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Call for contribution - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM SAC 2027
by Patrizio Bellan 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

As Artificial Intelligence systems increasingly rely on both language understanding and structured knowledge, bridging Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering has become a central challenge for the next generation of intelligent systems. The rapid evolution of Large Language Models and knowledge-based AI is creating new opportunities—and new challenges—in how machines acquire, represent, connect, and reason over knowledge. Understanding language alone is no longer enough: modern AI systems must also be able to organize knowledge, integrate it with linguistic information, and use it effectively to support reasoning. As a result, the relationship between language, knowledge, and reasoning has emerged as one of the key research frontiers in contemporary Artificial Intelligence. The Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing investigates methods and applications at the intersection of *Knowledge Engineering* and *Natural Language Processing*, with particular emphasis on approaches that combine these two areas. KNLP is an emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field at the core of Artificial Intelligence. It brings together and complements scientific advances in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and related disciplines. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. *Natural Language Processing* - NLP methods for knowledge extraction - NLP for ontology population and ontology learning - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for knowledge-based applications - Interplay between natural language and ontologies - NLP for explainable knowledge - Machine translation techniques for multilingual knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small and large language models - Interaction between small or large language models and knowledge *Knowledge* - Knowledge-enhanced NLP - Knowledge for information retrieval - Knowledge-based sentiment analysis and opinion mining - Combining knowledge and deep learning for NLP - Knowledge technologies for the Web - Knowledge-enhanced agentic reasoning - Agent reasoning over knowledge graphs and ontologies - Knowledge-based agent personalization - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based natural language explainability - Language-model-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - Language-model-based agents for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation using small and large language models - Ontological knowledge representation and memorization in language models - Knowledge-based techniques for language models, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, fact-checking, and bias mitigation - Question answering over knowledge graphs using small and large language models *Real-World Applications Exploiting Knowledge and NLP* - Knowledge and NLP systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technologies supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment and evaluation of Knowledge and NLP systems in domains such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, healthcare, and medicine - News, media, and data-streaming environments *Paper Submission* We invite original research papers and experience reports addressing the topics listed above. Submissions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACM SAC proceedings template. Authors’ names and affiliations must be entered separately in the submission system and must not appear in the submitted manuscript. All submissions will undergo a *double-blind peer-review process* in accordance with ACM SAC regulations. Submissions to the *Student Research Competition (SRC)* are also welcome. Prospective authors should consult the SAC 2027 SRC page for eligibility requirements and submission instructions. *Submission Policy* - All papers must initially be submitted as *regular papers*. There is no separate submission category for poster papers. - Papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Depending on the outcome of the review process and the overall acceptance-rate constraints, technically sound submissions that cannot be accepted as regular papers may be offered acceptance as posters. - Although there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions shorter than *four full pages* that do not demonstrate a substantial contribution may be desk-rejected without external review. *Submission Links* - *Regular papers and SRC abstracts:* submission links are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> - *Author kit and templates:* formatting instructions and official templates are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> *Important Dates* Please consult the official ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/#important-dates> for up-to-date deadlines and possible changes. - *October 2, 2026:* Regular paper and SRC abstract submission - *November 13, 2026:* Author notification - *November 28, 2026:* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and SRC submissions - *December 5, 2026:* Author registration deadline - *April 5–9, 2027:* Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track at ACM SAC 2027 All deadlines follow the time zone specified on the official conference website. *Further Information* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track website <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and the ACM SAC 2027 conference website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/>. Questions may be addressed to the KNLP Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Call for Papers (Deadline Extended): End-to-End Research Workflow, Methods, and Applications for AI-Assisted Science (AIASci 2026)
by wei.zhao＠abdn.ac.uk 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

*AIASci 2026: End-to-End Research Workflow, Methods, and Applications for AI-Assisted Science* Deadline extended: September 18, 2026 Direct submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci Full-day workshop co-located with AIAS 2026 - November 7, 2026 in San Francisco, USA *Aim and Scope* Large (vision-) language models are transforming the practice of science — from literature search and hypothesis generation to automated experimentation, manuscript drafting, multimodal content creation, and peer review. The central question is no longer whether AI can assist with these tasks, but how such systems can support the end-to-end research workflow: sustaining long-horizon scientific reasoning, grounding their claims in causal and mechanistic understanding, adapting through interaction with real experimental environments, and serving as trustworthy partners across scientific disciplines. AIASci brings together researchers building systems that move beyond passive analysis toward sustained reasoning, causal understanding, adaptive learning, and iterative participation in scientific discovery. Mirroring the workshop's title, the program is structured along three intersecting pillars that submissions may combine freely. Scientific responsibility (ethics, reliability, and human oversight), runs as a unifying theme throughout, featured in invited talks, contributed papers, poster sessions, and a dedicated panel discussion. Website: https://aiasciworkshop.github.io/ *Topics of Interest* We welcome submissions on any aspect of human–AI collaboration for science, the capabilities that enable it, and the evaluation of AI-assisted scientific outputs. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Stages of the AI-Assisted Research Workflow - Literature search, synthesis, comparison, and recommendation - Hypothesis generation, research ideation, and idea refinement - Automated experimentation, AI agents, and AI-driven discovery - Text-based scientific content generation - Multimodal scientific content generation and understanding - AI-assisted peer review, claim verification, and meta-review generation (2) Methodological Capabilities - Long-context and sustained scientific reasoning - Causal inference and mechanistic understanding - Adaptive systems that learn through experimentation, feedback, and reflection - Verification, reliability, and reproducibility of scientific AI outputs - Human-in-the-loop and human–AI collaboration designs - Multimodal models, self-improvement, and memory for scientific AI systems - Evaluation of AI-assisted research workflows and their outputs (3) Scientific Domains and Applications - AI scientists for physics, mathematics, chemistry, materials science, biology, medicine, and related disciplines - AI for the social sciences and humanities - Cross-disciplinary case studies - AI-assisted reproductions of real scientific findings *Paper Submission* - Long papers: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references - Short papers: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references *Submission Modes* - Direct submissions: Receive up to three reviews and a final acceptance decision. - ARR commitments: Unpublished papers already reviewed through ACL Rolling Review may be committed to the workshop. - Non-archival and previously published papers *Submission Links* - Direct submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci - ARR commitments: https://openreview.net/group?id=aiasplus.org/AIAS/2026/Workshop/AIASci_ARR_… - Workshop website: https://aiasciworkshop.github.io/ *Important Dates* - Direct submission deadline (extended): September 18, 2026 - ARR commitment deadline: October 9, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2026 - Camera-ready papers due: October 26, 2026 - Previously published papers deadline: October 26, 2026 - AIASci 2026 workshop: November 7, 2026 *Organizing Committee* - Yong Cao, University of Tübingen - Steffen Eger, University of Technology Nuremberg - Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg - Yufang Hou, IT:U Austria and IBM Research - Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen Contact: yong.cao(a)uni-tuebingen.de

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ARR Job Advertisement: Workflow Manager
by ACL Announcements 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

ARR JOB ADVERTISEMENT: WORKFLOW MANAGER The Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR) seeks an additional workflow manager to support the regular operations of ARR's reviewing cycles, which take place every two months. This position sits at the heart of the peer-review infrastructure used by major ACL conferences, processing thousands of submissions and coordinating several thousand reviewers, area chairs, and senior area chairs every two months. The goal of this role is to support and extend ARR's use of OpenReview and its related internal tools. POSITION SUMMARY The workflow manager will: * Lead the implementation of the data manipulation on top of OpenReview required for the ARR peer-review process, including submission intake, reciprocal reviewing, reviewer, area-chair, and senior-area-chair assignments, availability and load tracking, withdrawal and desk-rejection handling, resubmission detection, bulk communication, and related workflows. * Maintain and extend ARR's internal Python tooling for bulk data reads and mutations. * Collaborate with the ARR team, including the Editors-in-Chief, CTOs, current workflow manager, and technical support team, to identify, design, and implement software solutions that streamline the ARR review process. * Work closely with the ARR team and conference program chairs to provide a smooth transition between the reviewing and commitment stages. * Collaborate with the ARR team and support the implementation of data-driven approaches to improve the ARR review process. * Support the creation of reports and statistics about the review process for the ARR team and conference program chairs throughout each cycle. * Provide troubleshooting and technical support regarding the OpenReview infrastructure to the ARR team, often on short turnaround while a cycle is active. REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: * Solid software-engineering training or equivalent practical experience. * Experience integrating solutions into legacy software and building on third-party platforms. * Solid programming skills in Python, particularly for data handling with pandas, CSV, and JSON and for writing command-line tools that use REST APIs. * Working knowledge of JavaScript and HTML for OpenReview process functions and interface customization. * Strong organizational and time-management skills and the ability to work according to a fixed cycle calendar with hard deadlines. * Demonstrated attention to detail, since errors may be visible to the entire ACL community and can be difficult to reverse. * Strong and responsive communication skills. * Knowledge of and experience with software version-control systems. The work is performed remotely. Interaction with the ARR team and conference program chairs will take place through online meetings and asynchronous communication. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The workflow manager works under the direct supervision of the ARR Editors-in-Chief and collaborates closely with the ARR CTOs, current workflow manager, technical support team, and conference program chairs. The desired start date is October 1, 2026. The workload varies throughout the reviewing cycles but averages approximately 20 hours per week. Because ARR follows a fixed cycle calendar, some periods have hard deadlines and require prompt communication. The annual compensation range is USD 30,000-40,000. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country from which they will perform the role. HOW TO APPLY To apply, submit: * A cover letter that includes your country of residence, current time zone, and typical working hours in that time zone. * A CV or résumé. * Names and contact information for three professional references. Applicants from all time zones are welcome. Availability that complements the current team's working hours is a plus but is not required. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Send application materials and questions to workflow-manager-search(a)aclrollingreview.org.

