reviewers.) Non-Archival Track: · Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. **Submission Format:** All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ (Note: extended abstracts can be limited to being 1-2 pages in length). **Mandatory Ethics Section:** We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. **Submission Site:** All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal. The link to the system will be shared shortly. **Additional Details:** Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). **Organizers:** * Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany * Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada * Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA * Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA * Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany * Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada Contact us at <workshop.cas1(a)gmail.com> with any questions.

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Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) @ EACL 2026: Call for Participation
by Ivelina Stoyanova Department of Computational Linguistics 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) [ https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ | https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ ] Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by [ https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/ | UniDive ] COST Action CA21167 Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026, [ https://2026.eacl.org/ | https://2026.eacl.org/ ] ), Rabat, Morocco. * Workshop date: March 28 , 2026 (9:00 – 12:30) * Early bird registration deadline: February 24 , 2026 (AOE) * Information on registration: [ https://2026.eacl.org/registration/ | https://2026.eacl.org/registration/ ] Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the [ https://multiword.org/ | MWE section ] of [ http://www.siglex.org/ | ACL-SIGLEX ] in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics The dominating trend in MWE research presented at the workshop focuses on large language models, particularly examining their capabilities and limitations across diverse tasks. Papers present research on Swedish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Galician, Marathi, Turkish, Korean, Sinhala, and Chinese. Research discusses language-specific phenomena that challenge existing annotation schemes and identification methodologies, particularly in morphologically complex and typologically distinct languages. The programme of the MWE 2026 Workshop is available here: [ https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ | https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ ] Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host [ https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st… | two shared tasks ] : * PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and * AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation) , which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at [ mailto:mwe2026workshop@gmail.com | mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com ] .

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Deadline extension Workshop DeTermIt! @ LREC 2026 - 2 March 2026
by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

[apologies for cross posting] DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026 11 May 2026 (afternoon) hybrid event (in-person + online)! Second Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) - Paper submissions (extended): 2 March 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DeTermIt2026/ ***** NEWS ***** - Best Student Paper Award: the best student paper (i.e., a paper whose first author is a PhD student or equivalent) will receive a free workshop registration for the corresponding (student) author. - Keynote: We’re delighted to announce Horacio Saggion (Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) as our keynote speaker! ##################### Final Call for Papers Schedule - Paper submissions: 2 March 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 - Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026 - Workshop: one of 11, 12, or 16 May 2026 (half-day) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 AoE (“Anywhere on Earth”) For more information, please visit: Website: https://determit2026.dei.unipd.it/ ##################### In today’s interconnected world, where information dissemination knows no linguistic bounds, it is crucial to ensure that knowledge is accessible to diverse audiences, regardless of language proficiency and domain expertise. Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) and text difficulty assessment are central to this goal, especially in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI), which increasingly mediate access to information. The second edition of the DeTermIt! workshop focuses on the evaluation and modeling of text difficulty in multilingual, terminology-rich contexts, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between: - text simplification, - terminology and conceptual complexity, and - LLM/GenAI-based generation and rewriting. The 2026 edition builds on the first DeTermIt! workshop held at LREC-COLING 2024 (https://determit2024.dei.unipd.it/), as well as related initiatives such as the CLEF SimpleText track (https://simpletext-project.com/), which provides reusable data and benchmarks for scientific text summarization and simplification. DeTermIt! 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in terminology-aware simplification, lexical and conceptual difficulty, and evaluation protocols for GenAI systems. We welcome contributions that address theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of text difficulty, including resource creation and evaluation (e.g., corpora, datasets, and benchmarks), with a focus on how linguistic complexity, specialized terminology, and domain knowledge interact with human understanding. In particular, we encourage work that explores how LLMs and GenAI can be evaluated, constrained, or guided to produce readable, faithful, and accessible texts. ##################### Topics of Interest ##################### We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following themes: 1. Theoretical and Modeling Perspectives - Cognitive and linguistic models of text and lexical complexity. - Multilingual readability and text difficulty prediction. - Modeling conceptual difficulty and domain-specific terminology. - Theoretical connections between lexicography, terminology, and text simplification. 2. Terminology and Conceptual Complexity - Identification and classification of specialized terms and concepts. - Estimation of term difficulty for lay readers and second language learners. - Use of terminological databases, ontologies, and knowledge graphs in simplification pipelines. - Methods for adapting domain-specific terminology for accessible communication (e.g., in medicine, law, technology). 3. Generative and Explainable AI for Text Simplification - LLM- and GenAI-based approaches to text simplification and paraphrasing. - Terminology-Augmented Generation (TAG) and term-preserving simplification. - Evaluation of GenAI outputs: readability, factuality, terminology fidelity, and hallucination analysis. - Readability-controlled or difficulty-controlled generation; controllable simplification. - Human-centered and explainable approaches to text accessibility in GenAI systems. 4. Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation Frameworks - Corpora, annotation schemes, and benchmarks for text difficulty and simplification. - Datasets and methods for evaluating terminology-aware simplification and explanation. - FAIR and reusable resources for multilingual text accessibility. - Evaluation protocols and metrics for cross-lingual and cross-domain simplification and GenAI-based rewriting. 5. Applications and Case Studies - Domain-specific simplification (e.g., healthcare, legal, scientific communication). - Tools and systems for educational settings, language learning, or accessible communication. - User studies, human evaluation setups, and mixed-method approaches to assessing text difficulty and GenAI-assisted simplification. - Industrial and real-world experiences with integrating ATS and terminology into LLM-driven workflows. ##################### Submission Guidelines ##################### We invite original contributions, including research papers, case studies, negative results, and system demonstrations. When submitting a paper through the START system of LREC 2026, authors will be asked to provide essential information about language resources (in a broad sense: data, tools, services, standards, evaluation packages, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. ELRA strongly encourages all authors to share the resources described in their papers to support reproducibility and reusability. Papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the LREC 2026 Proceedings (see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The workshop proceedings will be published in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings. PAPER TYPES We accept three types of submissions: - Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers – up to four (4) pages of content, describing smaller focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, or system demonstrations. - Position papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, discussing key open challenges, methodological issues, and cross-disciplinary perspectives on text difficulty, terminology, and GenAI. References do not count toward the page limits. ##################### Organizers ##################### Chairs Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy Federica Vezzani, University of Padua, Italy Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Hosein Azarbonyad, Elsevier, The Netherlands Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scientific Committee Florian Boudin - Nantes University, France Lynne Bowker - University of Ottawa, Canada Sara Carvalho - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Rute Costa - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Eric Gaussier - University Grenoble Alpes, France Natalia Grabar - CNRS, France Ana Ostroški Anić - Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia Tatiana Passali - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grigorios Tsoumakas - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Sara Vecchiato - University of Udine, Italy Cornelia Wermuth - KU Leuven, Belgium ##################### Contact ##################### For inquiries, please contact: giorgiomaria.dinunzio(a)unipd.it <mailto:giorgiomaria.dinunzio@unipd.it>

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CfP DHOW: Workshop Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop - @ ACMMM 2025
by Thomas Mandl 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

The 2st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both *online* and in person. Submission deadline: *July 11 2025 AOE* *Workshop site*: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/ *Co-located with ACMMM 2025* https://acmmm2025.org/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 October 2024 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to *July 11, 2025* Notification of acceptance: August 01, 2025 Camera-ready papers due: August 11, 2025 Workshop date: October 27/28, 2025 *Workshop Description* With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. *Submissions Topics* •Studying different types of harmful content •Computational fact-checking & Misinformation Detection •Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content •Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection •Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis •Multimodal and Multilingual Harmful Content Detection such as fake news, spam, and troll detection. •Deepfake and Synthetic Media •Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation •Both Qualitative and Quantitative study on harmful content •Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health •Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large models on harmful content •User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings *Submissions* - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call> - Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW <https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW> ***Workshop organizers* •Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany) •Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) •Gautam Kishore Shahi(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) •Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ) •Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany) DHOW 2025

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2nd CfP: Shared Task in Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction at BEA Workshop, ACL 2026.
by Skidmore, Lucy (Exams) 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Dear all, We invite participation in our Shared Task on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners, which will be hosted at The<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> (co-located with ACL 2026) both online and in person in San Diego, CA, United States. This shared task focuses on predicting the difficulty of English vocabulary for learners with different L1 backgrounds. Evaluation will use the British Council’s Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL), which provide psychometrically calibrated difficulty scores for English learners with Spanish, German, and Mandarin L1s. The task includes a Closed Track, limited to the provided data and standard NLP resources, and an Open Track, which allows external data and use of LLMs, to explore the full potential of current AI approaches. Important Dates 26 January: Release of training data and baseline models<https://github.com/britishcouncil/bea2026st> 20 March: Test data release 27 March: System submissions from teams due 3 April: Announcement of evaluation results by the organisers 24 April: System papers due 1 May: Paper reviews returned 12 May: Final camera-ready submissions 2-3 July: BEA 2026 workshop at ACL Further details can be found at our shared task website<https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st>. Please send any questions to vocabularychallenge(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:vocabularychallenge@britishcouncil.org> or post a new topic in our forum<https://groups.google.com/g/bea-2026-shared-task/>. We look forward to your participation! Organisers: Mariano Felice (British Council) and Lucy Skidmore (British Council). The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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Final Call and Deadline Extension — Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy
by Maria Irena Szawerna 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

**Apologies for cross-posting** Final Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026) Website: https://legal2026.mobileds.de/ Submission: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/ We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be held at LREC 2026 on the 12th of May 2026. Important Dates * 20th 22nd of February 2026, 23:59 CET: paper submission deadline * 30th March 2026: camera ready deadline (strict) * 12th May 2026: workshop date Introduction Access to text and speech data is essential for research, yet personal and sensitive information often prevents open sharing. Techniques such as pseudonymization and anonymization offer potential solutions, but their effectiveness, limitations, and impact on data utility require deeper investigation. Balancing privacy protection with meaningful scientific use remains a key challenge. At the same time, legal and ethical requirements increasingly shape how language resources can be created, processed, and distributed. Regulatory frameworks, such as the GDPR, the Data Act, and the Artificial Intelligence Act, affect access, reuse, and documentation duties for both text and speech data, creating a complex environment that demands interdisciplinary insight. The workshop brings these two perspectives together by addressing both the technical and practical aspects of de-identification as well as the legal and ethical obligations governing data handling. Topics include anonymization and pseudonymization methods, compliance in practical workflows, provenance and rights tracking, and emerging approaches to legal metadata. The goal is to foster responsible, legally sound, and technically robust innovation in human language technologies. Topics of Interest We invite contributions from all disciplines involved in the creation, processing, governance, and de-identification of text and speech data. Submissions may address theoretical, empirical, methodological, legal, or technical questions, including cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage research on less-represented languages and on data from under-represented communities. 1. Legal Aspects of Language Data (LEGAL2026) * Regulatory frameworks and global governance * Intellectual property, data protection, and LLM governance * Ethics, fairness, trust, and transparency * Compliance in practice * Ethics, fairness, and trust * Operationalizing compliance * Emerging and grey areas * Interdisciplinary and cross-border coordination 2. Pseudonymization, Anonymization, and De-identification: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Aspects (CALD-pseudo 2026) * Detection and classification of personal information (PI) * Replacement and transformation of PI * Utility and bias after de-identification * Approaches to evaluation and adversarial testing * Dataset creation for de-identification research * Low-resource scenarios * Speech-specific challenges * Cross-disciplinary applications and challenges We invite submissions from fields where de-identification of data plays an important role, including but not limited to Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Medical Science etc., from the perspectives of researchers, public organizations, and industry. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Long papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for: * Small, focused contributions or ongoing or preliminary work * Extended abstracts for non-technical submissions only, such as conceptual, theoretical, legal, ethical, policy-oriented, or position papers. Extended abstract submissions are expected to be developed into regular papers by the camera-ready submission deadline. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference. They should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the conference website on the Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Unlike the main conference, we allow appendices of up to 10 pages already in the review phase. However, the reviewers will not be required to look in the appendices and must be able to review the paper based on everything contained within the main body of the paper (as if there were no appendices). Submission deadline: 22nd of February 2026, 23:59 CET Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Talks We are delighted to announce the workshop will host keynote talks from two speakers: * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Ivan Habernal, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Workshop Organizers LEGAL 2026: * Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA, France * Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France CALD-pseudo 2026 * Maria Irena Szawerna, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center & University of Oslo, Norway * Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway * Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Lisa Södergård, University of Helsinki, Finland * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Lund University & DeepTensor AB, Sweden Program Committee A list of program committee members is available on the workshop webpage. Contact For inquiries, please contact ingo.siegert(a)ovgu.de for questions about LEGAL2026 or mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se for questions about CALD-pseudo 2026. Best regards, Maria Irena Szawerna ____________________ PhD student Språkbanken Text<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi<https://www.gu.se/svenska-spraket> UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG<https://www.gu.se/> https://spraakbanken.gu.se/om/personal/maria-szawerna

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION to February 26: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (Deadline Extended) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third and Final Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. (Submission deadline extended to 20 Feb 2026). Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS will accept archival long and short paper submissions, featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research. We also encourage submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and Affective Science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ *Submission deadline (**Extended**): 26 Feb 2026* Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival long and short papers should feature novel and unpublished work relating to the topics detailed above. We also invite submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. (When preparing camera ready papers, you will be allowed one extra page to address comments by the reviewers.) Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ (Note: extended abstracts can be limited to being 1-2 pages in length). Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ - Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany - Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada - Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA - Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany - Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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[new deadline extension] Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop
by s.frenda＠hw.ac.uk 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ * March 3: Paper submission (extension) * March 17: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready submission * May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025) and technologies (VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022). The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectorial discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation. Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the study of disinformation. The framework is characterized by two main pillars: 1) acknowledging the need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders (mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information); 2) exploring the role of the contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news. InDor aims to Define a common theoretical ground for the research on disinformation in NLP and beyond Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity to disinformation Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models Discuss the impact of real-world applications to contrast disinformation The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ We accept three types of submissions (see the website for details) Regular research papers; Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review or other conferences (e.g., LREC), provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 page of content. Please make the submission here: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/InDor26/ Topics We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder: new interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects surveys on Information Disorder multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks community- and user-centred approaches real-world applications to contrast false information experimental applications and projects for social good evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems generative approaches to contrast false information participatory approaches positions on Information Disorder Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work, in-person or online. Workshop organisers: Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin Shaina Ashraf, Phillips University of Marburg Ada Ren, Macquarie University Ioannis Konstas, Heriot-Watt University Usman Naseem, Macquarie University Contact us at s.frenda(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

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Job: Full-time permanent Research Engineer Position in NLP (deadline 19/03/26)- Bibliome team at MaIAGE-INRAE, France
by Louise Deleger 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Full-time permanent Research Engineer Position in NLP Bibliome team at MaIAGE-INRAE, France The Bibliome team<http://bibliome> (MaIAGE<https://maiage.inrae.fr/> laboratory) is offering a full-time permanent position of research engineer in Natural Language Processing at INRAE research center within Paris-Saclay University, located in the Paris area, France. INRAE<https://www.inrae.fr/en> (France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) is a public leading research institute, internationally recognised for the scientific excellence and societal impact of its work. INRAE addresses major global challenges related to biodiversity preservation, sustainable agricultural and food systems, climate change adaptation, and environmental risk management. Within this context, the Bibliome team develops cutting-edge NLP research at the intersection of AI and Life Sciences with the aim of advancing large-scale knowledge extraction from documents, using state-of-the-art transformer architectures, large language models (LLMs), knowledge graphs, and domain ontologies. It develops advanced methods for entity linking, relation extraction, semantic representation, and structured knowledge integration, along with robust evaluation frameworks and reusable research software contributing to next-generation knowledge infrastructures. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic interdisciplinary environment, combining fundamental research, methodological innovation, and high-impact applications. Position description and recruitment conditions at: https://jobs.inrae.fr/concours/concours-externes-ingenieurs-cadres-technici… Contacts : Robert.Bossy(a)inrae.fr<mailto:Robert.Bossy@inrae.fr> Louise.Deleger(a)inrae.fr<mailto:Louise.Deleger@inrae.fr> Key dates: - Application deadline : 19 March 2026 - Interview: from 1st to 19 June 2026 - Starting date: September/October 2026

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Last CFP: 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Call for Papers ************************************************************** 19th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 11, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026 Workshop website: https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/ Main conference website: https://lrec2026.info/ ************************************************************** MOTIVATION In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, and unrelated corpora are on the other. Increasingly, these resources are not only collected, but also augmented or even created synthetically, which raises new questions about how to define and measure comparability. In recent years, the use of comparable corpora for pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their impressive multilingual and cross-lingual abilities, which are relevant to a range of applications, including information retrieval, machine translation, cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora are crucial to improve methods to mine such corpora, to assess and document synthetic data, and to improve cross-lingual transfer of LLMs. Therefore, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. PANEL DISCUSSION The panel discusses the impact of synthetic data on comparable corpora research. Fundamental questions about how LLMs transform our understanding and use of multilingual data are addressed. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora - Automatic and semi-automatic methods, including generating comparable corpora using LLMs - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, within and across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Synthetic Data for Comparable Corpora - LLM generation of comparable/parallel data - Improving comparability of synthetic data - Incidental bilingualism & pre-training use of comparable data - Comparability & cross-lingual consistency - Detection & attribution of synthetic vs. human text - English-centric effects & fairness across languages/scripts - Evaluation & reproducibility for downstream tasks Applications of Comparable Corpora - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora. - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES 28 Feb 2026: Paper Submission deadline 22 Mar 2026: Notification of acceptance 29 Mar 2026: Camera-ready final papers 14 Apr 2026: Workshop Programme final version 11 May 2026: Workshop date All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”). For updates of the schedule, please see the workshop website. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop is a hybrid event, both in-person and online. Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see https://lrec2026.info/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/BUCC2026/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail immediately upon submission to another venue. For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2026 web page at https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2026/. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal, Mila, Canada) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) Contact: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI, Germany) - Gabriel Bernier-Colborne (National Research Council, Canada) - Kenneth Church (VecML.com, USA) - Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Alex Fraser (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Natalia Grabar (CNRS, University of Lille, France) - Amal Haddad Haddad (Universidad de Granada, Spain) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) - Preslav Nakov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, United Arab Emirates) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal & Mila, Canada) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) - Richard Sproat (Sakana.ai, Tokyo, Japan) - Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) - François Yvon (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) INFORMATION ABOUT THE LRE 2026 MAP AND THE "SHARE YOUR LRs!" INITIATIVE When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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PestCLEF2026 @ LifeCLEF & CLEF 2026: Shared Task on Knowledge Graph Extraction on Plant Pests from Web Documents
by Louise Deleger 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

Call for Participation We are pleased to announce the PestCLEF2026<https://www.imageclef.org/PestCLEF2026> shared task as part of the LifeCLEF evaluation lab<https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/labs/lifeclef/> at CLEF 2026<https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/>. Task ------------------------- PestCLEF2026 is a knowledge graph extraction task framed as a document-level relation extraction problem. Target relations reflect ecological interactions and events relevant to plant health monitoring, which involve entities such as Host, Pest, Disease, Vector, and Location. Important Dates ------------------------- - Now: Registration is open and training data is released - 23 April 2026: Registration closes - 7 May 2026: Competition Deadline - 28 May 2026: Deadline for submission of working note papers at the CLEF Conference by participants (CEUR-WS proceedings) - 30 June 2026: Notification of acceptance of working note papers - 6 July 2026: Camera-ready deadline for working note papers - 21–24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Register and Participate ------------------------- Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/registrationForm.php CLEF2026 Discord server (see #lifeclef): https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV PestCLEF2026 homepage (general info): https://www.imageclef.org/PestCLEF2026 PestCLEF2026 Kaggle page (to participate): https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/pest-clef-2026 Organizers ------------------------- Robert Bossy (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Claire Nédellec (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Marine Courtin (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Louise Deléger (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France) Keep in touch via Kaggle or Discord. We are looking forward to your submission! The PestCLEF2026 team

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). We invite you to submit proposals for half-day or full-day workshops in any area related to the field of Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration, all of which fall under the broader area of Variability. In particular, workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are especially sought. We particularly encourage workshop proposals for highly interactive and collaborative workshops, rather than mini-conferences, e.g., apart from the traditional short and long papers, consider allowing position papers with only one page (not included in the proceedings) and focus on a lively discussion after the presentation, to foster new ideas and gather feedback (rather than just defending the presented work). The expected date of the workshops will be the September 29th, 2026, before the main track of the conference. Submissions / Publishing VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference proceedings published by Springer. Moreover, a one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in the proceedings as well. Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections and address each corresponding point: 1. Organizers • Name: organizers’ full names • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers’ expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers 2. Workshop Content • Title: workshop title and acronym • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop (suitable for the conference’s website) • Tentative Website URL • Topics and motivation: • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop? • How is the workshop relevant to VARIABILITY? • How does the workshop connect VARIABILITY to other research communities? • Goals and expected results: • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them • What are the expected results of the workshop? • How will these results be disseminated? • Format: • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, invited talks (please note here that such talks are not financially supported by the conference), lightning talks, demonstrations, etc.)? • To avoid duplicated topics and cancellations, did you coordinate with or (plan to) merge workshops on the same/similar topics from previous years (if there are any)? • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction? • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities? • Participants: • What is the expected number of submissions and participants? Provide a plan for attracting sufficient submissions and promoting attendance • If applicable, please provide information from previous or related workshops. Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic? When, where and with how many participants? • Special room equipment (please note that VARIABILITY conference and the workshops are in-person events) like flip charts, microphone, etc. • Do you plan for a half-day or full-day workshop? • Program Committee: list of tentative program committee members, names and affiliations 3. Preliminary Call for Papers This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections but should be targeted towards prospective participants. It should address the following items: • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals • Workshop format • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals) • Submission guidelines and review process • References to previous workshops (websites) • Dissemination campaign to distribute the CFP 4. References to previous workshops (websites) Submission Instructions Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 A workshop proposal must be at most 8 pages long. Submissions must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous editions of the proposed workshop or other workshops organized by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission. Acceptance Criteria Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop’s potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of Variability and to identify elements of joint future work. To obtain a balanced and cohesive workshop program, the Organizing Committee will collaborate closely with workshop organizers and reserves the right to circulate proposals to other submitters in view of possible workshop mergers. The organizers of accepted workshops will be required to create and maintain a website in a timely manner to serve as a workshop information center and to provide a repository for documenting pre- and post-workshop activities. At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend VARIABILITY 2026 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published. The submission and review platform for workshop papers will be the one for the main conference (i.e., all workshops will be as different tracks under the same Easy Chair installation). Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop Proposals: 2 March 2025 • Notification of Acceptance: 16 March 2026 • Workshop Papers Submission: 15 June 2026 • Workshop Papers Notification: 7 July, 2026 • Camera-Ready Version Submission: 14 July, 2026 • Workshop Summary: 14 July, 2026 • Author Registration: 14 July, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CfP: CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - Jena, Germany
by Philipp Schaer 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

# CLEF 2026 - Call for Papers CLEF 2026 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization 21-24 September 2026, Jena, Germany https://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu/calls/papers/ # Good to Know The CLEF 2026 Conference welcomes papers in the Information Access domain that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Each submission is reviewed in two stages, see details below. # 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 is the 17th CLEF conference, continuing the popular CLEF campaigns that have run since 2000, contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental Information Access as carried out within evaluation forums (e.g., CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search in different domains, also considering specific classes of users, such as children, students, or impaired users in different tasks (e.g., academic, professional, or everyday life). We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on information access test collections, on the analysis of test collections and evaluation measures, and on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield-style evaluation paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past runs, results, data analyses, and new data collections. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design should be clearly described in the paper. Linking to additional resources, such as code or data repositories, is encouraged. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). # Topics Relevant topics for the CLEF 2026 Conference include, but are not limited to: - Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval, question answering, recommender systems, image retrieval, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Interactive and conversational search evaluation: the interactive/conversational evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive/conversational evaluation methods, simulation of interaction/conversation, etc. - Analytics for information access: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field specifically targeted at information access data analyses, data enrichment, etc. - Reproducibility and replicability: analyses of past results/runs in depth. - Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability (FATE) in information access. - Language diversity in information access: work on low-resource languages. - Models leveraging collaborative and social data, and their evaluation. User studies, either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing. - Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact, and projections of any evaluation initiative upon completing its cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component-based evaluation, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Specific application domains: information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, and in the form of text, audio, and/or image data. - New data collection: presentation of new data collections with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, and multilingual collections. - Reflections on past achievements and future research directions, roadmaps, outlooks for future developments, and lessons learned. # Format Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format (http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) Three categories of papers will be accepted: - Long research papers: 12 pages plus references for complete research work - Short research papers: 6 pages plus references for position/discussion papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. - Past, Present, Future: Up to 12 pages for future directions and research roadmaps, reflections on past achievements, etc. Papers should be anonymous. Sharing code and data with reviewers should be done via anonymous repositories (such as https://anonymous.4open.science/). # Review Process for Research Papers Research papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the programme committee in two stages using a results-blind reviewing process. At the first stage, the members will review the paper's originality, clarity, technical & theoretical soundness, and methodology. At the second stage, the complete manuscripts that passed the first stage will be reviewed. At this stage, reviewers will also look at the reproducibility of the work. The final decision will not be based on whether results are positive or beat a baseline. Therefore, negative results and failed experiments are explicitly welcome. Authors of long and short papers are asked to submit TWO versions of their manuscript: 1. Methodology version (restricted): This version does NOT report anything related to the results of the study. At this stage, the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the importance of the problem addressed and the soundness of the methodology. Manuscripts can include an introduction, a description of the proposed methodology, and datasets used. However, there should be no section on results and discussion. The authors should also remove any mentions of results from the included sections (e.g., the abstract and introduction). 2. Experimental version (complete): The complete manuscript that contains all the sections of the paper, including the experiments and results. The submission deadline for both versions is 15 May 2026. Authors of Past, Present, Future papers are asked to submit to the “Past, Present, Future” track. The submission deadline for the Past, Present, Future track is 15 May 2026. # Paper Submission Papers should be submitted in PDF format at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2026 - Submit the methodology/restricted version to the "Conference - Methodology Part" track. - Submit the experimental/complete version to the "Conference - Experimental Part" track. - Submit the Past, Present, Future papers to “Conference - Past, Present, Future” track. - Submit the best of CLEF 2025 Labs papers to the "Conference - Best of CLEF 2025 Labs" track. # Best Paper Award A Best Paper Award will be given to one outstanding conference paper accepted to the conference. This award, sponsored by Springer LNCS, includes a certificate and a 500 EUR prize. # Organisation Programme Chairs - Philipp Schaer, Technische Hochschule Köln, Germany - Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, Austria Lab Chairs - Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Julia Maria Struß, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany General Chairs - Matthias Hagen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany - Martin Potthast, University of Kassel, hessian.AI, ScaDS.AI, Germany - Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

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CFP: CHiPSAL 2026 @ LREC — Submission Deadline Extended to 28 Feb
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

===apologies for cross-postings=== *Third Call for Papers* *CHiPSAL 2026: Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages* Extended submission date: *28 February 2026.* *Submit here: *https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CHiPSAL2026/ We are pleased to announce the Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026), to be held in hybrid mode on 16 May 2026, co-located with LREC 2026. CHiPSAL 2026 invites substantial, original, and unpublished research on all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for South Asian languages. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Encoding and Unicode issues - Orthographic complexities - Morphology and generation - Dialectal variation and standardisation - Code-mixing and multilingualism - Building linguistic resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Technology for linguistic heritage preservation - Benchmarking models - Large language models for South Asian languages *Important Dates (AoE)* - Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026 - Camera-ready Papers: 29 March 2026 - Workshop (Hybrid): 16 May 2026 *Submission Guidelines* CHiPSAL 2026 accepts oral, poster, and poster+demo papers. - Short papers: 4 pages - Long papers: 8 pages (Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and data/code availability statements) *All submissions must:* - Follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ - Be fully anonymised for double-blind review - Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability statements - Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission) - Be relevant to South Asian language processing Papers must report original, unpublished work. Concurrent submissions must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. CHiPSAL will also accept submissions that were not selected by ACL Rolling Review, the LREC main conference, and EACL 2026, provided they are accompanied by their reviews and are related to South Asian languages. Such submissions must be uploaded as a ZIP file in the submission system, including the review decision email and all reviews in a text file. Each submission will be reviewed again by the programme committee. *More Information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/>* Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions. We look forward to your contributions. Best regards, The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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Nordic NLP Postdoc Position at the University of Copenhagen
by Ali Basirat 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Join Our Team at the Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen! We are seeking a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher to join a pioneering Nordic project at the forefront of Natural Language Processing. This role focuses on the linguistic and cultural alignment of Large Language Models. As part of the CAALLM Consortium, you will collaborate with research groups in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, and the Faroe Islands. You will also contribute to the Danish AI initiative, Danish Foundation Models, working closely with Alexandra Institutet and top Danish universities. Application deadline: March 10th, 2026 Start date: 1st of July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter Duration: 30 months Application link: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=156687 Best regards, Ali Basirat<https://nors.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/776431> Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing University of Copenhagen Center for Language Technology (CST)<https://cst.ku.dk/english/> Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics<https://nors.ku.dk/> Emil Holms Kanal 2 2300 København S Email:alib@hum.ku.dk Room: 22.3.34

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Call for Workshops: 16th European Summer University in Digital Humanities
by Elisabeth Burr 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, The European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU) invites proposals for workshops for the upcoming 16th edition in Université Marie-et-Louis-Pasteur, Besançon, France from July 6 – July 18, 2026. Workshop areas. We are particularly looking for proposals covering: - Audiovisual analysis and cultural analytics; - Computational & digital philology; - Statistics for humanities; - Design and construction of databases and corpora; - Large Language Models and critical AI. All digital humanities scholars and practitioners, GLAM professionals, interdisciplinary teams at the intersection of humanities, social science and computer science are welcome to submit. Workshop formats 1. Two week course (15 + 15 teaching hours, + 1.5h (x2) open teaser session); 2. One week course (15 teaching hours + 1.5h teaser); Two week workshops will be prioritized in evaluation as they are the core teaching units of the ESU. They run in parallel across the schedule and are designed as comprehensive, intensive hands-on training in key areas of Digital Humanities. Each workshop’s optimal audience is 10-12 participants for efficient learning; a workshop may be cancelled if it has less than 5 registered participants. Submission & timeline. To submit a proposal, please prepare: - Instructors' CV (max. 2 pages) and short bio (max. 250 words); - Title and short abstract (max. 250 words); - Extended description and syllabus (800–1200 words), including a day-by-day outline - Please include intended outcomes, any prerequisites, description of datasets and materials, technical requirements Proposals should be submitted by March 1 via the form here <https://framaforms.org/european-summer-university-in-digital-humanities-wor…>. The Steering Committee will review the applications and announce results on March 6. Evaluation. Workshops will be evaluated according to their 1) scientific and pedagogical quality; 2) fit to the school’s scope; 3) feasibility; 4) diversity and inclusiveness; 5) sustainability and openness. Practicalities. Accommodation and most meals (with some evenings and Sunday possibly excluded) will be provided for all instructors during their stay in Besançon. Travel costs within Europe will be fully covered; reimbursement of travel costs from outside Europe will be partial and must be agreed upon with the local organizers prior to the start of the ESU. A small teaching honorarium can be expected. Further information will be provided by the local organizers once the workshop’s financial arrangements are secured. We usually avoid significant thematic overlap in the workshop offer, so there will be less priority given to proposals on distant reading, mapping and GIS, stylometry, TEI-XML and digital archives. Feel free to write to esudhsteering [@] gmail.com if you wish to inquire about the fit of your workshop or have any other questions. With best wishes, Chairs of the ESU Steering Committee Artjoms Šeļa & Jeremi Ochab 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/> ______________________________ Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Französische, frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Gründerin und Direktorin der European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T) 2009-2022 (https://esu.fdhl.info/) Präsidentin der European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) 2016-2023 (https://eadh.org/) (Vize-)Präsidentin des Constituent Organisations Board der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) 2019-2021 (https://adho.org/) Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftlichen Programmkomitees von EADH2020-2021, Krasnoyarsk (https://eadh2020-2021.org/) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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Final Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science (extended deadline)
by Thorsten Trippel 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science Palma de Mallorca Final Call for Papers The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions. This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital humanities, and language technology. We invite contributions from the community that address practical experiences, challenges, and solutions related to: * The creation and processing of DTF * Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data * Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus linguistics, or NLP * Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows * Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards) The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date will be communicated in due time. Submission Format Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and the programme committee. Important Dates * Extended submission Deadline: 2 March 2026 (AoE) * Reviewing period: – 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Submission Submissions will be handled via the submission system Softconf <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF> at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DTF. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Workshop Organisers * Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library * Keli Du, University of Trier * José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library * Philippe Genêt, German National Library * Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities * Christof Schöch University of Trier * Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Contact For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com <mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com> Updates For updates, see https://text-plus.org/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-12-lrec-dtf/

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Deadline Extension: Computation and Written Language Workshop at LREC 2026
by Constantine Lignos 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

The deadline for the CAWL workshop has been extended to February 23! Please see the workshop website at https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2026/ for submission details. The call for papers follows. The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit). We welcome submissions of scientific papers to be presented at the workshop and archived in the ACL Anthology. Please see the submission guidelines below and see the workshop webpage (https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2026/) for additional relevant information. For the first time ever, CAWL will also feature a cash prize of $500 USD for the best student submission. Topics Most work in NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form. This has often led researchers to ignore the differences between written and spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two. Furthermore, methods for dealing with written language issues (e.g., various kinds of normalization or conversion) or for recognizing text input (e.g. OCR & handwriting recognition or text entry methods) are often regarded as precursors to NLP rather than as fundamental parts of the enterprise, despite the fact that most NLP methods rely centrally on representations derived from text rather than (spoken) language. This general lack of consideration of writing has led to much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as speech technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer interaction (e.g., text entry). This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Writing systems for less-resourced, Indigenous, and minoritized languages - Multi-writing system models - Text entry and tokenization - Processing abbreviations and homographs - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization - Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres of text - Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to decipherment - Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical document processing - Orthography for unwritten languages - Spelling error detection and correction - Script normalization and encoding - Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language processing - Properties of written language - Applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems Important dates (all deadlines anywhere-on-earth time): Paper submission deadline: February 23, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: March 30, 2026 Workshop date: May 12, 2026 Submission Guidelines Please submit short (4 page) or long (8 page) submissions in PDF format. Both short and long paper submissions will be reviewed in the same process. Authors should follow the formatting guidelines of LREC 2026, available in the authors’ kit (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Note that, as with the main conference, reviewing is double-anonymous, i.e., reviewers will not know author identity and vice versa, hence no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should be avoided or anonymised. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology. Submissions will be accepted at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAWL/ between now and February 23, 2026. For questions about the submission guidelines, please contact workshop organizers at cawl-2026-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.