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Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #5 -- still time to register!
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

==> One more week to register! <== *** Reading with NARNiHS *** [reading group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics] ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3288 Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fifth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 24 September 2026, at 11:00 am US Eastern time / 5:00 pm European Central time and features Sandrine Tailleur with her recent historical morpho-syntactic work emphasizing the use of multiple types of data, including rich corpus data, to get a fuller picture in the investigation of the complex course of language change. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant venue for engagement with cutting-edge work in historical sociolinguistics, accessible to researchers at all levels. Reading with NARNiHS combines aspects of "meet the author" + "author interview" + "authors read their works" + "classic reading group discussion" as we interact together with new scholarship and its authors. Anna Havinga will be our moderator, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. So, please come along for an enriching one-hour exchange about the most current topics in historical sociolinguistics! To receive the Zoom link and the article we're going to discuss on 24 September, please sign up via the following form by Monday, 21 September 2026 (it takes less than a minute): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKs-ZDztlFQloZ1AUX8kSyb8dXlhJziCB… We are looking forward to seeing many of you on Thursday, 24 September 2026, for Reading with NARNiHS! The NARNiHS Steering Group

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free Corpus MOOC - running right now
by Brezina, Vaclav 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

Dear all, There is still time to register for the 8-week online course on corpus linguistics and emerging technologies. Simply select the 'Audit option' to join for free. The course has just begun, and it offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on analysing large amounts of language data. You will learn how to build and analyse your own corpus using the specialised software #LancsBox, and you will explore practical applications of corpus methods in areas such as social issues, language learning and language testing. You can also ask any questions about corpus linguistics research, and a team of dedicated tutors will be on hand to support you throughout the course. The best part is that there's no obligation-you can engage with as much or as little of the course as you wish. For registration go to: https://www.edx.org/learn/social-sciences/lancaster-university-corpus-lingu… Best regards, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina 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 C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DC27B2.DE8CE5B0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP-2027): FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
by Petya Osenova 12 Sep '26

12 Sep '26

RANLP-27 16th Conference RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/2027/ Summer school ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’: 1-3 September 2027 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 4-5 September 2027 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 6-8 September 2027 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and Shared Tasks: 9-10 September 2027 (Thursday-Friday) RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International summer schools ‘Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics’ which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995-2025) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known scientists. The Student Research Workshops (now in their 10th edition) have become active discussion forums for young researchers. After 2009, the papers accepted at the RANLP conferences and the associated workshops аre included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. The conference will be preceded by a summer school ‘Deep learning ad Large Language Models for NLP’, tutorials on current hot topics and will be followed by specialised workshops and shared tasks in advanced subfields of NLP. Confirmed keynote speakers: Barbara Plank (LMU Munich), Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University Roma), Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI Abu Dhabi), Kristina Toutanova (Google, Seattle), Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University), Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Expected conference submission deadline(s): TBC soon Call for workshop and shared tasks proposals: November 2026 Venue: RANLP-27 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel ‘Cherno Mor<http://www.chernomorebg.com/>e’. The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. Varna is a major tourist destination with numerous flights to/from the Varna International Airport. Team behind RANLP 2027: * Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) * Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK and University of Alicante, Spain (PC Chair) * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Workshops and Shared tasks Co-Chair, Summer School Co-Director) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Summer School Co-Director) * Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) * Marie Escribe, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (Publication Co-Chair and OC Team Co-Leader) * Ernesto Estevanell, University of Alicante, Spain (Publication Co-Chair) * Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (OC Team Co-Leader) * Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria * Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE * Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair)

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2nd CfP: 10th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-10)
by Antti Arppe 12 Sep '26

12 Sep '26

ComputEL-10: Tenth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Second CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop dates: March 2-3, 2027 Place: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (hybrid) Submission deadline: October 2, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/p/ComputEL2027 ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do **not** have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submissions that present their work from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on one of three areas: (i) Academic: develop new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource, and in particular, endangered languages; propose models in the study or processing of under-documented languages; or evaluate tools or methods for curation and analysis of data in such languages, oriented towards language documentation, description, reclamation and revitalization; (ii) Community: develop new technology toward the goals of language reclamation, revitalization, including language teaching and acquisition; propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols and involvement; describes new uses of language technology by the language's community; (iii) Collaboration: describe challenges and rewards in past or on-going collaboration and interaction among computer scientists and/or documentary linguists that involve(d) language communities; formulate concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. Note: priority will be given to descriptions of actual collaborations (successful or unsuccessful) over proposals or position papers. (For an example, see Cox et al. 2025: https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.12/) IMPORTANT DATES 2 October, 2026 Deadline for submission of papers 13 November 2026 Notification of Acceptance 2-3 March 2027 Workshop SUBMISSIONS We offer two types of submissions: abstracts and papers. Please carefully read the requirements below. Submissions that do not fulfill all relevant requirements will be desk-rejected. The type of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be anonymous. Both submission types have the same deadline. Authors may submit no more than two submissions where they are co-author. In no case may an author submit more than one individually- or first-authored submission. Authors must submit and present in English. Proposals will undergo blind review, so please do not list your name, affiliation, or contact information within the file. (Author names appearing in reference lists or citations are fine and do not need to be anonymized.) ABSTRACTS Abstracts clearly describe the content that author intends to present to the ComputEL-10 audience. Abstracts are max. 800 words not including title or references. Abstracts will NOT be published (in the Proceedings of the workshop in ACL Anthology). Abstracts are intended for academics not accustomed to publishing in proceedings or non-academic community members wishing to share with and receive feedback from the other communities. Upload your abstract as a PDF or MS Word file. PAPERS Paper submissions can be of two lengths: short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) paper. The length of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Both paper types must include a section on ethical consideration and a section on limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. Papers must follow the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions that violate anonymity, exceed the length requirements, or are missing an ethics or a limitations section will be desk rejected. ACL has discontinued making available a submission template for Microsoft Word. Therefore, we strongly recommend using the above LaTeX template with Overleaf, which enables WYSIWYG editing. Nevertheless, we do allow the use of the older ACL Microsoft Word template: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/. While we intend to help accepted authors convert their paper into a format acceptable for ACL Anthology, we may not be able to resolve all potential discrepancies. Therefore, using the MS Word template may run the risk of not being accepted for publication. If you wish assistance with LaTeX, please email soon. A. Short Paper: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. They are max. 4 pages excluding references and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. A short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers have a small, focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”). Recommended topics for short papers include pilot studies, negative results, opinion pieces, interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of initial collaborative teamwork. B. Long Paper: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. Wherever appropriate, concrete qualitative and quantitative evaluation and analysis should be included. Naturally, the evaluation of a collaborative process may take a different form in comparison to that of a language-technological app or tool. SUPPORT FOR PARTICIPATION We may be able to provide some support for the participation of individuals without institutional support. Authors will be provided information on how to submit an application for such support after they have submitted an abstract or paper to the workshop. PROCEEDINGS The Organizing Committee will select from the papers (excluding all abstracts) that have been accepted for presentation at the workshop for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the publication. Long and short papers that are accepted for publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references and ethics and limitations sections. Papers accepted for inclusion in the Anthology must be revised versions of the work that underwent ComputEL-10 review. Revisions and improvements should address reviewer comments or add relevant details and clarifications, but should not include entirely new, unreviewed content. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-10 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-10/ Organizing Committee Email: 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 - 21c.tools Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy
by ACL Announcements 11 Sep '26

11 Sep '26

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy In light of challenges with unsustainable rate of submissions at EMNLP'26, ACL Peer Review Standing Committee has developed a proposal for a sustainable reviewing policy. It has now been approved by ACL exec team, and it will apply for submissions to ACL Rolling Review (ARR) starting from October 2026. TLDR: ARR faces a reviewing crisis: submissions are growing far faster than reviewer capacity. 38% of the ~17K May 2026 submissions came from authors with no available publication record, and there are cases of outright spam, for which we so far had no established protocols. **The proposal:** cap reviewed submissions to available reviewer capacity. Each submission must "pay" for itself by providing a qualified service contributor (reviewer or chair). Submissions without service capacity go into a lottery for whatever spare capacity remains. Service from qualified contributors counts towards the venue capacity, and a mentorship system will be built up for those not qualified yet. If a qualified service contributor is not available among the authors, non-author designated contributors can be nominated, but must vouch for the work (arXiv-endorsement style). Measures for system abuse will be implemented. For example, accounts that systematically submit or endorse low-quality work, and accounts that misuse the system in other ways, will be penalized or even banned. Additionally, per-author quotas are introduced, where authors are capped at 20 total submissions and 5 first-author (including shared first-author) submissions per cycle. **Offsetting measures:** to keep things as inclusive as possible, reviewer qualification criteria are being broadened (already implemented in Aug 2026), with further proposals for a manual application path for those with equivalent experience, a mentor-matching program for newcomers, and a certification path to let experienced secondary reviewers become fully qualified. Please see the proposal for more details: <LINK HERE> The new reviewer qualifications, capping of reviewing to available capacity, AND requirements for all authors to have completed OpenReview profiles including ORCiD come into effect immediately, and will apply to submissions to NAACL and COLING 2026 (ARR submission deadline - October 12). We advise the following steps for those who are planning to make a submission for NAACL/COLING: 1) **Make sure that ALL co-authors have OpenReview profiles including ORCiD - and, if available, DBLP/ACL Anthology links**. It was previously possible for some co-authors to only be registered by email, but this will no longer be possible. Since it may take a while to coordinate with all authors, we recommend everyone to do this as soon as possible. The OpenReview profiles can be registered and updated before the official submission form opens. 2) Check the new reviewer qualifications, and decide who will serve as the designated service contributor. Further make sure that this person has a full OpenReview profile with all publications, is qualified to review, and will not be named on more than two submissions. Any submissions with over-committed service contributors will be subset to max capacity randomly. The submissions that do not provide service capacity will enter a lottery, and may be assigned to reviewers or desk rejected based on available capacity. 3) The designated service contributor will need to vouch that the submission is at the expected quality level: ready for consideration for acceptance at a top-tier conference. 4) Those who are not yet qualified in terms of past publications, but have a stellar record of reviewing or secondary reviewing at ARR, will be able apply for manual verification. Early applications are highly encouraged, close-to-deadline requests for manual verification may not get processed on time. 5) Check the new service obligations: if a designated service contributor has any emergencies, the responsibility to notify about that and to provide a suitable and willing replacement is now on them. Otherwise any submissions they are serving for, and any they co-author, will be desk rejected. 6) Make sure that you are not planning more than 20 submissions, and not more than 5 as a first or joing-first author. The updated reviewer qualifications are as follows: - Those who have obtained their PhDs and/or have senior academic positions (postdoc/faculty), automatically qualify if they have at least 2 publications in major ACL events, Findings of the ACL, or major ML venues. - Doctoral students (but not bachelor and master students), as well as industry researchers with at least a Masters degree, automatically qualify if they have at least 2 publications in major ACL events or Findings or major ML venues and a total of >= 3 publications in total. - Those who do not automatically qualify by these criteria can serve as secondary reviewers, mentored by a qualified primary reviewer (see (4) below), but cannot be designated service contributors by themselves. Venues considered 'major ACL' are: ACL, CL, COLING, CoNLL, EACL, EMNLP, HLT, IJCNLP / AACL, LREC, NAACL, TACL, *SEM. Venues considered 'major ML' are: AAAI, COLM, CVPR, ECCV, FAccT, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, JAIR, JMLR, NeurIPS, TMLR, TPAMI. Venues considered major may be expanded over time and additional qualification criteria may be added over time as appropriate. The ARR submission form opens two weeks in advance (available from September 28 for October'26 review cycle). ARR team is currently working on an automated tool to check reviewer qualifications and streamline applications for manual verification. This tool will be announced separately as soon as possible, and linked from the submission form. ACL Peer Review Standing Committee https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-peer-review-standing-committee

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PhD position in Linguistic Annotation with LLMs at the University of Tartu, Estonia
by Kristiina Vaik 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, The Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) <https://digits.ut.ee/> at the University of Tartu is looking for a full-time doctoral researcher to work on linguistic annotation with large language models. * Research topic: Linguistic Annotation with LLMs * Supervisor: Prof. Maciej Eder (University of Tartu; Polish Academy of Sciences) * Position: Junior Research Fellow (full-time) * Duration: Four years, starting in autumn 2026 * Application period: 15-30 September 2026 * Requirements: A master’s degree or equivalent qualification and proficiency in English The project will use a series of experiments to investigate how effectively different types of LLMs can perform linguistic annotation tasks, evaluated against human-annotated gold-standard datasets, particularly in scenarios for which the models were not optimized. Further information and application details: https://digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/ Please feel free to share this announcement with interested candidates. All the best, Kristiina Vaik Research fellow in Digital Humanities University of Tartu, Estonia

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Third call for papers for NLP4CALL 2026
by Arianna Masciolini 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Third call for papers for NLP4CALL 2026 November 19-20, 2026. Gothenburg, Sweden and online https://nlp4call.github.io/current/ ________________________________________________________________________________ We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day hybrid event that will take place on November 19-20, 2026. Onsite participation will be possible at the Humanisten building of the University of Gothenburg (Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, Sweden) and a link for remote participation will be shared closer to the workshop dates. Both onsite and online participation are free of charge. Contents: - Workshop description - Submission information - Important dates - Registration - Invited speakers - Organizers - Contact - Funding Workshop description ________________________________________________________________________________ The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising from this connection. The latter includes, among others, the integration of insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, and the promotion of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructures. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research — Intelligent CALL, or short, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into SLA theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop therefore invites a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential use in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application, or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL; - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year, the workshop has a special focus on process-oriented approaches to educational NLP, including but not limited to work related to the collection and analysis of keystroke data from langauge learners. Submission information ________________________________________________________________________________ Submissions should describe original unpublished complete or in-progress work and follow the ACL Guidelines for Generative Assistance in Authorship (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…). Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published both in the NEALT Proceeding Series and through the ACL anthology. We accept short, long and demo papers, all of which have to adhere to the following page limits: - short and demo papers: between 4 and 7 pages - long papers: between 8 and 12 pages. Also note that: - references and appendices do not count towards these page limits - the main body of the paper has to be self-contained, as reviewers are not required to read any appendices - camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be allowed an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should be submitted as PDFs through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=7836699869611025050.1789051827.85f55…). LaTeX and Word templates are available at https://github.com/NLP4CALL/nlp4call.github.io/blob/website/_includes/other…. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ - paper submission deadline: September 24, 2026 - notification of acceptance: October 15, 2026 - camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2026 - workshop: November 19-20, 2026 All deadlines are AoE. Registration ________________________________________________________________________________ Registrations are open! You can find the registration form at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Me2YB7D1NUmGPHPuJQ…. Invited speakers ________________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Andrea Horbach: A Focus on the Writing Process With and Without AI Support: Insights from the German PISA 2025 Foreign Language Assessment Data Collection Bio: Andrea Horbach has been professor for Educational NLP at Kiel University and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) since 2024. Her research interests include free-text scoring, argument mining, automated feedback, and the use of process data for assessment. She is particularly interested in developing explainable and fair methods that support human agency in writing and assessment processes. Abstract: Automated essay scoring has traditionally focused on the text as the final written product. More recently, corpora that include keylogging data have made it possible to shift the focus toward writing as a process: to investigate how students write and revise their texts, and to explore whether scoring models can provide useful feedback before the final essay is completed. Moreover, AI-based writing support is becoming increasingly available, but we still know comparatively little about how students actually use such systems while writing. In this talk, I will give an overview of ongoing work based on data from the German PISA 2025 foreign language assessment. The data combine final essays and their scores with intermediate text states, keylogging information, and interaction logs from an LLM-based writing support chatbot. I will present first results on how intermediate texts and process information can be used as early evidence for automated scoring, and how students interact with AI support during writing. I will conclude by discussing what these data can tell us about timely feedback, the interpretation of process evidence, and the role of AI support in computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Rianne Conijn: Moving beyond the product: Keystroke Logging for CALL Bio: Rianne Conijn is an assistant professor in learning analytics in the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on developing methods to capture and model learning behavior (e.g., self-regulated learning) and writing behavior (e.g., revision processes), using fine-grained behavioral data, such as keystroke and clickstream data. In addition, she uses these methods to examine how educational technologies, such as generative AI, affect the learning process. Rianne recently received a NWO Veni grant on “Human-Centered AI in education” where she aims to improve human-AI collaboration in writing in higher education. Abstract: This abstract has been rewritten by me and polished with AI several times, yet you only read this final version. The final product of writing reveals little of the cognitive and behavioural activities involved in producing it. Keystroke logging, e.g. using Inputlog, can provide detailed insights into how writing unfolds. However, its value depends on how we interpret and analyse these data. In this talk, I show how keystroke data can inform our understanding of students’ writing at three levels, each making different aspects of the process visible and each requiring its own analytical choices. The micro level covers individual key events and short sequences, for instance showing that pauses cannot simply be equated with planning. The meso level characterizes how a writing session unfolds over time, revealing patterns that can inform writing instruction that whole-session averages obscure. The macro level extends the analysis across a project, tracing activity across sessions, drafts, and changing task demands. Finally, I discuss how these perspectives can help us investigate writing with generative AI, drawing on ongoing research into students’ master thesis writing. Together, these perspectives show how analysing writing at different levels can deepen our understanding of how students produce texts, both with and without generative AI. Organizers ________________________________________________________________________________ - Arianna Masciolini, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - David Alfter, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Herbert Lange, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway - Elena Volodina, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ For more information about the workshop, you are welcome to reach out to nlp4call2026(a)easychair.org. Funding ________________________________________________________________________________ This workshop is jointly supported by: - Språkbanken – jointly funded by its 10 partner institutions and the Swedish Research Council (2025–2028; project id 2023-00161); - Huminfra; - the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology; - the IncluEdS project.