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Cf-Participation: HISEMOTIONS at IberLEF 2026
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

[Sorry for cross-posting] HISEMOTIONS 2026 focuses on emotion detection in Early Modern Spanish epistolary texts (16th–17th centuries). Unlike most existing emotion detection tasks that target modern languages or contemporary genres (e.g., social media, reviews), this challenge explores historical linguistic variation and semantic shift, raising a new challenge for NLP systems. Participants are tasked with developing systems that automatically identify emotional content in fragments of historical Spanish letters, addressing issues such as diachronic language variation, historical semantic shifting, and domain adaptation. The shared task aims to foster methodological progress at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Humanities. 🔗 *Task page / resources*: https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026 <https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com> ------------------------------ Why Participate? - Advance emotion detection methods in low-resource and historical domains. - Explore semantic change effects on automatic classification. - Benchmark systems on a novel historical dataset with expert human annotation. - Cutting-edge research into the computational study of cultural heritage. ------------------------------ Shared Task Details Task: Multi-label emotion detection Each text fragment should be labelled with one or more of the following emotions: • joy • sadness • fear • anger • surprise • hope Participants will predict binary labels for each emotion per fragment. Systems will be evaluated against hidden gold labels using standard metrics such as precision, recall, and macro-F1 score. ------------------------------ Important Dates Task announcement February 9, 2026 Development data release February 12, 2026 Training data release March 12, 2026 Test data release & evaluation start March 27, 2026 Deadline for system submissions April 30, 2026 Official results published May 4, 2026 System description papers due May 20, 2026 Review notification June 19, 2026 Camera-ready papers due July 1, 2026 IberLEF Workshop (presentations) September 22, 2026 ------------------------------ Contact & Submission For updates, questions, or discussions about the task, please open issues in the task GitHub repository or contact the organisers. Detailed submission guidelines will be published alongside the data releases. ------------------------------ We look forward to your participation and contribution to this exciting challenge! — HISEMOTIONS 2026 Organising Committee Dra. Albina Sarymsakova, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa Dra. Patricia Martín Rodilla, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa Dr. Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Universidad de Jaén Dr. Alfonso Ureña López, Universidad de Jaén -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. 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Second call for paper: BriGap-3, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*Second call for paper: BriGap-3, Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics* (with our apologies for cross-posting) Venue: Université Paris Cité, campus des Grands moulins, *Paris, France* 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 *- Submission deadline: Monday, April 27th, 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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Deadline-extension-SPEAKABLE 2026 @ LREC 2026
by Davide LIGA 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** 🚨 Due to several email requests --> Deadline got extended.🚨 Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space. Workshop Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities - Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models - Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings --> SPEAKABLE will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout> Invited Speaker Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/ Further details will be posted on the workshop website. Info for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 26, 2026 (Extended deadline) Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026) All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Workshop Organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:speakable2026@gmail.com>

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Job@ELDA: Junior Project Manager position, specialised in NLP (permanent position)
by info＠elda.org 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] The Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context, is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for a permanent Junior Project Manager position, specialised in Natural Language Processing. Job description The Junior Project Manager will conduct the activities related to the production of language resources and the co-ordination of national and European R&D projects, under the supervision of a Senior Project Manager. Their responsibilities include the recruitment and management of project-dedicated team members, as well as the design/specification and quality control of the language resources produced within the projects. They will also contribute to improve or update the current language resources production workflows, particularly in terms of human resources, time management and budgets. This yields excellent opportunities for motivated, creative candidates willing to improve their experience and actively participate in the Language Technologies field. The position is based in Paris (13th). Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 28-38K€). Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers. Required profile * Master’s degree in NLP, Linguistics or General Management with a liking for language technologies and AI. * Strong organizational skills and ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team. Proficiency in organizational tools is required (e.g. ASANA, currently used at ELDA); familiarity with or proposals for other tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence or Notion) would be a plus. * Strong skills in office tools (in particular Word, PowerPoint, Excel). * Ability to experiment with various techniques or tools related to language technology (e.g. annotation or transcription tools). * Dynamic and communicative, flexible to work on multiple tasks * Proficiency in English with ability to write administration documentation, deliverables and reports, and good mastering of French. Knowledge of any other European language would be a strong plus. * Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country. About ELDA is an SME established in 1995 to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases, and terminology. ELDA’s role is to produce LRs, to collect, to validate, and, foremost, to make them available to users in compliance with applicable regulations and ethical requirements. For further information about ELDA, visit: https://fr.linkedin.com/company/elda <https://fr.linkedin.com/company/elda> Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to: *ELDA* *9 rue des Cordelières* *75013 Paris* *FRANCE* *Email: _job(a)elda.org_ *

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Extended Deadline: LREC 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026)
by Valia Kordoni 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Dear all, due to numerous requests we are extending the submission period for NLE2026@LREC 2026 to Monday, 02 March. See below for the updated Call for Papers: **NEW** Submission deadline: 02 March 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026) To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 May 2026. 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. Topics of Interest We are interested in contributions which focus 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 also wants to discuss alternative approaches which may elaborate on the use of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) as a foundation and the application of techniques like contrastive learning and clustering to identify challenging examples within the data, the ultimate aim of the workshop being to highlight the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speakers - Barbara Plank, LMU Munich - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Further details and info on the invited talks will be announced shortly. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf, using the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLE2026/ Submissions should: • Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements • Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference website: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ • Use templates provided here: https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/ Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources (broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such resources to support reproducibility and reuse. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the work. Important Dates • 02 March 2026 — Submission Deadline • 20 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance • 30 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due 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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[CFP]-DravidianLangTech-at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Call for Participation for *DravidianLangTech-2026 Workshop and Sharedtaks @ ACL-2026 *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *CFP for the Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages- * *DravidianLangTech-2026 (**Theme: Multilingual Multicultural Multimodal LLMs)* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *DravidianLangTech-2026 @ The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026* *Venue: San Diego, California, United States* *Conference Date: July 02 - 07, 2026* *Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2026>* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and language technologies, internet usage has continued to surge globally, enabling many widely spoken languages to adapt successfully to the digital age. However, regional and underresourced languages still face significant challenges due to limited computational resources, annotated datasets, and specialized tools. One such group is the Dravidian language family, primarily spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with communities across Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, London, and other parts of the world. The Dravidian languages, with a history spanning more than 4,500 years and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. Despite growing research interest, gaps persist in areas such as speech recognition, multimodal processing, and generative AI applications for Dravidian languages. This is the sixth workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages, building upon the success of the previous editions. DravidianLangTech-2026 continues to serve as a collaborative forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to share insights and advance computational methods for Dravidian languages. The main objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 are as follows, The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2026 will be - To explore challenges and innovations in developing speech and language resources for Dravidian languages. - To design and adapt language technologies for multilingual, multimodal, and code-mixed Dravidian contexts. - To facilitate collaboration between the global Dravidian language community and international scholars across computational linguistics, AI, and digital humanities. - To address ethical, cultural, and inclusivity aspects in the creation of language technologies for under-represented communities. - To encourage the integration of Agentic AI frameworks for building interactive, explainable, and collaborative language systems in Dravidian contexts. *Call for Papers :* DravidianLangTech-2026 welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application driven contributions on any Dravidian languages (e.g., Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, etc.) that advance language processing, speech technologies, multimodality, or resource development. Submissions can address challenges in monolingual, bilingual, and code-mixed settings as well as crosslingual and low-resource transfer approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - Corpus(Data) development, annotation tools, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies - Detecting Hate Speech, Offensive Language, Misinformation, Fake News, Spam, and Rumor - Generative AI and Prompt Engineering for Dravidian languages - Agentic AI and Multi-agent Systems: workflow orchestration, reasoning agents, and collaborative agents for Dravidian language processing - Multimodal processing: Text, Speech, Image, Video, and Memes in Dravidian contexts - Speech Technology: Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Voice Conversion - Impaired/Normal Speech Recognition and Assistive Technologies for Dravidian speech - Accent Recognition, Verification, and Dialect Modeling - Emotion and Sentiment Recognition from Dravidian Speech and Text - Machine Translation and Cross-lingual Transfer in Dravidian languages - Language Resources for Generative and Instruction-Tuned LLMs - Document Analysis and Understanding for Dravidian texts and scripts - Object Detection and Recognition in multimodal Dravidian datasets - Ethical and Fair AI for Low-resource Language Communities - Healthcare and Mental Health Applications (e.g., depression detection, doctor-patient communication) in Dravidian speech - Educational Applications: Digital literacy, inclusive tools for rural Dravidian language communities *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Workshop Paper Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/DravidianLangT…>* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Important Dates* *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026* *Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026* with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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CFP: Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026) at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Second call for paper* *Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026)* at The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 Place: San Diego, California, United States Link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2026/home Tagline: Towards Fair and Inclusive Language Technologies for All. Call for Papers: Following the success of the first five editions of the LTEDI 2026 workshop (LDK 2025, EACL 2024, RANLP 2023, ACL 2022. EACL 2021), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with social scientists and interdisciplinary researchers. LT -EDI-2026 invites theoretical, empirical, and applied papers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and interdisciplinary communities particularly those focusing on bias in language technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Datasets, and Benchmarks for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - - - - Construction and annotation of datasets for EDI, including benchmarks for bias detection and mitigation. - Compilation of resources curated for fairness, inclusivity, and accessibility. - Methodologies for annotating intersectional identities (gender, race, disability, religion, sexual orientation, etc.). - Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs - - - - Techniques for identifying, measuring, and mediating gender, racial, disability, and other societal biases in NLP and LLMs. - The impact of bias in deployed NLP/LLM systems - Gender-neutral modeling and representational fairness in LLMs - Detection and mitigation of intersectional biases including gender, racial, gender identity, disability, and other societal biases. - Advances in bias mitigation in large language models: in-context learning, prompt engineering, conditional text generation, and adversarial training. - Inclusive Language and Counter-Narratives for LLMs - - - - Algorithms and resources for inclusive language generation with LLMs. - Counter-narrative modeling for combating toxicity, hate speech, and misinformation targeting marginalized communities. - Dialogue systems and multi-agent approaches that align with inclusivity goals. - Human-in-the-loop and participatory strategies for enhancing inclusiveness. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches for LLMs - - - - Multicultural and multilingual LLMs and approaches - Speech and language recognition for minority and under-resourced groups - Code-mixed and cross-lingual approaches for inclusive technologies - Responsible, Explainable, and Trustworthy LLMs for EDI - - - - Detecting and mitigating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity in LLM systems - Explainable and trustworthy LLMs - Evaluation frameworks incorporating ethics, accountability, and transparency - Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 - Workshop dates: July 4, 2026 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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open postdoc position in NLP research
by Ali Basirat 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear all, We are recruiting a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing and Representation Learning of Metaphorical Language in Large Language Models at the Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen. This role will contribute to the METALLM project — a cutting-edge research initiative exploring how large language models process metaphors and what this reveals about language, cognition, and culture. If you have a strong background in computational linguistics, NLP, and representation learning, this is a fantastic chance to advance your research in a dynamic international environment. Start: 1 August 2026 (or soon after) Application Deadline: 15 March 2026 Application Link: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=156836 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about your application. Best regards, Ali Basirat<https://nors.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/776431> Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing University of Copenhagen Center for Language Technology (CST)<https://cst.ku.dk/english/> Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics<https://nors.ku.dk/> Emil Holms Kanal 2 2300 København S Email:alib@hum.ku.dk Room: 22.3.34

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Call for participation Multilingual Easy to Read Translation - MER-TRANS-2026
by Horacio Saggion 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

*MER-TRANS-2026: https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>IBERLEF 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026>Apologies for cross-postingWe are pleased to announce the launching of the Shared Task: Multilingual Easy to Read Translation (MER-TRANS) in the context of the IberLef 2026 Evaluation Forum. - Context* *Linguistic access to information is increasingly recognised as a fundamental citizens’ right. For example, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) includes accessibility as one key enabler for a more inclusive society, while the European Union adopted the European Accessibility Act (EAA) in 2019, which requires that many everyday products and services, including digital information services, comply with accessibility standards. The UNCRPD and the EAA stress that information has to be provided in accessible language, such as plain language or easy-to-read language in order to allow the different population segments with language comprehension difficulties to exercise their recognized right to participate in society and public life. Providing information in easy language in a real-world setting is challenging. High-quality, easy-to-read content must typically be written or translated by human experts following specialized guidelines, and then often validated by target readers. This manual process requires considerable effort, time, and expertise, which limits how much content can be produced or translated into easy formats. Therefore, this MER-TRANS shared task aims at advancing the state of the art in the field of automatic easy-to-read translation with specific emphasis on Romance languages, more concretely, in Catalan, Italian, and Spanish. * * - Task OverviewIn this shared task, we invite participating teams to automatically produce easy to read versions of texts and/or sentences. The texts will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, a multilingual corpus in the domain of democratic participation, which has been simplified by human experts following easy-to-read recommendations and high-quality validation procedures. There will also be a surprise language task to be revealed closer to the release of the test data. Up to three submissions per language will be allowed per participant team. - Data and EvaluationUnlike previous challenges where the data remained of restricted use, the iDEM corpus, with original and adapted versions, will be made fully available to the community, the documents for participants to produce adaptations will be provided during the test phase, and the full dataset during the IberLef workshop in September 2026. A small trial dataset will be released; it will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, considering the occurrence of different difficulties addressed by the easy-to-read adaptations. The examples will contain both the original text excerpts and easy-to-read versions. The test datawill consist of only the original complex text excerpts. Evaluation will be carried out with automatic metrics borrowed from current text simplification evaluation research, such as SARI and/or BLEUE and semantic similarity scores when appropriate. - System Description Papers and ProceedingsAll participating teams will be invited to submit a system description paper describing their methods, models, and experimental findings: further information about formatting and length will be given in due time. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers.Papers will be required to describe fully Reproducible solutions which contribute to Open Science. Accepted system description papers will be published at no cost in the Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2026), hosted by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the IberLEF 2026 workshop. Presentation at the workshop is encouraged but not mandatory for publication in the proceedings. - Who Should Participate?Participation is open to all. - Important DatesRegistration opens: Open nowRegistration closes: 28 Feb 2026Trial data release: 06 Mar 2026Test data release: 06 Apr 2026System outputs submission deadline : 13 Apr 2026Evaluation results published: 27 Apr 2026System Description Papers: 01 Jun 2026Papers acceptance: 14 Jun 2026Camera-ready papers due: 21 Jun 2026IberLEF 2026 Workshop: 22 Sept 2026 - How to ParticipateIn order to participate, teams must register using the registration form available at the task website https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>Note that registration is mandatory in order to access the data and submit system outputs. - Task OrganizersHoracio Saggion — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainNelson Pérez Rojas — Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa RicaStefan Bott — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Nouran Khallaf — University of Leeds, UKMehrzad Tareh — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainDaniel Adanza — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainAlmudena Rascon — Plena Inclusion Madrid, SpainSandra Szasz — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain* -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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WebSci'26: Poster Deadlines Extended, Travel Grants, Registration is OPEN!
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Here are key updates for ACM WebSci’26<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> (May 26–29, 2026 | Braunschweig, Germany): * Poster Deadline Extended: February 25, 2026 | Details Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> Didn’t get your full paper accepted? Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of WebSci’26—submit your work as a poster. It’s an excellent venue to showcase your research and receive valuable feedback. * Student Travel Grants Still Available: February 28, 2026 | Details Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=529> A limited number of travel grants are available to support student participation. We strongly encourage eligible students to apply. * Registration is Open: Early registration until March 15, 2026| Register Here<https://websci26.org/?page_id=661> Secure your spot today! Registration for WebSci’26 is officially open. Join us in celebrating 20 years of interdisciplinary Web Science research and engaging discussions on the Web, society, AI, and beyond. We look forward to welcoming you to WebSci’26. Best regards, The WebSci’26 Organizing 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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Postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Postdoctoral position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Salary: EUR 3.546 - EUR 5.538 gross per month Closing date: 15 March 2026 We have an open postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). The focus of the project is on the development of methodologies for multilingual NLP and alignment of large language models. We welcome applications from candidates with a PhD in NLP or Machine Learning and an interest in AI alignment. The position is for three years. The expected start date is September 2026, but there is some flexibility. For further information and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-la… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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CFP: Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication (Extended deadline)
by Constantin Orasan 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026 Third call for papers https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 New submission deadline: 14th March 2026 The conference 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 at University of Surrey, UK, is proud to announce 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 will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. The conference will be preceded by a Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication between 15th and 17th June 2026. The application process for the summer is currently open at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… Conference themes Theme 1: Ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting Theme 2: AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion Theme 3: Which creative turn? Language mediation in the era of GenAI Theme 4: The evolving role of language professionals in the era of AI Theme 5: LLMs supporting multilingual communication Theme 6: Responsible use of language AI in the public sector Full description of the themes is available on the conference website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#themes Submissions and publications Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes: * Long papers - describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices * Short papers - describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Full details about paper submission are available on the conference website at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/submis… Invited speakers * Horacio Saggion<https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion>, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the TALN Group and Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. * John Anthony O'Shea<https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanthonyoshea/>, LL.B, LL.M, Founder of Jurtrans, Chairperson of FIT-Europe, member of EU's Language Industry Expert Group Programme committee The programme committee is available at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/commit… Important dates * 7th March 2026: Registration of intention to submit a paper (optional) * 14th March 2026: Submissions of full papers * 16th April 2026: Notification of acceptance * 29th May 2026: Camera ready papers for the draft proceedings * 15th - 17th June 2026: Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication * 17th - 19th June 2026: The Convergence conference * 1st Sept 2026: Camera ready papers for final proceedings Venue The conference will take place in Guildford at University of Surrey. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us on cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_enquiries@surrey.ac.uk> Conference organisers Conference chair: Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Programme chairs: Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> and Dr Diana Singureanu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/diana-singureanu> Proceedings chairs: Dr Felix do Carmo<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/felix-do-carmo> and Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> Summer school chairs: Dr Elena Davitti<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/elena-davitti> and Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Sponsorship chairs: Sara Palmer<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sara-palmer> and Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> Local organisers: Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> and Dr Yuan Zou<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yuan-zou> --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey, UK Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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1st Call for Papers: SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL* *Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages* *https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page <https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>* ------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce the upcoming SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL on Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages <https://sites.google.com/view/sigul2026/home-page>, co-located with *LREC 2026 *in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. This workshop brings together researchers working on less-resourced, endangered, minority, low-density, and underrepresented languages to share novel techniques, resources, strategies, and evaluation methods. We emphasize the entire pipeline: data creation, modeling, adaptation/transfer, system development, evaluation, deployment, and ethical/community engagement. We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics: - Data collection, annotation, and curation for under-resourced languages (crowdsourcing, participatory methods, gamification, unsupervised or weakly supervised methods) - Learning with limited supervision (zero- or few-shot, PEFT, RAG with linguistic resources) - Multilingual alignment, representation learning, and language embeddings, including rare languages - Speech, multimodal, and cross-modal technologies for under-resourced languages (speech recognition, synthesis, speech-to-text, speech translation, multimodal resources) - Basic text processing (normalization, orthography, transliteration, tokenization/segmentation, morphological and syntactic processing) in and for low-resource settings. - Low-resource machine translation (pivoting, alignment, synthetic data) - Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics designed or adapted for underrepresented languages - Adaptation, domain adaptation, and robustness to domain shift in low-resource contexts - Responsible approaches, ethical issues, community engagement, data sovereignty, and language revitalization - Deployment, tools, and practical systems for underserved languages (e.g., mobile apps, dictionary or translation apps, linguistic tools) - Case studies of success and negative results (with lessons learned) - Interoperability, standardization, and metadata practices for datasets in low-resource scenarios Special Themes Language modeling for intra-language variation, dialects, accents, and regional variants of less-resourced languages Many less-resourced languages display rich internal diversity, including dialects, accents, and regional or social varieties. This special theme focuses on developing language models and speech technologies that capture and respect intra-language variation rather than reduce it to a single “standard.” We welcome work on dialect identification and adaptation, accent-robust speech systems, normalization vs. diversity-preserving modeling, and cross-dialect transfer in low-data scenarios. Approaches combining linguistic insights, community participation, and ethical awareness are especially encouraged. The aim is to build technologies that reflect and sustain the true linguistic richness of under-resourced languages. Ultra-Low-Resource Language Adaptation This special theme focuses on methods that enable effective language and speech technology development under extreme data scarcity. We invite research on transfer learning, cross-lingual adaptation, multilingual pretraining, and self-supervised or few-shot approaches tailored to ultra-low-resource settings. Work on evaluation, data augmentation (including synthetic data), and leveraging typological or linguistic knowledge is also welcome. The goal is to advance techniques that extend modern language technologies to the most underrepresented languages, ensuring inclusivity in the digital age. Community-Led Project Showcase To help ground research in community needs, we invite brief (5–10 min) presentations by language community members, NGOs, or practitioners describing real-world challenges or resource needs. Position papers or research posters are appropriate formats for this category. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 20 (Friday), 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 22 (Sunday), 2026 Submission of Camera-Ready: March 30 (Monday), 2026 Workshop Date: 11-12 May 2026 All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Call for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to the topics of the workshop. Each submission can be one of the following categories: - research papers; - position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, and institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches); - posters, for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources; - demo papers and early-career/student papers (to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters). The research and position papers should range from four (4) to eight (8) pages, while demo papers are limited to four (4) pages. References don't count towards page limits. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. Submissions must be anonymous and follow LREC formatting guidelines <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. For inquiries, send an email to claudia.soria(a)cnr.it. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Thanks, Atul

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CFP : [LaTeLL 2026] International Conference ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’
by chafik.salmane＠um6p.ma 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

International Conference ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ Fourth 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=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef 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 May 2026 ● Reviewing process: 20 May – 20 June 2026 ● Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026 ● Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026 ● Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026 ● Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 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/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open in April 2026.

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Call For Participation: MedGenVidQA at BioNLP-ACL 2026 — Test Set Released & Submission Open
by deepak.gupta＠nih.gov 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are pleased to inform you that the CodaBench registration and submission portal for the MedGenVidQA shared task is now open. Participants can access the test dataset and submit their system runs for evaluation through the portal. Task A: Multimodal Retrieval (MMR) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13989/ Task B: Multimodal Answer Generation (MAG) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14014/ Task C: Visual Answer Localization (VAL) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14015/ Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026 More details can be found on the shared task webpage: https://medgenvidqa.github.io/ We look forward to your participation. Please join our Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/medgenvidqa2026) for important updates. If you have any questions, please contact us via the Google Group or email. Best regards, MedGenVidQA 2026 Organizers

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CFP: [IRAI-ECIR 2026] Late Breaking Paper for First Workshop on Information Retrieval for Accountability and Integrity
by Yohei Seki 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Hello, We are excited to invite you to submit late-breaking paper (up to two pages) to IRAI 2026 - the First Workshop on Information Retrieval for Accountability and Integrity, a half-day pilot workshop dedicated to exploring how IR and NLP can help evaluate forward-looking statements, verify commitments, and restore trust across public and private domains. - What IRAI aims to do Information systems shape public discourse, decisions, and trust-yet we lack systematic ways to evaluate the accuracy of forward-looking statements (e.g., campaign promises, corporate forecasts). Media coverage is selective, standards are uneven, and the signal is buried in noise. The result: accountability gaps and eroded confidence. IRAI brings IR and NLP communities together to assess the fulfilment and reliability of claims and commitments. It complements ECIR’s mission by tackling a pressing, real-world challenge with societal impact. - Aligned with the IR and NLP community IRAI 2026 will be part of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) held in Delft on April, 2nd 2026 as it highlights concrete applications for social good. - Important Information (for Late-breaking paper) * When: Apr 2, 2026 * Where: Delft, Netherlands * Submission Deadline: Feb 25, 2026 * Notification Due: Mar 3, 2026 * Final Version Due: Mar 10, 2026 - More info and Registration: https://nlpfin.github.io/sites/ECIR2026.html -- IRAI organizers

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Final CFP: 1st Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint) at LREC 2026
by Petya Osenova 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

1st Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint) Final Call for Papers Date: May 16, 2026, a half-day workshop Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Website: https://www.clarin.eu/PressMint-LREC2026 Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PressMint/ Advertisement/Tagline Unlock the pan-European history! Join the PressMint workshop to build & analyze multilingual, interoperable historical newspaper corpora! Workshop description Historical newspapers are of interest to historians and historical linguists, as well as to social and political scientists, ethnologists, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, and researchers in cultural studies. All of these are fields where contemporary digital resources, tools and methods (e.g. “distant reading”) are still underutilised. On the other hand, corpora of historical newspapers already exist for a number of languages and countries to a large extent, as they are out of copyright. Also, the images, and often OCR, are available through the national libraries. Also, in recent years these data started to be of big interest to the researchers since they preserve the historical, cultural, political, societal past. However, these corpora are not interoperable, which precludes methods for their comparison, as well as any translingual and transnational research, an especially important consideration, as statehood and nationhood are highly dynamic in Europe in the period to be covered by the project corpora. An initial joint attempt towards the creation of a corpus of historical newspapers from the beginning of 20. century on, is the CLARIN flagship project PressMint<https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint>. The project features data from 20 partners at the moment, aiming to develop a standard for interoperable resources of newspapers in diachronic timespans. The final goal is to provide structured and high quality multilingual data in a common format, with the same type of linguistic annotation that covers (at least partially) the same time period. Objective The PressMint workshop aims to gather experts interested in creating, processing and analyzing interoperable corpora of historical data in general, but especially with a focus on newspapers. Another very important objective is to consider also the perspective of the communities who use historical data - their purposes, requirements, feedback. We encourage the interested colleagues to present their work on both types of levels – national and pan-European; monolingual and multilingual as well as task-specific and multidisciplinary. We view this workshop as a venue to exchange research ideas and start collaboration on this topic. The workshop will feature one invited speaker: Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, CH We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to) on the following topics: * compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical newspaper corpora of the period relevant to PressMint (ideally around the start of the 20th century but not constrained by this period) * harmonisation of the existing multilingual historical newspaper corpora that contain either synchronic or diachronic data, or both * linking or comparing historical newspaper corpora with other datasets, including sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets * enrichment of historical newspaper corpora (with e.g. sentiment annotation, etc.) * machine translation of historical newspaper corpora * employment of LLMs as stand alone tools or as parts of NLP architectures for historical data processing, maintenance and knowledge deployment. * various scenarios of usage of historical data Submission & Publication We accept submission of long papers (from 6 to 8 pages), short papers (4 pages) and demo papers (4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation or poster presentations at the workshop. To support double-blind reviewing, all submissions must be fully anonymized and should be formatted according to the stylesheet available on the LREC 2026 website<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. At the time of submission, authors are also offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides metadata for the resources. Please note that the LREC style guide should be followed. The formatting guidelines can be found here: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026 * Camera-ready papers: 30 March 2026 * Workshop date: 16 May 2026 Organizing Committee * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL * Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT * Petya Osenova, Sofia University ”St. Kl. Ohridski” & IICT-BAS, BG The workshop is supported by the CLARIN research infrastructure and the PressMint Project. To contact the organisers, please email maciej.ogrodniczuk(a)gmail.com<mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com>

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Call for Abstracts - 4TH WORKSHOP ON EYE MOVEMENTS AND THE ASSESSMENT OF READING COMPREHENSION
by JProf. Dr. Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to distribute the following workshop announcement via your mailing list. Thank you. Kind regards, Maja (Stegenwallner-Schuetz) ------- 4TH WORKSHOP ON EYE MOVEMENTS AND THE ASSESSMENT OF READING COMPREHENSION Dates: June 18-20, 2026 Location: University of Koblenz, Germany Webpage: https://uni-ko.de/UTq3s ## Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for educational and clinical settings, as they are instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. We invite submissions on any topic related to the workshop's theme, including: * Methods and practices of reading assessment in education (including large scale assessments) * Reading instruction and development * Reading impairments and learning difficulties * Machine reading comprehension * AI, NLP and ML modeling of human reading * Predictive modelling of language proficiency and reading processes underlying comprehension * HCI, human factors, and interactive tutoring systems * Eye tracking technologies * Cognitive models of eye movements in reading * Psycholinguistic analyses of reading * Text readability and simplification Since the workshop aims to bring together researchers from different communities and addresses a nascent research area, we also welcome contributions that involve eye movements in reading (or alternative methodologies such as self-paced reading and mouse tracking) without directly addressing the assessment of reading comprehension. Likewise, we invite contributions on reading assessments that do not involve eye-tracking. ## Important dates: * Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2026 * Acceptance notifications: April 10, 2026 * Application deadline for travel stipends: April 23, 2026 * Registration period ends: May 15, 2026 * Workshop dates: June 18-20, 2026 ## Workshop format: The first two days will feature a structured program, including talks, poster sessions, and group discussions. On the third day, the focus shifts to a more relaxed format, providing participants with the opportunity to network and plan joint activities in an informal setting while enjoying a hike or a boat tour on the rivers. ## Invited speakers (confirmed): Ido Roll Faculty of Education in Science and Technology & Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Sascha Schroeder Institute of Psychology University of Goettingen, Germany ## Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in the abstract submission form at https://forms.gle/Nh7bREP59eyeYQGEA - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers primarily with an eye to relevance. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. ## Venue: The workshop will be held at the family owned Diehls Hotel which was established in 1919 and is beautifully located directly on the banks of the Rhine River. We booked two interconnected conference rooms Ehrenbreitenstein I and II which can accommodate up to 90 participants. Refreshments throughout the workshop will be provided by the hotel. A contingent of hotel rooms has been reserved for workshop participants. The hotel also features a highly recommended restaurant, where we will enjoy our social dinner on Thursday evening. In addition to the conference facilities, attendees will appreciate the hotel’s charming riverside setting. It is in close proximity to historic sites of the city. The city of Koblenz is well connected to the city of Frankfurt via train. The venue is then accessible from Koblenz main station (Koblenz Hbf) by bus (16-25 Min depending on the bus route) or from the old city by taking a scenic ride across the Rhine river in the famous Koblenz Cable Car. Contact information for booking and venue description with photos: https://diehls-hotel.de/en/rooms-suites/ ## Funding The workshop is funded by the MultiplEYE COST Action and the University of Koblenz. The workshop will provide financial support to cover travel expenses for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial, and priority will be given to junior researchers. ## Workshop organizers Maja Stegenwallner-Schuetz Dept. of Special Education University of Koblenz, Germany stegenwa(a)uni-koblenz.de Lena Jaeger Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Zurich, Switzerland jaeger(a)cl.uzh.ch Yevgeni Berzak Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences Technion, Israel berzak(a)technion.ac.il Titus von der Malsburg Inst. of Linguistics University of Stuttgart, Germany titus.von-der-malsburg(a)ling.uni-stuttgart.de -- JProf. Dr. Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz Juniorprofessorin/Assistant professor Förderpädagogik/Sprache unter besonderer Berücksichtigung inklusiver Bildungsprozesse/ Special Education/Language Development in Inclusive Learning Settings Universität Koblenz University of Koblenz Institut für Förderpädagogik/Department of Special Education Postfach 20 16 02 | D-56016 Koblenz (Postanschrift) Universitätsstraße 1 | D-56070 Koblenz (Besucheranschrift) Tel.: +49 261 287 1916 E-Mail: stegenwa(a)uni-koblenz.de Website: https://www.uni-koblenz.de/de/bildungswissenschaften/institut-fuer-foerderp… Datenschutz: https://www.uni-koblenz.de/de/datenschutz

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CFP: AmericasNLP 2026 - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the AmericasAmericasNLP 2026 will be co-located with ACL 2026 <https://2026.aclweb.org/> in San Diego, California, USA!Call for PapersThe goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: - Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research - Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Creation of datasets for NLP applications - Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems - Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP - Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning - Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning - Machine translation of low-resource languages - Applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas - Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages - NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas - Ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities - Language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research Submissions will be accepted until April 15th, 2026 via softconf: submission portal <https://softconf.com/acl2026/americasnlp> *Note:* Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do *not* count towards the page limit.Shared TaskTo motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2026 will feature a new shared task about image captioning of culturally relevant images. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in San Diego. More information can be found here <https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2026_st.html>.Important Dates - Submission Deadline: April 15th *(After the ACL acceptance notification)* - Notification of Acceptance: May 10th - Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 22nd - Workshop: July 3 or 4 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE).Organizing Committee - *Manuel Mager*, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, jmagerho(a)uni-mainz.de - *Arturo Oncevay*, Independent, arturo.oncevay(a)gmail.com - *Abteen Ebrahimi*, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu - *Minh Duc Bui*, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, minhducbui(a)uni-mainz.de - *Shruti Rijhwani*, Google DeepMind, shrutirijhwani(a)google.com - *Luis Chiruzzo*, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy - *Robert Pugh*, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu - *Rolando Coto-Solano*, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu - *John E. Ortega*, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu - *Katharina von der Wense*, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu ContactContact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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Deadline extension: Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026)
by Martin Wynne 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Please note that the deadline for submissions has now been extended to Friday 27 February 2026. CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026), pre-conference workshop W53 at LREC2026 Date: 11 May 2026 (afternoon) Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Workshop web page: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026 Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/HTRes2026/ Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describes the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived from these data. The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how various theories, techniques, and tools from corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and digital humanities can contribute to the examination, analysis, dissemination, and preservation of Holocaust testimonies and other Holocaust-related documents. The workshop is supported by CLARIN and EHRI. Please find full details of the call for papers at the workshop web page at https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026. The main conference website is at https://lrec2026.info/ . IMPORTANT DATES Final date for paper submission: extended to 27 February 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 Camera-ready version submission: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 11 May 2026 To contact the organisers, please email holocausttlr(a)gmail.com From Martin Wynne on behalf of the organizing committee. -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530 -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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Final CfP LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026 [Extended deadline]
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Final Call for Papers LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities 16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http:<http://lanlp>https://sites.google.com/view/lanlp2026/home Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Description and Goals We organise a Networking Symposium on Latin American NLP (LANLP), focusing on natural language processing for the diverse languages of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. This region includes major world languages (e.g. Spanish (~558M speakers), Portuguese (~267M) as well as regional and indigenous languages. For example, Latin America alone hosts tens of millions of speakers of Quechua (~10M), Guaraní (>6M), Nahuatl (~2M), Aymara (~2M), among many others. Such languages are highly under‐resourced: over 88% of the world’s languages remain largely unsupported by language technologies. This networking event addresses that gap by promoting collaboration on ethically and culturally sensitive resource creation, evaluation, and novel methods for low-resource multilingual NLP in Iberian and Latin American languages and varieties. Our goal is to bring together communities (SEPLN<http://www.sepln.org/>, CLARIAH-ES<https://www.clariah.es/>, PROPOR<https://propor2024.citius.gal/>, AmericasNLP<https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/index.html>, and SomosNLP<https://somosnlp.org/>) to share cutting-edge research, language resources, and best practices. LANLP focuses on community-driven resource development and evaluation for Iberian languages, and diverse Latin American languages (including indigenous and minority languages). We aim to bridge regional communities: for instance, past forums like OpenCor note that “Latin American and Iberian communities... did not have an established event” to share initiatives, corpora and tools. LANLP fills this gap, fostering new contacts between Iberian and Latin American NLP research groups. The goals are to (1) highlight challenges in processing these languages, (2) share novel datasets and models, and (3) catalyze future collaborations and shared tasks. We emphasize both academic rigor and community inclusivity, encouraging contributions from established researchers and grassroots language advocates alike. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on topics including (but not limited to): * Language resource creation: Corpora, lexicons, and annotations for Iberian and Latin American languages (text, speech, multimodal). * LLMs opportunities and challenges: Small Language Models, synthetic data, mitigating biases, linguistic inequalities, data scarcity, language domination. * Multilingual transfer & modeling: Cross-lingual and multilingual representations, transfer learning, and embedding methods that bridge Spanish, Portuguese, varieties and minority languages. * Machine translation & generation: MT, summarization, and language generation for Spanish, Portuguese, and low-resource languages (e.g., Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl). * Speech and audio processing: ASR, TTS, and spoken language resources for under-resourced languages and regional dialects (e.g. indigenous languages, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish). * Dialectal and code-switching NLP: Identification and handling of dialectal variation and code-switching (e.g. Spanish–Portuguese code-mixing, Spanish–indigenous language contact). * Morphology and syntax: Analysis and tagging for morphologically rich or under-documented languages (e.g. Basque, Mapudungun, Bribri) using universal dependencies or other frameworks. * Domain-specific NLP: Social media, sentiment, hate-speech detection, and other tasks in Iberian and Latin American language contexts (e.g. Latin American social media analysis). * Digital humanities & cultural heritage: NLP for historical texts, literature, and cultural content in Spanish, Portuguese, and regional languages. * Community-driven methods: Crowdsourcing, citizen science, and participatory approaches for data collection and annotation in these languages. * Evaluation and benchmarks: Development of evaluation metrics and benchmarks tailored to low-resource Iberian/Latin languages. * Ethical and social issues: Fairness, bias, and indigenous language rights in NLP; collaboration with native speaker communities; data governance and sustainability of resources. Important dates * February 18, 27, 2026: Paper submission deadline *extended* * March 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline * May 16, 2026: Networking Symposium Date Submission Instructions We invite non anonymous submissions in English, Spanish or Portuguese on the topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Any submissions which are over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata for the resource. Organizing Committee * Luis Chiruzzo Inco (AmericasNLP, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy<mailto:luischir@fing.edu.uy>) * Pablo Gamallo (PROPOR, CiTIUS, pablo.gamallo(a)usc.gal<mailto:pablo.gamallo@usc.gal>) * María Grandury (SomosNLP, EPFL, mariagrandury(a)gmail.com<mailto:mariagrandury@gmail.com>) * Rafael Muñoz Guillena (SEPLN, CENID, UA, rafael(a)dlsi.ua.es<mailto:rafael@dlsi.ua.es>) * German Rigau Claramunt (CLARIAH-ES. HiTZ Center, EHU, german.rigau(a)ehu.eus<mailto:german.rigau@ehu.eus>)

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OTELC Research Competition
by colinfinnerty＠yahoo.co.uk 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Hello, The first annual Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora (OTELC) Research Competition, hosted by Oxford University Press, is now open. This competition offers master’s students in linguistics, corpus linguistics, or language assessment the opportunity to design a research project using authentic English‑language test‑taker responses from the Oxford Test of English Learner Corpora. Selected entrants will receive full access to the OTELC for the duration of the competition. The winning submission will be awarded a 13‑inch iPad Air and the opportunity to have their work published on the Oxford English Assessment Research webpage. Eligibility requirements Applicants must: - Be enrolled in a master’s programme - Be taking a course in linguistics, corpus linguistics, or language assessment - Have at least one semester remaining in their programme How to apply Applicants should submit a research proposal using the official application form. Proposals must clearly outline research aims, research questions, and how the OTELC will be used to address them. Application deadline: Sunday, 31 May 2026 Further information: https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/learner-corpora/ Best wishes, Colin Finnerty Head of Assessment Research Oxford English Assessment Research Oxford University Press

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3rd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) 2026: Final CFP!
by Georg Rehm 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

3rd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP 2026): Final Call for Papers 12 May 2026 – Co-located with LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) NSLP 2026 features two shared tasks: * ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims * SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution NSLP 2026 – important dates: * Submission deadline: 20 February 2026 * Notifications: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 NSLP 2026 website (including the shared tasks): * https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026 Scientific research has witnessed a steep growth rate over the last decades. The number of scholarly publications is growing exponentially, and doubles every 15-17 years. Consequently, both general and specialised repositories, databases, knowledge graphs, and digital libraries have been developed to publish and manage scientific artifacts. Examples include the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph (S2AG), PubMed Central and also the ACL Anthology. These resources enable the collection, reuse, tracking, and expansion of scientific findings, and facilitate downstream applications such as scientific search engines. However, in order to develop robust systems that deal with scholarly text, various challenges need to be addressed. The current status quo of scientific communication mostly includes scholarly articles as unstructured PDF documents, which are not machine-readable in the sense that relevant scientific information can be extracted easily, thus making extracting and utilising this information as part of the scientific process a laborious and time-consuming task. Developing methods for converting unstructured information into structured formats is one of the major challenges in the field of Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP). This goal encompasses related challenges such as detecting, disambiguating, and linking mentions of scientific artifacts (e.g., software tools or specific datasets or language resources), and tracking state-of-the-art models and their evaluation scores (including new versions of existing models). Extracting and managing heterogeneous scientific knowledge effectively remains a challenging ongoing research area. Existing efforts are often fragmented, addressing separate issues with distinct datasets and conceptual approaches. NSLP 2026 addresses current topics and issues in Natural Scientific Language Processing. It is proposed and organised with the support of NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DS), a long-term project with approx. 20 partners who work towards building a German national research data infrastructure for DS and AI. The workshop aims to further bring together the international community of researchers who work on NSLP and related topics (including research knowledge graphs), to discuss current issues and possible solutions. NSLP 2026 includes two keynote speakers and presentations of accepted papers (oral and poster presentations), as well as three shared tasks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Scientific LLMs – LLMs for NSLP * Language resources (LRs) and Language technologies (LTs) for NSLP beyond LLMs * Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs), Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and other forms of structured representation of research-related knowledge * Information extraction from scholarly articles * Extraction of research information from texts * Detection and disambiguation of mentions of datasets, tasks, software or other methods * Classification of scholarly articles (collections, single documents, parts of documents) * Information extraction for RKGs * Summarisation of scholarly articles * Scholarly IR and scientific search engines * Question answering over scientific knowledge * Metadata and cataloging * Cross-lingual and multilingual natural scientific language processing * Adaptation of NLP methods for NSLP purposes Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 20 February 2026 (not to be extended) * Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready submission: 30 March 2026 * Workshop: 12 May 2026 Submission Guidelines The NSLP 2026 workshop invites submissions of: regular long papers; short papers; position papers. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. * Note that we will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. * The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix); short papers as well as position papers (up to 4 pages without references and appendix) presenting, for example, negative results, in-progress projects, or demos. * Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix and all papers must be self-contained. * Reviewing will be performed double-blind, i.e., submissions must be anonymous. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. * Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the LREC 2026 style. * The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the ACL Anthology (full Open Access) as part of the LREC 2026 proceedings. * At least one author per contribution must register for the workshop for presentation. * All submissions are done via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NSLP2026/ When submitting a paper through START, the authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Speakers * Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Yufang Hou, ITU Austria, Austria Shared Tasks 1. ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), offering the following subtasks: Subtask 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification: given a claim and corpus of publications, retrieve the top 10 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information. Subtask 2: Disinformation narrative classification: given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy. New training data will be released for both tasks, with task 1 having triple the amount of the last iteration. The new iteration will focus on sustainability, emphasising the need to build climate-friendly NLP systems with minimal environmental impact. Shared task co-organisers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova, Max Upravitelev, Georg Rehm 2. SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution Understanding software mentions is crucial for reproducibility and to interpret experimental results. Citations of software are often informal, lacking the use of persistent identifiers, making it hard to infer and disambiguate knowledge about software efficiently. This task will build on SOMD 2025 (run at SDP 2025, co-located with ACL 2025) and focus on entity disambiguation as an under-investigated problem in this context. More precisely, we address the task of coreference resolution of software mentions across multiple documents, i.e. given a set of software mentions extracted from multiple scientific publications, cluster these mentions so that all software mentions in a particular cluster refer to the same real world software. We define three subtasks with varying challenges: Subtask 1: Software coreference resolution over gold standard mentions. Addresses the task based on high-quality (gold standard) mentions of software that are expert-annotated in multiple publications. Subtask 2: Software coreference resolution over predicted mentions. Addresses the task on software mentions that are automatically extracted using a baseline model, i.e. reflecting a typical information extraction scenario, where upstream pipelines (such as entity and metadata extraction) are imperfect. Subtask 3: Software coreference resolution at scale. Addresses the task using predicted mentions of software and metadata at a larger scale. This challenges models to scale effectively, maintain accuracy, and distinguish among an increasingly dense field of similar or overlapping software mentions. Shared task co-organisers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Stefan Dietze, Frank Krüger, Wolfgang Otto Organisers * Georg Rehm (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) – main contact: <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de<mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de>> * Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany) * Danilo Dessí (University of Sharjah, UAE) * Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK) * Sonja Schimmler (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Programme Committee * Marcel Ackermann, Lernzentrum Informatik (LZI), DBLP, Germany * Raia Abu Ahmad, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, University of Hamburg, Germany * Ekaterina Borisova, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, CNRS, University Paris 13, France * Leyla Jael Castro, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany * Mathieu d’Aquin, Université de Lorraine, France * Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany * Catherine Faron, Université Côte d’Azur, France * Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA * Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, TheNetherlands * Leonhard Hennig, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Inma Hernandez, University of Seville, Spain * Robert Jäschke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany * Petr Knoth, Open University, UK * Frank Krüger, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, USA * Andrea Mannocci, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece * Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy * Philipp Mayr-Schlegel, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation, USA * Wolfgang Otto, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Haris Papageorgiou, R.C. Athena, Greece * Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Simone Ponzetto, Univ. of Mannheim, Germany * Diego Reforgiato Recupero, University of Cagliari, Italy * Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany * Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK * Philipp Schaer, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany * Atsuhiro Takasu, University of Tokyo, Japan * Stefani Tsaneva, WU Wien, Austria * Ricardo Usbeck, Leuphana University, Germany * Thanasis Vergoulis, R.C. Athena, Greece

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Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

*** 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** 8th edition *** 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! ==> Abstract Submission Deadline ==> 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. Abstract submission deadline: 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/2026_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping. The Incubator's audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenters to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Abstracts should not exceed one page (not including examples and references, see below). Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists, creating a brainstorming/workshopping environment that encourages maximum exchange of ideas. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstracts will be accepted until Monday, 23 March 2026 -- late abstracts will not be considered. *** Abstract Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. *** Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch / 2.5 cm and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12-point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Conference Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/2026_Incubator/ 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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February 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

In this newsletter: LDC membership discounts expire March 2 Spring 2026 data scholarship recipient New publications: 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test and Development Sets<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S03> KAIROS Schema Learning Background Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T02> LORELEI Russian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T01> ________________________________ LDC membership discounts expire March 2 Time is running out to save on 2026 membership fees. Renew your LDC membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member by March 2 to receive a 10% discount. For more information on membership benefits and options, visit Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc>. Spring 2026 data scholarship recipient Congratulations to the recipient of LDC's Spring 2026 data scholarship: Doma Akshitha Reddy: Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (India): Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology. Doma is awarded copies of TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus and The CMU Kids Corpus for their work in child speech. Since 2010, LDC has awarded scholarships to successful student applicants twice each year. To date more than 242 corpora have been distributed to 162 students across 38 countries. We proudly celebrate their achievements and the contributions their research has made to the broader community. The next round of applications will be accepted in September 2026. For information about the program, visit the Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test and Development Sets<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S03> was developed by LDC and NIST<https://www.nist.gov/> and contains the test and development data, metadata, answer keys, and documentation for the 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE22). The source data is comprised of 222 hours of conversational telephone speech (CTS) and broadcast narrowband speech (BNBS) in 14 languages: Afrikaans, Tunisian Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Libyan Arabic, South African English, Indian-accented South African English, North African French, Ndebele, Oromo, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. For the CTS collections, a small number of native speakers made single calls to multiple individuals in their social network. Calls lasted 8-15 minutes; speakers were free to discuss any topic. The BNBS data was collected from streaming radio programming, focused on broadcasts that included narrowband speech (e.g., call-ins to a talk show). Portions of the CTS callee call sides and portions of each broadcast recording were manually audited by native speakers to verify language and quality. LRE22 <https://www.nist.gov/publications/2022-nist-language-recognition-evaluation> emphasized language recognition for African languages, including low resource languages, and expanded the range of test segment durations. Further information about the 2022 evaluation can be found in the 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Plan. <https://lre.nist.gov/uassets/3> 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * KAIROS Schema Learning Background Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T02> was developed by LDC and includes 14,000 English and Spanish documents representing text, audio, video, image, and multimedia resources collected during the DARPA KAIROS program as supplemental background source data for the KAIROS Schema Learning Corpus (SLC). The purpose of the supplemental collection was to increase the amount of English and Spanish data with multimedia components for schema learning and to add domains not well represented in existing Spanish data. The supplemental data in this release includes material from the business and logistics domains, instructional documents and multimedia news. The complete set of SLC background source data (including the data in this publication) totaled 16.2 million English, Russian, and Spanish documents and more than 125,000 audio, video, image, or multimedia resources. A large portion of that data was drawn from pre-existing LDC datasets. The SLC and KAIROS Schema Learning Complex Event Annotation (LDC2025T07)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T07>, containing English and Spanish text, audio, video, and image material labeled for 93 real-world complex events, constitute the data used by KAIROS system developers for schema learning. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions, and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large multilingual, multimedia corpus. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Russian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T01> contains over 1.26 billion words of Russian monolingual text, 360,00 words of which were translated into English, 3 million words of found Russian-English parallel text, and 87,000 Russian words translated from English data. Approximately 83,000 words were annotated for simple named entities, around 26,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns), entity linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs, and issues) and nearly 9,000 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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Final call for papers NLDB 2026
by elena_cabrio 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

*Final call for papers* NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Norway *Website:*https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ <https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/> Objectives Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute. Important Dates: Paper Submission: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: 20 March 2026 Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Multimodality * AI safety and ethics * Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces * Social Media and Web Data * eXplainable AI * Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP * Generative models, Large Language Models * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining * Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * NLP Applications * Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP * Big Data and Scalability Paper Submission Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and all relevant requirements are available on the conference website. * *Submission system*: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/ * *Author guidelines*: Authors should follow the LNCS format <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected. * *Paper categories and length limits*: o Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices o Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices o Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references

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[IberLEF 2026] Accepted tasks have been published!
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the IberLEF 2026 accepted tasks have been published on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026/tasks. 17 shared tasks have been accepted, out of a total of 21 proposals. They are NLP tasks on language comprehension, harmful and inclusive content, clinical NLP, NLP for inclusion, sentiment and figurative analysis and information extraction and ranking. We encourage you to take part in these interesting challenges. Below you can find the title of each task, the link to access the website and the organizers of the challenge. LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION NivELE: Nivelación automática de textos de estudiantes de ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera) <https://sites.google.com/view/nivele2026/> Organised by María Victoria Cantero Romero, Jaime Collado Montañez, Javier Fruns Giménez, Alicia Arjonilla Sampedro, Joaquín Cruz, Isabel Cabrera de Castro, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Salud María Jiménez Zafra PROFE: Language Proficiency Evaluation <https://sites.google.com/view/profe2026> Organised by Alvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Alberto Pérez, Sergio Moreno-Álvarez,Javier Fruns, Inés Soria Pastor, Rodrigo Agerri HARMFUL AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT HOPE-EXP 2026: Outcome-Oriented Expectation Analysis in Social Media <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13563/> Organised by Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Helena Gómez Adorno, Salud María Jiménez Zafra, Hector G. Ceballos, Grigori Sidorov MiSonGyny: Misogyny in Song Lyrics <https://sites.google.com/view/misongyny> Organised by Tania Gisela Alcántara Medina, Miguel Soto, César Macías, Omar García Vázquez, Alberto Espinosa, María Aloy Mayo, Elías Uriós Alacreu, Paolo Rosso, Hiram Calvo, José Eduardo Valdez Rodríguez WomenHelp-2026: Classification of Gender-Based Violence Reports to Help Threatened Women in Northern Mexico <https://womenhelp.com.mx/> Organized by Niels Martínez Guevara, Gemma Bel Enguix, Helena Gómez Adorno, Sergio Luís Ojeda Trueba, Valeria Soto Mendoza, Arturo Curiel, Jessica Beltrán CLINICAL NLP GRACE: Granular Recognition of Argumentative Clinical Evidence <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/> Organised by Iker de la Iglesia, Aiziber Atutxa, Ander Barrena, Koldo Gojenola, Raquel Martínez, Soto Montalvo, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Sofía Zakhir Puig, Vanesa Gómez Martínez MentalRiskES 2026: Early Detection of Mental Disorders Risk in Spanish - Fourth edition <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026> Organised by Arturo Montejo Ráez, Alba María Mármol Romero, María Dolores Molina González, Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, María Rosario García Viedma, Mónica Hernández López, Fabián Suárez Maroto, Alfonso Ureña López MIRROR: Motivational Interviewing Response & Rating via Synthetic cOnversational tuRns <https://mirror-iberlef.vercel.app/> Organised by Luis Joaquin Arellano Muñoz, John Piette, Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos Antonio Olachea Hernández, Luis Villaseñor, Manuel Montes, Delia Irazú Hernández Farias NLP FOR INCLUSION MER-TRANS: First Shared Task on Multilingual Easy-to-Read Translation <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/> Organised by Horacio Saggion, Nelson Pérez, Mehrzad Tareh, Daniel Adanza, Stefan Bott, Nouran Khalaff, Almudena Rasón, Sandra Szasz MSLG-SPA 2026: Bidirectional Translation between Mexican Sign Language Glosses and Spanish <https://sites.google.com/cicese.edu.mx/mslg-spa2026> Organised by Ansel Yoan Rodríguez-González, Daniel Fajardo-Delgado, Miguel Ángel Álvarez Carmona, María G. Sánchez-Cervantes, Ángel Díaz Pacheco, Ángel Ramón Aranda Campos, Silvia Fajardo Flores, Carlos Humberto Martínez Rodríguez SSD-2026: Social Support Detection and Target Identification in Social Media <https://sites.google.com/view/ssd2026/home> Organized by Luís Israel Ramos Pérez, Moein Shahiki Tash, Zahra Ahani, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh, Raúl Monroy SENTIMENT AND FIGURATIVE ANALYSIS HAHA 2026: Humor Analysis based on Human Annotation and Automatic Humor Generation <https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/pln/haha/> Organised by Luis Chiruzzo, Santiago Castro, Santiago Góngora, Guillermo Moncecchi, Aiala Rosá, Ignacio Sastre, Guillermo Rey, Juan Pablo Conde, Victoria Amoroso, Juan José Prada HISEMOTIONS 2026: Historical Text-Based Emotion Detection in Early Modern Spanish Correspondence <https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026> Organised by Albina Sarymsakova, Patricia Martín Rodilla, Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Alfonso Ureña López REST-MEX 2026: Research on Synthetic Text Modeling for Mexican Magical Towns <https://sites.google.com/cimat.mx/rest-mex-2026/home> Organised by Miguel Ángel Álvarez Carmona, Ramón Aranda, Ángel Díaz-Pacheco, Margarita Reyes-Sierra, Ansel Yoan Rodríguez González, Lázaro Bustio Martínez, Vitali Herrera Semenets SpeechMATICS: Speech Multimodal Audio-Text Irony Classification in Spanish <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13700/> Organised by Vicent Ahuir, Alejandro Barceló-Milkova, Andreu Casamayor-Segarra, María José Castro-Bleda, Lluís Felip Hurtado INFORMATION EXTRACTION & RANKING GenSIE: General-purpose Schema-guided Information Extraction <https://uhgia.org/gensie/> Organised by Yudivian Almeida Cruz, Suilan Estévez Velarde, Alejandro Piad Morffis, Isabel Espinosa Zaragoza, María Miró Maestre, Alba Pérez Montero, Lucía Sevilla Requena, Ernesto Estevanell Valladares PoliticHeadlinES: Multimodal Headline Ranking in Spanish Political News <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13546/> Organised by Tomás Bernal-Beltrán, Ronghao Pan, Francisco García-Sánchez, José Antonio García-Díaz, Jorge Gómez Navalón, Rafael Valencia-García Best regards, IberLEF 2026 general chairs Alba Bonet Jover, Universidad de Alicante (Spain) José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026/ Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com

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[CFP] SIXTH WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS
by ACL Announcements 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

SIXTH WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS AmericasNLP 2026 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, USA! CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of: * Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research * Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication). Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Creation of datasets for NLP applications * Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems * Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP * Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning * Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning * Machine translation of low-resource languages * Applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of the Americas * Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages * NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas * Ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous communities * Language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of NLP models and research Submissions will be accepted until April 15th, 2026 via softconf: submission portal Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do _not_ count towards the page limit. SHARED TASK To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2026 will feature a new shared task about image captioning of culturally relevant images. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in San Diego. More information can be found here. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: April 15th _(After the ACL acceptance notification)_ * Notification of Acceptance: May 10th * Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 22nd * Workshop: July 3 or 4 All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Manuel Mager, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, jmagerho(a)uni-mainz.de * Arturo Oncevay, Independent, arturo.oncevay(a)gmail.com * Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi(a)colorado.edu * Minh Duc Bui, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, minhducbui(a)uni-mainz.de * Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind, shrutirijhwani(a)google.com * Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy * Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob(a)iu.edu * Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano(a)dartmouth.edu * John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu * Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann(a)colorado.edu CONTACT Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/

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[Deadline Extension] 3rd Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
by s.frenda＠hw.ac.uk 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ Important Dates * March 2: Paper submission * March 20: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready papers due * May 12, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at LREC NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024). Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025). In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios. In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here. We accept three types of submissions: Regular research papers; Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLPerspectives Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation Fairness and inclusive modelling Perspectivist approaches for social good Applications of multi-perspective modelling Computing with (dis)agreement Perspectivist Natural Language Generation Perspectivism in multimodal AI Foundational aspects of perspectivism Participatory approaches and human label variation Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference. Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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Third CfP: The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) at LREC 2026 (deadline extension)
by Neele Falk 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

----------------------------------------------------------- Third Call for Papers: DELITE 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ----------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW -------- Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology. While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models. We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Deliberation theory in NLP models * In-domain versus across domain resources * Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces * Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale * Argument mining for deliberation scenarios * Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking * Empirical foundations for evaluation * Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios * Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale * Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making * Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias APPLICATION AREAS ----------------- We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse. SUBMISSION ---------- DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers. * Extended Abstracts (non-archival): A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication. * Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building. Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Submission link:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DELITE2026/ The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative ------------------------------------------------------ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)". IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- * Archival paper submission: 27 February 2026 (extension) * Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 * Workshop day: 16 May 2026 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- * Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK * Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany * Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK * Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany * Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany * Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany CONTACT --------------------- e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/ ---------------------

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Final Call for Papers: 6th RaPID@MENTAL.ai @ LREC-2026
by Dimitrios Kokkinakis 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

Final Call for Papers: The 6th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments" in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai -consortium Workshop: co-located with LREC 2026 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | May 12th, 2026 RaPID-6(a)MENTAL.ai serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-6(a)MENTAL.ai is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities. Submission deadline: Sun., 22nd of February, 2026 (anywhere on earth) Paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RaPID-6/ Invited speakers: Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Sunny X. Tang, MD, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA Website and details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/rapid-2026 Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis Contact email: dimitrios.kokkinakis(a)gu.se<mailto:dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se> Organizing committee: * Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway * Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie, France * Kathleen C. Fraser, University of Ottawa, Canada * Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden * Sebastião Pais, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

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Final Call for Papers: Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (LREC 2026)
by Thorsten Trippel 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) A full-day workshop at LREC 2026, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized. The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured linguistic data into the LLM era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic data Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources Evaluation informed by language typology Language resources for under-resourced and endangered languages The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic knowledge (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data Spoken language Data Speech-to-text applications Speech Generation techniques Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation Multimodality and Situated Dialogue Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora. Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and action representations Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in multiparty dialogue Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs Pragmatics and Discourse Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature, politeness, stance) Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind in LLMs Semantics and Lexical Meaning Dependency analysis and semantic parsing Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse, Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type Theory with Records (TTR) Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR), hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed structures We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 6 to 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements; short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 to 6 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements. Invited speakers Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country) Shira Wein (Amherst College) Paper Submission and Templates Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the START conference management system. Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page. For more information about paper submission, please consult: https://www.slide-workshop.org/ Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Important Dates February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). Workshop Organizers Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic) Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany) Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petya Osenova (Sofia University and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

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First call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

*Registration open!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and 2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently, performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and evaluation metrics. For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: *1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist Response Selection* Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026. <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026> MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Feb 9th Registration open* Mar 27th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Apr 6th Registration closed Apr 13th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 20th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 27th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 11th Deadline for paper submission June 1st Acceptance notification Jun 15th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026. The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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2nd CFP: SwissText 2026 – The 11th Swiss Text Analytics Conference
by Yingqiang Gao 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

========== Second Call of Papers: SwissText 2026 ========== Paper submission due: 23:59 AOE March 17, 2026 Conference date: June 10, 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland Conference website: https://www.swisstext.org/current/ =================================================== Dear colleagues, We are now announcing the Second Call for Papers for SwissText 2026, the 11th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. SwissText 2026 will take place on June 10, 2026, at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon) in Zurich, Switzerland. SwissText is an established international forum for researchers and practitioners working on natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics, with a strong tradition of fostering exchange between academia and industry. We invite submissions of substantial, original, and unpublished work to the following tracks: * Applied Track (non-archival), with a strong focus on industry and applied research. * Scientific Track (archival), with technical research papers from the international scientific community, including corpus- and benchmark-related research papers with a focus on Swiss languages from the scientific community and industry. * Corpus Track (archival), with Swiss-related NLP datasets. * Demonstration Track (non-archival), with NLP systems presented live at the SwissText conference. The special theme of SwissText 2026 is Reproducible NLP, we therefore encourage submissions working specifically in reproducible NLP research and fully open NLP. We plan to publish the proceedings of SwissText 2026 in the ACL Anthology. Important dates * Submission deadline: March 17, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 5, 2026 * Conference date: June 10, 2026 All deadlines are at 11:59PM UTC-12:00 AOE (“anywhere on Earth”). Detailed submission guidelines and formatting instructions can be found on the conference website: https://www.swisstext.org/call-for-papers/. Please submit your paper via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=SwissText.org/2026/Conference. General Chair: Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Organizing Committee: Jannis Vamvas, Tilia Ellendorff, Yingqiang Gao, Gerold Schneider, Michelle Wastl, University of Zurich For questions, please contact info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org> or the organizing committee members. Best regards, Dr. Yingqiang Gao (he/him) Department of Computational Linguistics Andreasstrasse 15, Office AND 2-20 University of Zurich, CH-8050 Zurich

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Last CFP: Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) at LREC 2026
by Petya Osenova 15 Feb '26

15 Feb '26

Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) A full-day workshop at <https://lrec2026.info/> LREC 2026<https://lrec2026.info/>, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) The workshop will be held on May 11, 2026 Webpage: https://www.slide-workshop.org/ Last Call For Papers In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized. The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured linguistic data into the LLM era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation * Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools * Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization * Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools * Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic data * Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings * Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources * Evaluation informed by language typology * Language resources for underresourced and endangered languages * The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications * The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic knowledge * (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data Spoken language Data * Speech-to-text applications * Speech Generation techniques * Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation Multimodality and Situated Dialogue * Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora. * Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and action representations * Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in multiparty dialogue * Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs Pragmatics and Discourse * Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts * Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature, politeness, stance) * Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind in LLMs Semantics and Lexical Meaning * Dependency analysis and semantic parsing * Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse * Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources * Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse, Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type Theory with Records (TTR) * Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR), hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding * Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed structures We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements. Invited speakers Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country) Shira Wein (Amherst College) Paper Submission and Templates * Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the Softconf START conference management system accessible through the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SLiDE/ * Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Important Dates February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). Workshop Organizers Jan Hajič (Prague University, Czech Republic) Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany) Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petya Osenova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

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Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026: Final CFP and EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Paul Thompson 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2026/ LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to, accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data, and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference We welcome submissions of topically-relevant papers that have been rejected from the main LREC conference. The scores and reviews from the main conference will be taken into consideration. Please ensure that you paste the original review and scores within the indicated text box on the submission page. IMPORTANT DATES February 18 25, 2026 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 13, 20 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 20 28 2026 - Camera-ready papers due April 10, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 12, 2026 - Workshop KEYNOTE TALK Kailai Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester SHARED TASKS Detecting Dosing Errors from Clinical Trials (CT-DEB'26). Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 is a challenge to predict medication errors in clinical trials using Machine Learning. The Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 (CT-DEB'26) is dedicated to automated detection of the risks of medication dosing errors within clinical trial protocols. Leveraging a curated dataset of over 29K trial records derived from the ClinicalTrials.gov<http://clinicaltrials.gov/> registry, participants are challenged to predict the risk probabilities of protocols likely to manifest dosing errors. The dataset consists of various fields with numerical, categorical, as well as textual data types. Once the shared task is concluded and the leaderboard is published, the participants are invited to submit a paper to the CL4Health workshop. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11891/ Automatic Case Report Form (CRF) Filling from Clinical Notes. Case Report Forms (CRFs) are standardized instruments in medical research used to collect patient data in a consistent and reliable way. They consist of a predefined list of items to be filled with patient information. Each item aims to collect a portion of information relevant for a specific clinical goal (e.g., allergies, chronicity of disease, tests results). Automating CRF filling from clinical notes would accelerate clinical research, reduce manual burden on healthcare professionals, and create structured representations that can be directly leveraged to produce accessible, patient- and practitioners-friendly summaries. Even though the healthcare community has been utilizing CRFs as a basic tool in the day-to-day clinical practice, publicly available CRF datasets are scarce, limiting the development of robust NLP systems for this task. We present this Shared Task on CRF-filling aiming to enhance research on systems that can be applied in real clinical settings. Website: https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/crf/ ArchEHR-QA 2026: Grounded Question Answering from Electronic Health Records. The ArchEHR-QA (“Archer”) shared task focuses on answering patients’ health-related questions using their own electronic health records (EHRs). While prior work has explored general health question answering, far less attention has been paid to leveraging patient-specific records and to grounding model outputs in explicit clinical evidence, i.e., linking answers to specific supporting content in the clinical notes. The shared task dataset consists of patient-authored questions, corresponding clinician-interpreted counterparts, clinical note excerpts with sentence-level relevance annotations, and reference clinician-authored answers grounded in the notes. ArchEHR-QA targets the problem of producing answers to patient questions that are supported by and explicitly linked to the underlying clinical notes. This second iteration builds on the 2025 challenge (which was co-located with the ACL 2025 BioNLP Workshop) by expanding the dataset and introducing four complementary subtasks spanning question interpretation, clinical evidence identification, answer generation, and answer–evidence alignment. Teams may participate in any subset of subtasks and will be invited to submit system description papers detailing their approaches and results. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ FoodBench-QA 2026: Grounded Food & Nutrition Question Answering. FoodBench-QA 2026 is a shared task challenging systems to answer food and nutrition questions using evidence from nutrient databases and food ontologies.The dataset includes realistic dietary queries, ingredient and their quantities lists, and recipe descriptions, requiring models to perform nutrient estimation, FSA traffic-light prediction, and food entity recognition/linking across three food semantic models. Participants must generate accurate, evidence-based answers across these subtasks (or at least one of it). After the shared task concludes and the leaderboard is released, participants will be invited to submit their work to the Shared Tasks track of the CL4Health workshop at LREC 2026. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12112/ SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting. LREC provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CL4Health/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. Share your LRs: When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Invitation to participate
by Lars-Eric Christer Johansson 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

We are arranging a workshop / training seminar aimed at advanced MA students and Ph.D. scholarship students. May 4th to May 6th, 2026. Bergen University. There will be a reasonable conference fee covering snacks and lunches. Calls for poster presentations will open soon. Registration will open soon. See https://www.uib.no/en/lle/181518/workshop-tracking-eyes-and-mind

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Public talk - Across the Magic Circle: AI Agents as a Creative Medium for Interactive Storytelling (Dr Yuqian Sun, Midjourney)
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminars at the University of Exeter. Zoom scheduled: Thursday 19 Feb 2026 at 15:30 to 17:00 (expected to finish around 16:30), GMT Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/92623498359?pwd=zPDKXy6XqUqEFKkQG2xPlE… (Meeting ID: 926 2349 8359 Password: 542291) Title: Across the Magic Circle: AI Agents as a Creative Medium for Interactive Storytelling Abstract: As an artist and researcher, I use AI chatbots as my primary expressive medium. My work explores the intersection of LLM applications, interactive storytelling, and computational art. In this talk, I will present research projects that extend generative AI’s storytelling capabilities. These include the game 1001 Nights, in which players must survive an AI King by telling stories; an art installation based on an emergent language system inspired by Nüshu (a historical women’s script created and used exclusively by women in China); and Dramamancer, an AI game-making system built with Midjourney. Speaker's bio: Dr Yuqian (Uchan) Sun, also known as CheeseTalk, is an AI research artist based in London. She's now working at Midjourney. Yuqian aims to create 'alive' narrative experiences that extend beyond video games and into our daily lives through conversational AI agents. She explores linguistic interactions through chatbots, games and interactive installations. Yuqian's interdisciplinary arts and research have been featured in galleries and tech conferences including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, GDC, Gamescom, AMaze and New York Times Square. She won the Reddot Design Award and Lumen Prize in 2024. Personal website https://fakecheese.me/ X @cheesetalk1997 Check past and upcoming seminars at the following url: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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Recrutement 1 PR et 1 MCF : Informatique, LISN, Université Paris Saclay
by Agata Savary 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

ENGLISH VERSION FOLLOWS Bonjour, Le LISN et l'Université Paris-Saclay recrutent : - un maître ou une maitresse de conférence en Informatique (section 27) - un professeur des universités ou une professoresse des universités en Informatique (section 27) Les personnes recrutées seront en poste au sein de l'UFR des Sciences de la Faculté d'Orsay (département informatique). Le LISN est un laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en informatique et sciences du numérique avec une expertise en intelligence artificielle reconnue au niveau international. Les thèmes qui seront considérés en priorité sont les suivants (ordre alphabétique) : Apprentissage statistique Bioinformatique IA hybride, neuro-symbolique, représentation des connaissances et raisonnement Numérique responsable Traitement automatique des langues Les personnes candidates sont invitées à consulter la politique de recrutement pluriannuelle en IA du LISN: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/lia-au-lisn/ et à prendre contact avant le 31 mars 2026 avec les responsables des équipes et/ou départements de recherche dans lesquels leur projet de recherche pourra s'inscrire. * département Science des données (SD) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Guillaume Charpiat <mailto:Guillaume.CharpiatREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@inria.fr> o équipe A&O <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Sylvain Chevallier <mailto:sylvain.chevallier@universite-paris-saclay.fr> o équipe BioInfo <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Flora Jay <mailto:Flora.JayREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@lisn.fr> et Fanny Pouyet <mailto:fanny%20.%20pouyet%20%5Bat%5D%20universite-paris-saclay%20.fr> o équipe LaHDAK <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Fatiha Saïs <mailto:sais@lisn.fr> * département Sciences et Technologies des Langues (STL) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Aurélie Névéol <mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr> o équipe LIPS <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Ioana Vasilescu <mailto:ioana.vasilescu@lisn.fr> o équipe M3 <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Albert Rilliard <mailto:albert.rilliard@lisn.fr> o équipe SEME <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Agata Savary <mailto:agata.savary@universite-paris-saclay.fr> Pour plus de détails, vous pouvez consulter les fiches de poste complètes ou contacter : Les fiches de poste: - MCF : https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664… <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664…>- PR :https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/02/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_20-1.pdf Pour le profil recherche : Guillaume Charpiat (guillaume.charpiat(a)lisn.fr) et Aurélie Névéol (aurelie.neveol(a)lisn.fr) Pour le profil enseignement : Fatiha Zaidi (fatiha.zaidi(a)universite-paris-saclay.fr) Les dates et lien odyssée sont disponibles ici : https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/concours-chercheurs-enseignants-cher… Aurélie Névéol et Guillaume Charpiat %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The LISN lab and Paris-Saclay University are recruiting: - an assistant professor (MCF) in Computer Science - a full professor (PR) in Computer Science The successful candidates will be based at the Faculty of Science in Orsay (Computer Science Department). LISN is an interdisciplinary research laboratory in computer science and digital sciences with internationally recognized expertise in artificial intelligence. The following topics will be given priority (in alphabetical order): Statistical learning Bioinformatics Hybrid AI, neuro-symbolic AI, knowledge representation, and reasoning Responsible digital technology Natural language processing Candidates are invited to read the LISN's multi-year AI recruitment policy: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/lia-au-lisn/ and to contact the heads of the research teams and/or departments in which their research project could be carried out before March 31, 2026. * Data Science Department (SD) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Guillaume Charpiat <mailto:Guillaume.CharpiatREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@inria.fr> o A&O team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Sylvain Chevallier <mailto:sylvain.chevallier@universite-paris-saclay.fr> o BioInfo <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…> : Flora Jay <mailto:Flora.JayREMOVETHESE23CHARACTERS@lisn.fr> et Fanny Pouyet <mailto:fanny%20.%20pouyet%20%5Bat%5D%20universite-paris-saclay%20.fr> o LaHDA K <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/science-des-…>: Fatiha Saïs <mailto:sais@lisn.fr> * Language Sciences and Technologies Department (STL) <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Aurélie Névéol <mailto:aurelie.neveol@lisn.fr> o LIPS <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Ioana Vasilescu <mailto:ioana.vasilescu@lisn.fr> o M3 <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Albert Rilliard <mailto:albert.rilliard@lisn.fr> o SEME team <https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/departements-et-equipes/sciences-et-…>: Agata Savary <mailto:agata.savary@universite-paris-saclay.fr> More details about the positions: - MCF: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/01/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_1664… - PR: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/app/uploads/1/2026/02/Fiche_emploi_CNU_27_20-1… Contacts for the research profile: Guillaume Charpiat (guillaume.charpiat(a)lisn.fr) and Aurélie Névéol (aurelie.neveol(a)lisn.fr) Contact for the teaching profile: Fatiha Zaidi (fatiha.zaidi(a)universite-paris-saclay.fr) The dates and link to the odyssée application platform are available here: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/recherche/concours-chercheurs-enseignants-cher… Aurélie Névéol and Guillaume Charpiat

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Third Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (Deadline Extended) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third and Final Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. (Submission deadline extended to 20 Feb 2026). Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS will accept archival long and short paper submissions, featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research. We also encourage submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and Affective Science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ Submission deadline (**Extended**): 20 Feb 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival long and short papers should feature novel and unpublished work relating to the topics detailed above. We also invite submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the research background/hypotheses and a description of methods/results. Extended abstracts are non-archival, offering the option for publication and presentation at other conference venues. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. (When preparing camera ready papers, you will be allowed one extra page to address comments by the reviewers.) Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ (Note: extended abstracts can be limited to being 1-2 pages in length). Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ - Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany - Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada - Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA - Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany - Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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Deadline Extension – CfP for Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26)
by Stavros Bompolas 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** ***************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, Due to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce a deadline extension for submissions to the Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26), which will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The new submission deadline is now February 27, 2026. Key Information Workshop Title Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26) Event Workshop at LREC 2026 (Hybrid event — in person and online) Location Palma de Mallorca, Spain (and Online) Workshop Date May 16, 2026 Website https://dialres.github.io/dialres/<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdialres.github.io%2Fdialres%2F> Contact dialres-lrec26(a)googlegroups.com<https://www.google.com/url?q=mailto%3Adialres-lrec26%40googlegroups.com> Overview Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major advances in language technology, linguistic resources that adequately represent dialectal variation remain scarce. It therefore remains an open question whether standard-centric practices address dialectal variation or instead create new problems for dialects. DialRes-LREC26 invites submissions on the creation, analysis, and evaluation of dialectal resources, including—but not limited to—work that critically examines how standard-centric methodologies impact dialects in the development of linguistic resources and models. We especially encourage contributions addressing the consequences of such practices for speech and morphosyntactic modelling, OCR of dialectal and historical texts, orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, annotation practices and lemmatisation strategies that abstract away or suppress dialectal forms, as well as analyses of how these choices affect dialects and their communities methodologically, economically, and socially. The workshop focuses on problems, limitations, and trade-offs in developing dialectal resources from a linguistic perspective, while encouraging the creation and evaluation of resources in formats that enable reuse by the NLP community. Workshop Topics * Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources * Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, including their impact on dialectal variation * Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks * Cross-lingual and cross-dialectal transfer and model adaptation * Resource scalability issues and techniques * Use and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in dialectal resource development * OCR for dialectal, non-standard, and historical texts: challenges, errors, and downstream effects * Resources for, and applications supporting, dialect revitalisation and preservation * Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource-oriented perspective * Working on dialectal resources: academic, financial, legal, and societal issues * Enabling and empowering dialect communities to develop their own resources Submission Information Instructions for Authors Submissions are electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DialRes. They must be 4 to 8 pages long (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements) and follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page Author’s Kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. All templates are also available from this<https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/> page. Invited Speaker Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/) Important Dates [updated] Submission Deadline February 27, 2026 [updated] Notification of Acceptance March 18, 2026 [updated] Camera-ready Papers Due March 28, 2026 Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference It will also be possible to submit papers that were rejected from the LREC 2026 main conference to DialRes 2026. Such submissions must be revised to fit the scope and format of the workshop and must comply with the same anonymization requirements. Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C. Organizing Committee * Antonios Anastasopoulos — George Mason University / Archimedes–Athena RC * Stella Markantonatou — ILSP / Archimedes–Athena RC * Angela Ralli — University of Patras / Archimedes–Athena RC * Marcos Zampieri — George Mason University * Stavros Bompolas — Archimedes–Athena RC * Vivian Stamou — Archimedes–Athena RC We look forward to receiving your contributions! Sincerely, Stavros Bompolas On behalf of the Organizing Committee of DialRes-LREC26

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[CFP] First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge @ ESWC 2026
by Raphaël Troncy 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] Call for Papers First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge https://ecladatta.github.io/triplet2026/ in conjunction with the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/, Dubrovnik, Croatia Important dates: - **Submission deadline**: 3 March, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Notifications**: 31 March, 2026 - **Camera-ready deadline**: 15 April, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Workshop**: Sunday 10 May OR Monday 11 May 2026 Motivation: Understanding information spread across text and table is essential for tasks such as question answering and fact checking. Existing benchmarks primarily deal with semantic table interpretation or reasoning over tables for question answering, leaving a gap in evaluating models that integrate tabular and textual information, perform joint information extraction across modalities, or can automatically detect inconsistencies between modalities. This workshop aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas between the NLP community working on open information extraction and the vibrant Semantic Web community working on the core challenge of matching tabular data to Knowledge Graphs, on populating knowledge graphs using texts and on reasoning across text, tabular data and knowledge graphs. The workshop also targets researchers focusing on the intersection of learning over structured data and information retrieval, for example, in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and question answering (QA) systems. Hence, the goal of the workshop is to connect researchers and trigger collaboration opportunities by bringing together views from the Semantic Web, NLP, database, and IR disciplines. Scope: The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantic Table Interpretation - Automated Tabular Data Understanding - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) for Information Extraction - Generative Models and LLMs for Structured Data - Knowledge Graph Construction and Completion with Tabular Data and Texts - Analysis of Tabular Data on the Web (Web Tables) - Benchmarking and Evaluation Frameworks for Joint Text-Table Data Analysis - Applications (e.g. data search, fact-checking, Question-Answering, KG alignment) Submission Guidelines: We invite two types of submissions: 1. Full research papers (12-15 pages) including references and appendices 2. Challenge papers (6-8 pages) including references and appendices All submissions should be formatted in the CEUR layout format, https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… This workshop is double-blind and non-archival. Submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=triplet2026. All accepted papers will be presented as posters or as oral talks. **TRIPLET Challenge:** In recent years, the research community has shown increasing interest in the joint understanding of text and tabular data, often, for performing tasks such as question answering or fact checking where evidences can be found in texts and tables. Hence, various benchmarks have been developed for jointly querying tabular data and textual documents in domains such as finance, scientific publications, and open domain. While benchmarks for triple extraction from text for Knowledge Graph construction and semantic annotation of tabular data exist in the community, there remains a gap in benchmarks and tasks that specifically address the joint extraction of triples from text and tables by leveraging complementary clues across these different modalities. The TRIPLET 2026 challenge is proposing three sub-tasks and benchmarks for understanding the complementarity between tables, texts, and knowledge graphs, and in particular to propose a joint knowledge extraction and reconciliation process. #Sub-Task 1: Assessing the Relatedness Between Tables and Textual Passages The goal of this task is to assess the relatedness between tables and textual passages (within documents and across documents). For this purpose, we have constructed LATTE (Linking Across Table and Text for Relatedness Evaluation), a human annotated dataset comprising table–text pairs with relatedness labels. LATTE consists of 7,674 unique tables and 41,880 unique textual paragraphs originating from 3,826 distinct Wikipedia pages. Each text paragraph is drawn from the same or contextually linked pages as the corresponding table, rather than being artificially generated. LATTE provides a challenging benchmark for cross-modal reasoning by requiring classification of related and unrelated table–text pairs. Unlike prior resources centered on table-to-text generation or text retrieval, LATTE emphasizes fine-grained semantic relatedness between structured and unstructured data. The Figure below provides an example, using a web-annotation tool we developed, of how we identify the relatedness between the sentence containing the entity AirPort Extreme 802.11n (highlighted in Orange) and the data table providing information about output power and frequency for this entity. Participants are provided with tables and textual passages that would need to be ranked. The evaluation will use metrics such as P@k, R@k and F1@k. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and enroll to participate in this Task. #Sub-Task 2: Joint Relation Extraction Between Texts and Tables The goal of this task is to automatically extract knowledge jointly from tables and related texts. For this purpose, we created ReTaT, a dataset that can be used to train and evaluate systems for extracting such relations. This dataset is composed of (table, surrounding text) pairs extracted from Wikipedia pages and has been manually annotated with relation triples. ReTaT is organized in three subsets with distinct characteristics: domain (business, telecommunication and female celebrities), size (from 50 to 255 pairs), language (English vs French), type of relations (data vs object properties), close vs open list of relation, size of the surrounding text (paragraph vs full page). We then assessed its quality and suitability for the joint table-text relation extraction task using Large Language Models (LLMs). Given a Wikipedia page containing texts and tables and a list of predicates defined in Wikidata, a participant system should extract triples composed of mentions located partly in the text and partly in the table and disambiguated with entities and predicates identified in the Wikidata reference knowledge graph. For example, in the Figure below, an annotation triple <Q13567390, P2109, 24.57> is associated with mentions highlighted in orange (subject), blue (predicate) and green (object) to annotate the document available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Extreme. Similar to the Text2KGBench evaluation (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_14), and because the set of triples are not exhaustive for a given sentence, to avoid false negatives, we follow a locally closed approach by only considering the relations that are part of the ground truth. The evaluation then uses metrics such as P, R and F1. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/ and enroll to participate in this Task. # Sub-Task 3: Detecting Inconsistencies Between Texts, Tables and Knowledge Graphs The goal of this task is to check the consistency of knowledge extracted from tables and texts with existing triples in the Wikidata knowledge graph. Different kind of inconsistencies will be considered in this task. Participants to this task will be able to report on their findings in their system paper. See the Figure at https://ecladatta.github.io/images/triplet_annotation_tool.png # Data & Evaluation: For the first 2 sub-tasks, we have released a training dataset with ground-truth annotations, enabling participant teams to develop machine learning-based systems, and in particular for training purposes and for hyperparameter optimizations and internal validations. A separate blind test dataset will remain private and be used for ranking the submissions. Participants should register on Codabench and then enroll for each sub-task separately (Task 1: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and Task 2: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/). Each team are allowed a limited number of daily submissions, and the highest achieved accuracy will be reported as the team's final result. We encourage participants to develop open-source solutions, to utilise and fine-tune pre-trained language models and to experiment with LLMs of various size in zero-shot or few-shot settings. # Challenge Important Dates: - Release of training set: 13 February 2026 - Deadline for registering to the challenge: 15 March 2026 - Release of test set: 24 March 2026 - Submission of results: 10 April 2026 - System Results & Notification of Acceptance: 17 April 2026 - Submission of System Papers: 28 April 2026 - Presentations @ TRIPLET Workshop: May 2026 Workshop Organizers - Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France) - Yoan Chabot (Orange, France) - Véronique Moriceau (IRIT, France) - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, France) - Mouna Kamel(IRIT, France) Contact: For discussions, please use our Google Group, https://groups.google.com/g/triplet-challenge The workshop is supported by the ECLADATTA project funded by the French National Funding Agency ANR under the grant ANR-22-CE23-0020. -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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PostDoc/Senior Researcher for Explainable NLP and XAI (m/f/d/x)
by Simon Ostermann 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with experience in explainable AI and human-computer interaction who will pursue an independent research agenda, acquire third-party funding, and eventually establish their own research group. More details can be found in our application portal https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/en-senior-researcher*in-fur-erklarbare-spra… *The application deadline is March 1st.* The position is initially assigned to the Efficient and Explainable NLP group in the Multilinguality and Language Technology research department at DFKI in Saarbrücken, which is headed by Dr. Simon Ostermann (https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/multilinguality-an…). The group works on national and international research and development projects in the field of explainable and efficient language processing. The environment offers a very active publication culture, high methodological expertise, a focus on basic research, and close ties to current developments in NLP and AI research. The focus of the position is on the research and development of explainable AI systems with a special emphasis on user perspectives and interaction. Relevant topics include explainable multimodal models, user-centred explanation approaches, and the generation of rationales for complex model decisions. The specific design of the research agenda leaves room for your own ideas and new research directions. A central goal of the position is to establish or expand an independent scientific profile. This includes, in particular, the development of your own project ideas, the acquisition of third-party funding, and the preparation and establishment of your own research group in the aforementioned field within the MLT research department. The position is ideally to be filled on 1 April 2026; later employment is possible. The position is initially limited to three years, but may be made permanent if the candidate successfully assists in acquiring third-party funding. Your tasks - You will work on independent research questions in the field of explainable AI and interaction as part of a BMFTR-funded project. - You will develop and evaluate user-centred explanatory approaches for complex AI models. - You will publish your research at leading international conferences. - You will design and apply for independent third-party funded projects in collaboration with other members of the group. - You will actively participate in developing your own research agenda and take on scientific leadership tasks in the future. - You will supervise master's theses and doctoral dissertations and participate in teaching. Your qualifications - Completed doctorate in computer science, AI, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction or a related field. - Very good knowledge of explainable AI, interpretability and language processing. - High motivation for independent research and profile building. - Initial experience in acquiring third-party funding. - A convincing track record of publications in the field of NLP and explainable AI, ideally at leading international conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, COLING, CHI, FAccT, NeurIPS, ICLR or ICML. - Very good publication and communication skills. Your benefits - An excellent research environment with high international visibility. - Great scientific freedom while being part of an established research group. - Active support in acquiring third-party funding and setting up your own working group. - An interdisciplinary network at the interface of AI research, language processing and human-computer interaction. - A young, motivated and collegial team. - A working environment in which we place great value on positive, respectful and constructive collaboration. The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 35 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. DFKI encourages applications from people with disability; DFKI intends to increase the proportion of female employees in the field of science and encourages women to apply for this position.