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SemEval-2027 Task 5 CfP: Noun Compound and Particle Verb Compositionality Prediction in Context (ComPartMent)
by Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

We are pleased to announce the SemEval-2027 Task on *Noun Compound and Particle Verb Compositionality Prediction in Context* (ComPartMent). We introduce a shared task on in-context compositionality prediction: given a target multiword expression (a noun compound such as glass ceiling or a particle verb such as take off) and a sentence in which that expression is used, systems are expected to output numerical scores reflecting human ordinal compositionality ratings for the target expression in that context. Our task addresses the compositionality prediction problem from several novel angles. We incorporate two types of multiword expressions (noun compounds and particle verbs) in two languages (English and German). For each of the 1,539 target expressions, we draw on two types of corpora (present-day and historical data) to provide ≈10 example sentences, each labeled with human ordinal compositionality ratings. *Example ratings * (Scale: 0/clearly non-compositional - 5/clearly compositional) *Noun compound examples (compound-modifier / compound-head ratings) *she propelled herself into the firing line in taking the stance she did (0.6 / 0.7) our flea market will feature some of the most creative individuals (0.0 / 4.7) *Particle verb examples (overall rating)* it’s gonna get very cold so pull up your leggings (4.8) I will probably wind up as a Web Haunter […] blogging for eternity (0.2) How to participate *Task website*: https://sites.google.com/view/semeval-compartment *Task data, registration, and submissions*: CodaBench <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17971/> Important dates September 5, 2026: Trial data release September 8, 2026: Training data release January 10, 2027: Evaluation start January 31, 2027: Evaluation end Organizers Filip Miletić, Chris Jenkins, Sabine Schulte im Walde Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart Contact: semeval-compartment (at) ims (dot) uni-stuttgart (dot) de -- Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universität Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 5b 70569 Stuttgart, Germany fon: +49 (711) 685-84584 email:schulte@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

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Open PhD position at Helsinki-NLP
by Mickus, Timothee 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear all, [Apologies for cross-posting] The Language Technology research unit at the University of Helsinki ("Helsinki-NLP") seeks to recruit one fully funded NLP PhD student for a duration of 3 years, with extension by up to 1 extra year. The PhD will focus on the role of pretraining data on cross-lingual transfer for factual tasks — whether data available in one language can be leveraged by multilingual LLMs to produce factually correct text in another language, and conversely, whether failure to do so can be leveraged to identify and characterize pre-training data gaps. The PhD will be conducted under the supervision of Jörg Tiedemann and Timothee Mickus; the position is expected to start on January 1st, although adjustments may be possible. The position will be held within the Helsinki-NLP team (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/), focusing on the FLaM project (https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/flam/). We invite applications from students currently holding a masters in computational linguistics, NLP, machine learning, or any adjacent field and not have been enrolled previously in another PhD programme. Applicants are to send an email to timothee.mickus(a)helsinki.fi and jorg.tiedemann(a)helsinki.fi with the following subject line: “[crosslingual fact transfer, PhD application]”, and must provide the following: - A curriculum vitae detailing their education (max 1 page) - The name and email of one reference (ideally a former supervisor, e.g. for a masters’ thesis) - A research statement (max 500 words), describing how the applicant’s interest aligns with the topic outlined above and what they expect to achieve through the PhD - Transcript with grades received Full consideration will be given to applications received before September 30th; the position will remain open until filled. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly for an interview. We emphasize matching research interests during the assessment of applications, and will not factor in quantitative indicators (such as number of publications, etc.), in line with DORA practices. Please forward this call to anyone who might be interested! Best regards, Timothee Mickus Research Fellow University of Helsinki

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CFP SemEval-2027 Task 4: Par-PARSEME - a multilingual shared task on paraphrasing of idioms
by Agata Savary 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Par-PARSEME - a multilingual shared task on paraphrasing of idioms https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:par-parseme Overview --------------- The PARSEME and UniDive communities are happy to introduce the Par-PARSEME, task 4 in SemEval-2027. It is a follow-up of previous shared tasks organized by PARSEME. Par-PARSEME is a shared task whose goal is to assess systems’ ability to **paraphrase idioms** in written texts. Idioms, such as a hot dog or to pull one’s leg, are subsets of multiword expressions (MWEs), and are combinations of words exhibiting non-compositional semantics. This makes them challenging for semantic tasks like paraphrasing. For instance, a hot dog can be paraphrased as a bread roll with a hot sausage but not as #a warm dog or #dog which is hot. The input for this task is a raw sentence containing exactly one idiom not explicitly marked in text. Systems must paraphrase the sentence so that the original idiom no longer occurs (which requires idiom identification), but the meaning is kept. For all details, see the Par-PARSEME website. Evaluation is done along 2 axes: **performance** (automatic and manual measures) and **diversity** (automatic measures). Quick links --------------- * Par-PARSEME website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:par-parseme * SemEval 2027 webpage: https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2027/tasks * Par-PARSEME data repository: https://gitlab.com/parseme/sharedtask-data/-/tree/master/par-parseme?ref_ty… * Mailing list for the shared task participants: https://groups.google.com/g/par-parseme-semeval-2025 * Mailing list to contact the shared task organizers: parseme dash core at lisn DOT upsaclay DOT fr * Expression of interest form: https://forms.gle/yUbc2FWhPUU41Wma7 * Baseline system: https://github.com/racai-ai/mwe_baseline Languages --------------- Thirteen languages are covered in the training data: French, Georgian, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The test data will cover the same languages, and possibly also English and Serbian (to be confirmed). Data --------------- The Par-PARSEME Gitlab repository contains: * training data with 60 to 150 data points per language * tiny trial data in English and French to illustrate the expected outcomes and file formats * tools for system evaluation and file format validation * baseline results obtained by the baseline system which we make available to the participants Test data will contain about 100 sentences per language. Important dates --------------- * 8 September 2026: Publication of the training data * early January 2027: Evaluation starts * January 31, 2027: Evaluation ends * February 2027 (tentative): Submission of system description papers * March 2027 (tentative): Notification to authors * April 2027 (tentative): Camera-ready due * Summer 2027: SemEval-2027 workshop, co-located with a major NLP conference Organizers --------------- Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université, LIS, France Agata Savary, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Takuya Nakamura, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Éric Bilinski, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Manon Scholivet, Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, France Advisory board --------------- 20 PARSEME native experts of the 13 participating languages

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Call for Participatio: ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] Call for Participatio n LaTeLL (https://latell.org/2026/) is the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of low-resource languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, with particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. The draft conference programme is available at https://latell.org/2026/draft-programme/. For registration details, please follow the registration link on the conference website. We would be delighted to welcome you to Fes! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/

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CFP for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2026 @ Melbourne, Australia
by Wei Zhang 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the deadline of archival paper submission to ALTA'26 has been extended to 18 September. Details are available on our website at https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates - Submission deadline (long and short papers): 18 September 2026 - Submission deadline for presentation abstracts and non-archival papers: 9 October 2026. - Author notification: 23 October 2026 - ALTA 2026: 30 November - 2 December 2026 Overview The 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2026) will be held in person at Deakin University Downtown Campus, Melbourne, from 30 November to 2 December 2026. ALTA is the key local forum for presenting and discussing research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). The workshop will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published online in the ACL Anthology and on the ALTA website. Papers will be presented either as oral or poster presentations at the workshop. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2026 Conference Rankings as Australasian C. Topics - Commonsense Reasoning. - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. - Dialogue and Interactive Systems. - Discourse and Pragmatics. - Efficient Methods for NLP. - Ethics in NLP. - Information Extraction. - Information Retrieval and Text Mining. - Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. - Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. - Machine Learning for NLP. - Machine Translation. - Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. - Natural Language Generation. - NLP Applications. - Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. - Question Answering. - Resources and Evaluation. - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. - Speech and Multimodality. - Summarisation. - Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) Archival Submissions, and Non-Archival Submissions. Please refer to our CfP webpagehttps://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers for specifics. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associatio...<https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati…> LinkedIn (group): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ X: https://x.com/altanlp Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2026 Team: Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, General Chair Prof Massimo Piccardi, Program Chair Dr Ming Liu, Program Chair Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Program Chair Dr Zhuang Li, Publication Chair Mong Yuan Sim, PhD candidate, Publication Chair Aymen Rayane Khouas, PhD candidate, Technology Chair Dr Fatima Ansarizadeh, Sponsorship Chair Sara Mirabi, PhD candidate, Local Chair Saeedeh Javadi, PhD candidate, Local Chair A/Prof Wei (Emma) Zhang, Publicity Chair

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Nominations requested for the governance of the European Chapter of ACL
by ACL Announcements 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

Dear EACL member, This is addressed to all members of the European Chapter of ACL. We have a total of five open roles in the EACL governance structure. As Chair-elect, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Malvina Nissim (https://lnkd.in/dFPw2ANM [1] ), University of Groningen, NL As Secretary, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Simon Ostermann (https://lnkd.in/d9dQrYP7 [2]), DFKI Saarbrücken, DE As board members, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Agata Savary (https://lnkd.in/d6YMrmrz [3] ), Université Paris-Saclay , France - Ella Rabinovich (https://lnkd.in/dyif8eVQ [4]), Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel- Georg Rehm (http://georg-re.hm [5] ), DFKI Berlin, Germany Any further nominations (from EMEA members for EMEA members only and supported by at least three EACL members) must be sent to the EACL Secretary by email (eacl-secretary(a)aclweb.org) by October 1st, 2026. Evidence must be presented that the nominee will serve if elected. If there are further nominations, there will be a ballot of Chapter members. Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi - EACL Secretary - Links: ------ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2FdFPw2ANM&… [2] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fd9dQrYP7&… [3] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fd6YMrmrz&… [4] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2Fdyif8eVQ&… [5] https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorg-re%2Ehm&urlhash=…

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UCCTS 2027 - Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (9th edition)
by Karakanta, A. 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

*Leiden University Centre for Linguistics is organising the 9th edition of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference series in 2027.* UCCTS conference is a biennial international conference which was launched by Richard Xiao in 2008 to provide an international forum for the exploration of the theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation/interpreting studies. Since 2008 UCCTS conference series that took place, among other, in Louvain-la-Neuve (2018), Bertinoro (2021), Poznań (2023) and Hildesheim (2025) has played a key role in advancing contrastive and translation studies by giving scholars of the sister disciplines the opportunity to meet and engage in discussions on research outcomes and ideas on how to effectively apply, enhance and further develop corpus methods to move both fields forward. A selection of papers presented at UCCTS appeared in special issues of journals important in both fields or edited volumes published, for example, by Routledge or Bloomsbury. The 9th edition of the UCCTS conference will be held on *9-11th June 2027 in Leiden, the Netherlands*. The conference is planned to be an on-site event. However, we will try to also organise virtual presentation options. *CALL FOR PAPERS* UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). *Conference topics* include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) * Corpora and linguistic resources for low resource languages The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between *800* and *1000* words long (excluding references) by *20th November 2027*. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted in pdf through theOpen review system <https://openreview.net/group?id=UCCTS/2027/Conference#tab-your-consoles> and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. * Important dates* * Conference abstract submission due: 20 November 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 29 January 2027 * Final abstract version due: 19 February 2027 * Registration open: 26 February 2027 * Early-bird registration: 9 April 2027 * *Conference date*: 9-11 June 2027 *For questions and requests, please contact uccts2027(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl*

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Nominations requested for the governance of the European Chapter of ACL
by Nina Tahmasebi 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear EACL member, This email is addressed to all members of the European Chapter of ACL. We have a total of five open roles in the EACL governance structure. As Chair-elect, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Malvina Nissim (https://malvinanissim.github.io/ ), University of Groningen, NL As Secretary, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Simon Ostermann (https://simonost.github.io/home/), DFKI Saarbrücken, DE As board members, the EACL Nominating Committee has nominated: - Agata Savary (https://perso<https://perso/>.lisn.upsaclay.fr/savary/ ), Université Paris-Saclay , France - Ella Rabinovich (https://www.int.mta.ac.il/faculty-members/dr.-ella-rabinovich), Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel - Georg Rehm (http://georg-re.hm ), DFKI Berlin, Germany Any further nominations (from EMEA members for EMEA members only and supported by at least three EACL members) must be sent to the EACL Secretary by email (eacl-secretary(a)aclweb.org) by October 1st, 2026. Evidence must be presented that the nominee will serve if elected. If there are further nominations, there will be a ballot of Chapter members. Best regards, Nina Tahmasebi – EACL Secretary – Nina N. Tahmasebi, Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better" -Samuel Beckett

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Cf Participation SemEval-2027 Task 3: Semantic Change Across Multiple Time Periods.
by Nina Tahmasebi 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for SemEval-2027 Task 3: Semantic Change Across Multiple Time Periods. SemEval-2027 Task 3 investigates how word meanings evolve across multiple historical time periods. While previous shared tasks have focused on comparisons between just two time points, this task extends the setting to ten time periods, using a multilingual benchmark of approximately 120,000 human annotations, allowing participants to model the evolution of individual word senses over time. The benchmark spans six languages annotated across ten time periods ranging roughly 1880--2023: Swedish, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian (140 words in total). The task consists of two subtasks: - Subtask 1: Diachronic Word Sense Induction – discover how word meanings evolve over time without predefined sense inventories. Evaluated via two tracks: Track 1a, Diachronic Sense Assignment (BCubed F1), and Track 1b, Sense Dynamics (Spearman's rank correlation over Jensen-Shannon Divergence). - Subtask 2: Hypothesis-Driven Change Detection – given a target sense definition, identify which usages express that sense. Evaluated via Average F1-score. Register now to participate: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17510/ Important Dates: - Training data ready: 1 September 2026 - Evaluation period: 10–31 January 2027 - Subtask 1: 10–21 January 2027 - Subtask 2: 22–31 January 2027 - Paper submission: February 2027 - Notification to authors: March 2027 - Camera-ready due: April 2027 - SemEval workshop: Summer 2027 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Additional Information: - Task website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2027-semeval/ - Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/semeval2027-task3-SCxMTP Organizers: Nina Tahmasebi, Pierluigi Cassotti, Felix Morger, Lucia Siciliani, Eduardo Calò, Pablo Mosteiro, Stefano De Pascale, and Mariia Fedorova We look forward to your participation! Nina N. Tahmasebi, Professor Change is Key! • University of Gothenburg nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “Intelligence + Effort = Achievement" S. Mendaglio

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[CFP] ACLing 2026 – 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics | Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026
by Khaled Shaalan 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

============================================================ ACLing 2026 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics 25–26 November 2026 | Multi-Site Hybrid Conference 📍 The British University in Dubai (BUiD), Dubai, UAE 📍 Jadara University, Jordan 🌐 Virtual Participation Worldwide Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER Conference Website: https://acling.org/ ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2026) invites researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry professionals worldwide to submit original research contributions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Computational Linguistics. ACLing 2026 will be held on 25–26 November 2026 as a Multi-Site Hybrid Conference, connecting two physical conference hubs in Dubai, UAE, and Jordan with synchronous virtual participation worldwide. Authors may participate and present: • In person at The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE • In person at Jadara University, Jordan • Virtually from anywhere in the world Two Countries. Two Physical Hubs. One International Research Community. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== • Paper Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026 • Acceptance Notification: 20 October 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 30 October 2026 • Author Registration: 10 November 2026 • Conference: 25–26 November 2026 ============================================================ PUBLICATION & VISIBILITY ======================== All accepted and presented papers will be published in Procedia Computer Science (ISSN: 1877-0509) by ELSEVIER. Peer-reviewed research articles published in Procedia Computer Science are: • Published Open Access on ScienceDirect • Assigned a DOI • Indexed in Scopus • Ranked by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) • Covered by major scholarly indexing and abstracting services Previous ACLing proceedings have also been catalogued in DBLP. Previous ACLing proceedings published by Elsevier include ACLing 2017, ACLing 2018, ACLing 2021, ACLing 2024, and ACLing 2025. ============================================================ TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== ACLing 2026 welcomes original research addressing theoretical foundations, algorithms, architectures, resources, evaluation, and practical applications in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs): Architecture, Optimization, and Applications • Generative AI and Emerging Language Technologies • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Information Retrieval • Conversational AI, Dialogue Systems, and AI Agents • Advanced Information Retrieval and Question Answering • Knowledge and Information Extraction • Statistical and Neural Language Modeling • Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual NLP • Multilingual NLP, Code-Switching, and Low-Resource Languages • AI for Resource-Poor and Endangered Languages • Speech Technologies and Multimodal Language Interfaces • Vision-Language Models and Multimodal AI • Domain-Specific NLP: Legal, Biomedical, Scientific, and Educational • Syntactic Analysis, Tagging, and Parsing • Semantics, Pragmatics, and Commonsense Reasoning • Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis • NLP for Social Media and Computational Social Science • Text Summarization and Natural Language Generation • Text Classification, Topic Modeling, and Document Understanding • Text Mining and Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery • Responsible, Ethical, and Interpretable AI • Human-Centered NLP • Benchmarking, Evaluation Metrics, and Explainability • Prompt Engineering and Reinforcement Learning for NLP • AI-Augmented Writing, Reading, and Translation Tools Interdisciplinary contributions and innovative applications of AI to language technologies are particularly encouraged. ============================================================ SUBMISSION & REVIEW =================== ACLing 2026 welcomes original, unpublished work that is not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted papers will undergo peer review by experts in the field. Paper length: • Regular papers: 3–8 pages, including figures, tables, and references • Extended papers: Up to 10 pages, subject to the applicable additional-page fee Each accepted paper must be presented by at least one author for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Submit your paper through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ ============================================================ WHY ACLing 2026? ================ ACLing provides an international forum for researchers working at the rapidly evolving intersection of AI and language technologies. The 2026 edition expands the conference's international reach through a multi-site hybrid format, enabling researchers to connect and present their work across the UAE, Jordan, and the global virtual research community. ACLing offers: • International research visibility • Elsevier Procedia Computer Science publication • Open-access publication on ScienceDirect • Scopus-indexed proceedings • Opportunities for international research collaboration • Interaction with researchers in AI, NLP, and Computational Linguistics • Flexible physical and virtual presentation options ============================================================ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== • Prof. Khaled Shaalan The British University in Dubai, UAE • Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy Newgiza University, Egypt ============================================================ USEFUL LINKS ============ Conference Website: https://acling.org/ Call for Papers: https://acling.org/call-for-papers/ Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acling2026 Submission Guidelines: https://acling.org/submission/ Previous ACLing Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html ============================================================ CONTACT ======= General inquiries: [ACLing2026@gmail.com](mailto:ACLing2026@gmail.com) Prof. Khaled Shaalan: [khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae](mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae) Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: [samhaa@computer.org](mailto:samhaa@computer.org) Dr. Taher M. Ghazal: [taher.ghazal@ieee.org](mailto:taher.ghazal@ieee.org) ============================================================ We look forward to welcoming you to ACLing 2026 and receiving your research contributions. Please feel free to circulate this Call for Papers among interested colleagues, research groups, students, and professional networks. ACLing 2026 25–26 November 2026 Dubai • Jordan • Worldwide Online https://acling.org/