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3rd CfP and deadline extension: CMLC-12: 12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
by Marc Kupietz 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora The next meeting of CMLC (see also http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html ) will be held as part of the LREC-2026 conference [3] in Palma, Mallorca. 3rd Call for Papers and deadline extensionImportant dates * Deadline for paper submission: the 16th 25th of February 2026 (Monday, 23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: the 12th of March 2026 (Thursday) * Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: the 30th of March 2026 (Monday) * Meeting: the 11th of May, morning slot Paper submission * We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the topics listed above, as PDF created according to LREC-2026 templates [1]. Length and content: 4 to 8 pages in length, excluding acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. However, appendices and supplementary material will be allowed in the final, camera-ready version of the paper. * CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite poster proposals of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. * Submissions are accepted solely through the LREC START system [2]. * A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA. Oral and poster contributions will have equal status. Workshop description As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language generation, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably, reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research: apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical (and other) annotation layers. These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes against. Topics of interest This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics: * Interoperability and accessibility How to make corpora as accessible as possibleInteroperable APIs for query and analysis softwareProvision of multiple levels of access for different tasks * Machine/Deep Learning Data preparation for machine learning inputCreation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning networks)Legal issues concerning language model distribution * Linguistic content challenges Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc.Diversity and inclusion in language resourcesIntegration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotationQuality management of annotationsEnsuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication, correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc.Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video, facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …) * Technical challenges Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data (potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation dataCorpus versioning and release managementScalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processingDealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing corporaEnvironmental impact of big language data computingEngineering and management of research software * Exploitation challenges Legal and privacy issuesQuery languages, data models, and standardisationLicensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictionsInnovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analyticsRepurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools National corpus initiatives In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster. Given that it's been a while since the last round, we would be happy to have a little "What's the news?" session, and we cordially invite both our veteran presenters as well as colleagues who have not yet introduced their national corpus projects, Our poster sessions are usually scheduled to overlap with the coffee break, to ensure informal atmosphere and to maximally use the time slot available to us. A flash presentation section is plan for just before the poster session: ca. 3 minutes for the highlights. LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Programme Committee * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Vladimír Benko (Slovak Academy of Sciences) * Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim) * Mark Davies (English-Corpora.org) * Nils Diewald (IDS Mannheim) * Kaja Dobrovoljc (University of Ljubljana / Jožef Stefan Institute) * Jarle Ebeling (University of Oslo) * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) * Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) * Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon) * Ulrich Heid (University of Hildesheim) * Nancy Ide (Vassar College / Brandeis University) * Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University) * Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) * Natalia Kocyba (Samsung Poland) * Michal Křen (Charles University, Prague) * Anna Latusek (ICS PAS, Warsaw) * Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) * Laurent Romary (INRIA) * Thomas Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) * Maria Shvedova (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute / University of Jena) * Irena Spasić (Cardiff University) * Martin Wynne (University of Oxford) Organising Committee * 📩 Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) * 📩 Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw) [1] LREC-2026 templates https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ [2] LREC START system https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CMLC2026/ [3] LREC-2026 conference https://lrec2026.info/

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Final CfP: Gaze4NLP - The Second International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing
by cagri coltekin 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

**Final Call for Papers (with extended deadline)** Gaze4NLP - The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing 12 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2026/ The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP) invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers conducting research on eyes on eyes on text and NLP; and establishing bridges between them for identifying future venues of research. Workshop webpage: https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2026/ Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 23 February 2026 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 16 March 2026 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 12 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth) Topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to: - Investigating the pillars for bridging the gap between the research on eyes on text and NLP. Study how to expand research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identify challenges, issues to resolve. - Exploring new areas so that both fields benefit from each other better than the past, identifying novel domains of exploration for further research. - Discussing how to develop cognitively inspired models that align human reading data with LLMs. Submissions We solicit regular workshop papers, which will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. The length of the papers should be between 4 and 8 pages (excluding references). The submissions should not include any appendices. Accepted papers will be presented in the form of either oral or poster presentations. Please note that camera-ready papers are allowed an additional page of content to address reviewer comments, and unlimited pages for appendices. The workshop proceedings will be part of the ACL anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an opportunity with an extended version to be published as part of an edited book. Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager. - Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/Gaze4NLP/ All submissions should follow the LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for LREC: <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020)”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed”. LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Organization Committee: Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland Jamal Nasir, University of Galway, Ireland Burcu Can, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Cagri Coltekin, University of Tubingen, Germany

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[LREC2026 Tutorial] Low-Resource, High-Impact: Building Corpora for Inclusive Language Technologies
by Daryna Dementieva 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Do you care about improving language technologies beyond mainstream languages? Do you wonder how to collect data for low-resource languages? Or how to create the first translation system? And then adapt efficiently to various downstream tasks? We are pleased to announce an upcoming LREC2026 tutorial “Low-Resource, High-Impact: Building Corpora for Inclusive Language Technologies.” This tutorial is aimed at NLP practitioners, researchers, and developers working with multilingual and low-resource languages who are interested in building more equitable, inclusive, and socially impactful language technologies. **Tutorial overview** The tutorial covers the full lifecycle of NLP technologies development for a language, including: * Data collection and corpus creation (e.g., web crawling and annotation) * Parallel sentence mining and machine translation * Downstream applications such as text classification and multimodal reasoning * Strategies for addressing data scarcity, cultural variance, and reproducibility * Fair and community-informed development practices **Who should attend** * Researchers and practitioners in NLP and multilingual technologies * Corpus builders and linguists working on underrepresented languages * Developers interested in low-resource or inclusive NLP * Students and early-career researchers **Scope and highlights** * Case studies spanning 10+ languages from diverse language families and geopolitical contexts * Coverage of both digitally resource-rich and severely underrepresented languages * Emphasis on hands-on methods and applied modeling frameworks **Save the date and place**: Saturday, 16 May 2026, morning session, Room 6 More information: https://tum-nlp.github.io/low-resource-tutorial/ Stay tuned for our website – we will fully open-source the tutorial materials! Additionally, we would like to have an overview of overall practices and challenges researchers facing working with non-mainstream languages. If you are such a researcher, you are working on a very surprising language, or just have experience to share about the topic, please, fill in this form to participate in the interview: https://forms.gle/L81hpvZGfemyMjtX7 **Organisers**: Ekaterina (Katya) Artemova, Toloka.ai Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl Foundation Daryna Dementieva, Technical University of Munich Shu Okabe, Technical University of Munich Mariya Shmatova, Toloka.ai Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation See you at LREC! Best regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of Tutorial Organisers

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #20
by Costas Gabrielatos 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 March 2026, 10:00-11:30 am (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: LLMs, Corpus Linguistics, and Language Learning Speaker: Peter Crosthwaite<https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/profile/2845/peter-crosthwaite> (University of Queensland, Australia) Title: Corpora, Prompts, and Pedagogy: Human-AI Text Comparison in Applied Linguistics The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 March. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Postdoc position: AI in vocational training/education
by Antje Schweitzer 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the position announced below. We are searching for a postdoc or an advanced PhD student whose research interests align with the goals of the project. The position is funded until the end of 2027. Since the position requires very good German language proficiency, the details below are posted in German. Best regards, Antje Schweitzer -- Dr. Antje Schweitzer IMS Uni Stuttgart 0711-685 81376 https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~schweitz Stellenausschreibung PostDoc-Stelle (m/w/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%) im Projekt MEKI Bereich KI in der Berufsbildung 1. Mai 2026 bis 31. Dezember 2027 Universität Stuttgart Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Arbeitsgruppe Digitale Phonetik, Prof. Dr. Thang Vu, https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Vu-00002/ In Deutschland werden laut aktuellen Prognosen bis zum Jahr 2035 ganze 7 Millionen Arbeitskräfte fehlen. Dieser dramatische Fachkräftemangel wird davon verstärkt, dass immer mehr junge Erwachsene keinen Berufsabschluss haben. Außerdem brechen bis zu 28% der Auszubildenden ihre Ausbildung vorzeitig ab. Dies wollen wir ändern! Im Projekt MEKI (Mehr erreichen mit KI) entwickeln wir eine KI-unterstützte (open source) Lernsoftware, die vor allem schwächeren Auszubildenden in der Berufsschule helfen soll, ihre Ausbildung erfolgreich zu beenden. Das Projekt konzentriert sich auf den gewerblich-technischen Bereich, entwickelt aber Konzepte, die auf andere Bereiche übertragen werden können. Es wird vom BMBSFJ im Rahmen der InnoVET PLUS-Förderrichtlinie gefördert. Wir arbeiten in MEKI mit vier Verbundpartnern (zwei Industrie- und Handelskammern (IHKs) sowie der TU München und der LMU München) zusammen. Die IHKs sowie die LMU sind vor allem für die Ermittlung der Bedarfe zuständig; die Software wird von der TU und uns gemeinsam entwickelt, wobei unsere Hauptzuständigkeit die KI-Features sind. Im Projekt ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, möglichst ab Mai 2026, bis zum Ende der Projektlaufzeit im Dezember 2027, eine PostDoc-Stelle (m/w/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%) zu besetzen. Nach Absprache ist auch eine Beschäftigung in Teilzeit (bei gleicher Laufzeit) denkbar. Wir suchen eine*n motivierte*n Kolleg*in, die*der Lust hat, sich außerhalb der akademischen Bildung zu engagieren und ein gesellschaftliches Problem mithilfe von KI-Methoden anzugehen. Der Einsatz von KI in der Bildung eröffnet innovative Möglichkeiten wie individualisiertes und multimodales Lernen oder Gamification zur Motivationssteigerung. Gewünschtes Profil: • sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift • Lust auf Teamarbeit • sehr gute Kommunikationsfähigkeit • Gewissenhaftigkeit und analytisches Denken • eine hervorragende Promotion (Summa oder Magna cum laude) im Bereich Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Softwareentwicklung oder in einem vergleichbaren Bereich • umfassende Erfahrung mit dem Einsatz von LLMs im Rahmen der Promotion • sehr gute Programmierkenntnisse, insbesondere in Python • Erfahrung im Bereich multimodale Generierung • Erfahrung mit Deep Learning ist ein Plus, aber nicht unbedingt notwendig • Erfahrung mit Git • Erfahrung in Frontend-Entwicklung, z.B. React/Typescript Aufgaben im Projekt: • Konzeption und Implementierung neuer KI-basierter Software-Features insbesondere im Bereich multimodales Lernen • Beteiligung an der projektbegleitenden Evaluierung von KI-Features der Software • Gemeinsames Testen der Software im Rahmen von Nutzungsstudien mit Projektpartnern • Dokumentation und Veröffentlichung von Projektergebnissen • Aktive Zusammenarbeit mit den Verbundpartnern sowie aktive Teilnahme an verbundinternen Treffen • Entwicklung neuer Ideen zum Einsatz von KI in der Bildung für zukünftige Projekte Das bieten wir: • Ein diverses, engagiertes Team und angenehme Arbeitsatmosphäre mit exzellenter Forschungsumgebung in internationalem und interdisziplinärem Umfeld am Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung der Universität Stuttgart • Moderne Themen mit gesellschaftlicher Relevanz im Bereich Bildung • Kooperationsmöglichkeiten und Kontakt zu anderen interdisziplinären Projekten im Bereich Deep Learning und LLMs am Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung • Unterstützung durch studentische Hilfskräfte • Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten im Bereich Lehre Bewerbungsverfahren Wir bitten um eine PDF-Datei mit: • einem kurzen Motivationsschreiben, in dem die Forschungsinteressen dargelegt sind, • dem Lebenslauf mit Publikationsliste, • den Kontaktdaten von ein bis zwei Referenzpersonen. Die Universität Stuttgart steht für gelebte Vielfalt und Chancengerechtigkeit sowie für die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie. Bewerberinnen werden bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung in Bereichen, in denen Frauen unterrepräsentiert sind, bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber*innen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig eingestellt. Bewerbungen von Menschen anderer Nationalitäten oder mit Migrationsgeschichte begrüßen wir ausdrücklich. Bewerbungen sind zu richten an: Antje Schweitzer, <mailto:antje.schweitzer@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Bewerbungen, die bis zum 28. Februar 2026 eingehen, werden vollständig berücksichtigt. Die Stelle bleibt bis zur Besetzung offen. Informationen zur Umgebung Die Universität Stuttgart ist eine technisch orientierte Universität. Sie ist besonders für Ingenieurwissenschaften und verwandte Themen bekannt, wobei ihre Informatikabteilung sowohl national als auch international einen hohen Stellenwert einnimmt. Das Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), das zur Fakultät für Informatik und Elektrotechnik gehört, ist eines der größten akademischen Forschungsinstitute für natürliche Sprachverarbeitung in Deutschland. Es schlägt die Brücke zwischen der Grundlagenforschung zu Sprache und der Entwicklung von Technologien für die Gesellschaft. Mit 6 Professuren, über 50 Wissenschaftler*innen und 200 Studierenden in den Studiengängen B.Sc. und M.Sc. Computational Linguistics gehört das IMS zu den größten Standorten der Computerlinguistik in Deutschland und Europa. Stuttgart ist bekannt für seine starke Wirtschaft und abwechslungsreiche Kulturszene bei überschaubarer Größe. Sehenswert ist auch die Lage inmitten einer Vielzahl von Hügeln und Weinbergen. Stuttgart ist eine lebhafte Stadt mit einer aktiven Bar- und Clubszene und einem gut ausgebauten öffentlichen Nahverkehr. Mit dem Zug ist Stuttgart gut an viele andere interessante Orte angebunden, zum Beispiel München und Köln (~2 Stunden), Paris (~3,5 Stunden), Berlin (~5,5 Stunden), Straßburg (1 Stunde) oder den Bodensee (2 Stunden). Förderprogramm des BMBFSFJ: https://www.inno-vet.de/innovet/de/innovet_plus/innovet-plus_node.html Projektbeschreibung beim Verbundkoordinator IHK Reutlingen: https://www.reutlingen.ihk.de/ausbildung/azubis-hier-lang/digitale-lernange… Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung: https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de Digitale Phonetik https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/arbeitsgruppen/dp/

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

*** First 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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LT4HALA 2026 -- deadline extension
by Sprugnoli Rachele (rachele.sprugnoli) 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

LT4HALA 2026 -- deadline extension -- The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages @ LREC 2026 The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) will be held on Monday, May 11 in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), co-located with LREC 2026. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars, who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. * Submission deadline: 17th February 2026 **NEW DEADLINE: 23rd February 2026** Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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DEADLINE APPROACHING - ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Special Sessions
by Gualtiero Volpe 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

!!! DEADLINE APPROACHING !!! ICMI 2026 CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The ICMI 2026 organizing committee invites proposals for Special Sessions to be held during the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) in Naples, Italy. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling, such as representations, fusion, data, and systems. * Important Dates Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline February 18th, 2026 Notification of Acceptance February 27th, 2026 * Special Session Proposals Special sessions provide an opportunity to explore emerging topics within multimodal interaction and are a key part of this year’s conference program. We are seeking proposals that will enhance the conference’s diversity and offer valuable insights into the conference theme of “Context and Cultural Awareness for Multimodal Interaction”. Prospective special session organizers are invited to submit proposals via icmi2026-specialsessions-chairs(a)acm.org. Special Session Proposals should include the following information: - Title: A title that shows the relevance of the session for the ICMI community and the novelty of the chosen topic. - Aims and scope: Explain why the chosen topic is novel and relevant, with the potential to contribute to the growth of the ICMI community and/or is aligned with this year’s conference theme. - Tentative speakers: A list of prospective contributing authors with tentative titles for their contributions. Special Sessions are normally expected to have 4 to 6 papers. While there is some flexibility for invited keynote and industry talks, the majority of the special session should consist of peer-reviewed papers. - Organizers and bios: A short bio of the session organizers including their experience in the topic of the Special Session. The primary criteria in evaluating the special session will include the relevance of the topic, the quality and track record of the proposers and speakers, diversity, the coherence of the proposal, and the expected value it will bring to the conference. We prioritize proposals that meet these criteria and welcome submissions from underrepresented communities. The organizers of accepted special sessions will actively participate in the high-quality peer review process for submitted papers, following ICMI standards for the main track papers. They will serve as Area Chairs (ACs) for their proposed sessions, being responsible for tasks such as assigning reviewers and facilitating discussion phases. Papers submitted to an accepted Special Session will follow the same review process as the main conference track papers, including the same submission system (PCS), formatting guidelines (short or long papers), notification dates, and a rigorous peer review process. For any questions and further information about the Special Sessions, please email icmi2026-specialsessions-chairs(a)acm.org or check https://icmi.acm.org/2026/special-sessions/.

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CoNLL 2026: 3rd and Final Call for Papers
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

CoNLL 2026: 3rd & Final Call for Papers San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ CoNLL 2026 will include online presentations for authors who will not be able to attend the conference in person due to visa related issues. NEW: We are pleased to announce that CoNLL 2026 keynote speakers will be Adele Goldberg (Princeton) and Michael C. Frank (Stanford)! SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics and NLP. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including: Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars) Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics Interaction and Dialogue Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution Multimodality and Grounding Typology and Multilinguality Speech and Phonology Syntax and Morphology Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Language and the Brain We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However, the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process. Submissions may be rejected prior to review if they fail to meet this relevance criteria. Submissions CoNLL will accept only direct submissions this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. An OpenReview profile is required for all authors. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2026. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2026 follows the ACL 2026 policy, which follows the ARR policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2026 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms: we again follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” **NEW** Human Subjects & IRB requirements: CoNLL 2026 requires that papers reporting on new human subjects data (collected in a lab or online) include details (in the main paper or in an appendix) on (1) how the data was obtained (2) how participants were recruited and paid (3) how consent was obtained (4) whether an IRB protocol was approved for this study. Note that providing this information is obligatory. Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles. We advise you to create a profile well in advance: 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. Timeline (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026 Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026 Conference: July 3-4, 2026 CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs Claire Bonial, Georgetown University Yevgeni Berzak, Technion Publication Chairs Katrien Beuls, Université de Namur Paul Van Eecke, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Publicity Chair Harish Tayyar Madabushi, University of Bath Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com

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Fully funded doctoral fellowship in multilingual LLM development at University of Oslo
by Stephan Oepen 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

To whom it may concern (with apologies for cross-posting): The Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo has a vacancy for a fully-funded doctoral fellowship for three years. The position will have its thematic focus on LLM development for “smaller” languages and the interplay of (model-based) data selection and fine-grained evaluation. Please see the job announcement for additional details: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294517/phd-research-fellow-i… LTG is a happy and productive research environment of close to 25 researchers in natural language processing from different walks of life. The group is part of the Computer Science Department at the University of Oslo, where we enjoy modern facilities and good access to national and European supercomputing facilities. LTG participates in several national and European flagship research initiatives, including the Digital Europe consortium OpenEuroLLM: Foundation Models for Transparent AI in Europe. This doctoral fellowship will be offered association with OpenEuroLLM, for example by means of collaboration with or research visits to other consortium members. The application deadline for this position is March 1. Interviews will be conducted by early April, and offers of employment made shortly thereafter. The latest possible starting date for this position is October 1, 2026. Please do not hesitate to contact me for further inquiries. Best wishes, oe

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Summer School: The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing
by Amal Haddad 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '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 First 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. 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. Registration Registration will open in March 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). 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) Further information Further information including registration details will be provided in subsequent calls. 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Second CfP: Identity Aware NLP at LREC 2026
by Neele Falk 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

Dear all, We are organizing a workshop co-located with LREC 2026 on Identity Aware NLP. The details are as follows: ===================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP Workshop at LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16, 2026 https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/ ===================================================================== *Workshop Theme:* What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and technical challenges does this imply? *OVERVIEW* What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it) is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority. This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop aims to raise the question of "what makes each of us unique?" to the NLP community. *WORKSHOP GOALS* - The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of identities and how identity is treated in AI - The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level *TOPICS OF INTEREST* We invite submissions on the following topics: *Modeling subjective phenomena and disagreement: *Personalization and perspectivist methods that challenge one-size-fits-all approaches by leveraging disaggregated data and annotator metadata. Methods that learn from disagreements rather than forcing consensus that erases unique perspectives. *Auditing and evaluating identity representation:* Techniques to measure how well models represent diverse identities, diagnose failures in capturing marginalized perspectives, and assess whether systems treat all identities equitably. Frameworks for identity-aware performance evaluation beyond aggregate metrics. *Bias detection and fairness interventions: *Methods to identify when models fail marginalized groups due to over-generalization, and techniques to mitigate such harms while preserving model utility. *Identity representation in LLMs: *How language models encode (or erase) diverse identities, embody particular perspectives, and either reproduce or challenge stereotypes. Measuring LLMs' capacity for reasoning about identities beyond majority groups. *Socio-political applications: *Modeling polarization, opinion formation, and deliberation in ways that account for identity rather than assuming homogeneous populations. How identity-aware approaches improve accuracy for politically sensitive tasks. *Methodological foundations from social sciences:* Best practices from psychology and survey science for measuring identity constructs (values, morals, narratives). Addressing challenges of using LLMs to model diverse populations while avoiding erasure through aggregation. *Accountability and responsible development: *Ethical responsibilities when building systems that represent (or exclude) identities. Making AI development processes accountable to marginalized communities most affected by over-generalization. *Identity-aware and community informed evaluation and auditing*: Community informed bias evaluation and auditing. Human evaluation of LLMs and other AI systems in an identity-aware manner. *SUBMISSION TYPES* We welcome the following types of submissions: * Long papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references) * Short papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references) * Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media submissions For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including: - Art, poetry, music - Blog posts - Jupyter notebooks - Teaching materials - Videos - Findings papers - Late-breaking papers - Extended abstracts For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing: - A summary or abstract of your work - A link to your work (if hosted externally) - Any additional context or documentation *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES * * All submissions will be double-blind reviewed * Submissions should follow LREC 2026 formatting guidelines available at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ * Papers must be 4-8 pages in length (excluding references) * Papers must include ethics and limitations sections * NO appendices are allowed (initial submission), up to 10 pages camera-ready * Originality and simultaneous submissions: submissions must be original, previously unpublished work. If a paper is submitted to or under consideration at another venue at the same time, this must be declared at submission time. If accepted here, it must be withdrawn from other venues; if accepted elsewhere while under review here, please notify us promptly. * Preprints: there is no anonymity period at LREC 2026, so authors may post preprints at any time; however, the version submitted for review must still be anonymized * Language resources (optional): at submission time, authors may share related language resources with the community; repository entries are linked to the LRE Map and provide metadata for the resource * Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/IdentityAwareAI * Proceedings and presentation: accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be presented as posters. For remote participants, we will also organize a lightning round of short virtual presentations to accompany the posters. *WORKSHOP FORMAT* The workshop will be a half-day event featuring: - Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field - Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks) - Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and design a vision for collecting new datasets We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. *IMPORTANT DATES* All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) * Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: March 30, 2026 * Workshop Date: May 16, 2026 *DIVERSITY & INCLUSION * We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers. * ORGANIZERS* Pranav A (University of Hamburg) Valerio Basile (University of Turin) Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart) David Jurgens (University of Michigan) Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf) Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg) Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin) *CONTACT* For queries, please contact: identity-aware-ai(a)googlegroups.com Join us at Identity-Aware AI 2026 to contribute to this important conversation!

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Two PostDoc positions in Natural Language Processing (Open Position and for Authorship Analysis)
by Steffen Eger 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

The Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) group https://nl2g.github.io/ at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) is looking for two postdocs positions (E13 100%), to be filled as soon as possible: * one open position in our fields of expertise (see below) * one position for LLM-based authorship verification/attribution in German data (speaking German is beneficial) The duration of the positions is 12 to 15 months. The tasks include: * scientific research in at least one of our focus areas, see below * Writing and publishing research results in relevant conferences and journals, as well as scientific networking and outreach through their presentation at conferences * Participation in third-party funding applications * Supervision of doctoral students and student assistants * Design and teaching of courses on a small scale Application materials include: * tabular CV * letter of motivation (restricted to 1 page) * 1-page description of your desired contribution to the group as a postdoc * links to at least 3 top-quality conference or journal publications (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, COLING, TACL, ICLR, ICCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, CVPR, or an equivalent) and a description of your role in each publication. Application deadline: * February 20, 2026 For questions please contact steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de> Please apply online via https://www.utn.de/en/career/job-openings/ Focus areas: The NLLG group is among the leading NLP groups in Europe. It has a broad focus on NLP related topics, including: evaluation of text generation (e.g. machine translation, multimodal tasks, etc.), NLP and digital humanities (e.g. automatic poetry generation, literary translation, language change, argumentation, authorship analysis), NLP and social sciences (e.g. LLM-based analysis of social solidarity over time, biases, fairness) and AI4Science topics (e.g. automatic generation of scientific figures). --------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Steffen Eger Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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UCL Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics
by Bas Aarts 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

The Survey of English Usage at University College London will be running its 13th Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics online from 24-26 June 2026. This Summer School is an accessible and inspiring introductory course in English Corpus Linguistics for students of linguistics and students of the English language. The course will be taught online over three days in the morning (UK time). The course consists of theoretical and practical sessions. Over the course of the three days, participants learn about the following: -the scope of Corpus Linguistics, and how we can use corpora to study the English Language; -key issues in Corpus Linguistics methodology; -how to use corpora to analyse issues in syntax, semantics, discourse and World Englishes; -basic elements of statistics; -how to navigate large and small corpora, particularly ICE-GB and DCPSE. At the end of the course, participants will have: -acquired a basic but solid knowledge of the terminology, concepts and methodologies used in English Corpus Linguistics; -had practical experience working with two corpora and a corpus exploration tool (ICECUP); -have gained an understanding of the breadth of Corpus Linguistics and the potential application for projects; -have learned about the fundamental concepts of inferential statistics and their practical application to Corpus Linguistics. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of concepts in linguistics, especially grammar. Places are limited. Be sure to book early to get the early bird rate. For students in full-time education the course fee includes a free copy of either the ICE-GB Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/research-projects/1998/sep/ice-gb) or the DCPSE Corpus (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/research-projects/2006/sep/dcpse), with the associated exploration software ICECUP. For more information about the course, provisional timetable and how to apply, see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/summer-school-english-corpus-linguistics Prof. Bas Aarts Department of English Language and Literature UCL Substack: https://basaarts.substack.com/ Continuous Professional Development and INSET courses for teachers: https://bit.ly/39qnKIH X: @UCLEnglishUsage and @EngliciousUCL Note: I respect your work/life balance. If I send you an email outside of your normal working hours there is no expectation that you will read or respond to the message at that time. Here, history happens. [image.png]

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CfP: Shared Task in Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction at BEA Workshop, ACL 2026.
by Skidmore, Lucy (Exams) 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

Dear all, We invite participation in our Shared Task on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners, which will be hosted at The<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> (co-located with ACL 2026) both online and in person in San Diego, CA, United States. This shared task focuses on predicting the difficulty of English vocabulary for learners with different L1 backgrounds. Evaluation will use the British Council’s Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL), which provide psychometrically calibrated difficulty scores for English learners with Spanish, German, and Mandarin L1s. The task includes a Closed Track, limited to the provided data and standard NLP resources, and an Open Track, which allows external data and use of LLMs, to explore the full potential of current AI approaches. Important Dates 26 January: Release of training data and baseline models<https://github.com/britishcouncil/bea2026st> 20 March: Test data release 27 March: System submissions from teams due 3 April: Announcement of evaluation results by the organisers 24 April: System papers due 1 May: Paper reviews returned 12 May: Final camera-ready submissions 2-3 July: BEA 2026 workshop at ACL Further details can be found at our shared task website<https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st>. Please send any questions to vocabularychallenge(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:vocabularychallenge@britishcouncil.org> or post a new topic in our forum<https://groups.google.com/g/bea-2026-shared-task/>. We look forward to your participation! Organisers: Mariano Felice (British Council) and Lucy Skidmore (British Council). The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] 3rd CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Marco Antonio Stranisci 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

------------------------------------------------------------------- Joint Call for Papers Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop day: May 12, 2026 Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026 February 23, 2026 Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while addressing distinct challenges. The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use, seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional crowdsourcing. The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale studies. TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------- This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors should choose the track that best matches their contribution. SoCon Track "Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts." Topics include, but are not limited to: * Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with pragmatics and social sciences * Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of practice and speech communities * Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory design involving relevant communities * Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events NLPSI Track "Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a deeper understanding of social interactions." Topics include, but are not limited to: *Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality) *Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction *Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution *The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation SUBMISSION TYPES ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from preliminary to established contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage research * Extended abstracts(non-archival, up to 2 pages): a new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). Extended abstracts are not included in conference proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions will be double-blind reviewed. Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf). Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics, acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count. Submission via Softconf: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SoConNLPSI/ Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools, technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement. WORKSHOP FORMAT ------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy. It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations (oral and lightning talks). IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 February 23, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026 Workshop day: May 12, 2026 ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- SoCon Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin Soda Marem Lo, University of Turin Sabine Weber, Bamberg University Rossana Damiano, University of Turin Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Viviana Patti, University of Turin Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg NLPSI Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg Sofie Labat, Ghent University Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Véronique Hoste, Ghent University Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg University Marco https://marcostranisci.github.io/ - How happy were you with the shot selection the PhD even though they came back? - Happy? - Reasonable - Happy is not a word that we think about in the game the PhD. Think of something different. Happy, I don't know how to judge 'happy'. (Pop <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_I9s1cN3Q>)

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Extended Deadline: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026)
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

Dear all, due to numerous requests we are extending the submission period for sign-lang@LREC 2026 to Friday, 20 February. See below for the updated Call for Papers: Event: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026) **NEW** Submission deadline: 20 February 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/ CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event. The extended submission deadline is Friday, 20 February 2026. During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language technologies are maturing and are promising to support the time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing approaches. As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system established, use of video as data source) and works with a different modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods on both visual and linguistic data. We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion), as posters (with or without demonstrations) or remotely (poster PDF plus text chat) on the following topics: 2026 SPECIAL TOPIC: LANGUAGE IN MOTION Motion is at the core of sign languages, both literally, through their existence in the visual-gestural modality, and figuratively, in how their communities drive language change. Equally, sign language research must stay in motion, adapting to new insights and technological possibilities, advancing how we create and use resources, evolving the capabilities of tools, and pushing the boundaries of what can be expected from the field, both technologically and ethically. We especially invite contributions relating to the representation and processing of sign languages that address these various facets of language in motion, but also welcome papers on other general issues relating to sign language resources and technologies. GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS • Evaluation of sign language resources • Experiences in building sign language corpora • Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection • Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions • Experiences from linguistic research using corpora • Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies and machine translation • Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding into advances in avatar technology • Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data • Annotation and visualization tools • Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents • “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages • Sign language corpus mining • Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work • Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language resources to language resources for spoken languages • Language change and how it relates to resource creation, corpus-driven linguistic research, and language technologies We are pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event. Similar to the 2022 and 2024 workshops, all participants will be given access to an online text chat before and during the event to allow remote participants to present their work as well as for discussion of all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with opportunity for questions from remote and on-site participants. The live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be made available online for discussion via text chat. In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations, poster presentations (with or without demonstrations) and remote presentations have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers (4–8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website – independent of whether you have a poster, remote or oral/signed presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short, or position papers. Please submit your paper through the LREC START system (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/) not later than 14 February 2026 (any time zone), indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation, a poster presentation with demo, or a remote poster. Unlike the main conference, the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE ANONYMOUS. In all other respects, submissions should follow the LREC 2026 style guide (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). ATTENTION Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper, not an extended abstract as in previous years! IMPORTANT DATES • **NEW** deadline for submissions: 20 February 2026 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) • Notification of acceptance: 16 March, 2026 • Early bird registration ends: tbd • Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and posters): 27 March 2026 • Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations only): 6 May 2026 • Submission of all slides/posters for the conference platform: 6 May 2026 • Submission of additional material, including demo videos, to be made available alongside with the posters/slides on the conference platform: 6 May 2026 • This workshop: 16 May 2026 • LREC main conference: 13–15 May 2026 • LREC workshops 11, 12 & 16 May 2026

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Important Update
by Mel Mistica 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

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Third Call for Papers — Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026)
by Maria Irena Szawerna 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

**Apologies for cross-posting** Third Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026) Website: https://legal2026.mobileds.de/ Submission: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/ We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be held at LREC 2026 on the 12th of May 2026. Important Dates * 20th of February 2026: paper submission deadline * 30th March 2026: camera ready deadline (strict) * 12th May 2026: workshop date Introduction Access to text and speech data is essential for research, yet personal and sensitive information often prevents open sharing. Techniques such as pseudonymization and anonymization offer potential solutions, but their effectiveness, limitations, and impact on data utility require deeper investigation. Balancing privacy protection with meaningful scientific use remains a key challenge. At the same time, legal and ethical requirements increasingly shape how language resources can be created, processed, and distributed. Regulatory frameworks, such as the GDPR, the Data Act, and the Artificial Intelligence Act, affect access, reuse, and documentation duties for both text and speech data, creating a complex environment that demands interdisciplinary insight. The workshop brings these two perspectives together by addressing both the technical and practical aspects of de-identification as well as the legal and ethical obligations governing data handling. Topics include anonymization and pseudonymization methods, compliance in practical workflows, provenance and rights tracking, and emerging approaches to legal metadata. The goal is to foster responsible, legally sound, and technically robust innovation in human language technologies. Topics of Interest We invite contributions from all disciplines involved in the creation, processing, governance, and de-identification of text and speech data. Submissions may address theoretical, empirical, methodological, legal, or technical questions, including cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage research on less-represented languages and on data from under-represented communities. 1. Legal Aspects of Language Data (LEGAL2026) * Regulatory frameworks and global governance * Intellectual property, data protection, and LLM governance * Ethics, fairness, trust, and transparency * Compliance in practice * Ethics, fairness, and trust * Operationalizing compliance * Emerging and grey areas * Interdisciplinary and cross-border coordination 2. Pseudonymization, Anonymization, and De-identification: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Aspects (CALD-pseudo 2026) * Detection and classification of personal information (PI) * Replacement and transformation of PI * Utility and bias after de-identification * Approaches to evaluation and adversarial testing * Dataset creation for de-identification research * Low-resource scenarios * Speech-specific challenges * Cross-disciplinary applications and challenges We invite submissions from fields where de-identification of data plays an important role, including but not limited to Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Medical Science etc., from the perspectives of researchers, public organizations, and industry. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Long papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for: * Small, focused contributions or ongoing or preliminary work * Extended abstracts for non-technical submissions only, such as conceptual, theoretical, legal, ethical, policy-oriented, or position papers. Extended abstract submissions are expected to be developed into regular papers by the camera-ready submission deadline. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference. They should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the conference website on the Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Unlike the main conference, we allow appendices of up to 10 pages already in the review phase. However, the reviewers will not be required to look in the appendices and must be able to review the paper based on everything contained within the main body of the paper (as if there were no appendices). Submission deadline: 20th of February 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LEGAL2026/ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Talks We are delighted to announce the workshop will host keynote talks from two speakers: * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Ivan Habernal, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Workshop Organizers LEGAL 2026: * Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA, France * Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France CALD-pseudo 2026 * Maria Irena Szawerna, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center & University of Oslo, Norway * Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway * Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Lisa Södergård, University of Helsinki, Finland * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Lund University & DeepTensor AB, Sweden Program Committee A list of program committee members is available on the workshop webpage. Contact For inquiries, please contact ingo.siegert(a)ovgu.de for questions about LEGAL2026 or mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se for questions about CALD-pseudo 2026. Best regards, Maria Irena Szawerna ____________________ PhD student Språkbanken Text<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi<https://www.gu.se/svenska-spraket> UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG<https://www.gu.se/> https://spraakbanken.gu.se/om/personal/maria-szawerna