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2nd CfP: Computer Speech & Language Special Issue in Conjunction with INLG 2026
by Saad Mahamood 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Computer Speech & Language on: Spoken Language Generation: Methods, Evaluation, and Applications. The special issue is organised in conjunction with INLG 2026 and will focus on research at the intersection of natural language generation and speech technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Content planning, dialogue act realisation, surface realisation, and end-to-end approaches to spoken language generation Language generation for text-to-speech and speech-to-speech systems Prosody-, emotion-, persona-, and audience-aware spoken language generation Multimodal generation involving speech, gesture, gaze, and embodied interaction Spoken language generation in multilingual, cross-lingual, code-switching, and low-resource settings Evaluation of spoken NLG Robustness, factuality, safety, and responsible deployment of spoken language generation systems The strongest papers accepted at INLG 2026 will have the opportunity to submit an extended versions of their work to the special issue. Submissions are also warmly welcomed from the wider research community and are not limited to INLG 2026 participants. Submission deadline: 31 December 2026 Review process: rolling review, beginning immediately upon receipt of each submission Editorial decisions: no later than two months from the submission date of each paper Further information and submission details: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/336863/spoken-language-generati… We would be grateful if you could circulate the call among colleagues and others who may be interested. Best wishes, Guest Editors: Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester Chao Zhang, Tsinghua University Anton Ragni, University of Sheffield Chenghao Xiao, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Saad Mahamood, Shopware

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Invitation to Participate: UniAgent@CIKM 2026, the 1st Shared Task on Agentic AI in University Administration
by Udo Kruschwitz 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in UniAgent, the 1st Shared Task on Agentic AI in University Administration, at CIKM 2026 in Rome. UniAgent evaluates agentic AI in a bounded, enterprise-like environment: the administration of a public university. THE TASK Your agent is given a real administrative case from the University of Kassel. It has to retrieve the regulations that apply, plan the steps required, and produce a solution a human would accept, for example a compliant travel request. Not every case can be approved as submitted. Agents must check the case against the applicable rules, found in the collection we provide. Agents must flag non-compliant cases with a justification. Task Details: https://uniagent.webis.de/cikm26/uniagent26-web/agentic-university-administ… IMPORTANT DATES September 30, 2026: Registration closes October 23, 2026: Task submission deadline October 30, 2026: Notebook paper deadline November 8, 2026: UniAgent session at the CIKM 2026 AnalytiCup November 9 to 11, 2026: CIKM 2026 main conference, Rome All deadlines are 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE). LINKS UniAgent: https://uniagent.webis.de Register: https://www.tira.io/task-overview/uniagent-2026/ Forum: https://www.tira.io/c/uniagent Contact: uniagent(a)lists.its.uni-kassel.de We are looking forward to your submission! The UniAgent team ---- Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft Universität Regensburg | Universitätsstraße 31 | D-93053 Regensburg Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de

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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Bari, Italy
by Ondřej Matuška 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

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

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British Council English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants and Awards 2026
by Felice, Mariano (Exams) 07 Sep '26

07 Sep '26

Deadline: 2 October 2026 Dear Colleagues, We would like to share our call for proposals for the British Council English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grant (ELLAs) and our Language Assessment Awards. We welcome applications until 2 October 2026. We currently have two funding opportunities: * English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants <https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…> * Aimed at researchers around the world conducting research in language learning and assessment * Research focus: Longitudinal studies into the impact of using AI in language assessment / language classrooms * One project, up to £70,000 * Find out more about the British Council products and data available at our open session, sign up here<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…>. * Assessment Research Awards<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-award…> * Aimed at Ph.D./Ed.D. students of language assessment and testing * Up to £2,500 per award For more information and application details, please visit: English Language Learning and Assessment Research Grants (ELLA) | British Council<https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/english/aptis/research/grants-and-awards>. For any queries, please contact: ELLARG(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:ELLARG@britishcouncil.org>. We look forward to receiving your submissions! 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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*** Call for participation *** KONVENS 2026, September 14-17, University of Hamburg
by heike.zinsmeister＠uni-hamburg.de 06 Sep '26

06 Sep '26

*** KONVENS 2026 Call for participation *** https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/ We would like to invite you to participate on site at the Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. This year’s KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 – 17 under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers: – KEYNOTE 1 – Tuesday, 15 September 2026 · 13:30 –14:30 · Lecture Hall D The Myth of Ground Truth: Why Context and Disagreement Matter for NLP Barbara Plank Abstract: Natural language processing has made remarkable progress. Yet much of this progress still rests on a powerful simplifying assumption: that for every input there exists a single correct answer, a single ground truth, to be recovered independent of who is asking, who is answering, and in what context. In this talk, I argue that this assumption is often at odds with how language actually works, and with the complex, ambiguous, and inherently human environments in which language technology operates. Meaning is filled in by context: by what a sentence implies rather than states explicitly, by who interprets it and what perspective, language, dialect, or background they bring. Drawing on research on human label variation, ambiguity, and the evaluation of foundation models, I show that this variation is natural, not noise to be eliminated, but signal to be understood. I close by considering what this means for generative AI and alignment. Human-centered NLP is multi-faceted: building inclusive systems around people means building them around their disagreement, not despite it. – KEYNOTE 2 – Wednesday, 16 September 2026 · 09:00 –10:00 · Lecture Hall D Evaluation in Context: Humans, Machines, and the Crisis of Validity Valentin Hofmann Abstract: Language model evaluation is facing a crisis of validity: models increasingly excel on established benchmarks, yet benchmark performance can be a poor indicator of how systems behave in the wild. In this talk, I will argue that making evaluation meaningful requires taking context seriously — not only the context of the humans who use and are affected by language models, but also the context of the models being evaluated. I will first examine social bias evaluation as an example of core validity issues in current practices and discuss efforts to build benchmarks that more closely reflect the ways in which people actually use language models as well as the harms they experience. Turning from humans to machines, I will then show how the value of an evaluation item depends on the model taking the test, and how this insight can be leveraged through psychometric methods to improve validity. I will conclude by making the case for a future of language model evaluation that takes into account both the humans around our systems and the machines in front of us. Registration: https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/registration/

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The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026)
by ACL Announcements 06 Sep '26

06 Sep '26

==================================================================== Third CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 10, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [1] Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 * Registration deadline for shared task: September 13, 2026 * System Run and Output Submission (shared task): September 13, 2026 * System Paper Submission (shared task): September 14, 2026 * Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 * Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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Open Position at the University of Helsinki: UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
by Tiedemann, Jörg 06 Sep '26

06 Sep '26

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES for a permanent appointment starting on 1.12.2026, or as agreed. Application deadline: October 3, 2028 More information: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-University-Lecturer-in-Digital-Humani… The position is based in the Department of Digital Humanities<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-humanities/research/disciplines/digital-…> and is closely connected to the interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/degree-programmes/linguistic-diversity-and-digit…> (LingDig), particularly its Digital Humanities study track. Working with other Digital Humanities staff, the appointee will develop both the DH curriculum and teaching in digital and computational methods for the Faculty of Arts more broadly. An increasingly important part of the role will be to engage students across disciplines, create meaningful pathways into computational work, and develop teaching in dialogue with them. The University Lecturer will collaborate across the Department’s research groups. Applications, together with the required attachments, must be submitted through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System by 3.10.2026 at 23:59 local Helsinki time. Further information about the position is available from Mikko Tolonen, professor of Digital Humanities, mikko.tolonen(a)helsinki.fi. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact recruitment(a)helsinki.fi (please indicate the title of the position in the heading of the email). ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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QDLCA27 Pre-conference Workshop: Research Infrastructures, Methods, and Annotation for Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics
by Andrea Farina 03 Sep '26

03 Sep '26

Full information here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/qdlca27-pre-conference-workshop-research-infra… Register here: https://forms.gle/H2DjTn7DaKcM8CXZ7 The QDLCA27 pre-conference workshop, organised by Dr Andrea Farina (King's College London), is a satellite event of the Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) conference<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultur…>. The workshop will take place from Monday 11 (afternoon) to Wednesday 13 (morning) January 2027. It is supported by a CLARIN<https://www.clarin.eu/>-funded initiative (Days 1–2) and by the COALA – Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics<https://coala.er.kcl.ac.uk/about/?utm_source=chatgpt.com> project (Day 3), which also underpins the organisation of QDLCA27. Bringing together researchers interested in digital resources, computational methods, and linguistic annotation, the workshop is designed to provide participants with methodological knowledge and practical experience in the quantitative study of language change, while fostering collaboration across the historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and digital humanities communities. The increasing availability of digitised texts, linguistic resources, and computational tools has transformed research in historical linguistics. However, making effective use of these opportunities requires a clear understanding of how data are created, structured, annotated, and analysed. This workshop addresses key challenges in quantitative diachronic research, including the use of research infrastructures, the management and interpretation of historical datasets, annotation methodologies, and the development of reproducible workflows. The first two days of the workshop focus on research infrastructures, tools, and methodological approaches for quantitative diachronic linguistics. Participants will explore how digital resources and computational methods can support research on language variation and change, while also discussing practical challenges related to data access, the design and application of linguistic annotation schemes, comparability, and analysis. Through practical activities, participants will be introduced to the principles and practices of linguistic annotation and will gain hands-on experience in annotating historical language data, including considering how to define annotation categories, apply annotation schemes, and deal with ambiguity and competing analyses. They will also explore how annotated data can be leveraged for quantitative analysis and for investigating patterns of linguistic variation and change. The workshop includes opportunities for participants to discuss their own research interests and datasets, fostering exchange among researchers working with different languages, periods, and methodological approaches. Confirmed invited speakers are Prof Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Dr Megan Bushnell (University of Oxford), who will share perspectives on computational approaches, research infrastructures, and digital resources for the study of historical language data. The workshop is aimed primarily at PhD students and early career researchers who wish to develop their understanding of how to design and apply linguistic annotation and how annotated resources can support quantitative analyses of language change. It is suitable for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and digital humanities, including those who are beginning to integrate computational methods into their work. The workshop aims to equip participants with practical as well as conceptual foundations needed to engage critically and creatively with quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics, from the creation and annotation of historical datasets through to their quantitative analysis. The workshop also builds on the broader research community developed through the seminar series Data in Historical Linguistics<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/> and is part of the activities of the King's Linguistics Network<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/kln>. Together, these initiatives promote dialogue on the role of digital data, computational approaches, and quantitative methods in advancing research on language history and linguistics more broadly.

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One Postdoc Position at University of California San Diego - Computer Science
by mnr001＠health.ucsd.edu 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

Link: https://med.ucsd.edu/_files/post-docs/UCSD%20Postdoc%20Computer%20Scientist… The position is for a postdoctoral fellowship to join an innovative, multi-disciplinary research team funded by a prestigious NIH Director’s Avant-Garde Award (https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san- diego-researcher-wins-5.6m-nih-avant-garde-award-to-prevent-hiv-hepatitis-c-and-overdose). Dr. Natasha Martin (https://profiles.ucsd.edu/natasha.martin) leads the project, with additional mentorship from faculty specializing in biostatistics, infectious diseases, and epidemiology. The project aims to revolutionize HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevention and resource allocation for people who use drugs (PWUD) across the United States. The project will pioneer the integration of large language models (LLMs) to create behavioral "digital twins," embedded within dynamic epidemic and economic simulation models to guide real-world public health policy. The Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health (IDGPH) at UCSD is in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine of the University of California San Diego (https://idgph.ucsd.edu/). IDGPH is a multidisciplinary center that includes faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Biostatistics, Medicine, and other disciplines. IDGPH aims to eliminate the burdens of infectious diseases and health disparities by delivering outstanding patient care, conducting world-class multidisciplinary health research, directing the institutional response to antimicrobial resistance, preventable healthcare associated infections, and emerging pathogens, and offering leadership, consultation and training on global public health, equity, microbiology, and infectious diseases topics. Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Duties and Responsibilities: The postdoctoral fellow will develop, fine-tune, and evaluate large language model–based methods to predict the preferences and likely choices of people who use drugs regarding HIV, hepatitis C, overdose prevention, and substance use services. Using mixed qualitative and quantitative participant data, the fellow will create and validate individual-level behavioral “digital twins” that can generate realistic responses to questions about intervention preferences, such as willingness to use long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis, hepatitis C testing and treatment services, naloxone, syringe services, or medications for opioid use disorder. Responsibilities will include data preparation and integration, prompt design and model adaptation, development of reproducible computational pipelines, and rigorous evaluation of predictive accuracy, calibration, reliability, and performance across participant subgroups. The fellow will work closely with an interdisciplinary team spanning artificial intelligence, biostatistics, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and substance use research, contribute to manuscripts and conference presentations, and help advance responsible and transparent applications of LLMs in research involving people who use drugs. Position Qualifications: Candidates should have a doctoral degree in computer science, biostatistics, epidemiology, or a related field. Strong computational skills and expertise in either AI or machine learning. Start date and term are negotiable. Position Instructions: Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references to Matthew Rivera (mnr001(a)health.ucsd.edu).

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Third and Last Call for Papers: The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP 2026)
by Agnieszka Faleńska 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

Third and Last Call for Papers: The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP 2026) 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP, November 9, 2026 Hengqin, China (Remote-only mode) About the Workshop The GeBNLP workshop <https://gebnlp-workshop.github.io/> serves as a leading venue for the study, evaluation, and mitigation of gender bias in natural language processing. As large language models (LLMs) become foundational to recent NLP applications, addressing how these systems represent and affect different genders, alongside intersecting demographic axes such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and ability, remains a critical challenge for the AI community. While foundational progress has been made in algorithmic debiasing and balanced data collection, recent large-scale evaluations reveal that state-of-the-art models continue to exhibit persistent stereotypes and confidence disparities across intersectional identities (Siddique et al., 2024; Savoldi et al., 2024). Our workshop serves as a multidisciplinary bridge, enabling researchers to define shared standards for tasks and metrics that ensure technical advancements are deeply rooted in the social and ethical realities of systemic harm (Dai et al., 2024). Topics of Interest We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to gender bias in NLP, including but not limited to: Measurement and Evaluation: New metrics and datasets for quantifying bias in LLMs, MT, and multimodal systems. Mitigation Strategies: Technical approaches to debiasing (e.g., fine-tuning, adapter-based methods, or prompting strategies). Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Bias in low-resource languages or non-Western cultural contexts. Intersectionality: Research exploring how gender bias intersects with race, disability, age, or nationality. Ethical and Legal Frameworks: Policy implications and the "Human-in-the-loop" role in auditing AI systems. Authors are encouraged to go beyond binary gender definitions and discuss how their work addresses the complexity of intersecting stereotypes and the diverse demographic contexts involved. Submission Guidelines Long Papers are up to 8 pages and short Papers are up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendix). Non-Archival Submissions: Authors may opt for non-archival submission, allowing work of standard conference quality to be presented without being published in the official proceedings. Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/GeBNLP…> (Blind submission is required) Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 2, 2026 Camera-Ready Version Due: Monday, October 12, 2026 Workshop Date: Monday, November 9, 2026 Paper Integrity Policy (Important) We endorse the EMNLP 2026 Paper Integrity Policy <https://2026.emnlp.org/paper-integrity-policy/>. Submissions that misuse AI, include hallucinated citations, present thinly sliced contributions, or are entirely AI-generated may be desk rejected. AI-assisted writing is permitted <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…>, provided authors remain responsible for the work. Organizers Giuseppe Attanasio, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon Christine Basta, Alexandria University & HiTZ, University of the Basque Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Vera Neplenbroek, University of Amsterdam Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Karolina Stańczak, ETH AI Center, Zurich Marta R. Costa-jussà, FAIR, Meta Christian Hardmeier, IT university of Copenhagen References Dai, Y., Gu, H., Wang, Y. and Wang, X., 2024, November. Mitigate extrinsic social bias in pre-trained language models via continuous prompts adjustment. In Proceedings of the 2024 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing (pp. 11068-11083). Siddique, Z., Turner, L. and Anke, L.E., 2024, November. Who is better at math, jenny or jingzhen? uncovering stereotypes in large language models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 18601-18619). Savoldi, B., Papi, S., Negri, M., Guerberof-Arenas, A. and Bentivogli, L., 2024, November. What the harm? quantifying the tangible impact of gender bias in machine translation with a human-centered study. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 18048-18076).

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Immigrant and Emigrant Correspondence - Call for papers
by christopher.fitzgerald＠mic.ul.ie 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Digital Correspondence Community Interest Group are hosting a free, online event about immigrant and/or emigrant correspondence. When: Thursday, 14 January 2027, 10.00-13.00 This event is open to everyone interested in this topic, including (but not limited to) linguists, historians, digital humanities researchers and education researchers/teachers. Postgraduate students are also welcome. You can either attend as an audience member or present. The event will also feature a lead speaker (details below). Your presentation can range from 5-15 minutes, and can be a work in progress report, or a paper with more concrete findings. To attend, please fill in the registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_3-vgvd9cUR_I1uAB3iU-oHE_1K2i6Oh…. Personal data will be kept on a secure, confidential Google form and will be deleted after the event. If you would like to present, please also send a title and a short abstract (150-200 words) to imogen.marcus(a)edgehill.ac.uk by Friday 4th December 2026. Any questions in the meantime, please get in touch with Imogen at the above email or co-coordinator Chris Fitzgerald (christopher.fitzgerald(a)mic.ul.ie). Research areas might include: (historical) sociolinguists; (historical) pragmatics, (historical) semantics, (historical) discourse analysis, oral history, history ‘from below’, digital humanities approaches. A variety of methodological perspectives and approaches are welcomed, e.g. quantitative, qualitative, philological, corpus linguistic, ethnographic, archival, multi-modal. The event is open to researchers working on correspondence in both modern contexts (e.g. email, instant messaging) and historical contexts (e.g. letters, dispatches). Topics might include: self- and other- reference in writing of (and about) immigrants/emigrants, e.g. reference in relation to stance, positioning, indexicality ego documents dialect the recovery and preservation of linguistic heritage immigrant monolingualism and bilingualism, and/or ideological/evaluative comments relating to them multilingualism and letters language policies, in either historical or modern contexts language contact, e.g. practices and hierarchies in transnational language histories enregisterment (conceptual) spoken and written discourse in immigrant/emigrant correspondence immediacy and distance in the language of immigrant/emigrant correspondence oral history of emigrant experiences orthography and spelling syntax gender, e.g. women’s voices in transit age, e.g. children’s voices in transit, or discourse about childhood/children emotions in immigrant/emigrant correspondence humour about/satire of the culture the emigres join assimilation anxiety Lead Speaker: Carolina Amador Moreno, ‘A transhistorical approach to ego documents – a perspective from Irish English’. Length: 45 minutes with space for comments and questions. This talk will discuss the value of ego-documents in historical sociolinguistics, engaging with issues related also to (historical) pragmatics, (historical) discourse analysis, oral history, etc. The focus will be on private correspondence, using the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) to illustrate some of the research activity that has been conducted using this corpus since it was devised in 2008. By turning to CORIECOR, we will take a closer look at how Irish English was recorded through letter writing. CORIECOR contains a large body of personal letters mainly to and from Irish emigrants, sent for the most part between Ireland and the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, from approximately 1750 to 1940. The talk will offer some reflections on how diachronic corpora can help us identify patterns of consistency across time, as well as trends in usage, and instances of slower types of linguistic change across language varieties. Some of the examples that will be discussed will allow us to see how certain linguistic choices made in the letters show indexicality. We will also reflect more broadly on how the oral history of emigrant experiences is expressed in the context of written communication in present times, bringing in the transhistorical angle that allows us to measure modern migration experiences across time. The talk will close with some reflections on the recovery and preservation of linguistic heritage; questions related to the use of modern technologies will serve as an invitation to discuss differences between traditional and digital archiving. CIG site: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/community-interest-groups/digital-corre…