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Final CfP DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026 - Deadline Feb 23rd 2026
by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

[apologies for cross posting] DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026 11 May 2026 (afternoon) hybrid event (in-person + online)! Second Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) - Paper submissions: 23 February 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DeTermIt2026/ ***** Exciting NEWS ***** Best Student Paper Award: the best student paper (i.e., a paper whose first author is a PhD student or equivalent) will receive a free workshop registration for the corresponding (student) author. Keynote: We’re delighted to announce Horacio Saggion (Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) as our keynote speaker! ##################### Final Call for Papers Schedule - Paper submissions: 23 February 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 - Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026 - Workshop: one of 11, 12, or 16 May 2026 (half-day) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 AoE (“Anywhere on Earth”) For more information, please visit: Website: https://determit2026.dei.unipd.it/ ##################### In today’s interconnected world, where information dissemination knows no linguistic bounds, it is crucial to ensure that knowledge is accessible to diverse audiences, regardless of language proficiency and domain expertise. Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) and text difficulty assessment are central to this goal, especially in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI), which increasingly mediate access to information. The second edition of the DeTermIt! workshop focuses on the evaluation and modeling of text difficulty in multilingual, terminology-rich contexts, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between: - text simplification, - terminology and conceptual complexity, and - LLM/GenAI-based generation and rewriting. The 2026 edition builds on the first DeTermIt! workshop held at LREC-COLING 2024 (https://determit2024.dei.unipd.it/), as well as related initiatives such as the CLEF SimpleText track (https://simpletext-project.com/), which provides reusable data and benchmarks for scientific text summarization and simplification. DeTermIt! 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in terminology-aware simplification, lexical and conceptual difficulty, and evaluation protocols for GenAI systems. We welcome contributions that address theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of text difficulty, including resource creation and evaluation (e.g., corpora, datasets, and benchmarks), with a focus on how linguistic complexity, specialized terminology, and domain knowledge interact with human understanding. In particular, we encourage work that explores how LLMs and GenAI can be evaluated, constrained, or guided to produce readable, faithful, and accessible texts. ##################### Topics of Interest ##################### We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following themes: 1. Theoretical and Modeling Perspectives - Cognitive and linguistic models of text and lexical complexity. - Multilingual readability and text difficulty prediction. - Modeling conceptual difficulty and domain-specific terminology. - Theoretical connections between lexicography, terminology, and text simplification. 2. Terminology and Conceptual Complexity - Identification and classification of specialized terms and concepts. - Estimation of term difficulty for lay readers and second language learners. - Use of terminological databases, ontologies, and knowledge graphs in simplification pipelines. - Methods for adapting domain-specific terminology for accessible communication (e.g., in medicine, law, technology). 3. Generative and Explainable AI for Text Simplification - LLM- and GenAI-based approaches to text simplification and paraphrasing. - Terminology-Augmented Generation (TAG) and term-preserving simplification. - Evaluation of GenAI outputs: readability, factuality, terminology fidelity, and hallucination analysis. - Readability-controlled or difficulty-controlled generation; controllable simplification. - Human-centered and explainable approaches to text accessibility in GenAI systems. 4. Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation Frameworks - Corpora, annotation schemes, and benchmarks for text difficulty and simplification. - Datasets and methods for evaluating terminology-aware simplification and explanation. - FAIR and reusable resources for multilingual text accessibility. - Evaluation protocols and metrics for cross-lingual and cross-domain simplification and GenAI-based rewriting. 5. Applications and Case Studies - Domain-specific simplification (e.g., healthcare, legal, scientific communication). - Tools and systems for educational settings, language learning, or accessible communication. - User studies, human evaluation setups, and mixed-method approaches to assessing text difficulty and GenAI-assisted simplification. - Industrial and real-world experiences with integrating ATS and terminology into LLM-driven workflows. ##################### Submission Guidelines ##################### We invite original contributions, including research papers, case studies, negative results, and system demonstrations. When submitting a paper through the START system of LREC 2026, authors will be asked to provide essential information about language resources (in a broad sense: data, tools, services, standards, evaluation packages, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. ELRA strongly encourages all authors to share the resources described in their papers to support reproducibility and reusability. Papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the LREC 2026 Proceedings (see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The workshop proceedings will be published in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings. PAPER TYPES We accept three types of submissions: - Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers – up to four (4) pages of content, describing smaller focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, or system demonstrations. - Position papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, discussing key open challenges, methodological issues, and cross-disciplinary perspectives on text difficulty, terminology, and GenAI. References do not count toward the page limits. ##################### Organizers ##################### Chairs Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy Federica Vezzani, University of Padua, Italy Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Hosein Azarbonyad, Elsevier, The Netherlands Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scientific Committee Florian Boudin - Nantes University, France Lynne Bowker - University of Ottawa, Canada Sara Carvalho - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Rute Costa - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Eric Gaussier - University Grenoble Alpes, France Natalia Grabar - CNRS, France Ana Ostroški Anić - Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia Tatiana Passali - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grigorios Tsoumakas - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Sara Vecchiato - University of Udine, Italy Cornelia Wermuth - KU Leuven, Belgium ##################### Contact ##################### For inquiries, please contact: giorgiomaria.dinunzio(a)unipd.it <mailto:giorgiomaria.dinunzio@unipd.it>

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3rd and Final Call for Papers — Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (at LREC 2026)
by Stavros Bompolas 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26) Workshop at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16, 2026 Hybrid event — in person and online Website: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/ Contact: dialres-lrec26(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:dialres-lrec26@googlegroups.com> Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major advances in language technology, linguistic resources that adequately represent dialectal variation remain scarce. It therefore remains an open question whether standard-centric practices address dialectal variation or instead create new problems for dialects. DialRes-LREC26 invites submissions on the creation, analysis, and evaluation of dialectal resources, including—but not limited to—work that critically examines how standard-centric methodologies impact dialects in the development of linguistic resources and models. We especially encourage contributions addressing the consequences of such practices for speech and morphosyntactic modelling, OCR of dialectal and historical texts, orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, annotation practices and lemmatisation strategies that abstract away or suppress dialectal forms, as well as analyses of how these choices affect dialects and their communities methodologically, economically, and socially. The workshop focuses on problems, limitations, and trade-offs in developing dialectal resources from a linguistic perspective, while encouraging the creation and evaluation of resources in formats that enable reuse by the NLP community. Workshop Topics * Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources * Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation, including their impact on dialectal variation * Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks * Cross-lingual and cross-dialectal transfer and model adaptation * Resource scalability issues and techniques * Use and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in dialectal resource development * OCR for dialectal, non-standard, and historical texts: challenges, errors, and downstream effects * Resources for, and applications supporting, dialect revitalisation and preservation * Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource-oriented perspective * Working on dialectal resources: academic, financial, legal, and societal issues * Enabling and empowering dialect communities to develop their own resources Submission Information Instructions for Authors Submissions are electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system via the link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DialRes. They must be 4 to 8 pages long (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements) and follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the Author’s kit page Author’s Kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. All templates are also available from this<https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/> page. Invited Speaker Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/) Important Dates * 20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline * 11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance * 28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due Resubmissions from the LREC Main Conference It will also be possible to submit papers that were rejected from the LREC 2026 main conference to DialRes 2026. Such submissions must be revised to fit the scope and format of the workshop and must comply with the same anonymization requirements. Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C. Organizing Committee * Antonios Anastasopoulos — George Mason University / Archimedes–Athena RC * Stella Markantonatou — ILSP / Archimedes–Athena RC * Angela Ralli — University of Patras / Archimedes–Athena RC * Marcos Zampieri — George Mason University * Stavros Bompolas — Archimedes–Athena RC * Vivian Stamou — Archimedes–Athena RC

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Two PhD and Postdoc openings at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (E13, 100%)
by Gozde Gul 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

The newly founded Chair of Intelligent Language Systems at FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg is seeking applications for fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions. The key research areas include reasoning, interpretability, neuro-symbolic methods, memory and multilinguality. The position offers a degree of research freedom, however the overall goal is to advance LLM/VLMs for the long-tail of the distribution, i.e., unseen languages, tasks or domains by developing novel ML/NLP/RL methods. About the Lab The lab is led by Gözde Gül Sahin <https://gglab-ku.github.io/>. We regularly publish at top-tier *CL venues, and are also looking to extend to top-tier ML venues. Our lab has been partially funded by <https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/>Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> via Wikimedia Research Fund <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…> , Google (Gemini) Academic Program <https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-for-research> and Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye <https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/> via International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers program. About FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU offers broad opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across Informatik and beyond. There is strong potential for joint research with other computer science chairs, for example in areas intersecting with speech processing <https://lme.tf.fau.de/>, as well as, security, and reliable systems <https://www.cs1.tf.fau.de/lab/>. Natural connections also exist with the Humanities <https://www.phil.fau.eu/>, particularly linguistics and digitally supported humanities research, as well as with application-oriented fields such as medicine <https://www.med.fau.eu/>. The chair is embedded in the vibrant Erlangen–Nuremberg research ecosystem, with close proximity to major industrial and applied research actors such as Siemens, adidas, and Fraunhofer IIS, providing an excellent environment for collaborative, impact-oriented PhD and postdoctoral research. Computational Resources FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg HPC Center offers access to powerful, well-maintained GPU clusters (https://doc.nhr.fau.de/clusters/overview/). Your Profile - For the postdoctoral position: PhD in computer science, computational linguistics or a related field. For PhD position: Master of Science in computer science, computational linguistics or a related field before the PhD starting date - Strong background in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning - Excellent programming skills - Proficiency in English (German not required) - Ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team - Positive attitude, enjoyment of research, and finding new solutions Application Please email the following as a single pdf file to goezde.sahin [at] fau.de - Cover letter, including your motivation for application (max. one page) - A research statement outlining your research interests within the scope of the advertised position. It should propose a concrete research agenda you plan to develop during your PhD or PostDoc (up to two pages including references). - Curriculum vitae (including your publication list (if available)) - Bachelors and Masters diplomas - Transcripts - Name and contact details of 2 referees Applications until *01.03.2026* will be given full consideration, however the position will remain open until filled. Hence, feel free to inquire even if the deadline has passed. The preferred starting date is 01.05.2026 (or soon after) Salary This is a fully funded E13 position (100%). An approximate salary can be calculated using the following tool: https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025.

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Final CfP: Universal Dependencies Workshop @ LREC 2026
by cagri coltekin 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

*** apologies for cross-posting *** CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) 16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/ Overview Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 180 languages. The framework aims to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing, enable comparative linguistic studies, and provide resources for language model understanding and evaluation. The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with COLING, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines * Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions * Language typology and linguistic universals * Treebank annotation, conversion, and validation * Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing * Use of UD data for evaluating or understanding language models * Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. Invited Speakers * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UC Louvain * Stephen Mayhew, Duolingo Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2026 Camera-ready version due: March 30, 2026 Workshop date: May 16, 2026 Submission Formats We invite submissions in two formats: * Regular (long) papers up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Regular papers should present substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results where appropriate. * Short papers up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may offer smaller, focused contributions, such as work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. We also welcome non-archival papers, defined as work that has already been published or accepted for publication at another computational linguistics venue. These papers may be presented at the workshop but will not appear in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings. Accepted papers will be given one additional page to address reviewer comments. Paper Submission, Review Process and Selection Criteria Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager. * Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/UDW2026/ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for LREC: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Unlike LREC main conference submissions, UDW submissions are allowed to include appendices, and the UDW makes a distinction between short (up to four pages) and long papers (up to eight pages). All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Presentation Format Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. UDW 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for the participants who cannot travel to the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings. Website: https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/ Contact: udw26(a)googlegroups.com Organizing Committee * Çağrı Çöltekin, Tübingen University * Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana & Jozef Stefan Institute * Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University

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Survey of English Usage Annual Report 2025
by Bas Aarts 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Please find below a link to the Survey of English Usage Annual Report for 2025: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/english/research/survey-english-usage… All the best, Bas Prof. Bas Aarts Department of English Language and Literature UCL Substack: https://basaarts.substack.com/ Continuous Professional Development and INSET courses for teachers: https://bit.ly/39qnKIH X: @UCLEnglishUsage and @EngliciousUCL Note: I respect your work/life balance. If I send you an email outside of your normal working hours there is no expectation that you will read or respond to the message at that time. Here, history happens. [image.png]

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[deadline extension] 3rd Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop
by s.frenda＠hw.ac.uk 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ * February 24: Paper submission * March 17: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready submission * May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025) and technologies (VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022). The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectorial discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation. Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the study of disinformation. The framework is characterized by two main pillars: 1) acknowledging the need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders (mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information); 2) exploring the role of the contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news. InDor aims to Define a common theoretical ground for the research on disinformation in NLP and beyond Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity to disinformation Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models Discuss the impact of real-world applications to contrast disinformation The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ We accept three types of submissions: Regular research papers; Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 page of content. Please make the submission here: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/InDor26/ Topics We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder: new interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects surveys on Information Disorder multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks community- and user-centred approaches real-world applications to contrast false information experimental applications and projects for social good evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems generative approaches to contrast false information participatory approaches positions on Information Disorder Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work, in-person or online. Workshop organisers: Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin Shaina Ashraf, Phillips University of Marburg Ada Ren, Macquarie University Ioannis Konstas, Heriot-Watt University Usman Naseem, Macquarie University Contact us at s.frenda(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

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PAN @ CLEF 2026: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality Call for Participation
by Martin Potthast 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2026 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Jena, Germany. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/generated-content-analysis.html 2. Text Watermarking. Insert a watermark into a given text. Then, after we have attacked the text, detect the inserted watermark. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/text-watermarking.html 3. Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis. Given a document, determine at which positions the author changes. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/style-change-detection.html 4. Generative Plagiarism Detection. Given a document and a collection of documents, your task is to identify all sources in the collection that the document plagiarizes. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/generated-plagiarism-detection.html 5. Reasoning Trajectory Detection. Detect the source and safety of LLM-generated and human-written reasoning trajectories. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/reasoning-trajectory-detection.html More information: https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/index.html Important Dates -------------------------- now Training Data Released April 23, 2026: Registration closes May 07, 2026: Software submission deadline May 28, 2026: Participant paper submission June 30, 2026: Peer review notification July 06, 2026: Camera-ready participant papers submission September 21-24, 2026: CLEF Conference Links -------------------------- PAN: https://pan.webis.de Contact: pan(a)webis.de We are looking forward to your submission! The PAN team

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Call for Papers: LxGr2026
by Costas Gabrielatos 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2026 The symposium will take place 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) Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos<https://ehu.ac.uk/gabrielatos> (Edge Hill University) LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you 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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PhD Position in project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds" at University of Bamberg
by Sean Papay 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Dear all, We are looking to hire a PhD student for a term of three years at the Chair for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/nlproc/) at the University of Bamberg in Germany, starting either May 1 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position will be part of the project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds (PoWPoW)", to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Programme LaSTing (https://www.lasting-spp.org/). The project’s goal is to investigate how LLMs represent and reason about probabilistic world knowledge. Within this scope, the project will explore methods for eliciting probability judgments from LLMs, test how well such judgments agree with empirical probabilities, investigate the internal consistency of related probability judgments, and compare LLMs’ probabilistic reasoning to that of humans. The full details can be found here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_St… Applicants should have: * M.Sc. or comparable degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related area. * Experience working with NLP methods and LLMs. * Strong grasp of probability theory – experience with graphical models or formal logic a bonus. * Good knowledge and practical experience with deep learning. * Very good command of English; German knowledge is not essential. * Ability to work in a team, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm, and intrinsic motivation. If you would like to apply, please send your application to Sean Papay <sean.papay(a)uni-bamberg.de>. Your application should be a single .pdf file, comprising a brief motivation letter, your CV, the contact details of two references, and an academic writing sample -- for example, your Master's Thesis or an academic paper previously written by you. Best regards, --Sean Papay

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2nd CFP-GITT-2026 at EAMT 2026: Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 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) Submission deadline: 20 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 Contributions: HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation: Linguistic, Social and Relational Perspectives on Conversational AI
by Constantin Orasan 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation: Linguistic, Social and Relational Perspectives on Conversational AI https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/humic-humans-and-machines-in-conversatio… University of Surrey | In-person Workshop 16th June 2026 As generative AI and large language models reshape how we interact with chatbots, voice assistants and conversational agents, HUMIC focuses on the linguistic, social and relational dimensions of these technologies—areas often overlooked in technical development. HUMIC<https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/humic-humans-and-machines-in-conversatio…>, led by Dr. Doris Dippold and supported by the Surrey Institute for Advanced Studies, the BAAL Special Interest Group ‘Humans, Machines, Languages’ and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and connect academic insights with industry practice. Such insights are vital for developing conversational technologies that are context-aware, socially responsive, and cater for their users’ rapport needs. We invite contributions that explore the complex interplay between humans and machines with reference to these factors. We welcome submissions from researchers working across the disciplines, for example but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, natural language processing, UX research, and conversation design. Submissions may focus on any domain. We particularly welcome submissions from industry, focusing for example on common challenges and practices in designing conversational systems with linguistic, social and relational perspectives in focus. During the workshop, participants will be invited to participate in a collaborative session. The session will encourage the generation of new research ideas and explore how research can respond to industry challenges. Selected works resulting from this workshop will be considered for a potential special issue. Keynote Speakers: * Maaike Groonewege (ConvoCat, Netherlands)<https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaikegroenewege/?originalSubdomain=nl> – Linguist and Conversation Designer * Bettina Migge (University College Dublin, Ireland)<https://people.ucd.ie/bettinamigge> – Language and AI Technology * Christian Hildebrand (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)<https://www.ibt.unisg.ch/team/christian-hildebrand/> – AI and Language in Consumer Behaviour We invite 300-word proposal on topics related to the workshop. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to: * Linguistic and pragmatic dimensions of human-machine dialogue * Social and relational dynamics in conversational AI, including rapport-building, empathy and trust * Designing inclusive and accessible conversational systems that account for the needs of diverse users (linguistic, cultural, neurodiverse) * Linguistic choices and their role in shaping user expectations, satisfaction, engagement and decision-making * Evaluation methods and metrics for linguistic, social and relational outcomes in human–machine interaction (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods) * Model training and fine-tuning strategies for enhancing linguistic, social and relational outcomes in human–machine interaction. * Interdisciplinary and academic-industry collaboration in the development of linguistically, socially and relationally aware conversational technologies Accepted submissions will be assigned to oral or poster presentation formats according to the mode of presentation best suited to their content. Submission Details: * Abstract length: 300 words (excluding title, authors and references) * Deadline: 16th March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 27th April 2025 * Submission: HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation<https://forms.office.com/e/gyLXEs9QFi> ORGANISERS Dr Doris Dippold<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/doris-dippold>, Literature and Languages, University of Surrey Dr Fabio Fasoli<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/fabio-fasoli>, School of Psyschology, University of Surrey Dr Di Fu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/di-fu>, School of Psychology, University of Surrey Dr Richard Green<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/richard-green>, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey Assistant Professor Amal Haddad<https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad>, University of Granada Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan>, Literature and Languages, University of Surrey Dr Valentina Pitardi<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/valentina-pitardi>, Strategy, Marketing and International Business, University of Surrey --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Third CFP: Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) at LREC 2026
by Petya Osenova 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) A full-day workshop at <https://lrec2026.info/> LREC 2026<https://lrec2026.info/>, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) The workshop will be held on May 11, 2026 Webpage: https://www.slide-workshop.org/ Third Call For Papers In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized. The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured linguistic data into the LLM era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation * Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools * Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization * Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools * Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic data * Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings * Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources * Evaluation informed by language typology * Language resources for underresourced and endangered languages * The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications * The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic knowledge * (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data Spoken language Data * Speech-to-text applications * Speech Generation techniques * Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation Multimodality and Situated Dialogue * Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora. * Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and action representations * Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in multiparty dialogue * Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs Pragmatics and Discourse * Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts * Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature, politeness, stance) * Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind in LLMs Semantics and Lexical Meaning * Dependency analysis and semantic parsing * Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse * Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources * Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse, Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type Theory with Records (TTR) * Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR), hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding * Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed structures We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements. Invited speakers Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country) Shira Wein (Amherst College) Paper Submission and Templates * Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the Softconf START conference management system accessible through the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SLiDE/ * Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Important Dates February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). Workshop Organizers Jan Hajič (Prague University, Czech Republic) Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany) Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petya Osenova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

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Second CfP LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Second Call for Papers LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities 16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http:<http://lanlp>https://sites.google.com/view/lanlp2026/home Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Description and Goals We organise a Networking Symposium on Latin American NLP (LANLP), focusing on natural language processing for the diverse languages of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. This region includes major world languages (e.g. Spanish (~558M speakers), Portuguese (~267M) as well as regional and indigenous languages. For example, Latin America alone hosts tens of millions of speakers of Quechua (~10M), Guaraní (>6M), Nahuatl (~2M), Aymara (~2M), among many others. Such languages are highly under‐resourced: over 88% of the world’s languages remain largely unsupported by language technologies. This networking event addresses that gap by promoting collaboration on ethically and culturally sensitive resource creation, evaluation, and novel methods for low-resource multilingual NLP in Iberian and Latin American languages and varieties. Our goal is to bring together communities (SEPLN<http://www.sepln.org/>, CLARIAH-ES<https://www.clariah.es/>, PROPOR<https://propor2024.citius.gal/>, AmericasNLP<https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/index.html>, and SomosNLP<https://somosnlp.org/>) to share cutting-edge research, language resources, and best practices. LANLP focuses on community-driven resource development and evaluation for Iberian languages, and diverse Latin American languages (including indigenous and minority languages). We aim to bridge regional communities: for instance, past forums like OpenCor note that “Latin American and Iberian communities... did not have an established event” to share initiatives, corpora and tools. LANLP fills this gap, fostering new contacts between Iberian and Latin American NLP research groups. The goals are to (1) highlight challenges in processing these languages, (2) share novel datasets and models, and (3) catalyze future collaborations and shared tasks. We emphasize both academic rigor and community inclusivity, encouraging contributions from established researchers and grassroots language advocates alike. Topics of Interest We invite submissions on topics including (but not limited to): * Language resource creation: Corpora, lexicons, and annotations for Iberian and Latin American languages (text, speech, multimodal). * LLMs opportunities and challenges: Small Language Models, synthetic data, mitigating biases, linguistic inequalities, data scarcity, language domination. * Multilingual transfer & modeling: Cross-lingual and multilingual representations, transfer learning, and embedding methods that bridge Spanish, Portuguese, varieties and minority languages. * Machine translation & generation: MT, summarization, and language generation for Spanish, Portuguese, and low-resource languages (e.g., Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl). * Speech and audio processing: ASR, TTS, and spoken language resources for under-resourced languages and regional dialects (e.g. indigenous languages, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish). * Dialectal and code-switching NLP: Identification and handling of dialectal variation and code-switching (e.g. Spanish–Portuguese code-mixing, Spanish–indigenous language contact). * Morphology and syntax: Analysis and tagging for morphologically rich or under-documented languages (e.g. Basque, Mapudungun, Bribri) using universal dependencies or other frameworks. * Domain-specific NLP: Social media, sentiment, hate-speech detection, and other tasks in Iberian and Latin American language contexts (e.g. Latin American social media analysis). * Digital humanities & cultural heritage: NLP for historical texts, literature, and cultural content in Spanish, Portuguese, and regional languages. * Community-driven methods: Crowdsourcing, citizen science, and participatory approaches for data collection and annotation in these languages. * Evaluation and benchmarks: Development of evaluation metrics and benchmarks tailored to low-resource Iberian/Latin languages. * Ethical and social issues: Fairness, bias, and indigenous language rights in NLP; collaboration with native speaker communities; data governance and sustainability of resources. Important dates * February 18, 2026: Paper submission deadline * March 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline * May 16, 2026: Networking Symposium Date Submission Instructions We invite non anonymous submissions in English, Spanish or Portuguese on the topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Any submissions which are over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata for the resource. Organizing Committee * Luis Chiruzzo Inco (AmericasNLP, luischir(a)fing.edu.uy<mailto:luischir@fing.edu.uy>) * Pablo Gamallo (PROPOR, CiTIUS, pablo.gamallo(a)usc.gal<mailto:pablo.gamallo@usc.gal>) * María Grandury (SomosNLP, EPFL, mariagrandury(a)gmail.com<mailto:mariagrandury@gmail.com>) * Rafael Muñoz Guillena (SEPLN, CENID, UA, rafael(a)dlsi.ua.es<mailto:rafael@dlsi.ua.es>) * German Rigau Claramunt (CLARIAH-ES. HiTZ Center, EHU, german.rigau(a)ehu.eus<mailto:german.rigau@ehu.eus>)

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Four PhD and four Postdoc positions in Copenhagen, Denmark
by Johannes Bjerva 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

The 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭 Aalborg University Copenhagen (AAU-NLP) is growing fast in 2026, and we’re excited to announce that we are hiring 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (3 years), and 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐬 (1–3 years each), to join us at the beautiful waterfront Copenhagen Campus of Aalborg University. This new cohort will join our expanding research efforts on 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈, with a strong emphasis on 𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬 across diverse cultural and linguistic settings. We’re interested in candidates with solid backgrounds in 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐍𝐋𝐏, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 as well as those coming from 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 who want to work at the intersection of language and AI. Some example areas of interest include: • NLP/LLM security, adversarial robustness, and backdoor detection • Memorization and Privacy in LLMs • Safety, factuality, and trustworthy multilingual language technologies • Linguistically informed modelling and cross-cultural evaluation • Interpretability, semantics, and behaviour analysis of LLMs • Low-resource language processing and multilingual robustness Within these areas, the projects offer 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 - we believe the best research is driven by curiosity and creativity. Apply here: * PhDs (deadline 17 February): https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/884796 * Postdocs (deadline 4 March): https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/88… Interested applicants are encouraged to reach out to the project PI, Johannes Bjerva, at jbjerva(a)cs.aau.dk

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Last CFP: *SEM 2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics [3 July 2026, Co-located with ACL 2026]
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Dear corpora-list members, Apologies for cross-posting. The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM2026), will be co-located with ACL 2026 on the 3rd of July. The call for papers can be found here<https://starsem2026.github.io/calls/> and below. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) - Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): Feb 13, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: May 26, 2026 - Conference date: July 6, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) - Following the ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Website https://starsem2026.github.io/ Direct submission link https://openreview.net/group?id=STARSEM/2026/Conference Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation, and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here. Please fill out this form<https://forms.gle/634oW3yvtTkur6qL9> if you would like to volunteer as a reviewer or as an Area Chair. Questions may be directed to: startsem-2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com> New for *SEM 2026 1. One Day Conference: Unlike past iterations, *Sem 2026 will be a one-day conference. (ACL has informed us that this is due to venue size limitations.) 2. Centering Research Questions: Research questions in *Sem, and NLP generally, can be roughly categorized into those that address: * new findings about language (linguistic phenomena, semantic patterns), * new findings about people (language use, behavior, health, ethics, etc.), * new findings about automatic language processing (advancing language understanding through ML/AI and other approaches). Centering and explicitly articulating the research question helps authors frame and present their contribution more clearly. It also helps reviewers and Area Chairs evaluate the work within the appropriate context. For example, a paper that centers a compelling linguistic or behavioral research question and offers meaningful new insights need not also introduce methodological novelty or rely on the latest models (including LLMs). A simple and interpretable approach may make good sense. To support this, the *SEM 2026 submission form asks authors to explicitly identify the predominant research question type for their work, as well as any additional categories that apply. There are no quotas for accepted papers of different types, and submissions will not receive preferential treatment based on category selection. Including this information also allows *SEM to track the kinds of research questions authors pursue and how the conference’s focus evolves over time. 3. Lasting Impact Modern NLP and ML papers have often been criticized for being overly incremental or becoming obsolete shortly after publication. To encourage work with broader scientific value and longer-term relevance, reviewers of *Sem 2026 will be asked to explicitly assess the potential lasting impact of each submission. This assessment will be included as a short-written justification and will factor into the overall recommendation. Importantly, a healthy research ecosystem requires diversity in the time horizons of research contributions. Some papers offer immediate practical value; others generate insights or resources whose importance unfolds over years. *Sem 2026 welcomes this full spectrum. Reviewers should evaluate the potential for lasting influence—not only immediate performance gains. Work can have a lasting impact in many ways. See our blog post<https://starsem2026.github.io/blog/> on this. Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Sentiment Analysis, Computational Affective Science, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Analytics * Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations * Entity linking, pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Abusive language detection, Fact verification and related tasks * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor processing * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Psycholinguistics * Interpretability and Explainability * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * NLP Applications * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained, and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits direct submissions (not through ARR). The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 13, 2026, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. Submissions are made through OpenReview. Multiple submission policy *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Best regards, The *SEM 2026 Program Chairs.

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Second call for participation: UMR parsing shared task
by Dan Zeman 08 Feb '26

08 Feb '26

Second Call for Participation: Shared Task in Parsing into Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/umr-parsing Uniform Meaning Representation <https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/> (UMR) is designed as a typologically-aware successor of AMR, with various modifications and additions, including explicit token-node alignment and document-level relations. Parsers previously proposed for AMR are thus not directly applicable to UMR, although they may serve as a baseline for development of UMR parsers. The few attempts at UMR parsing published so far focused mostly on English. The first shared task in UMR parsing aims to perform evaluation of parsing systems on multiple languages and to assess the current state of the art. The shared task is collocated with the DMR 2006 workshop <https://dmr2026.github.io/> (and with LREC), to be held on 11 May 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The shared task is now in its development phase, with training data available for six languages (Arapaho, Chinese, Czech, English, Latin, Navajo). The test phase is schedule to run between 16 and 27 February 2026. Registration is open until the end of the test phase. For more details, see the shared task homepage at https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/umr-parsing. Dan Zeman, Jan Štěpánek & the UMR community

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Second Call for Research Papers (2nd Round)
by Announce 08 Feb '26

08 Feb '26

*** Second Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) *** 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 International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. 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 research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 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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Computation and Written Language Workshop (at LREC 2026) Final Call for Papers
by Constantine Lignos 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Computation and Written Language Workshop (at LREC 2026) Final Call for Papers The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit). We welcome submissions of scientific papers to be presented at the workshop and archived in the ACL Anthology. Please see the submission guidelines below and see the workshop webpage (https://sigwrit.org/) for additional relevant information. For the first time ever, CAWL will also feature a cash prize of $500 USD for the best student submission. Topics Most work in NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form. This has often led researchers to ignore the differences between written and spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two. Furthermore, methods for dealing with written language issues (e.g., various kinds of normalization or conversion) or for recognizing text input (e.g. OCR & handwriting recognition or text entry methods) are often regarded as precursors to NLP rather than as fundamental parts of the enterprise, despite the fact that most NLP methods rely centrally on representations derived from text rather than (spoken) language. This general lack of consideration of writing has led to much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as speech technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer interaction (e.g., text entry). This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Writing systems for less-resourced, Indigenous, and minoritized languages - Multi-writing system models - Text entry and tokenization - Processing abbreviations and homographs - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization - Text normalization for speech and for processing “informal'” genres of text - Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to decipherment - Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical document processing - Orthography for unwritten languages - Spelling error detection and correction - Script normalization and encoding - Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language processing - Properties of written language - Applications specifically focused on characteristics of writing systems Important dates (all deadlines anywhere-on-earth (AoE) time): Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: March 30, 2026 Workshop date: May 12, 2026 Submission Guidelines Please submit short (4 page) or long (8 page) submissions in PDF format. Both short and long paper submissions will be reviewed in the same process. Authors should follow the formatting guidelines of LREC 2026, available in the authors’ kit (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). Note that, as with the main conference, reviewing is double-anonymous, i.e., reviewers will not know author identity and vice versa, hence no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference that identifies the authors should be avoided or anonymised. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology. Submissions will be accepted at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAWL/ between now and February 20, 2026. For questions about the submission guidelines, please contact workshop organizers at cawl-2026-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.

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Call for paper - LLMs for Equitable Education Systems
by Marco Bombieri 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Research Topic *“*LLMs for Equitable Education Systems*”*, to be published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. This special issue focuses on the role of LLMs and agentic AI in fostering equitable and responsible educational systems. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspectives addressing topics such as AI-driven personalized learning, fair and transparent assessment, bias mitigation, accessibility, and ethical implications of LLMs in education. Key deadlines: - Manuscript Summary: 30 June 2026 - Full Manuscript: 30 September 2026 Call for paper and submission guidelines are available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77438/llms-for-equitable-educat… With best regards, The Research Topic editorial team

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2nd CfP: Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora @LREC-2026
by Piotr Banski 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

12^th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora 2^nd Call for Papers The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part of theLREC-2026 conference <https://lrec2026.info/> in Palma, Mallorca. Workshop description As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language generation, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably, reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research: apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical (and other) annotation layers. These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes against. Topics of interest This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics: * Interoperability and accessibility o How to make corpora as accessible as possible o Interoperable APIs for query and analysis software o Provision of multiple levels of access for different tasks * Machine/Deep Learning o Data preparation for machine learning input o Creation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning networks) o Legal issues concerning language model distribution * Linguistic content challenges o Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc. o Diversity and inclusion in language resources o Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation o Quality management of annotations o Ensuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication, correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc. o Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video, facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …) * Technical challenges o Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data (potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation data o Corpus versioning and release management o Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processing o Dealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing corpora o Environmental impact of big language data computing o Engineering and management of research software * Exploitation challenges o Legal and privacy issues o Query languages, data models, and standardisation o Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictions o Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics o Repurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster. Important dates * Deadline for paper submission: the 16^th of February 2026 (Monday, 23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: the 12^th of March 2026 (Thursday) * Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: the 30^th of March 2026 (Monday) * Meeting: the 11^th of May, morning slot Paper submission * We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the topics listed above, as PDF created according toLREC-2026 templates <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. o Length and content: 4 to 8 pages in length, excluding acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. However, appendices and supplementary material will be allowed in the final, camera-ready version of the paper. * CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite/poster proposals/of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. * Submissions are accepted solely through theLREC START system <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CMLC2026/>. * A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA. Oral and poster contributions will have equal status. LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Programme Committee * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Vladimír Benko (Slovak Academy of Sciences) * Mark Davies (English-Corpora.org) * Nils Diewald (IDS Mannheim) * Kaja Dobrovoljc (University of Ljubljana / Jožef Stefan Institute) * Jarle Ebeling (University of Oslo) * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) * Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) * Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon) * Ulrich Heid (University of Hildesheim) * Nancy Ide (Vassar College / Brandeis University) * Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg University) * Gražina Korvel (Vilnius University) * Natalia Kocyba (Samsung Poland) * Michal Křen (Charles University, Prague) * Anna Latusek (ICS PAS, Warsaw) * Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) * Laurent Romary (INRIA) * Thomas Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) * Maria Shvedova (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute / University of Jena) * Irena Spasić (Cardiff University) * Martin Wynne (University of Oxford) Organising Committee * 📩 Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) * 📩 Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim) * 📩 Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw) Homepage CMLC series homepage is located athttp://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html .

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2nd CFP: 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Second Call for Papers The 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026) San Diego, California, United States and online Thursday, July 2 and Friday, July 3, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) https://sig-edu.org/bea/current Submission: https://softconf.com/acl2026/bea2026/ Submission Deadline: Monday, March 23, 2026, 11:59pm UTC-12 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications<https://sig-edu.org/members> (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 21st BEA will be a 2-day workshop, with one in-person workshop day and one virtual workshop day. The workshop will feature oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. Moreover, there will be a panel discussion on “Transitioning from Academia to the EdTech Industry<https://sig-edu.org/news/bea21-call-for-panelists/>”, a half-day tutorial on Theory of Mind and its Applications in Educational Contexts, and two shared tasks on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners<https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st> and on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German<https://edutec.science/bea-2026-shared-task/> comprising an oral overview presentation by the shared task organizers and several poster presentations by the shared task participants. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: * use of generative AI in education and its impact; * automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; * automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); * game-based instruction and assessment; * educational data mining; * intelligent tutoring; * collaborative learning environments; * peer review; * grammatical error detection and correction; * learner cognition; * spoken dialog; * multimodal applications; * annotation standards and schemas; * tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and * use of corpora in educational tools. PANEL We invite applications and nominations for panelists to participate in a panel discussion on “Transitioning from Academia to the EdTech Industry.” Please see the call for panelists here: https://sig-edu.org/news/bea21-call-for-panelists/. SHARED TASKS Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners Organizers: Mariano Felice (British Council) and Lucy Skidmore (British Council). Description: This shared task aims to advance research into vocabulary difficulty prediction for learners of English with diverse L1 backgrounds, an essential step towards custom content creation, computer-adaptive testing and personalised learning. In a context where traditional item calibration methods have become a bottleneck for the implementation of digital learning and assessment systems, we believe predictive NLP models can provide a more scalable, cost-effective solution. The goal of this shared task is to build regression models to predict the difficulty of English words given a learner’s L1. We believe this new shared task provides a novel approach to vocabulary modelling, offering a multidimensional perspective that has not been explored in previous work. To this aim, we will use the British Council’s Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL), a multilingual dataset with psychometrically calibrated difficulty scores. We believe this unique dataset is not only an invaluable contribution to the NLP community but also a powerful resource that will enable in-depth investigations into how linguistic features, L1 background and contextual cues influence vocabulary difficulty. For more information on how to participate and latest updates, please refer to the shared task website: https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German Organizers: Sebastian Gombert (DIPF), Zhifan Sun (DIPF), Fabian Zehner (DIPF), Jannik Lossjew (IPN), Tobias Wyrwich (IPN), Berrit Katharina Czinczel (IPN), David Bednorz (IPN), Sascha Bernholt (IPN), Knut Neumann (IPN), Ute Harms (IPN), Aiso Heinze (IPN), and Hendrik Drachsler (DIPF) Description: Short answer scoring is a well-established task in educational natural language processing. In this shared task, we introduce and focus on rubric-based short-answer scoring, a task formulation in which models are provided with a question, a student answer, and a textual scoring rubric that specifies criteria for each possible score level. Successfully solving this task requires models to interpret the semantics of scoring rubrics and apply their criteria to previously unseen answers, closely mirroring how human raters assign scores in educational assessment. Although rubrics have been used as auxiliary information in prior work on free-text scoring and LLM-based approaches, there has been little focused investigation of rubric-based short-answer scoring as a task in its own right. This setting poses distinct challenges, including ambiguous or underspecified rubric criteria and a wide range of valid student responses. With this shared task, we aim to stimulate systematic research on rubric-based scoring, assess how well current NLP methods can reason over rubrics, and identify promising modeling strategies. Additionally, by providing a German-language dataset, the shared task contributes a new non-English benchmark to the field. For more information on how to participate and latest updates, please refer to the shared task website: https://edutec.science/bea-2026-shared-task/ TUTORIAL Theory of Mind and Application in Educational Context Organizers: Effat Farhana (Auburn University), Maha Zainab (Auburn University), Qiaosi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Niloofar Mireshghallah (Carnegie Mellon University), Ramira van der Meulen (Leiden University), Max van Duijn (Leiden University). Description: This tutorial examines the integration of Theory of Mind (ToM) into AI-driven online tutoring systems, focusing on how advanced technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), can model learners’ cognitive and emotional states to provide adaptive, personalized feedback. Participants will learn foundational principles of ToM from cognitive science and psychology and how these concepts can be operationalized in AI systems. We will discuss mutual ToM, where both AI tutors and learners maintain models of each other’s mental states, and address challenges such as detecting learner misconceptions, modeling meta-cognition, and maintaining privacy in data-driven tutoring. The tutorial also presents hands-on demonstrations of Machine ToM applied to programming education using datasets such as CS1QA and CodeQA, which contain Java and Python samples. By combining conceptual foundations, research insights, and practical exercises, this tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of designing human-centered, ethically aware, and cognitively informed AI tutoring systems. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). * Submission deadline: Monday, March 23, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 * Workshop: Thursday, July 2, and Friday, July 3, 2026 SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. 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) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. Link for submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2026/bea2026/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: * Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. * State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI * Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University * Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum * Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen * Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec * Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners * Bashar Alhafni, MBZUAI * Zheng Yuan, University of Sheffield * Jill Burstein, Duolingo * Stefano Bannò, Cambridge University Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com> PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tazin Afrin; David Alfter; Bashar Alhafni; Maaz Amjad; Nischal Ashok Kumar; Stefano Bannò; Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona; Lee Becker; Beata Beigman Klebanov; Luca Benedetto; Bhavya Bhavya; Serge Bibauw; Ted Briscoe; Dominique Brunato; Jie Cao; Dan Carpenter; Jeevan Chapagain; Guanliang Chen; Mei-Hua Chen; Christopher Davis; Orphee De Clercq; Kordula De Kuthy; Jasper Degraeuwe; Dushyanta Dhyani; Yuning Ding; Rahul Divekar; Kosuke Doi; Mohsen Dorodchi; Yo Ehara; Hamza El Alaoui; Sarra El Ayari; Andrew Emerson; Yao-Chung Fan; Mariano Felice; Nigel Fernandez; Michael Flor; Thomas François; Thomas Gaillat; Ananya Ganesh; Ritik Garg; Sebastian Gombert; Samuel González López; Cyril Goutte; Abigail Gurin Schleifer; Na-Rae Han; Ching Nam Hang; Jiangang Hao; Aki Härmä; Hasnain Heickal; Chieh-Yang Huang; Chung-Chi Huang; Radu Tudor Ionescu; Elsayed Issa; N J Karthika; Anisia Katinskaia; Elma Kerz; Fazel Keshtkar; Grandee Lee; Ji-Ung Lee; Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan; Jiazheng Li; Anastassia Loukina; Wanjing Anya Ma; Jakub Macina; Lieve Macken; Nitin Madnani; Arianna Masciolini; Detmar Meurers; Michael Mohler; Phoebe Mulcaire; Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez; Sungjin Nam; Diane Napolitano; Huy Nguyen; S Jaya Nirmala; Sergiu Nisioi; Michael Noah-Manuel; Adam Nohejl; Amin Omidvar; Daniel Oyeniran; Robert Östling; Ulrike Pado; Yannick Parmentier; Ted Pedersen; Mengyang Qiu; Martí Quixal; Chatrine Qwaider; Arjun Ramesh Rao; Vivi Peggie Rantung; Manikandan Ravikiran; Hanumant Redkar; Robert Reynolds; Saed Rezayi; Frankie Robertson; Aiala Rosá; Andreas Säuberli; Nicy Scaria; Ronald Seoh; Pritam Sil; Astha Singh; Lucy Skidmore; Maja Stahl; Katherine Stasaski; Helmer Strik; Hakyung Sung; Sowmya Vajjala; Elena Volodina; Nikhil Wani; Alistair Willis; Fabian Zehner. If you would like to join our PC, please fill in the form: https://forms.gle/gtKo6Bx6EFmwWf9w5

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Call for paper: 1st Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing for Quality of Life (cNLP4QoL)
by jej_0312_＠naver.com 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

1. Workshop Overview: Quality of Life (WHOQOL) is a multi-dimensional, whole-person construct encompassing physical health, psychological state, level of independence, social relationships, environment, and spirituality, operationalized through 24 facets including pain & discomfort, energy & fatigue, sleep & rest, mobility, activities of daily living, dependence on medication/treatment, work capacity, positive feelings, thinking/learning/memory/concentration, self-esteem, bodily image & appearance, negative feelings, personal relationships, social support, sexual activity, physical safety & security, home environment, financial resources, health & social care accessibility/quality, opportunities for acquiring information/skills, participation in recreation/leisure, physical environment (pollution/noise/traffic/climate), transport, and spirituality/religion/personal beliefs. Many of the most meaningful QoL indicators are primarily documented in unstructured clinical narratives and patient-generated text. This workshop adopts a whole-person perspective and aims to bring together researchers, clinicians, and practitioners to advance robust, explainable, and clinically actionable NLP methods for extracting, modeling, and integrating QoL signals into real-world healthcare workflows. 2. Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to): - NLP methods for extracting, interpreting, and predicting QoL indicators - Functional, psychosocial, and behavioral health modeling from text - Explainability, trustworthiness, and reasoning in clinical language models - Annotation frameworks and evaluation metrics for subjective QoL constructs - Patient portals, clinical messages, conversations, and longitudinal narratives - Synthetic data generation, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and benchmarks for QoL - Clinical deployment and workflow integration of QoL-focused NLP systems - Applications: EHRs including clinical notes, social media data, patient narratives 3. Submission Types (original, unpublished work): - Regular papers (8–10 pages): mature work with substantial evaluation - Short papers (4–6 pages): innovative ideas with preliminary results - Position papers (4–6 pages): emerging directions or critical perspectives - Abstracts (2 pages): vision papers or work in progress All submissions will undergo single-blind peer review. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the IEEE ICHI 2026 Proceedings, archived in IEEE Xplore (camera-ready submission required). 4. Important Dates: - Workshop paper submission deadline: March 15, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: March 28, 2026 - Workshop date: June 1, 2026 5. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=ieeeichi2026 followed by cNLP4QoL track. Website Link: https://cnlp4qol.github.io/ICHI-cnlp4qol-2026/ Contact: cnlp4qol(a)gmail.com

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Job announcement: W3-Professorship in Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg
by DH Lab 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Dear all, We are pleased to share the following professorship announcement with you. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Klara Oehler und Elena Renje University of Freiburg Coordination Digital Humanities Lab Job announcement: W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg German Version below The Faculty of Philology (Department of General Linguistics in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab) is offering a W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities. * Application deadline: 17 March 2026 * Start date: At the earliest possible date * Scope of work: Full-time position * Id no.: 00004827 Description We are looking for an internationally visible scholar from the field of Digital Humanities (DH) with a language- or text-focused profile. A specialization in methods, applications, and contexts of Artificial Intelligence in the broader sense (including technical understanding such as coding, application to philological research questions, and ideological/ethical/didactic implications, etc.) is required. In-depth knowledge of established DH methods (e.g., NLP and other computational techniques and models, distant reading, etc.) is advantageous. Networking within the Faculty of Philology as well as active participation in research foci, centers, and collaborative projects are expected. The successful candidate will assume a leadership function in the DH Lab established in 2024 at the Faculty of Philology, and will play a leading role in the (further) development of DH-related study and certificate programs, as well as in modules within language, literary and cultural studies curricula. In all other respects, the conditions for appointment according to § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz apply: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 We request the following application materials: * Resumé * Certificates and diplomas * Complete list of publications and lectures, listing the five most important publications We will be particularly pleased to receive applications from women for the position advertised here. The university supports individuals appointed to professorial positions through a Dual Career Service and a Family Service. Application Please send your application including supporting documents mentioned above and the application form (https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…) citing the reference number 00004827, by 17 March 2026 at the latest. Please send your application to the following address in written or electronic form: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann University of Freiburg Faculty of Philology P.O. Box 79085 Freiburg or to the email address bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de For further information, please contact Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus on the phone number +49 761 203-8315 or E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de Further information on the appointment procedure can be found in the Code for Practice for professorial appointments (in German): https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link to job posting: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004827/ General and legal remarks: Full-time positions may generally be split up into two or more part-time positions, provided that there are no formal or legal barriers. Candidates are selected in accordance with the provisions of the AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - German General Equal Treatment Act). Applicants with disabilities (Schwerbehinderte Menschen) will be given preferential consideration in case of equal qualification. The department offering the position is liable for the content of this job posting. Textual errors do not constitute a basis for any claims or rights. The relevant human resources department has sole responsibility for all legal transactions made within the context of the selection and hiring process. Please note that breaches in privacy and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded in communication by unencrypted email. Privacy policy: Privacy policy professorship: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/data-protection-applications/ ________________________________________ GERMAN VERSION Ausschreibung: W3-Professur für Digital Humanities an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg An der Philologischen Fakultät ist am Sprachwissenschaftlichen Seminar gemeinsam mit dem Digital Humanities Lab eine W3-Professur für Digital Humanities zu besetzen. * Bewerbungsfrist: 17. März 2026 * Eintrittstermin: Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt * Arbeitsumfang: Vollzeitstelle * Kennziffer: 00004827 Beschreibung Gesucht wird eine international sichtbare Persönlichkeit aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities (DH) mit sprach- bzw. textbezogenem Profil. Ein Schwerpunkt im Bereich von Methoden, Anwendungen und Kontexten der Künstlichen Intelligenz im weiteren Sinne (technisches Verständnis inkl. Coding, Nutzbarmachung für philologische Fragestellungen, ideologische/ethische/didaktische Implikationen usw.) wird vorausgesetzt. Von Vorteil sind vertiefte Kenntnisse klassischer Methoden der DH (beispielsweise NLP- und weiterer komputationeller Techniken und Modelle, Distant Reading usw.). Die Vernetzung innerhalb der Philologischen Fakultät sowie die Mitwirkung an Forschungsschwerpunkten, Zentren und Verbundprojekten werden vorausgesetzt. Der*die erfolgreiche Kandidat*in nimmt eine leitende Funktion im 2024 gegründeten DH Lab an der Philologischen Fakultät ein und spielt eine führende Rolle bei der (Weiter-)Entwicklung DH-bezogener Studien- und Zertifikatsprogramme sowie von Modulen in sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen. Im Übrigen gelten die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen des § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 Folgende Bewerbungsunterlagen werden erbeten: * Lebenslauf * Zeugnisse und Urkunden * Vollständiges Schriften- und Vortragsverzeichnis unter Nennung der fünf wichtigsten Publikationen Für die hier ausgeschriebene Position freuen wir uns besonders über Bewerbungen von Frauen. Die Universität unterstützt Berufene über einen Dual Career Service und einen Familienservice. Bewerbung Bitte bewerben Sie sich mit o. g. Unterlagen und dem Ausdruck Ihres Bewerbungsformulars: https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe… unter Angabe der Kennziffer 00004827 bis spätestens 17. März 2026. Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte in schriftlicher oder elektronischer Form an: Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann Universität Freiburg Philologische Fakultät Postfach 79085 Freiburg bzw. an die Mailadresse bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de Für nähere Informationen steht Ihnen Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus unter Tel. +49 761 203-8315 oder E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de zur Verfügung. Weitere Informationen zum Berufungsverfahren: https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link zur Stellenausschreibung: https://uni-freiburg.de/stellenangebot/00004827/ Allgemeine und rechtliche Hinweise Vollzeitstellen sind grundsätzlich teilbar, soweit dienstliche oder rechtliche Gründe nicht entgegenstehen. Die Auswahl erfolgt nach den Regeln des AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz). Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt eingestellt. Für den Inhalt dieser Anzeige ist die jeweils ausschreibende Einrichtung verantwortlich. Etwaige inhaltliche Fehler begründen keine Ansprüche oder Rechte. Die rechtsgeschäftliche Vertretung im Zusammenhang mit dem Besetzungsverfahren und der Einstellung erfolgt ausschließlich durch das zuständige Personaldezernat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass Gefährdungen der Vertraulichkeit und der unberechtigte Zugriff Dritter bei der Kommunikation per unverschlüsselter Mail nicht ausgeschlossen werden können. Datenschutz Datenschutzerklärung Professur: https://uni-freiburg.de/datenschutz-bewerbungen/

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[RetroEval 2026] 1st Call for Papers
by Saad Mahamood 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '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 (archival): 24 April, 2026 • Direct paper submission deadline (non-archival): 1 May, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 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. 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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Online Workshop - Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions
by ginevra.martinelli＠iusspavia.it 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

We are pleased to announce the online workshop "Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions", to be held on 5th March, organised by the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Laboratory (NEPLab) and supported by the ERC project “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE). The workshop adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. It will investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used for the detection, interpretation, mapping, and evaluation of metaphors across languages. Particular attention will also be given to aligning computational models with human cognitive data, as well as to the use of metaphorical language as a means of probing the linguistic capabilities of LLMs. Talk lineup: - Using Large Language Models to Identify Metaphorical Expressions in Text Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding - Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor, Revisited: A Comparative Evaluation of Italian Baby and Large Language Model with Human Interpretations Simone Mazzoli, Alice Suozzi, Gianluca E. Lebani - A Novel Metaphor Dataset of Toxic Posts from Christian Subreddits Sebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler - Exploring Metaphors in LLMs with a Human-Centric and Culture-Aware Approach Bolette S. Pedersen, Ali Basirat, Alberto Parola, Sussi Olsen - Commonsense Reasoning for Automatic Metaphor Elaboration: A Conceptual Combination Approach Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Stefano Zoia - HUMMUS: a Dataset of Humorous Multimodal Metaphor Use Xiaoyu Tong, Zhi Zhang, Pia Sommerauer, Martha Lewis, Ekaterina Shutova - Participants and Models: the Role of LLMs in Psycholinguistic Approaches to Metaphor Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini - MetaMap – Mapping Metaphors Across Languages and Cultures Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Valentina Bambini The workshop will be fully online and free of charge, but registration is required. For registration and further information: • Workshop website: https://www.neplab.it/large_language_metaphors_home/ • Email: ginevra.martinelli(a)iusspavia.it Organizing Committee: Valentina Bambini Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Veronica Mangiaterra Ginevra Martinelli

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CfP Extended to March 1st – Special Collection on Language Datasets Reuse (JOHD)
by Paola Marongiu 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the Special Collection "Language Datasets Reuse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices" has been extended to March 1st, 2026. The call for papers is still open! This Special Collection will be featured in the _Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)_ and focuses on the reuse of language data across the humanities. We invite contributions that explore how existing mono- and multilingual language datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research. We are particularly interested in papers that: * Present case studies on the reuse of deposited language datasets (preferably those created by researchers other than the authors). * Explore how dataset reuse has led to the creation of new datasets. * Reflect on both successful and less successful experiences with language data reuse, highlighting challenges encountered and lessons learned. * Offer position papers on strategies for data creators to maximize the future reuse potential of language datasets. Submission format: Discussion Paper (3,000-5,000 words). Discussion papers should provide in-depth narratives illustrating the reuse of existing language datasets or showcase approaches to dataset design with reuse in mind. Submissions should adhere to the specific template provided for this Special Collection. New Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026 Information and submission link: https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/language-datasets-reuse Guest Editorial Team: Darja Fišer (Executive Director of CLARIN; University of Ljubljana; Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Pisa; CLARIN-IT, Italy) Coordinating Editor: Paola Marongiu (ILC-CNR, Pisa) Thank you for considering this opportunity. We hope to hear from you soon. With best regards, The Special Collection Editorial Team

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Antonio Zampolli Prize @ LREC 2026: Call for Nominations
by info＠elda.org 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] In 2004, the ELRA Board created a prize to honour the memory of its first President, Professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT). He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC conference. To reflect Professor Zampolli's specific interest in our field, the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize is awarded to individuals and small groups whose work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancements. The Prize will be awarded for the 11th time in May 2026 at the LREC 2026 conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May, 2026). Nominations should be sent to AntonioZampolli-Prize(a)elra.info no later than March 6, 2026. On behalf of ELRA Board German Rigau, President Please visit ELRA web site for: * the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize Statutes <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/prize-st…>, * the nomination procedure <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/case-for…>, * the previous winners <https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/> --- More information ELRA Language Resources Association Contact us @ info(a)elda.org Follow us on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/company/elra-language-resources-association/ LREC 2026 <http://lrec2026.info> in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May, 2025) - Palau de Congressos

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Deadline Extension NLDB 2026
by elena_cabrio 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

*---------------------------------------------------* *New submission deadline: 20 February 2026* *---------------------------------------------------* *Call for papers* NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Trondheim, Norway *Website:*https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ <https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/> Objectives Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it comes to information access systems. With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language instead of artificial query languages. At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy. NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the intersection of natural language and information systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute. Important Dates: Paper Submission: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: 20 March 2026 Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): * Multimodality * AI safety and ethics * Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces * Social Media and Web Data * eXplainable AI * Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP * Generative models, Large Language Models * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining * Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems * NLP Applications * Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP * Big Data and Scalability Paper Submission Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and all relevant requirements are available on the conference website. * *Submission system*: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/ * *Author guidelines*: Authors should follow the LNCS format <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Submissions that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected. * *Paper categories and length limits*: o Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices o Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices o Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references

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Ph.D Position in Tokenization-free Language Processing at the Univeristy of Copenhagen (Deadline: 8 March)
by Desmond Elliott 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 36 month position for a Ph.D Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages, facilitating effective transfer to lower-resource or unseen languages. The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The application deadline is March 8, 2026, with a preferred start date of September 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications must be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=156319 Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de(a)di.ku.dk.

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Postdoc, Saarland University, Computational Linguistics
by Alexander Koller 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Hi all, please consider joining me as a postdoc at Saarland University. The position is paid on the German E13 100% payscale. It is initially limited to two years and can be extended. Preference will be given to applications received by February 22. This position offers great flexibility in developing your own research and teaching agenda; postdocs from any area of computational linguistics will be considered. We are particularly interested in expanding the group’s expertise in dialogue systems by hiring a postdoc with experience in this field. Please find all further details here: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/ Best, Alexander.

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WebSci'26: PhD Symposium & Poster Deadlines – Feb 18
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the submission deadlines for the WebSci’26 PhD Symposium<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> and Poster Session<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> are approaching. Both deadlines are February 18, 2026. The 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 (WebSci’26) will take place May 26–29, 2026, in Braunschweig, Germany, celebrating the theme “20 Years of Web Science.” ________________________________ WebSci PhD Symposium: Details HERE<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> The PhD Symposium provides doctoral researchers with the opportunity to present their work, receive feedback from senior researchers, and engage with peers in the Web Science community. * PhD Symposium proposal submission: February 18, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2026 * Camera-ready version due: April 1, 2026 * PhD Symposium date: May 26, 2026 ________________________________ WebSci Posters: Details HERE<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> The poster track welcomes work-in-progress, late-breaking results, and emerging ideas across the broad Web Science landscape. * Poster submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2026 * Final publication version due: April 1, 2026 ________________________________ We encourage you to share this call with PhD students, early-career researchers, and colleagues who may be interested in contributing. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to WebSci’26. Best regards, The WebSci 2026 Organizing Committee

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CFP: READIxTSAR 2026 - deadline extended to 23rd of February
by Rémi Cardon 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

READIxTSAR 2026 Second Call for Papers Website: https://readixtsar.github.io/ Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/user/ READIxTSAR is a joint initiative between two previous workshops of mutual interest: Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI, hosted at LREC 2020,22,24) and Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR, EMNLP 2022,24,25, RANLP 2023). This year at LREC, the committees of the two events have merged to deliver a joint event, uniting accessibility research communities under a common umbrella. We aim for READIxTSAR to be a focal point for communities of researchers working on reading difficulties, accessibility and simplification to network, share best practice and form new collaborations. *Motivation and Context* The growth of educational and assistive technologies for reading, aimed at enhancing the performance of individuals with disabilities, provides an important setting for Text Simplification research. The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). This workshop aims to present state-of-the-art applications and approaches in technology-enhanced reading and innovations in text accessibility. The workshop will address specialized technology, tools, and resources, their impact on learning to read and comprehension, and innovative works spanning research to fieldwork, particularly in light of recent AI advances. Research in automatic text simplification has evolved from deep learning methods (Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021) to leveraging foundational large language models (Kew et al. 2023; Cripwell et al. 2023; Farajidizaji et al. 2024) through fine-tuning and prompt-engineering. Despite these advancements, the Text Accessibility and Text Simplification communities must address critical areas, including: designing better evaluation metrics, developing context-aware simplification solutions, creating appropriate language resources, deploying simplification in real-world environments, studying discourse factors, and identifying factors affecting readability. Addressing these issues requires collaboration across CL/NLP, machine learning, UI/UX, accessibility professionals, and public organizations, whom we invite to participate through publication and attendance. *Topics of Interest* The event will accept submissions at the intersection of the research areas of the two workshops, as well as submissions that are targeted to the specific research interests of either workshop. An indicative list of topics of interest are listed below. - Lexical, syntactic and discourse adaptations or simplifications; - ATS for sentences, paragraphs, or documents; - Controllable text simplification and text generation of adapted contents; - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity; - LLMs and agentic LLMs for text simplification, text adaptation and readability - The role of LLMs in supporting reading - Complex word identification (CWI) and lexical complexity prediction (LCP); - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation and text assessment; - Evaluation of text adaptation or ATS systems; - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation; - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for supporting reading and learning; - Domain specific applications of the above topics (e.g. health, legal). *Important Dates (All deadlines AoE/UTC-12).* - Submission Deadline: 23rd February 2026 - Notification of Results: 16th March 2026 - Camera Ready: 30th March 2026 - READIxTSAR Workshop: 11th May 2026 *Submission Instructions* We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet, available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. All submissions must be made via START (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted, out-of-scope or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map, which provides metadata for the resource. *“Share your LRs!” Initiative* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). As in previous editions for Camera Ready a Plain Summary will be requested. *Organisers* Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Thomas François, UCLouvain, Belgium Raquel Amaro, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Eugénio Ribeiro, Iscte-IUL & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Regina Stodden, University Bielefeld, Germany Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France *Programme Committee* Akio Hayakawa, Pompeu Fabra University Anna Dmitrieva, University of East Anglia Arne Jonsson, Linköping University Christina Niklaus, University of St.Gallen Daniele Schicchi, CNR-ITD David Kauchak, Pomona College Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jan Bakker, University of Amsterdam Jasper Degraeuwe, University of Ghent Kai North, Cambium Assessment Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Lourdes Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University Martina Miliani, Università di Pisa Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Michael Gille, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Mounica Maddela, Bloomberg Natalia Grabar, CNRS, University of Lille Nouran Khallaf, University of Leeds Raquel Hervas, University Complutense of Madrid Regina Stodden, University of Bielefeld Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Reno Kriz, Johns Hopkins Sandaru Seneviratne, The Australian National University Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature Tannon Kew, University of Zurich Thomas François, UCLouvain Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Ehime University Yannick Parmentier, LORIA Yingqiang Gao, University of Zurich Zihao LI, University of Manchester

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SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026
by Daniele Falavigna 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%* ****APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING**** *3rd CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026* [image: 📍]*Location:* Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) [image: 🌐] Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day *SPEAKABLE 2026* Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space. *Workshop Topics of Interest* We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities - Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models - Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings *--> SPEAKABLE* will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/ <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout> *Invited Speaker* *Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): **https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/ <https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/>* Further details will be posted on the workshop website. *Info for Papers* We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously *unpublished* work. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a *double-blind peer review* process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be presented as *oral or poster* presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. *SPEAKABLE 2026* will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference. *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026 Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026 Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026) All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). *Workshop Organizers* Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) [image: 📄] Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591 HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- 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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1st CFP: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content (StyGenAI @ EAMT-2026)
by sami.haq2＠mail.dcu.ie 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Call for Papers StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content We are excited to announce the StyGenAI workshop, which 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/ 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 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 and be submitted via the EasyChair system. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshopstygenai?usp=sharing Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 27 April 2026 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026 Camera-ready papers due: 20 May 2026

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2nd CfP: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026)
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Event: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026) Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/ CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event. During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language technologies are maturing and are promising to support the time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing approaches. As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system established, use of video as data source) and works with a different modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods on both visual and linguistic data. We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion), as posters (with or without demonstrations) or remotely (poster PDF plus text chat) on the following topics: 2026 SPECIAL TOPIC: LANGUAGE IN MOTION Motion is at the core of sign languages, both literally, through their existence in the visual-gestural modality, and figuratively, in how their communities drive language change. Equally, sign language research must stay in motion, adapting to new insights and technological possibilities, advancing how we create and use resources, evolving the capabilities of tools, and pushing the boundaries of what can be expected from the field, both technologically and ethically. We especially invite contributions relating to the representation and processing of sign languages that address these various facets of language in motion, but also welcome papers on other general issues relating to sign language resources and technologies. GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS • Evaluation of sign language resources • Experiences in building sign language corpora • Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection • Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions • Experiences from linguistic research using corpora • Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies and machine translation • Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding into advances in avatar technology • Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data • Annotation and visualization tools • Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents • “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages • Sign language corpus mining • Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work • Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language resources to language resources for spoken languages • Language change and how it relates to resource creation, corpus-driven linguistic research, and language technologies We are pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event. Similar to the 2022 and 2024 workshops, all participants will be given access to an online text chat before and during the event to allow remote participants to present their work as well as for discussion of all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with opportunity for questions from remote and on-site participants. The live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be made available online for discussion via text chat. In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations, poster presentations (with or without demonstrations) and remote presentations have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers (4–8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website – independent of whether you have a poster, remote or oral/signed presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short, or position papers. Please submit your paper through the LREC START system (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/) not later than 14 February 2026 (any time zone), indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation, a poster presentation with demo, or a remote poster. Unlike the main conference, the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE ANONYMOUS. In all other respects, submissions should follow the LREC 2026 style guide (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). ATTENTION Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper, not an extended abstract as in previous years! IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for submissions: 14 February 2026 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) • Notification of acceptance: 16 March, 2026 • Early bird registration ends: tbd • Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and posters): 27 March 2026 • Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations only): 6 May 2026 • Submission of all slides/posters for the conference platform: 6 May 2026 • Submission of additional material, including demo videos, to be made available alongside with the posters/slides on the conference platform: 6 May 2026 • This workshop: 16 May 2026 • LREC main conference: 13–15 May 2026 • LREC workshops 11, 12 & 16 May 2026

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[CFP] Sci-ImageMiner Competition 2026: Scientific Figure Understanding -- 3rd call
by D'Souza, Jennifer 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

The 1st Sci-ImageMiner Competition: Information Extraction from Scientific Figures in Materials Science Focus: Quantitative plots from Atomic Layer Deposition and Etching (ALD/E) research Organized as part of the ICDAR 2026 Competition track <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/> https://icdar2026.org/index.php/competitions/ <https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-competitions/> ICDAR 2026 - The 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 30 Aug - 04 Sep 2026 | Vienna, Austria Sci-ImageMiner 2026 Competition Website: <https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/> https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/ Overview Scientific figures often contain critical results that never appear explicitly in the text. Despite recent advances in multimodal large language models, most existing benchmarks rely on generic or synthetic visuals. Sci-ImageMiner addresses this gap by introducing a curated benchmark grounded in authentic scientific figures from a specialized scientific domain. Tasks The competition hosts four tasks: 1. Figure Classification - identify the chart or figure type 2. Data Table Extraction - reconstruct the underlying tabular data from quantitative plots 3. Figure Summarization - generate concise, factual summaries of key trends 4. Visual Question Answering (VQA) - answer scientific questions requiring reasoning over figure content Teams may participate in any subset of tasks (including all four). Data & Evaluation * A trial dataset is available now to familiarize participants with the data and annotations. * The full dataset will be released in stages (training, development, blind test). * All evaluations will be conducted on Codabench, with per-task leaderboards. Important Dates (selected) * Trial data release: 8 December 2025 * Evaluation start: 3 March 2026 * Evaluation end: 3 April 2026 * Paper submission deadline: 17 April 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: 4 May 2026

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Call for Papers CARI'2026 - Benin
by Mathieu ROCHE 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

=========================================== CARI'2026 - Call for Papers The 18th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CARI'2026) October 21-24, 2026 University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou – Benin ============================================ OVERVIEW ============================================ CARI, the African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, is the flagship event of ASDS - African Society in Digital Science (https://asds.africa/). It brings together researchers and practitioners from Africa and beyond to present and discuss advances in computer science and applied mathematics, aiming to strengthen collaboration, international cooperation, and the visibility of African research while fostering innovation to address the continent's challenges. CARI'2026 will be held on October 21-24, 2026. The program will feature keynote talks, technical sessions, poster presentations, and panel discussions, preceded by workshops and tutorials on October 22, 2026. ============================================ SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST ============================================ CARI 2026 invites submissions of full papers presenting original research results and short papers reporting work in progress or position papers. The conference is structured around two main tracks: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track: Computer Science - Algorithms and optimisation - Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science - Distributed systems and cloud computing - Networking and the Internet of Things - Security, privacy, and dependable systems - Digital sovereignty and computing for Africa Track: Applied Mathematics - Analysis of dynamical Systems - Partial differential equations and their applications - High-performance scientific computing - Mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence - Mathematical Modelling - Stochastic Systems CARI'2026 especially welcomes applied research addressing African contexts and challenges, with application domains including agriculture, healthcare, education, environmental systems, transportation, and logistics. ============================================ IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT) ============================================ - Abstract submission: 23 March, 2026 - Paper submission: 30 March, 2026 - Notification to authors: 22 June, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: 6 July, 2026 ============================================ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ============================================ CARI'2026 accepts submissions in three categories: - Full papers describing original research (up to 14 pages excluding references). - Work-in-progress papers on early results (up to 7 pages in length excluding references). - Position papers proposing novel or unconventional ideas - preferably supported by empirical data and measurements - that differ from prior published work (up to 7 pages excluding references). All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed based on relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (Springer) and be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cari2026) CARI 2026 employs a single-blind review process, with authors' names included in submissions. As CARI'2024, all accepted papers should be published in Springer's book series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) or Trends in Mathematics and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library (indexed in Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar). Selected papers from CARI'2026 will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in ARIMA. ============================================ FOR MORE INFORMATION ============================================ Web: https://asds.africa/cari2026/ [under construction] E-mail: Cari2026(a)gmail.com ============================================

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3rd Call for Papers: RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai@LREC 2026: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
by Dimitrios Kokkinakis 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

**************************************** Third Call for Papers: The 6th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments" in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai -consortium Workshop: co-located with LREC 2026 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | May 12th, 2026 RaPID-6(a)MENTAL.ai serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-6(a)MENTAL.ai is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities. Submission deadline: Sun., 22nd of February, 2026 (anywhere on earth) Paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RaPID-6/ Invited speakers: Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Sunny X. Tang, MD, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA Website and details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/rapid-2026 Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis Contact email: dimitrios.kokkinakis(a)gu.se<mailto:dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se> Organizing committee: * Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway * Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie, France * Kathleen C. Fraser, University of Ottawa, Canada * Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden * Sebastião Pais, University of Beira Interior, Portugal ****************************************

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Postdoc position on LLM post-training at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] A 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is also affiliated with the Integreat Centre of Excellence and will primarily focus on preference learning for Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in data-constrained settings. For more information about the position and the research environment, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294378/postdoctoral-fellow-i… Closing date: 4th March 2026 Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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CMC-Corpora 2026 submissions now open
by Steven Coats 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, (Apologies for cross-posting) Submissions are now open for the 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026), to be held 27–28 August 2026 at the University of Oulu, Finland. We invite submissions on computer-mediated communication and social media corpora, including both short papers (oral presentations) and poster/demo abstracts. Topics include corpus creation and annotation, analysis of CMC and social media communication, and computational/NLP approaches to digital discourse, including multimodal and AI-based methods. Submission deadline: 15 April 2026, 23:59 EEST Submission system: https://conftool.net/cmc2026 Conference website & templates: https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review. Accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and selected papers may be invited for an extended publication after the conference. We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement to interested colleagues and mailing lists. Best regards, Steven Coats (on behalf of the CMC-Corpora 2026 Organizing Committee) cmc2026(a)oulu.fi<mailto:cmc2026@oulu.fi> 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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Special Thematic Session "𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" at ICCHP 2026
by PALOMA MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

📢 Call for Papers – Special Thematic Session (STS) at ICCHP 2026 International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs 2026 July 13 - 17, 2026 Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic We are pleased to announce our Special Thematic Session "𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" <https://icchp.org/session/1080/> at ICCHP 2026 <https://icchp.org/>. Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping how people interact with technology. While its inclusive potential is often highlighted, cognitive accessibility remains largely underexplored. This STS aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of Generative AI, Human–Computer Interaction, and cognitive accessibility. 🔎 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Accessible, usable, and understandable Generative AI interaction for people with cognitive impairments - Plain Language and Easy-to-Read content generation, adaptation, and evaluation using Large Language Models (LLMs) - Human-in-the-loop approaches, participatory design, and co-creation methods for GenAI accessibility - Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) for cognitive accessibility, including adaptive interfaces, personalization, and assistive interaction - Multimodal GenAI for cognitive accessibility: text–image–audio interaction, pictograms, visual supports, and alternative representations - Cognitive load reduction in GenAI systems: UX patterns, explainability, transparency, trust, and user control - Accessible and inclusive communication, including user-oriented language and caregiver support - Evaluation protocols, datasets, and methodologies with target users, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches - Ethics, risk assessment, bias, and safeguards in GenAI systems for cognitive accessibility and vulnerable populations - Datasets, benchmarks, and metrics for evaluating readability, fluency, user preferences, and multilingual considerations 🗓️ Important dates (https://icchp.org/submission-26/ <https://lnkd.in/eiGPJg6e>): • Extended Abstract (3–5 pages): February 9, 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: March 23, 2026 • Final Camera-Ready Paper (6–8 pages, LNCS format): April 16, 2026 We warmly invite research papers, case studies, design proposals, and empirical work. + info: https://icchp.org/session/1080/ Paloma Martínez Full professor Human Language and Accessibility Technologies Group (hulat.inf.uc3m.es <http://labda.inf.uc3m.es>) Computer Science Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid @Grupo_HULAT

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3rd CFP: Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026
by Paul Thompson 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2026/ LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) SCOPE CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The workshop invites papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients' health and health-related issues concerning the public. The issues include, but are not limited to, accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public; explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions; accurate summarization of patients' health records at their health literacy level; understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research. The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: * Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public; * Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption; * Summarization of data from electronic health records for patients; * Detection of misinformation in consumer health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms; * Consumer health question answering (Community Question Answering)(CQA); * Biomedical text simplification/adaptation; * Dialogue systems to support patients' interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources; * Linguistic resources, data, and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health; * Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health; IMPORTANT DATES February 18, 2026 -Workshop Paper Due Date️ March 13, 2026 - Notification of acceptance March 20, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due April 10, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) May 12, 2026 - Workshop SHARED TASKS Detecting Dosing Errors from Clinical Trials (CT-DEB'26). Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 is a challenge to predict medication errors in clinical trials using Machine Learning. The Clinical Trials Dosing Errors Benchmark 2026 (CT-DEB'26) is dedicated to automated detection of the risks of medication dosing errors within clinical trial protocols. Leveraging a curated dataset of over 29K trial records derived from the ClinicalTrials.gov<http://clinicaltrials.gov/> registry, participants are challenged to predict the risk probabilities of protocols likely to manifest dosing errors. The dataset consists of various fields with numerical, categorical, as well as textual data types. Once the shared task is concluded and the leaderboard is published, the participants are invited to submit a paper to the CL4Health workshop. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11891/ Automatic Case Report Form (CRF) Filling from Clinical Notes. Case Report Forms (CRFs) are standardized instruments in medical research used to collect patient data in a consistent and reliable way. They consist of a predefined list of items to be filled with patient information. Each item aims to collect a portion of information relevant for a specific clinical goal (e.g., allergies, chronicity of disease, tests results). Automating CRF filling from clinical notes would accelerate clinical research, reduce manual burden on healthcare professionals, and create structured representations that can be directly leveraged to produce accessible, patient- and practitioners-friendly summaries. Even though the healthcare community has been utilizing CRFs as a basic tool in the day-to-day clinical practice, publicly available CRF datasets are scarce, limiting the development of robust NLP systems for this task. We present this Shared Task on CRF-filling aiming to enhance research on systems that can be applied in real clinical settings. Website: https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/crf/ ArchEHR-QA 2026: Grounded Question Answering from Electronic Health Records. The ArchEHR-QA (“Archer”) shared task focuses on answering patients’ health-related questions using their own electronic health records (EHRs). While prior work has explored general health question answering, far less attention has been paid to leveraging patient-specific records and to grounding model outputs in explicit clinical evidence, i.e., linking answers to specific supporting content in the clinical notes. The shared task dataset consists of patient-authored questions, corresponding clinician-interpreted counterparts, clinical note excerpts with sentence-level relevance annotations, and reference clinician-authored answers grounded in the notes. ArchEHR-QA targets the problem of producing answers to patient questions that are supported by and explicitly linked to the underlying clinical notes. This second iteration builds on the 2025 challenge (which was co-located with the ACL 2025 BioNLP Workshop) by expanding the dataset and introducing four complementary subtasks spanning question interpretation, clinical evidence identification, answer generation, and answer–evidence alignment. Teams may participate in any subset of subtasks and will be invited to submit system description papers detailing their approaches and results. Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ FoodBench-QA 2026: Grounded Food & Nutrition Question Answering. FoodBench-QA 2026 is a shared task challenging systems to answer food and nutrition questions using evidence from nutrient databases and food ontologies.The dataset includes realistic dietary queries, ingredient and their quantities lists, and recipe descriptions, requiring models to perform nutrient estimation, FSA traffic-light prediction, and food entity recognition/linking across three food semantic models. Participants must generate accurate, evidence-based answers across these subtasks (or at least one of it). After the shared task concludes and the leaderboard is released, participants will be invited to submit their work to the Shared Tasks track of the CL4Health workshop at LREC 2026. Website: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12112/ SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting. LREC provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CL4Health/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. Share your LRs: When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. ORGANIZERS - Deepak Gupta, US National Library of Medicine - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Multimodal sexism identification with sensor data: CFP EXIST 2026
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: EXIST 2026: Multimodal sexism identification with sensor data Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2026/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks. EXIST aims to foster the automatic detection of sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023, EXIST 2024, EXIST 2025). The sixth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2026, on September 21-24, 2026, at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany . In EXIST 2026, we take a significant step forward by integrating the principles of Human-Centered AI (HCAI) into the development of automatic tools for detecting sexism online. Recognizing that no single interpretation can fully capture the diversity of human perception, we go beyond traditional annotation paradigms by combining Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) with sensor-based data (EEG, heart rate, and eye-tracking signals) collected from subjects exposed to potentially sexist content, with the aim of capturing unconscious responses to sexism. This dual approach represents a breakthrough in dataset creation for sensitive and value-laden tasks: for the first time, datasets will include not only divergent judgments from annotators, but also the embodied traces of how this content affect. This richer, multidimensional annotation process will enable the development of more inclusive, equitable, and socially aware AI systems for detecting sexism in complex multimedia formats like memes and short videos, where ambiguity and affect play a critical role. Similar to the approaches in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm doesn’t rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Building upon the EXIST 2025 dataset, this edition focuses exclusively on multimedia formats, comprising six experimental subtasks applied to images (memes) and videos (TikToks). Participants are challenged to address three main objectives: sexism identification (x.1), source intention detection (x.2), and sexism categorization (x.3) (numbering of subtask is consistent with EXIST 2025). Participants will be asked to classify memes and videos (in English and Spanish) according to the following tasks: TASK 2: Sexism detection in Memes: TASK 2.1 - Sexism Identification in Memes: this is a binary classification subtask consisting on determining wheter a meme describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour, and classifying it into two categories: YES and NO. Task 2.2: Source Intention in Memes: this subtask aims to categorize the meme according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes systems should only classify memes into the DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL categories. Task 2.3: Sexism Categorization in Memes: once a message has been classified as sexist, the third subtask aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 3: Sexism detection in Videos: SUBTASK 3.1 - Sexism Identification in Videos: this is a binary classification task as in Subtasks 2.1. SUBTASK 3.2: Source Intention in Videos: this subtask replicates subtask 2.2 for memes, but it takes as source videos. SUBTASK 3.3: This subtask aims to classify sexist videos according to the categorization provided for Subtask 2.3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks and in both languages, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g. subtask 2.1) and in one language (e.g. English). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide the participants with the manually-annotated EXIST 2026 dataset. For the evaluation of the systems, the unlabeled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2026 Labs Registration site (https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Discord Group for the EXIST 2026 shared task. Important Dates: * 17 November 2025: Registration opens. * 26 February 2026: Training set available. * 9 April 2026: Test set available. * 23 April 2026: Registration closes. * 7 May 2026: Runs submission due to organizers. * 28 May 2026: Results notification to participants. * 4 June 2026: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 30 June 2026: Notification of acceptance (peer reviews). * 6 July 2026: Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 21-24 September 2026: EXIST 2026 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Iván Arcos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Maria Aloy Mayo, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2026/ AVISO LEGAL. 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3rd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) 2026: 3rd CFP
by Georg Rehm 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

3rd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP 2026) 12 May 2026 – Co-located with LREC 2026 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) NSLP 2026 features two shared tasks: * ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims * SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution NSLP 2026 – important dates: * Submission deadline: 20 February 2026 * Notifications: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 NSLP 2026 website (including the shared tasks): * https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026 Scientific research has witnessed a steep growth rate over the last decades. The number of scholarly publications is growing exponentially, and doubles every 15-17 years. Consequently, both general and specialised repositories, databases, knowledge graphs, and digital libraries have been developed to publish and manage scientific artifacts. Examples include the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph (S2AG), PubMed Central and also the ACL Anthology. These resources enable the collection, reuse, tracking, and expansion of scientific findings, and facilitate downstream applications such as scientific search engines. However, in order to develop robust systems that deal with scholarly text, various challenges need to be addressed. The current status quo of scientific communication mostly includes scholarly articles as unstructured PDF documents, which are not machine-readable in the sense that relevant scientific information can be extracted easily, thus making extracting and utilising this information as part of the scientific process a laborious and time-consuming task. Developing methods for converting unstructured information into structured formats is one of the major challenges in the field of Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP). This goal encompasses related challenges such as detecting, disambiguating, and linking mentions of scientific artifacts (e.g., software tools or specific datasets or language resources), and tracking state-of-the-art models and their evaluation scores (including new versions of existing models). Extracting and managing heterogeneous scientific knowledge effectively remains a challenging ongoing research area. Existing efforts are often fragmented, addressing separate issues with distinct datasets and conceptual approaches. NSLP 2026 addresses current topics and issues in Natural Scientific Language Processing. It is proposed and organised with the support of NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DS), a long-term project with approx. 20 partners who work towards building a German national research data infrastructure for DS and AI. The workshop aims to further bring together the international community of researchers who work on NSLP and related topics (including research knowledge graphs), to discuss current issues and possible solutions. NSLP 2026 includes two keynote speakers and presentations of accepted papers (oral and poster presentations), as well as three shared tasks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Scientific LLMs – LLMs for NSLP * Language resources (LRs) and Language technologies (LTs) for NSLP beyond LLMs * Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs), Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and other forms of structured representation of research-related knowledge * Information extraction from scholarly articles * Extraction of research information from texts * Detection and disambiguation of mentions of datasets, tasks, software or other methods * Classification of scholarly articles (collections, single documents, parts of documents) * Information extraction for RKGs * Summarisation of scholarly articles * Scholarly IR and scientific search engines * Question answering over scientific knowledge * Metadata and cataloging * Cross-lingual and multilingual natural scientific language processing * Adaptation of NLP methods for NSLP purposes Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 20 February 2026 (not to be extended) * Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 * Camera-ready submission: 30 March 2026 * Workshop: 12 May 2026 Submission Guidelines The NSLP 2026 workshop invites submissions of: regular long papers; short papers; position papers. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. * Note that we will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop. * The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix); short papers as well as position papers (up to 4 pages without references and appendix) presenting, for example, negative results, in-progress projects, or demos. * Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix and all papers must be self-contained. * Reviewing will be performed double-blind, i.e., submissions must be anonymous. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors. * Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the LREC 2026 style. * The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the ACL Anthology (full Open Access) as part of the LREC 2026 proceedings. * At least one author per contribution must register for the workshop for presentation. * All submissions are done via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NSLP2026/ When submitting a paper through START, the authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Speakers * Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt, Germany * Yufang Hou, ITU Austria, Austria Shared Tasks 1. ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), offering the following subtasks: Subtask 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification: given a claim and corpus of publications, retrieve the top 10 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information. Subtask 2: Disinformation narrative classification: given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy. New training data will be released for both tasks, with task 1 having triple the amount of the last iteration. The new iteration will focus on sustainability, emphasising the need to build climate-friendly NLP systems with minimal environmental impact. Shared task co-organisers: Raia Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova, Max Upravitelev, Georg Rehm 2. SOMD 2026: Software Mention Detection & Coreference Resolution Understanding software mentions is crucial for reproducibility and to interpret experimental results. Citations of software are often informal, lacking the use of persistent identifiers, making it hard to infer and disambiguate knowledge about software efficiently. This task will build on SOMD 2025 (run at SDP 2025, co-located with ACL 2025) and focus on entity disambiguation as an under-investigated problem in this context. More precisely, we address the task of coreference resolution of software mentions across multiple documents, i.e. given a set of software mentions extracted from multiple scientific publications, cluster these mentions so that all software mentions in a particular cluster refer to the same real world software. We define three subtasks with varying challenges: Subtask 1: Software coreference resolution over gold standard mentions. Addresses the task based on high-quality (gold standard) mentions of software that are expert-annotated in multiple publications. Subtask 2: Software coreference resolution over predicted mentions. Addresses the task on software mentions that are automatically extracted using a baseline model, i.e. reflecting a typical information extraction scenario, where upstream pipelines (such as entity and metadata extraction) are imperfect. Subtask 3: Software coreference resolution at scale. Addresses the task using predicted mentions of software and metadata at a larger scale. This challenges models to scale effectively, maintain accuracy, and distinguish among an increasingly dense field of similar or overlapping software mentions. Shared task co-organisers: Sharmila Upadhyaya, Stefan Dietze, Frank Krüger, Wolfgang Otto Organisers * Georg Rehm (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) – main contact: <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de<mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de>> * Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany) * Danilo Dessí (University of Sharjah, UAE) * Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK) * Sonja Schimmler (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) Programme Committee * Marcel Ackermann, Lernzentrum Informatik (LZI), DBLP, Germany * Raia Abu Ahmad, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, University of Hamburg, Germany * Ekaterina Borisova, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, CNRS, University Paris 13, France * Leyla Jael Castro, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany * Mathieu d’Aquin, Université de Lorraine, France * Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany * Catherine Faron, Université Côte d’Azur, France * Dayne Freitag, SRI International, USA * Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, TheNetherlands * Leonhard Hennig, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany * Inma Hernandez, University of Seville, Spain * Robert Jäschke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany * Petr Knoth, Open University, UK * Frank Krüger, Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, USA * Andrea Mannocci, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece * Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy * Philipp Mayr-Schlegel, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation, USA * Wolfgang Otto, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Haris Papageorgiou, R.C. Athena, Greece * Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Simone Ponzetto, Univ. of Mannheim, Germany * Diego Reforgiato Recupero, University of Cagliari, Italy * Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany * Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK * Philipp Schaer, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany * Atsuhiro Takasu, University of Tokyo, Japan * Stefani Tsaneva, WU Wien, Austria * Ricardo Usbeck, Leuphana University, Germany * Thanasis Vergoulis, R.C. Athena, Greece

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2nd [CFP] NLP4Ecology 2026 @ LREC 2026
by fr.grasso＠unito.it 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

We invite submissions to the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing. We are particularly interested in contributions that push the boundaries of linguistics and NLP research in the context of ecological and environmental crisis and that foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Important Dates (All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.) Paper Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 March 2026 Workshop Date: 12 May 2026 (afternoon) Submissions will be handled via START Conference Manager. Please click the following link to access the submission system: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLP4Ecology2026/ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sentiment, Argument, and Stance Analysis of Environmental Topics: Evaluating public opinions, emotions, and stances on ecological issues across social media, news outlets, and other media, including environmental activism communication and AI–environment debates (e.g., Longo and Longo, 2025; Ibrohim et al., 2023; Barz et al., 2025; Grasso et al., 2024). - Automated Linguistic and Discourse/Frame Analysis, and Topic Modeling: Studying grammatical, lexical, and discourse patterns in ecological communication from an ecolinguistic perspective, including topic modeling and framing analyses of media, political discourse, corporate reports, and NGO communication (e.g., Widanti, 2022; Dehler-Holland et al., 2021; Bosco et al., 2025; Grasso et al., 2025b). - Detection of Anthropocentric and Speciesist Biases: Identifying and mitigating anthropocentric and speciesist biases in language data and NLP applications, including bias in large language models (e.g., Leach et al., 2021; Takeshita et al., 2022; Grasso et al., 2025a). - Text Classification, Entity Recognition, and Environmental Monitoring: Categorizing texts into environmental subdomains such as biodiversity, climate change, and conservation, and identifying or tracking mentions of species, habitats, pollutants, and ecological phenomena, including applications of LLMs to ecological and biodiversity corpora (e.g., Volkanovska, 2025; Schimanski et al., 2023; Abdelmageed et al., 2022; Grasso & Locci, 2024). - Fact-checking and Greenwashing Detection: Analyzing corporate sustainability reports and institutional communication to detect misleading claims, greenwashing practices, and inaccuracies in environmental discourse (e.g., Glazkova and Zakharova, 2025; Cojoianu et al., 2020; Moodaley & Telukdarie, 2023). - Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Language: Exploring the intersections of gender, justice, power, and ecological narratives, and how NLP methods can support the analysis of environmental justice–oriented discourse. Further topics include: - Ecolinguistic applications of NLP. -Large Language Models (LLMs) application in Climate Change and Environmental domain. -Analysis of harmful environmental narratives and misinformation on social media. -Corpora creation and annotation for ecological discourse -Geo-tagging and Sentiment Mapping of Environmental Discussions -Fairness, ethics, and accountability in environmental NLP. -Environmental communication in low-resource languages. -Multimodal analysis for ecological and environmental challenges. -Lexical and semantic analysis of sustainability discourse. -Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs on ecological topics. -Language diversity and inclusion in environmental narratives. -Cognitive models and ecological storytelling. -NLP for understanding indigenous knowledge in environmental contexts. -Machine learning techniques for analyzing environmental communication. -NLP for environmental legislation and policy discourse. -NLP for environmental education and awareness campaigns. -Speech technologies to support ecological field research. -Educational chatbots and conversational agents for raising environmental awareness. We invite submissions in the following categories: - Regular Papers (from a minimum of 4 up to 8 pages) - Non-archival contributions (up to 4 pages). Regular papers must report original, previously unpublished work and follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit. Accepted regular papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Non-archival contributions include research communications (i.e. work already published at other venues), work in progress, manifestos, and similar contributions. Non-archival contributions can be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. Please visit https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/ for more infos. Contact e-mail: nlp4ecology.workshop(a)gmail.com

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KG–LLM @ LREC 2026 - Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models - Second Call for Paper
by Gilles Sérasset 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026 We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026. We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development. More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/ Workshop Overview Large Language Models have become foundational in NLP, yet they continue to face challenges related to bias, hallucination, explainability, environmental impact, and the cost of training. Knowledge Graphs, in contrast, provide high-quality, interpretable, and reusable ontological and linguistic structures that support reasoning, fact checking, and knowledge preservation. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of these two paradigms, exploring how explicit knowledge and implicit statistical learning can enhance each other. We welcome contributions that investigate, demonstrate, or evaluate systems, methods, or resources integrating both KGs and LLMs. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): 1. LLMs for Knowledge Graph Engineering KG modelling, resource creation, and interlinking Relation extraction Corpus annotation Ontology localization Creation or expansion of linguistic or knowledge graphs KG querying and question answering 2. Knowledge Graphs for Large Language Models Using linguistic or knowledge graphs as training data Fine-tuning LLMs using linked linguistic (meta)data Knowledge/linguistic graph embeddings KGs for model explainability, provenance, and source attribution Neural models for under-resourced languages KG-augmented RAG (KG-RAG) 3. Joint Use of KGs and LLMs in Applications Combined KG–LLM use cases with structured linguistic data Digital humanities applications Question answering over graph data Fake news and misinformation detection Educational applications and assisted learning Visualizing academic writing with KGs and LLMs KG-enhanced chatbots for health and medical contexts Application Domains All application domains are welcome (Digital Humanities, FinTech, Linguistics, Education, Cybersecurity, etc.) as long as the work uses both Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. Submission Guidelines Submission Format: Papers up to 8 pages excluding references. Style: All submissions must follow the LREC 2026 format and use the official LREC author kit. (available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ ) Review Process: Double-blind peer review. Submissions must be fully anonymized. Submission System: Papers must be submitted via the START conference system at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/KGLLM/ Language Resources: In line with LREC policies, authors are encouraged to describe, document, and share language resources, datasets, models, evaluation tools, or annotation guidelines used or created in their work. Accepted Papers: All accepted papers will be included in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings. Presentation: Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster sessions during the workshop. Important Dates *All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)* Paper submission deadline: 26 February 2026 Notification to authors: 24 March 2026 Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 Contact For questions, please contact the workshop organizers at: kg-llm-26(a)googlegroups.com Organizing Committee Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Katerina Gkirtzou, Athena Research Center, Greece Michael Cochez, Ellis Institute Finland & Åbo Akademi, Finland Jan-Christoph Kalo, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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📢 Call for Participation: Shared Task at Argument Mining Workshop, ACL2026
by anastassia.shaitarova＠uzh.ch 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

We invite the broader NLP community to participate in our Shared Task at The 13th Argument Mining and Reasoning Workshop, co-hosted with ACL2026 in San Diego 🏖️ , United States! https://argmining-org.github.io/2026/index.html#shared_task The shared task focuses on understanding argumentative structure in highly formal, legal-political United Nations resolutions. Participants are expected to build LLM-based systems to: 1) identify and classify argumentative paragraphs in preambles and operative sections; 2) predict argumentative relations between paragraphs. 📅 Important Dates 1 Feb: Train and test data release 18 March: Evaluation and submission starts 1 April: Submission ends 15 April: Evaluation ends; results notification 24 April: Paper submission due 1 May: Reviews to authors 12 May: Camera-ready version due July: ArgMining 2026 Workshop 🔗 Further details, data access, and submission instructions on the shared task page: https://shared-task-argmining.linguistik.uzh.ch/ Organizers: Yingqiang Gao, Anastassia Shaitarova, Reto Gubelmann, Patrick Montjouridès, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich (UZH) We welcome participation from researchers and practitioners across related areas of argument mining, LLM reasoning, information retrieval, and so on. We are looking forward to receiving your submission!

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LREC 2026 Industry Day - Call for Abstracts
by Teresa Lynn 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are excited to extend our invitation for submission of *abstracts* for the Industry Day at LREC 2026. As many of you know, the Industry Day is designed to highlight real-world NLP applications, practices and lessons learned, offering a space for organisations to share practical insights, case studies, and perspectives that can help to bridge the gaps between academic research and industry. In particular, this year's Industry Day is also intended to act as a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster meaningful collaborations. We particularly welcome abstracts addressing topics such as: - Applied NLP systems and large-scale deployments - Enterprise use cases and industry challenges - Evaluation, scalability, and reliability in production environments - Responsible AI, governance, and compliance in NLP - Emerging trends and future directions from an industry perspective - Speech Resources and Processing - Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages Submitted abstracts should emphasise practical experience, impact, and insights rather than purely theoretical/empirical contributions. Submission details - Abstract length: 150-200 words - Submission deadline: February 16th 2026 - Notification of acceptance: March 13th 2026 - Presentation format: oral Accepted contributions will be featured as part of the Industry Day program and presented to a diverse audience of students, industry leaders and experts. Only an abstract submission is required for a presentation proposal (not a full paper) and the submissions differ from LREC main submissions in that they will *not be included* in the conference proceedings or ACL Anthology. We would be delighted to include your perspective and encourage you to share this invitation with relevant colleagues. For submission guidelines and a broader list of LREC 2026 topics, please visit: https://lrec2026.info/call-for-industry-day-talks/ Looking forward to seeing you in Mallorca in May! Teresa Lynn & Natalie Schluter Co-Chairs, LREC 2026 Industry Day

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Fully funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster University
by Brezina, Vaclav 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear all, We are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD studentship starting in October 2026, open to UK and international applicants. We welcome applications from outstanding candidates with experience in corpus linguistics, language testing, or quantitative applied linguistics, including skills in e.g. corpus design, statistical analysis, and tools such as R, Python or #LancsBox X. Delivered in collaboration with Trinity College London, the PhD will explore communicative competence in English language tests, with implications for fairness, accessibility and social mobility. The successful candidate will be based in Lancaster and work regularly on campus as part of the CASS team. Further details and application information are available here: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-at-the-cass-research-… Please feel free to share this opportunity. Best, Vaclav 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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[CfP] TGDK Special Issue: Neuro-Symbolic Modeling for Human-Centric AI
by Marco Antonio Stranisci 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

================================================ Transactions on Graph Data & Knowledge (TGDK) https://www.dagstuhl.de/tgdk Special Issue: Neuro-Symbolic Modeling for Human-Centric AI https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/institute/news/2026/tgdk-cfp-special-issue-neuro… Submissions due: June 30th, 2026 ================================================ In recent years, the alignment of Artificial Intelligence technologies with people’s behaviors and worldviews has become a central topic for several sectors of Computer Science. The pervasive diffusion of Large Language Models (LLM) inside and outside the academic sector requires important efforts to ensure fairness and representativity towards all social and cultural groups, potentially considering different identities that characterize potential end-users of these technologies. This special issue welcomes contributions on the development of graph-based abstractions and implementations of graph-based approaches for human-centered AI. It welcomes hybrid neuro-symbolic and graph-based approaches focused on knowledge reasoning for learning, and learning approaches for reasoning, as well as the design and curation of graph-based data and semantic models to explore the inclusion and representation of human identities in AI systems. == Scope == This special issue solicits submissions of research, resource and survey articles that conform to the scope of TGDK on the following specific topics: Ontology modeling and knowledge representation for Human-Centric AI * Knowledge representation for reducing bias in AI * Ontologies of identity dimensions and psychology for AI * Ontologies of sociological and communication theories for AI * Linked Data approaches for Human-Centric AI Data quality, integration and provenance for Human-Centric AI * FAIR and CARE principles for AI models * Graph-based provenance approaches for AI models * Incorporating cultural metadata into AI workflows * KG-driven approaches for bias detection and mitigation in archives LLM integration with graph-structured knowledge for the design of fair AI technologies * Question answering with LLMs and graph-structured knowledge * Reducing LLM hallucinations with graph-structured knowledge * Injecting graph-structured knowledge into LLMs * Retrieval-Augmented Generation using graph-structured knowledge * Enhancing graph-structured knowledge using LLMs Logic and reasoning for Explainable AI * Logic-based methods for governance of AI * Logic-based methods for ethical AI frameworks * Logic-based methods for legal compliance of AI * Extraction of logic-based representations for explainable AI * Graph-based constraint languages for explainable AI == Guest Editors == * Stefano De Giorgis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands * Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin, Italy * Luana Bulla, University of Bologna, Italy * Lia Draetta, University of Turin, Italy * Rossana Damiano, University of Turin, Italy * Filip Ilievski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands == Timeline == * Submissions: June 30, 2026 * Author Notifications: September 30, 2026 * Revisions: October 31, 2026 * Author Notifications: November 30, 2026 * Publication: Q4 2026 / Q1 2027 == Submission == Please follow the the submission instructions for TGDK and select the corresponding Special Issue: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/journal/TGDK#author As a Diamond Open Access journal, official versions of accepted papers (as accessible via DOI) are published and made available for free online *without fees for authors or readers*. Marco, UNITO <https://www.unito.it/persone/mstranis> and aequa-tech <https://aequa-tech.com/> "Aoki è sboccato e ancora inesperto, ma dentro di sé nasconde una sensibilità delicata e gentile. È questo ciò che mi comunicano le sue storie. Hayashi, sono certo che lei riuscirà a illuminare il suo cammino" Taiyo Matsumoto

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CFP: LT4HALA 2026
by Sprugnoli Rachele (rachele.sprugnoli) 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

CFP: LT4HALA 2026 - The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages * Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/ * Date: 11 May 2026 * Place: co-located with LREC 2026, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) * Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ * Submission deadline: 17 February 2026 DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2026 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2026 follows LT4HALA 2020, 2022, 2024 that were organized in the context of LREC 2020, LREC 2022 and LREC-COLING 2024, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * creation and annotation of linguistic resources (both lexical and textual); * the role of digital infrastructures, such as CLARIN<https://www.clarin.eu/>, in supporting research based on language resources for historical and ancient languages; * handling spelling variation; * detection and correction of OCR errors; * deciphering; * morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data; * adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts; * teaching ancient languages with LTs; * NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics; * NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts; * evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages; * LLMs for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. SHARED TASKS LT4HALA 2026 will host: * the 4th edition of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin>, a campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. This new edition will focus on two tasks: dependency parsing and Named Entity Recognition. Dependency parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework. * the 5th edition of EvaHan<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaHan>, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2026 will focus on Ancient Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Evaluation. * the 2nd edition of EvaCun<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaCun>, the campaign for the evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages, with shared tasks on transliteration normalization, morphological analysis and lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition of Akkadian and/or Sumerian. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC stylesheet (see below). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. As for the shared tasks, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop. Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES * 17 February 2026: submissions due * 13 March 2026: reviews due * 16 March 2026: notifications to authors * 27 March 2026: camera-ready due Shared tasks deadlines are available in the specific web pages: EvaLatin, EvaHan, EvaCun. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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Call for Participation: LT-EDI @ ACL 2026 - Homophobia and Transphobia Meme Classification
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

*Homophobia and Transphobia Meme Classification | LT-EDI @ ACL 2026* We are pleased to invite the research community to participate in the LT-EDI @ ACL 2026 shared task on Homophobia and Transphobia Meme Classification, which addresses harmful multimodal content targeting LGBTQ+ individuals and communities. Memes function as compact multimodal communication units that combine visual and textual cues. They spread rapidly across cultures and languages. This combination enables both subtle and explicit forms of discrimination. The shared task focuses on the automatic identification of homophobic and transphobic content in memes. * 📝 Task Description*The shared task focuses on multiclass meme classification for detecting anti-LGBT content. Participants are provided with multimodal memes and are required to classify each meme into one of the predefined categories based on the presence of discriminatory content. *Labels:*Homophobia Transphobia Non-anti-LGBT *Languages:*English, Hindi, and Chinese *Description:*Separate datasets are released for each language, enabling analysis across culturally distinct meme collections. The task requires participants to identify discriminatory stereotypes, harmful visual elements, and derogatory textual cues embedded in memes. All training and test datasets are developed following culturally sensitive and ethical annotation practices. The task emphasizes robust multimodal understanding across diverse cultural contexts. * 📚 Resources* 🔗 Competition link (Codabench): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11335/ 🔗 Task website: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2026/shared-tasks *🗓️ Important Dates*Task announcement: November 16, 2025 Training data release: November 25, 2025 Test data release: January 20, 2026 Run submission deadline: February 10, 2026 Results announcement: February 16, 2026 Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 Peer review notification: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2026 Workshop dates: July 2–3, 2026 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar Programme Director (MSc Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence) <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/courses/taught-postgraduate-courses/compu…> School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #19
by Costas Gabrielatos 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 February 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topic: Discourse Oriented Corpus Studies Speaker: Dan Malone<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Malone> (Edge Hill University, UK) Title: From Global Uncertainty to Domestic Danger: The lone wolf terrorist as a topos of threat in (poly)crisis discourses The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 February. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please email the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Replications and Negative Results
by Announce 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

*** First Call for Replication and Negative Results *** 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 Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track has been introduced in the software engineering community for a while and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. This year, we establish this track at ISSRE and invite researchers to (1) replicate results from previous papers and (2) publish studies with important and relevant negative or null results (results that fail to show an effect, yet demonstrate the research paths that did not pay off). We also encourage the publication of the negative results or replicable aspects of previously published work. For example, authors of a published paper reporting a working solution for a given problem can document in a “negative results paper” other (failed) attempts they made before defining the working solution they published. • Replication studies. The papers in this category must go beyond simply re- implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper. Such submissions should at least apply the approach to new data sets (open-source or proprietary). A replication study should clearly report on results that the authors were able to replicate, as well as on the aspects of the work that were not replicable. • Negative results papers. We seek papers that report on negative results. We seek negative results for all types of program comprehension research in any empirical area (qualitative, quantitative, case study, experiment, etc.). For example, did your controlled experiment not show an improvement over the baseline? Even if negative, results obtained are still valuable when they are either not obvious or disprove widely accepted wisdom. Evaluation Criteria Both Replication Studies and Negative Results submissions will be evaluated according to the following standards: • Depth and breadth of the empirical studies • Clarity of writing • Appropriateness of conclusions • Amount of useful, actionable insights • Availability of artifacts • Underlying methodological rigor. A negative result due primarily to misaligned expectations or due to lack of statistical power (small samples) is not a good submission. The negative result should be a result of a lack of effect, not a lack of methodological rigor. Most importantly, we expect replication studies to clearly point out the artifacts upon which the study is built, and to provide the links to all the artifacts in the submission (the only exception will be given to those papers that replicate the results on proprietary datasets that can not be publicly released). Submission Instructions Submissions must be original, in the sense that the findings and writing have not been previously published or under consideration elsewhere. However, as either replication studies or negative results, some overlap with previous work is expected. Please make clear in the paper the overlap with and difference from previous work. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines: (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates). Authors are strongly encouraged to print the PDF and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submission, as defective printing can undermine a paper’s chance of success. By submitting to the ISSRE RENE Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to the RENE track must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ISSRE 2026. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the IEEE, to detect violations of these policies. Submissions to the RENE Track can be made via the ISSRE RENE track submission site： https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submission Length: The ISSRE RENE Track accepts submissions of two lengths: (1) New replication studies and new descriptions of negative results should have a length of up to 10 pages, plus 2 pages which may only contain references. (2) Negative results documented during the preparation of previously published work by the authors should be described in up to 5 pages, plus 1 page, which may only contain references (e.g., as previously mentioned, authors of a published paper can document negative results they obtained while working on it, such as methodologically sound solutions that did not work). Important note 1: Both types of papers (replication and negative results) will be included as part of the main conference proceedings. Important note 2: The RENE track does not follow a double-anonymous review process. Publication and Presentation Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to have a full registration for ISSRE 2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (e.g., related to health or visa). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the IEEE Digital Libraries. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 5, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: August12 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: August 19, 2026 • Author registration deadline: 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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Call for Papers: PoliticalNLP 2026 (LREC 2026 Workshop)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

We invite submissions to PoliticalNLP 2026, the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, co-located with LREC 2026. The workshop will take place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, at the Palau de Congressos de Palma. Theme for 2026 Trust, Transparency and Generative AI in Political Discourse Analysis Large language models and generative AI are increasingly shaping political communication, public opinion, and democratic processes. PoliticalNLP 2026 provides an interdisciplinary forum to examine these developments critically and responsibly, at the intersection of NLP, political science, law, and the social sciences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to • Trustworthy, explainable, and fair NLP for political data • Bias, misinformation, and ethical risks of LLMs • Multilingual and cross cultural political NLP • Generative AI for policy analysis and deliberative democracy • Reproducibility, transparency, and responsible AI practices • Datasets, tools, and resources for political and civic technologies Important dates • Paper submission (long and short): 16 February 2026 • Notification: 11 March 2026 • Camera ready: 30 March 2026 • Workshop: 11 to 12 May 2026, or 16 May 2026 (final date to be confirmed by LREC) Proceedings Accepted papers will appear in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings. Submission and CFP Full Call for Papers and details: https://sites.google.com/view/politicalnlp2026 Submission is electronic via the Softconf START system: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PoliticalNLP2026/ Best regards, PoliticalNLP 2026 Organizer -- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Residence, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992 [cid:image001.png@01DB0DA7.8D0D9A20]

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Third Call for Papers: NLPAICS'2026 – NLP & AI for Cyber Security (11-12 June, Alicante, Spain)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '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/ Third Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS'2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security, including but not limited to: _Societal and Human Security and Safety_ * Content Legitimacy and Quality * Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language * Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * Trust and credibility of online information * User Security and Safety * Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders * Monitoring extremist fora * Suicide prevention * Clickbait and scam detection * Fake profile detection in online social networks * Technical Measures and Solutions * Social engineering identification, phishing detection * NLP for risk assessment * Controlled languages for safe messages * Prevention of malicious use of ai models * Forensic linguistics * Human Factors in Cyber Security _Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security_ * Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * NLP and biometrics in multimodal context _Data and Software Security_ * Cryptography * Digital forensics * Malware detection, obfuscation * Models for documentation * NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) * Addressing dataset "poisoning" attacks _Human-Centric Security and Support_ * Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting * User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour * Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security _Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence_ * Text-Based Anomaly Detection * Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data * Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic * Threat Intelligence Analysis * Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats * Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text _Systems and Infrastructure Security_ * Systems Security * Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity * Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks * Authentication and access control * Enterprise-level mitigation * NLP for software vulnerability detection * Malware Detection through Code Analysis * Analysing code and scripts for malware * Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code _Financial Cyber Security_ * Financial fraud detection * Financial risk detection * Algorithmic trading security * Secure online banking * Risk management in finance * Financial text analytics _Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security_ * Ethical and Legal Issues * Digital privacy and identity management * The ethics of NLP and speech technology * Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools * Legislation against malicious use of AI * Regulatory issues * Bias and Security * Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) * Bias in security related datasets and annotations _Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications_ _Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics_ * Intelligence applications * Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security _Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI_ NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * LLMs for forensic linguistics * Bias in LLMs * Safety benchmarks for LLMs * Legislation against malicious use of LLMs * Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs * Methods to enhance the robustness of language models Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: * Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will be 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: NLPAICS_2026_LaTeX.zip [1] 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, and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 16 March 2026 * Reviewing process: 1 April - 30 April 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 * Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 * Conference: 11-12 June 2026 Organisation 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) Venue The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in March 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://summer-school.gplsi.es/NLPAICS_2026_LaTeX.zip

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LCR 2026: Extension of abstract submission deadline
by alexandr.rosen＠ff.cuni.cz 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Learner Corpus Research conference, due 16–19 September 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic (https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz), has been extended until 7 February 2026.

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

*** Call for Participation *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Early Registration Deadline: February 13, 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 5 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 early registration deadline is on February 13th and the registration page is: https://iui.acm.org/2026/registration/ We are looking forward to meeting everybody in Paphos. 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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Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
by Agnieszka Faleńska 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the position announced below. We are searching for a postdoc or an advanced PhD student whose research interests align with the interdisciplinary focus of the project. The position requires: a background in NLP, including prior experience with prompting LLMs and data analysis, familiarity with key concepts in linguistics and formal pragmatics (e.g. presuppositions), enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research. The position is funded for 20 months and runs until the end of 2027. If you are interested, please submit a single PDF containing: a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests and connection to the APHIC project; a CV, including a publication list; contact information for one to two references. Applications should be sent to Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de). until February 13, 2026. The position will remain open until filled, so please feel free to get in touch even if you come across this call after February 13th. Best regards, Agnieszka Faleńska ——— Dear colleagues, We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the interdisciplinary project "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" (APHIC) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska [1] and Prof. Judith Tonhauser [2] under the IRIS-HISIT initiative. Project APHIC is part of the "Human-Intelligent Systems Interaction and Teaming" (IRIS-HISIT) programme [3] funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg [4]. The project investigates authority presuppositions—implicit assumptions that an AI system has the expertise to deliver high-stakes advice (e.g., medical or legal). The project aims to (1) develop a theoretically grounded taxonomy of authority presuppositions, and (2) design and evaluate conversational repair strategies that maintain trust and informativeness while ensuring user safety. Position • Duration: 20 months • Earliest start: March 2026 • Salary: TV-L 13 (100%), see [5] for details • Environment: The researcher will be embedded in the IRIS community [6] and collaborate closely with colleagues at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [7] and the Institute of Linguistics [8]. Candidate Profile • PhD in computational linguistics or a related field • Familiarity with key concepts in linguistics and formal pragmatics, e.g. presuppositions • Experience in programming, prompting LLMs, and machine learning • Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research • Proficiency in English (German not required) How to Apply Please submit one PDF containing: • a brief motivation letter outlining your research interests, • your CV with publication list • contact information for one to two references. Applications should be sent to: Agnieszka Faleńska (agnieszka.falenska at ims.uni-stuttgart.de <http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>). Applications received before 13th February 2026 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after 13th of February. The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the proportion of women in the scientific field and is therefore particularly interested in applications from women. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability. University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a lively and international city, known for its strong economy and rich culture. With Germany's high-speed train system, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance, Munich and Cologne (~2.5 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (<1.5 hours), and Lake of Constance (~2.5 hours). Links [1] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska <http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Falenska> [2] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/ <http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Tonhauser/> [3] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interaction-an… <http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/research/human-intelligent-systems-interac…> [4] mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite <http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/startseite> [5] oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025 <http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2025> [6] www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/ <http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/> [7] www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de <http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/> [8] www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de <http://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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Webinar by: Henning Wachsmuth (Leibniz University Hannover)
by HiTZ Zentroa 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------- Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology (https://hitz.eus/katedra). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: Henning Wachsmuth (Leibniz University Hannover) Title: Toward Argumentative Large Language Models Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 15:00 Summary: Today's large language models (LLMs) are optimized toward giving helpful answers in response to prompts. In many situations, however, it may be preferable for an LLM to foster critical thinking rather than just following an instruction. While recent LLMs are said to 'reason', they barely build on established reasoning concepts known from argumentation theory. In this talk, I will give insights into recent efforts of my group in making LLMs more argumentative. Starting from basics of LLM training processes, I will present how to specialize LLMs for argumentation tasks via instruction fine-tuning as well as how to align the arguments they generate using reinforcement learning. From there, I will give an outlook on how to improve the actual reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Bio: Henning Wachsmuth leads the Natural Language Processing Group at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Leibniz University Hannover. After receiving his PhD from Paderborn University in 2015, he worked as a PostDoc at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and as a junior professor in Paderborn, before he became a full professor in Hannover in 2022. His group does basic research on large language models for computational argumentation, social bias detection and mitigation, as well as explainable and educational NLP. Henning's main research interests include the generation of audience-aware text, the assessment of pragmatic text quality, and the modeling of bias and framing. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea Upcoming webinars: José Andrés González-López (March 5) Ranjay Krishna (April 16) Barbara Plank (May 7) You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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2nd CfP DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026
by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

[apologies for cross posting] DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026 Second Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) ##################### Second Call for Papers Schedule - Paper submissions: 23 February 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026 - Camera-ready due: 30 March 2026 - Workshop: one of 11, 12, or 16 May 2026 (half-day) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 AoE (“Anywhere on Earth”) For more information, please visit: Website: https://determit2026.dei.unipd.it/ ##################### In today’s interconnected world, where information dissemination knows no linguistic bounds, it is crucial to ensure that knowledge is accessible to diverse audiences, regardless of language proficiency and domain expertise. Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) and text difficulty assessment are central to this goal, especially in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI), which increasingly mediate access to information. The second edition of the DeTermIt! workshop focuses on the evaluation and modeling of text difficulty in multilingual, terminology-rich contexts, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between: - text simplification, - terminology and conceptual complexity, and - LLM/GenAI-based generation and rewriting. The 2026 edition builds on the first DeTermIt! workshop held at LREC-COLING 2024 (https://determit2024.dei.unipd.it/), as well as related initiatives such as the CLEF SimpleText track (https://simpletext-project.com/), which provides reusable data and benchmarks for scientific text summarization and simplification. DeTermIt! 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in terminology-aware simplification, lexical and conceptual difficulty, and evaluation protocols for GenAI systems. We welcome contributions that address theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of text difficulty, including resource creation and evaluation (e.g., corpora, datasets, and benchmarks), with a focus on how linguistic complexity, specialized terminology, and domain knowledge interact with human understanding. In particular, we encourage work that explores how LLMs and GenAI can be evaluated, constrained, or guided to produce readable, faithful, and accessible texts. ##################### Topics of Interest ##################### We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following themes: 1. Theoretical and Modeling Perspectives - Cognitive and linguistic models of text and lexical complexity. - Multilingual readability and text difficulty prediction. - Modeling conceptual difficulty and domain-specific terminology. - Theoretical connections between lexicography, terminology, and text simplification. 2. Terminology and Conceptual Complexity - Identification and classification of specialized terms and concepts. - Estimation of term difficulty for lay readers and second language learners. - Use of terminological databases, ontologies, and knowledge graphs in simplification pipelines. - Methods for adapting domain-specific terminology for accessible communication (e.g., in medicine, law, technology). 3. Generative and Explainable AI for Text Simplification - LLM- and GenAI-based approaches to text simplification and paraphrasing. - Terminology-Augmented Generation (TAG) and term-preserving simplification. - Evaluation of GenAI outputs: readability, factuality, terminology fidelity, and hallucination analysis. - Readability-controlled or difficulty-controlled generation; controllable simplification. - Human-centered and explainable approaches to text accessibility in GenAI systems. 4. Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation Frameworks - Corpora, annotation schemes, and benchmarks for text difficulty and simplification. - Datasets and methods for evaluating terminology-aware simplification and explanation. - FAIR and reusable resources for multilingual text accessibility. - Evaluation protocols and metrics for cross-lingual and cross-domain simplification and GenAI-based rewriting. 5. Applications and Case Studies - Domain-specific simplification (e.g., healthcare, legal, scientific communication). - Tools and systems for educational settings, language learning, or accessible communication. - User studies, human evaluation setups, and mixed-method approaches to assessing text difficulty and GenAI-assisted simplification. - Industrial and real-world experiences with integrating ATS and terminology into LLM-driven workflows. ##################### Submission Guidelines ##################### We invite original contributions, including research papers, case studies, negative results, and system demonstrations. When submitting a paper through the START system of LREC 2026, authors will be asked to provide essential information about language resources (in a broad sense: data, tools, services, standards, evaluation packages, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of the research. ELRA strongly encourages all authors to share the resources described in their papers to support reproducibility and reusability. Papers must be compliant with the stylesheet adopted for the LREC 2026 Proceedings (see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The workshop proceedings will be published in the LREC 2026 workshop proceedings. PAPER TYPES We accept three types of submissions: - Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers – up to four (4) pages of content, describing smaller focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, or system demonstrations. - Position papers – up to eight (8) pages of content, discussing key open challenges, methodological issues, and cross-disciplinary perspectives on text difficulty, terminology, and GenAI. References do not count toward the page limits. ##################### Organizers ##################### Chairs Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy Federica Vezzani, University of Padua, Italy Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Hosein Azarbonyad, Elsevier, The Netherlands Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scientific Committee Florian Boudin - Nantes University, France Lynne Bowker - University of Ottawa, Canada Sara Carvalho - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Rute Costa - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Eric Gaussier - University Grenoble Alpes, France Natalia Grabar - CNRS, France Ana Ostroški Anić - Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia Tatiana Passali - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grigorios Tsoumakas - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Sara Vecchiato - University of Udine, Italy Cornelia Wermuth - KU Leuven, Belgium ##################### Contact ##################### For inquiries, please contact: giorgiomaria.dinunzio(a)unipd.it <mailto:giorgiomaria.dinunzio@unipd.it>

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CfP: 9th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
by Antti Arppe 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

ComputEL-9: Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages First CALL FOR PAPERS for REGULAR SESSION Submission deadline: March 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages, (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or demonstrate new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization, (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols, (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. IMPORTANT DATES 20-Mar-2026 Deadline for submissions 1-May-2026 Notification of Acceptance Early May Camera-ready papers due (Exact date TBD by ACL) July 3 or 4 Workshop (Exact date TBD by ACL) PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, authors can submit to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-9 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-9/ Email for Organizing Committee: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Algonquian Studies Association - Secretary-Treasurer E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Papers
by Gualtiero Volpe 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy. ICMI is the premier international forum for advancing research at the intersection of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction to create technically innovative, effective, and human-centered multimodal interactive systems. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature, bringing together research in AI, multimodal data processing, human-machine, and human-human interaction to bridge behavioral understanding with technology, with an eye towards impactful applications that benefit people and society. Novelty will be evaluated along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2026 must demonstrate novelty in at least one of these two dimensions. The theme of this year's conference is "Context and Cultural Awareness for Multimodal Interaction", to explore how context and cultural factors influence multimodal interaction systems, including their design, implementation, and evaluation. We welcome papers that address the integration of contextual understanding, such as environmental, social, and emotional factors, into multimodal interaction systems. We also encourage contributions that explore cultural considerations in the development and deployment of interactive technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Affective computing and interaction * User-adaptive systems * Cognitive modelling and multimodal interaction * Context-aware modelling * Cross-cultural design and evaluation * Gesture, touch, and haptics * Healthcare, assistive technologies * Human communication dynamics * Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction * Human-centred AI and ethics * Interaction with a smart environment * Machine learning for multimodal interaction * Mobile and wearable multimodal systems * Multimodal behaviour generation * Multimodal datasets and validation * Multimodal dialogue modeling * Multimodal fusion and representation * Multimodal interactive applications * Novel multimodal datasets * Spoken/visual behaviours in social interaction * System components and multimodal platforms * Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction Commitment to ethical conduct is mandatory, and submissions must adhere to ethical standards, in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to consult the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/). *** Important Dates Abstract deadline April 13, 2026 Paper Submission April 20, 2026 Rebuttal Period June 1, 2026 Paper notification July 6, 2026 Camera-ready paper July 23, 2026 Presenting at the main conference October 6-8, 2026 *** ACM Publication Policies ACM's New Open Access Publishing Model. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer: * $250 APC for ACM/SIG members * $350 for non-members This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026, including ICMI.

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2nd Call for Papers: LREC 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026)
by Valia Kordoni 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026) To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 May 2026. 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. Topics of Interest We are interested in contributions which focus 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 also wants to discuss alternative approaches which may elaborate on the use of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) as a foundation and the application of techniques like contrastive learning and clustering to identify challenging examples within the data, the ultimate aim of the workshop being to highlight the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speakers - Barbara Plank, LMU Munich - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Further details and info on the invited talks will be announced shortly. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf, using the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLE2026/ Submissions should: • Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements • Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference website: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ • Use templates provided here: https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/ Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources (broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such resources to support reproducibility and reuse. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the work. Important Dates • 20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline • 11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance • 28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due 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 - 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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Postdoctoral and PhD Opportunities (University of Vienna)
by Benjamin Roth 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Postdoctoral and PhD Opportunities in NLP, Explainable AI & Digital Humanities University of Vienna — Deadline: 2 March 2026 The University of Vienna is currently advertising postdoctoral and doctoral positions across multiple faculties. Within two of these calls, I am available as host / supervisor for projects in NLP, explainable AI, and language-centered AI research. Selection is carried out by independent committees. (A) Postdoctoral positions — E-STEEM Programme (STEM faculties) Deadline: 2 March 2026 Eligibility: Women applicants only (programme rule) Within the university-wide E-STEEM programme, I am available as a host for postdoctoral projects in Natural Language Processing and Explainable AI, with a focus on interpretability, human-centered evaluation, and responsible language technologies. A typical candidate profile would include prior publications in leading NLP venues (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, NAACL or closely related conferences). Projects hosted in my group would be embedded in an active NLP research environment with strong mentorship, modern compute infrastructure, and support for developing an independent research profile. Programme information (Faculty of Computer Science): https://careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e-steem/faculty-of-computer-science Pre-application contact: nlp.datamining(a)univie.ac.at (subject: E-STEEM – pre-application inquiry) (B) PhD positions — Philological & Cultural Studies Deadline: 2 March 2026 The Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies is advertising doctoral positions within its humanities-focused doctoral programmes. Within this call, I am available to supervise PhD projects in Philological and Cultural Studies that draw on methods from linguistics, Digital Humanities, and AI. Possible project directions, where there is thematic overlap with my research, include explainability of AI systems, linguistic and human-centered perspectives on language technologies, and computational approaches to cultural and historical language data. Programme information: https://careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/praedoc-ssh/ds-of-philological-and-… Pre-application contact: nlp.datamining(a)univie.ac.at (subject: PhD PhilKult – pre-application inquiry) About me / research context: https://www.benjaminroth.net/ -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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3rd CfP and Deadline Extension: OSACT 7 Workshop @ LREC 2026
by Saad Ezzini 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

OSACT 2026 Workshop, Third Call for Papers 11 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://osact-lrec.github.io Hosted by LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Workshop Description The Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) workshop series provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students in computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), and information retrieval (IR) to share and discuss ongoing work on Arabic language resources and technologies. While Arabic remains comparatively resource-poor in relation to English, recent years have seen the emergence of large, freely available classical and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpora, as well as dialectical corpora and processing tools. Now in its seventh edition, OSACT7 takes an important step forward by celebrating this milestone with seven shared tasks, each addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP and reflecting broader themes relevant to NLP research in general. OSACT7 builds on its long-standing commitment to open-source contributions that advance accessibility, reproducibility, and fairness, and this year it places inclusivity at the heart of its mission. A key focus is to recognize and support minority dialects and underrepresented varieties of Arabic, ensuring that diverse linguistic voices and resources are not only acknowledged but actively valued within the community. The workshop will cover general topics in CL, NLP, and IR, with special emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, including pre-trained Arabic language models, corpus design and evaluation, and annotated corpora for tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text classification. Additional areas of focus include crowdsourcing for data annotation, tools for language education, tokenization, normalisation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, dialect identification and translation, fake news detection, and web and social media analytics. Methodologies for resource creation and annotation, knowledge extraction, ontologies, terminology, knowledge representation, and integration with the Semantic Web (e.g. Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs) will also be explored. Workshop Topics The workshop welcomes (including but not limited to) topics in the following areas: A) Language Resources: · Pre-trained Arabic language models. · Surveys and evaluations of existing Arabic corpora and their associated processing tools. · Development and release of new annotated corpora for NLP and IR tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text classification, and language learning. · Assessing the effectiveness of crowdsourcing platforms for Arabic data annotation. · Arabic text and speech processing toolkits. B) Tools and Technologies: · Language education, including first (L1) and second (L2) language learning applications. · Pre-training & fine-tuning approaches for Arabic. · Tokenization, normalisation, segmentation, morphology, and POS tagging. · Sentiment analysis, dialect ID, \& classification. · Web and social media analytics. · Arabic LRs for text, speech, sign, gesture, image, & multimodal data. · Best practices for LR interoperability. · Construction and annotation of LRs. · Knowledge extraction, acquisition, and representation. · Ontologies, terminology, and frameworks. · LRs and the Semantic Web (Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs). · Data contamination, synthetic data, and quality issues. Important Dates · Feb 25 Feb 18, 2026: Paper submission deadline · March 23, 2026 Notification of acceptance · March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline · May 11, 2026: Workshop Date Submission Instructions We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata for the resource. 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Second CfP Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Second Call for Papers Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). 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CFP: 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop (22-23 June 2026, Cardiff, Wales, UK)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '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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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash: January 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, The January 2026 edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * Publication of a new ParlaMint paper in the corpora Journal. * Calls for papers for Euralex and CLARIN2026. * An overview of CLARIN’s presence at LREC, including our co-organised workshops. * A rich selection of upcoming events. Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-january-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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by Demian Inostroza Améstica 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Hello, I can't login and I'm not receiving the confirmation email, it says: We have sent an e-mail to you for verification. Follow the link provided to finalize the signup process. If you do not see the verification e-mail in your main inbox, check your spam folder. Please contact us if you do not receive the verification e-mail within a few minutes. But I've tried several times and nothing happens. Could you please give me a hand? Thank you! Best, Demian

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Second CfP: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX), co-located with ACL 2026
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Second Call for Papers: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX), co-located with ACL 2026, San Diego Website: �https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XX-2026/ � Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. LAW-XX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. LAW XX will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. � Special Theme: Errors in Annotation The special theme of LAW XX is �Errors in Annotation. In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the matter of addressing annotations which are in some sense objectively incorrect in their substance or omissions (c.f. �Klie et al., CL 2023)—distinct from annotator disagreement (Weber-Genzel et al., ACL 2024)—and the role of error analysis in improving data quality for both human-annotated and LLM-generated datasets. As data quality becomes increasingly important (human-annotated or LLM-generated), it is essential to develop techniques or tools to quantify data quality (Swayamdipta et al., EMNLP 2020). � � Potential topics covered include but are not limited to: * Annotation error detection * Annotation error correction * Error type classification * Error detection and correction in crowd-sourced annotations * Errors in LLM-generated annotations � Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). � * Submission deadline: March 5, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: May 12, 2026 * Workshop Date: TBD � LAW XX will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. � Submission Information We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: � * Annotation procedures o Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation o Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation o Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data * Annotation evaluation o Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies o Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations o Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality * Annotation access and use o Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations* at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena * Annotation schemes, guidelines, and standards o New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes o Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development o Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes o Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages * Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation o Annotation software and frameworks o Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks � Direct submission �link: �https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW Pre-reviewed ARR commitment �link: �https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commitment � Note on OpenReview's moderation policy for �newly created profiles: * 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. � Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop (either in-person or virtually) and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. � A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use �the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Limitation and ethical consideration sections are optional and do not count against these limits as well. � Note: The appendix also does not count against the page limit but should not include essential details needed to understand/review the paper (appendices can contain details such as hyperparameters, formulas, proofs, and tables that are informative but not critical to the understanding of the paper). All submissions must be in PDF format. � Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. � � Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop program chairs ( <mailto:law2026workshop@googlegroups.com> law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. � Following �the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. �

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CoNLL 2026: 2nd Call for Papers
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

CoNLL 2026: 2nd Call for Papers San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ NEW: CoNLL 2026 will include online presentations for authors who will not be able to attend the conference in person due to visa related issues. NEW: Two new topic areas, Computational Usage-Based Grammars, and Language and the Brain. SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics and NLP. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including: Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars) Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics Interaction and Dialogue Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution Multimodality and Grounding Typology and Multilinguality Speech and Phonology Syntax and Morphology Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Language and the Brain We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However, the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process (submissions may be rejected prior to review if they fail to meet this relevance criteria). Submissions CoNLL will accept only direct submissions this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. An OpenReview profile is required for all authors. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2026. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2026 follows the ACL 2026 policy, which follows the ARR policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2026 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms: we again follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance: 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. Timeline (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026 Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026 Conference: July 3-4, 2026 Further information Further information will be announced in the 3rd Call for Papers. CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs Claire Bonial, Georgetown University Yevgeni Berzak, Technion Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com

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Call for Participation: ClinSkill QA Shared Task @ BioNLP ACL 2026
by Paul Thompson 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

We are pleased to announce the ClinSkill QA shared task, co-located with the BioNLP workshop at ACL 2026. TASK HOMEPAGE: https://whunextgen.github.io/ClinicalskillQA/ INTRODUCTION Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have the potential to support clinical training and assessment by assisting medical experts in interpreting procedural videos and verifying adherence to standardized workflows. Reliable deployment in these settings requires evidence that models can continuously interpret students’ actions during clinical skill assessments, which underpins MLLMs’ understanding of clinical skills. Systematically evaluating and improving MLLMs’ understanding of clinical skills and their continuous perception in clinical skill assessment scenarios is therefore essential for building reliable and high-impact AI systems for medical education. To address this need, the shared task on medical question answering targets clinical skill assessment scenarios. IMPORTANT DATES Release of task data : Jan 30, 2026 Paper submission deadline: Apr 17, 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 BioNLP Workshop Date: July 3 or 4, 2026 Note that all deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12). TASK DEFINITION ClinSkill QA formulates clinical skill understanding and continuous perception for clinical skill assessment as an ordering task: the MLLM is required to arrange shuffled key frames into a coherent sequence of clinical actions and to provide explanations for the resulting order. The dataset is constructed from video clips of medical student clinical procedures, collected from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and cofun (http://www.curefun.com/). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and all data collection and processing followed relevant ethical guidelines. DATASET ClinSkill QA is built on 200 sets of shuffled key frames extracted from three types of clinical skill videos. Each set of key frames represents a sequence of continuous actions and is accompanied by expert-annotated ground-truth ordering and order rationales. EVALUATION For evaluation, we use Task Accuracy (exact ordering) and Pairwise Accuracy (the fraction of adjacent pairs correctly ordered) for the ordering results, and BertScore as well as an LLM-as-judge(G-Eval) for assessing the quality of the ordering explanations. For the i-th sample (a set of shuffled keyframes): Ordering evaluation - Task Accuracy - Pairwise Accuracy Rationale evaluation - BertScore -LLM-as-Judge（G-Eval） REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION Registration and Submission will be done via CodaBench (Link will be available soon on the task home page) Each team is allowed up to ten successful submissions on CodaBench. All shared task participants are invited to submit a paper describing their systems to the Proceedings of BioNLP 2026 (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop) at ACL 2026 (https://2026.aclweb.org/). Papers must follow the submission instructions of the BioNLP 2026 workshop (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop). ORGANIZERS Xiyang Huang, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Yihuai Xu, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Zhiyuan Chen, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Keying Wu, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Jiayi Xiang, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Buzhou Tang, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Renxiong Wei, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Yanqing Ye, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Jinyu Chen, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Cheng Zeng, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Min Peng, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Qianqian Xie, School of Artifical Intelligence,Wuhan University Sophia Ananiadou, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester -- 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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Second CFP *SEM2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, San Diego, CA. (Co-located with ACL)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear corpora-list members, We are pleased to announce the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), co-located with ACL 2026. The call for papers can be found here<https://starsem2026.github.io/calls/> and below. *SEM 2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics [San Diego, CA (Co-located with ACL 2026)] Website: https://starsem2026.github.io/ Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=STARSEM/2026/Conference *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural language semantics (understood broadly) and its application. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) theoretical aspects of computational semantics, empirical and data-driven approaches, resources, evaluation, and applications/tools. *SEM encourages authors to consider ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. *SEM also values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here. Please fill out this form<https://forms.gle/634oW3yvtTkur6qL9> if you would like to volunteer as a reviewer or as an Area Chair. Questions may be directed to: startsem-2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:startsem-2026-pcs@googlegroups.com> New for *SEM 2026 1. One Day Conference: Unlike past iterations, *Sem 2026 will be a one-day conference. (ACL has informed us that this is due to venue size limitations.) 2. Centering Research Questions: Research questions in *Sem, and NLP generally, can be roughly categorized into those that address: * new findings about language (linguistic phenomena, semantic patterns), * new findings about people (language use, behavior, health, ethics, etc.), * new findings about automatic language processing (advancing language understanding through ML/AI and other approaches). Centering and explicitly articulating the research question helps authors frame and present their contribution more clearly. It also helps reviewers and Area Chairs evaluate the work within the appropriate context. For example, a paper that centers a compelling linguistic or behavioral research question and offers meaningful new insights need not also introduce methodological novelty or rely on the latest models (including LLMs). A simple and interpretable approach may make good sense. To support this, the *SEM 2026 submission form asks authors to explicitly identify the predominant research question type for their work, as well as any additional categories that apply. There are no quotas for accepted papers of different types, and submissions will not receive preferential treatment based on category selection. Including this information also allows *SEM to track the kinds of research questions authors pursue and how the conference’s focus evolves over time. 3. Lasting Impact Modern NLP and ML papers have often been criticized for being overly incremental or becoming obsolete shortly after publication. To encourage work with broader scientific value and longer-term relevance, reviewers of *Sem 2026 will be asked to explicitly assess the potential lasting impact of each submission. This assessment will be included as a short-written justification and will factor into the overall recommendation. Importantly, a healthy research ecosystem requires diversity in the time horizons of research contributions. Some papers offer immediate practical value; others generate insights or resources whose importance unfolds over years. *Sem 2026 welcomes this full spectrum. Reviewers should evaluate the potential for lasting influence—not only immediate performance gains. Work can have a lasting impact in many ways. See our blog post<https://starsem2026.github.io/blog/> on this. Topics of Interest (non-exhaustive) * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Sentiment Analysis, Computational Affective Science, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Analytics * Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations * Entity linking, pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Abusive language detection, Fact verification and related tasks * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor processing * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Psycholinguistics * Interpretability and Explainability * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * NLP Applications * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained, and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged but are not mandatory. These sections should be placed after the conclusion and will not count towards the overall page limit. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submission routes and deadlines *SEM solicits direct submissions (not through ARR). The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 13, 2026, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM2025 program committee. Submissions are made through OpenReview. Multiple submission policy *SEM does not prohibit the submission of work that is under consideration for another venue at the same time as the *SEM review period. However, authors of such papers will be asked to declare this at submission time. Important Dates (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Direct submission deadline (long & short papers): Feb 13, 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: May 26, 2026 Conference date: July 6, 2026 (co-located with ACL 2026) Following the ACL and ARR policies<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement. Best regards, The *SEM 2026 Program Chairs

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Miscelanea Journal_New editorial team_Open submissions
by Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am writing in my capacity as the newly appointed 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. _Miscelanea_, with 72 volumes published to date, 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, on thought, 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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Third and last Call for Papers - deadline extension 7 February 2026 - NooJ 2026 International Conference
by petra.giommarelli＠phd.unipi.it 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Third Call for Papers ***************** NooJ 2026 International Conference Naples, Italy June 24-26, 2026 https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2 ******************* Important dates: ******************* Abstract submission (extended deadline): 7 February 2026 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026 Registration: until 13 April 2026 Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026 *********************************************** University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism. NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc. NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr ****************************** The conference intends to: ****************************** * give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; * present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; * offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts. ******************* Topics of interest: ******************* * Lexical resources * Computational morphology * Syntactic analysis * Semantic analysis * Linguistic-based NLP applications *************** Submission: *************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 7 February 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to nooj2026(a)gmail.com. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026. Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at nooj2026(a)gmail.com for any additional information. ************************ Scientific Committee: ************************ Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France ************************** Organizing Committee: ************************** * Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy * Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France

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1st Call for Papers: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026)
by Barbara McGillivray 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Call for papers ************************************************************** Neology and Large Language Models Workshop (NeoLLM2026) Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 16, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NeoLLM2026/ Workshop website: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/ Main conference website: <https://lrec2026.info/> https://lrec2026.info/ ************************************************************** Motivation and Topics of Interest Understanding how LLMs capture, propagate, or even invent semantic shifts raises fundamental questions for lexicography, language modeling, and semantic resources. Addressing these questions requires close collaboration between computational linguistics, lexicography, and lexical resource development. Such interdisciplinary work can shed light on how large language models both reflect and reshape linguistic creativity, an inquiry that lies at the core of the proposed workshop. The goal is to examine methodological, theoretical, and applied questions: How can LLMs help identify, track, and categorize new lexical items and senses across languages? To what extent do LLMs replicate or amplify human neologisms and semantic shifts, and when do they generate artificial or spurious ones? What are the implications for lexicographic practice, language documentation, NLP applications, and cultural studies of language change? We invite researchers from computational linguistics, lexicography, digital humanities, and language technology to explore the intersection of LLMs and neology. We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: * Linguistic Innovation in the Age of AI * Neology detection and tracking using LLMs * How LLMs absorb, generate, and disseminate new lexical items * Benchmarks for LLM-driven neology detection * Legitimacy and authority in AI-generated neologisms * Language Resources and Inequality * High-resource vs. low-resource languages in neology * Integration of neologisms in dominant languages * LLMs and neology for low-resource languages * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Dimensions * Cultural appropriateness and contextual limitations of AI-driven neologisms * Sociolinguistic perspectives on LLMs and neology * LLMs as participants in language innovation * Opportunities for language revitalization and documentation * Future Considerations for Linguistic Research * AI’s role in shaping language futures * Strategies to ensure linguistic equity and diversity * Cross-disciplinary approaches: linguistics, AI, education, and sociology We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes the project is created. Projects that are still in their early stages and seek advice from the broader scientific community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of study. We particularly welcome work on under-resourced and endangered languages. Submissions can be made via: https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr<https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/>/<https://neollm2026.del.auth.gr/> Papers should be formatted according to the LREC guidelines, please see https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>/<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map<https://lremap.elra.info/>, which provides metadata for the resource. Important Dates Paper Submission: 20 February 2026 Notification: 15 March 2026 Camera-ready Copy: 30 March 2026 Workshop: 16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on earth”). Workshop organisers Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene (Mykolas Romeris University) Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London) Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg) Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology) Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | <https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> @BarbaraMcGilli<https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Open Research<https://emckclac.sharepoint.com/sites/artshums/SitePages/Open-Research.aspx…> Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/>

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Call for Participation [Shared Task CLPsych 2026] The 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology @ ACL 2026
by Talia Tseriotou 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

====================== Call for Participation ====================== CLPsych 2026 Shared Task: Capturing and Characterizing Mental Health Changes through Social Media Timeline Dynamics, 📍 ACL 2026 in San Diego, USA (July 2-7 2026) Overview: The 2026 shared task further advances work from previous years tasks by integrating dynamic mental health modeling, emphasizing the identification of key self-state elements leading up to mental state changes over time. Participants will analyze temporally ordered sequences of social media posts to characterize detailed psychological processes, key changes, as well as the interplay of such self-state processes leading up to the changes. Grounded in the MIND framework that conceptualizes self-states as combinations of Affect, Behavior, Cognition, and Desire (ABCD) components, it aims to further explore the fine-grained elements contributing to changes. The core objective of the shared task is to develop computational models that can identify adaptive and maladaptive self-state dimensions as well as changes over time across social media timelines aiming to characterize and summarize self-state sequences leading to such changes. Task description: Participants will develop systems that emulate a structured human annotation process to model mental health dynamics over time: * Predict adaptive and maladaptive ABCD element combinations for each individual post. * Identify moments of change in mental health social media trajectories using longitudinal signals. * Generate concise, interpretable self-state summaries leveraging the identified ABCD elements and contextual information leading up to changes in the user timeline. Registration: * One team registration<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKp0JeE9CfBd59gFGF9YePKEFC6JXmKC8…> form * One individual registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftD9EbFFHMW_canwvXBYk87va6snnkpX9…> per team member Researchers seeking collaborators are encouraged to contact the organizers. Website: https://clpsych.org/shared-task/ Important dates: * Registration deadline (Feb 15) * Receiving guidelines on accessing sample data (Mar 1) * Receiving instructions on the task and training data (Mar 11) * System submissions on test set (Apr 18) * Shared Task Paper submissions (May 1) * Camera-ready papers due (May 15) Short Papers (one per team) up to 4 pages - with extra pages for references, limitations, ethics and appendices. Contact: clpsych-2026-shared-task(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:clpsych-2026-shared-task@googlegroups.com>, or any of the organizers directly.

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[IEEE FG2026] Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology
by Arianna De Vecchi 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '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 25–29, 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: March 30, 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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FoIKS-2026 Call for Participation
by Yasir mahmood 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

====================== Call for Participation ====================== 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2026) 📅 March 23–26, 2026 | Hannover, Germany 🌐 https://foiks2026.github.io We cordially invite you to participate in FoIKS 2026, the 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, which takes place from March 23 to 26, 2026, in Hannover, Germany. FoIKS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the formal foundations, design, and analysis of information and knowledge systems. The symposium fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration spanning areas such as databases, logic, knowledge representation, and computational complexity. ============ Registration ============ • Early registration deadline: February 15, 2026 • Late registration deadline: March 08, 2026 • Conference dates: March 23–26, 2026 The on-site registration (upon arrival) will not be possible. ==================== Program and Keynotes ==================== The list of accepted papers and keynote speakers is now available online. The full conference program will be published on our website soon. We are excited to announce the following keynotes for FoIKS 2026: - Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Oxford) * Keynote Title: Reactive Program Synthesis in AI - Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp) * Keynote Title: Relational Neural Networks - Wolfgang Nejdl (Leibniz Universität Hannover) * Keynote Title: Reasoning for LLM-based Agents - Ana Ozaki (University of Oslo) * Keynote Title: Semiring Provenance for Ontology-based data access 👉 https://foiks2026.github.io/program.html ======= Contact ======= For any further information or inquiries, please contact us at: 📧 foiks26-thi(a)listserv.uni-hannover.de We look forward to welcoming you to Hannover for FoIKS 2026!

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AVI 2026: Advanced Visual Interfaces - 2nd Call for Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster Papers
by Alba Bisante 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026 Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics ======================================== 8-12 June 2026 Venice, Italy http://unive.it/avi2026 In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Interactive Experiences, Demo and Poster papers: March 9, 2026 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER PAPERS The AVI 2026 Poster Track is dedicated to showcasing work-in-progress that pushes the boundaries of Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We especially welcome posters that explore creativity through a critical lens, addressing its complex dimensions of agency, interfaces, and ethics. This track offers a valuable opportunity to obtain precious feedback from peers and experts in an engaging, informal setting. Submissions must describe original (though not yet fully completed) research. See AVI 2026 themes and topics: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16532/topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND DEMO PAPERS The interactive experiences and demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase interactive installations, innovative implementations, systems, and technologies demonstrating new ideas about creativity, in relation to AVI themes and topics, and reaching out to novel communities. Interactive experiences are expected primarily from musicians, designers and artists. Demo submissions should be more technical, typically originating from Computer Engineering or Computer Science fields. See AVI 2026 themes and topics: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16532/topics Please notice that: The committee reserves the right to reject proposals whose hardware and/or space requirements cannot be met by organizers (if you have any doubt please contact the Interactive Experiences and Demo Chairs BEFORE submitting). The organizers cannot provide any specific equipment (e.g., sound or lighting systems). There is no possibility for any remuneration by the conference organizers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Submission information (e.g., submission language and format) is available on the AVI 2026 website: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16575/interactive-experiences-demo-and-poster-p… All submissions must use the Easy Chair system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=avi2026 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND ACM OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING MODEL All accepted papers are included in the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for AVI 2026 by the early registration deadline and present the paper at the conference. **Important note to authors about ACM’s new open access publishing model** ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the ICPS Series. Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows: Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info(a)acm.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRS AND CONTACTS Poster Chairs: Alba Bisante, La Sapienza University, Italy Tanja Doering [DEU], TU Berlin, Germany Contact: avi2026poster(a)easychair.org Interactive Experience and Demo Chairs: Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Contact: avi2026IEdemo(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2026 COMMITTEES See https://www.unive.it/web/en/16533/committees

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Open PhD position -- Argument Mining on Scientific Publications -- Université Côte d’Azur, France
by elena_cabrio 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Open PhD Position "Argument Mining on Scientific Publications" at Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France. -- Context -- The CRITICS project (ERA-NET CHIST-ERA) on “Critical Science Without Borders: LLMs for Translation of Scientific Knowledge in Multilingual Contexts” proposes to transform the future of science accessibility and literacy through the convergence of advanced Machine Translation based on Large Language Models (LLMs) and educational technology. In this context, this PhD position aims at tailoring Argument mining approaches to address domain-specific features of scientific argumentation in multilingual educational texts. -- Research fields -- Natural Language Processing, Argument Mining and Generation -- Research group -- MARIANNE (https://www.inria.fr/en/marianne) is a research team of Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Inria, CNRS (France). The research fields of the team are argument mining, argumentation-based reasoning, counter-argument generation, and argumentation quality. -- Candidate profile -- • Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science or Computational Linguistics is required. • Programming skills are required. • Knowledge of Natural Language Processing and Argumentation is preferred. • Fluent English required, both oral and written. French is appreciated but not mandatory. -- Application process -- Apply by sending an email directly to the supervisors (Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio(a)univ-cotedazur.fr> and Serena Villata <serena.villata(a)univ-cotedazur.fr>). Deadline for applications: *** February 16th, 2026 *** The application must include: - Curriculum vitæ. - Motivation Letter. - Academic transcripts of a master’s degree(s) or equivalent. - At least one letter of recommendation

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Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026
by Roman Klinger 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS 2026 will accept archival (long and short papers) as well as non-archival (extended abstracts) submissions. ------------ MOTIVATION ------------ Affect refers to the fundamental neural processes that generate and regulate emotions, moods, and feeling states. Affect and emotions are central to how we organize meaning, to our behavior, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival. Despite this, and even though most of us are intimately familiar with emotions in everyday life, there is much we do not know about how emotions work and how they impact our lives. Affective Science is a broad interdisciplinary field that explores these and related questions about affect and emotions. Since language is a powerful mechanism of emotion expression, there is a growing use of language data and advanced natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to shed light on fundamental questions about emotions. The Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS) aims to be a dedicated venue for work focused specifically on the link between NLP and affective science. Interdisciplinary Scope: The workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to affective science and aims at bringing together NLP researchers, scientists, and theorists from many research areas, including psychology, sociology,, neuroscience, and philosophy. Although work in sentiment analysis is decades old, this work often proceeds separately and in different fields from research and theory in affective science. Meanwhile, affective scientists in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy increasingly seek to use linguistic tools to shed light on the nature of emotions, moods, and feeling states. CAS is therefore co-organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (spanning NLP and affective science) to foment collaboration at this exciting frontier of research. ------------ SUBMISSIONS ------------ We invite long and short archival paper submissions, as well as non-archival extended abstracts on a broad range of topics at the intersection of affective science and natural language processing, including but not limited to: 1. The Nature of Affect and Computational Modeling of Emotions Computational experiments that add to our understanding of affect and emotions, including findings relevant to: - theories and nature of emotion - the biology or neuroscience of emotions - appraisal models - dimensional models (valence / arousal / dominance) - models of constructed emotion - cognitive-affective architectures - emotion dynamics (emergence, intensification, decay, transitions) - emotion granularity - emotion regulation - affective embodiment - evolutionary and developmental affect - emotion–cognition interactions These areas are relevant not just to human affect, but may also apply to data animals and artificial agents. 2. Affective Data and Resources Work on compiling and annotating affect-related information in text, speech, facial and bodily expression, and physiological signals (ECG, EEG, GSR, multimodal biosensing), with a focus on text data (monolingual or multilingual) and multimodal data suitable for an NLP venue. Data from underserved languages is especially encouraged. 3. Emotion Recognition, Prediction, and Inference At the instance level: - emotion classification (discrete emotions, dimensional ratings) - emotion intensity estimation - emotion cause detection - context-aware affect inference (culture, situation, social setting) - structured emotion analysis At the aggregate level: - creating emotion arcs - determining broad trends in emotions over time or across locations - tracking emotional responses toward entities of interest (e.g., climate change) - document-level and cross-document emotion analysis - labeling social networks 4. Applications Including but not limited to: - Affect and health, psychopathology, and mental disorders - Affect and behavior/social science (e.g., interpersonal affect, empathy, group-level affect, affect contagion, computational emotion regulation) - Affect and education - Affect and literature/narratives/digital humanities - Affect and commerce 5. Explainability and Interpretability in Computational Affective Models Work aimed at improving the transparency and interpretability of affective systems. This includes understanding how models represent and infer emotions and identifying key cues driving predictions. 6. Ethics, Fairness, Theory Integration, Philosophical Implications - Bias and generalizability of affective systems across demographics - Privacy and ethics in affective data collection - Examining whether automatic NLP systems rely on current and valid theories of affect and emotion - The implications of machines modeling or simulating affect - Societal considerations surrounding affective artificial agents ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ Submission deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Camera Ready Paper due: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 16 May 2026 ------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------ We invite submissions for archival long and short papers, as well as non-archival extended abstracts. Archival Track: Long Paper: Consists of up to 8 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Short Paper: Consists of up to 4 pages of content, with additional pages for references, limitations, ethical considerations, and appendices. Non-Archival Track: Extended Abstract: Up to 2 pages. ------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------ All submissions must use the LREC 2026 template and follow the guidelines found at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ Mandatory Ethics Section: We ask all authors to include a section on Ethical Considerations in their submission, touching on the ethical concerns and broader societal impacts of the work. This discussion section will not count towards the page limit. ------------ SUBMISSION SITE ------------ All submissions must be made through the SoftConf portal: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/CAS ------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------ Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Attendance: The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference (https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ ). ------------ ORGANIZERS ------------ Christopher Bagdon, University of Bamberg, Germany Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, National Research Council Canada Kristen A. Lindquist, The Ohio State University, USA Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg, Germany Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada ***Contact us at <cas-workshop(a)googlegroups.com> with any questions.***

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Call for papers and participation: the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) @ ACL 2026
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

The 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) (formerly CASE) @ ACL 2026 Also, this year the EEUCA workshop continues the tradition of the eight previous editions of our workshop on challenges and applications of event extraction. Website: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/EEUCA Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: April 15, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 Shared tasks and shared task papers: Start of the Competition: Dec 10, 2025 Eval Phase Start: Dec 10, 2025 Test Phase Start: Jan 15, 2026 Test Phase End: March 15, 2026 Paper Submission Deadline: March 28, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 We invite work on all aspects of automated coding and analysis of events from mono- or multi-lingual text sources. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events and their arguments in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) New datasets, training data collection and annotation for event information. 3) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatiotemporal relations, causal relations. 4) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 5) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 6) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 7) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 8) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 9) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, and policymaking. 10) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 11) Detection of new event types, e.g. creative protests, cyber activism, COVID-19 related, terrorism, food safety, food security, climate change, extreme weather events, disasters. 12) Release of new event datasets, 13) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 14) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 15) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 16) Cross-lingual, multilingual, and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 17) Exploiting LLMs in Event Extraction. 18) Generative AI and event reports: detecting AI-generated news, exploiting generative AI for creating event corpora, etc. Shared Task 1: Multimodal Identification of Vaccine Critical Content on Social Media This shared task focuses on detecting vaccine-critical stance in multimodal social media memes. Using the VaxMeme dataset of over 10,000 annotated memes, participants will develop models that jointly leverage visual and textual signals to classify a meme’s stance as pro-vaccine, vaccine-critical, or neutral. The task encourages research on cross-modal understanding, sarcasm, implicit messaging, and misinformation dynamics in public health discourse. External data and transfer learning are permitted, and submissions will be evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-vaccine Shared Task 2: Understanding Toxic Behavioral Intent in Gaming Chat Logs for Healthy Online Interaction This shared task tackles intent-level toxicity detection in online gaming communities using the GameTox dataset of 53,000 annotated chat utterances from World of Tanks. Participants will develop models that classify a player’s message into six fine-grained intent categories, including hate, threats, insults, extremism, and non-toxic communication. The challenge highlights contextual nuance, gaming slang, implicit aggression, and varied severity levels of toxicity. External datasets are allowed, and submissions are evaluated using macro-F1. All system description papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. Learn More: https://github.com/therealthapa/eeuca-toxicity Keep an eye on the workshop page that is being updated: https://bit.ly/EEUCA2026 and contact us for any inquiries (submission, collaboration, contribution, or just saying Hi! ). EEUCA Organization Committee

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