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INLG 2026 Accepted papers & call for participation
by Emiel van Miltenburg 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

Dear Corpora List members, We have just published the list of accepted papers<https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-papers.html> for the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026). Invited speakers<https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/keynotes.html> are: * Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), * Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen), * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS, UCLouvain), and * Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere) Registration is open now. The Early registration rates apply only for those who register before the 15th of September. See the website for more details: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org Best wishes, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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Three PhD/PostDoc positions at the German Research Centre for AI (DFKI) Saarbrücken/Darmstadt
by Simon Ostermann 01 Sep '26

01 Sep '26

The MLT group (Dr. Marius Mosbach, Dr. Simon Ostermann) together with the NMM (Prof. Verena Wolf, Dr. Kevin Baum) and SAINT groups (Prof. Kristian Kersting, Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf) at DFKI Saarbrücken and Darmstadt is recruiting across three complementary research areas: ### 1. PhD Researcher: Mechanistic Interpretability for Safe Agentic AI (SAgA project) Develop fine-grained steering methods to control language model behavior without retraining. We're looking for someone to advance post-hoc controllability through circuit analysis and sparse feature steering. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/researcher-phd-student-m-w-d-x-mechanistic-… ### 2. PostDoc: Multilingual Mechanistic Interpretability (planned SLIMS Project, DFKI-Inria collaboration) First systematic study of reasoning circuits in compact multilingual models. Investigate circuit transfer across scales and many languages using the full mechanistic toolkit. Work directly with the ALMAnaCH team at Inria Paris (Prof. Benoit Sagot, Dr. Djamé Seddah) with planned bilateral research visits and joint workshops. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/senior-researcher-postdoc-m-w-d-x-multiling… ### 3. PostDoc: AI Safety, Ethics, and Agentic Systems (SAgA project) Develop safe autonomous agents with explicit, inspectable normative constraints. We're seeking candidates with mechanistic interpretability expertise curious about safety, or safety/ethics backgrounds open to steering-based intervention methods. Work across multiple DFKI research groups (NMM, SAINT, MLT) with tailored supervision. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/senior-researcher-postdoc-m-w-d-x-ai-safety… ### General Information These positions are part of two larger research initiatives at DFKI and beyond: one planned project focused on understanding and leveraging circuit structure for multilingual models (SLIMS), the other on building safe agentic AI through structurally preserved normative reasoning (SAgA). We work on explainable and efficient language processing with a strong focus on rigorous methodology, active publication, and open critical discussion of ideas. We're committed to creating a positive, respectful, supportive working atmosphere where you have space to develop your own scientific identity. SLIMS and SAgA will collaborate in an integrated interdisciplinary team. The positions will work closely together, with mechanistic findings feeding into safety architectures and safety requirements driving interpretability research, creating a coherent research ecosystem where circuit analysis, multilingual NLP, formal ethics, and agentic systems reinforce each other. The PhD and first postdoc position are supervised by Dr. Simon Ostermann within the Multilinguality and Language Technology (MLT) group directed by Dr. Marius Mosbach, with support from the DFKI labs SAINT (Prof. Kristian Kersting, Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf) and NMM (Prof. Verena Wolf, Dr. Kevin Baum). For the second postdoc position on AI safety and agentic systems, we offer flexible supervision across three research groups: the Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling (NMM) group under Prof. Verena Wolf, the Foundations of Systems AI (SAINT) group under Prof. Kristian Kersting, and the MLT group. Candidates prioritizing mechanistic interpretability work primarily with Dr. Simon Ostermann; those emphasizing formal ethics and normative reasoning anchor with Dr. Kevin Baum; and those focusing on agentic system design and task discovery collaborate with Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf. This ensures your mentorship directly supports your research trajectory while you contribute across interpretability, formal ethics, and safe agentic systems. ### Our Labs We are committed to rigorous, methodologically grounded research with an active publication culture. We believe in the open, critical discussion of ideas and we value solid methodology as the foundation for real progress. We've built a lab culture that combines intellectual rigor with genuine support for the people who work here, and we invest in creating the space for you to develop your own scientific identity, while having lots of fun! If you're interested in mechanistic interpretability, multilingual NLP, or safe AI systems (or the convergences between them), we'd like to hear from you. Applications are open until Sep 15.

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The Second Edition of the Copenhagen NLP Symposium (2026)
by Mike Zhang 31 Aug '26

31 Aug '26

We are excited to announce the second edition of the CPH NLP Symposium, taking place on Thursday 22 October 2026 at the Panum building in Copenhagen. This event brings together researchers, students, and industry practitioners working on natural language processing, with: • international keynotes; • two poster sessions (sign up!); and • dedicated time to discuss work across the field. Register here and learn more: https://cphnlp.github.io (it is free to attend!) We had a great time last year (https://cphnlp.github.io/2025), and hope to see many of you again this year. The event is intended as a pre-EMNLP 2026 event, it is the perfect stop before heading to Budapest. The programme is shaping up with keynotes from: • Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS & Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) • Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University) with three more speakers TBA. See you in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 This event is co-organized by: IT University of Copenhagen (Anna Rogers, Amelie Wührl, Nikolas Vitsakis) Aalborg University Copenhagen (Johannes Bjerva, Russa Biswas, Ernests Lavrinovics, Dustin Wright) University of Copenhagen (Desmond Elliott, Mike Zhang)

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Call for Papers: Special Session on Agentic AI for Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning - SAIS 2026
by Milena Slavcheva 27 Aug '26

27 Aug '26

Call for papers Special Session on Agentic AI for Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning - SAIS 2026 Following the rapid emergence of agentic applications and the growing volume of event-centric news and social media posts, we announce the first special track on Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning of the AGENTICS 2026 conference, which this year is part of the 18th Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence and will take place in Angers, France. We aim to bring together research where agentic AI and Large Language Models are utilized for spatio-temporal grounding of events, entities, and sentiments from textual sources. This also includes the construction of event and entity relations, graphs, and timelines and the spatio-temporal inference of implicitly mentioned locations and time periods. We welcome contributions on agentic reasoning for spatio-temporal task planning: for example, spatio-temporal reasoning from information extracted from text; reasoning over structured event databases, spatio-temporal knowledge graphs, and clusters; spatio-temporal attribute propagation; reasoning about sequences of events; and all other spatio-temporal reasoning in a text-based context. We will address also downstream applications of these technologies like domain-specific monitoring agents for conflict, disasters, environmental change, public health, and other crisis and policy-related domains. Finally, we encourage work on early warning and forecasting with LLMs, and on reasoning over event sequences and spatial proximity to support downstream analysis and decision-making. In particular, we welcome submissions addressing the following main topics: spatio-temporal grounding and extraction using or interacting with LLM or agentic AI, spatio-temporal agentic reasoning, as well as downstream agentic or LLM-based applications. We also address evaluation techniques and benchmarks of the above mentioned approaches. Additionally, submissions on all other topics, related to agentic and LLM based spatio-temporal reasoning and extraction from texts will be considered. Website: https://agentics.scitevents.org/SpecialSessions.aspx Important dates: Paper Submission: September 1, 2026 Authors Notification: September 9, 2026 Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026 Co-chairs of the Special Session: Hristo Tanev Joint Research Centre, Data Intelligence for Policy Unit, European Commission, Italy Milena Slavcheva Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Bertrand De Longueville Joint Research Centre, Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Competence Centre, European Commission, Italy

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Second Call for papers KNLP@ACM-SAC
by Patrizio Bellan 26 Aug '26

26 Aug '26

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM SAC 2027* *Aim and Scope* The Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing investigates methods and applications at the intersection of *Knowledge Engineering* and *Natural Language Processing*, with particular emphasis on approaches that combine these two areas. KNLP is an emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field at the core of Artificial Intelligence. It brings together and complements scientific advances in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and related disciplines. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. *Natural Language Processing* - NLP methods for knowledge extraction - NLP for ontology population and ontology learning - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for knowledge-based applications - Interplay between natural language and ontologies - NLP for explainable knowledge - Machine translation techniques for multilingual knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small and large language models - Interaction between small or large language models and knowledge *Knowledge* - Knowledge-enhanced NLP - Knowledge for information retrieval - Knowledge-based sentiment analysis and opinion mining - Combining knowledge and deep learning for NLP - Knowledge technologies for the Web - Knowledge-enhanced agentic reasoning - Agent reasoning over knowledge graphs and ontologies - Knowledge-based agent personalization - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based natural language explainability - Language-model-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - Language-model-based agents for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation using small and large language models - Ontological knowledge representation and memorization in language models - Knowledge-based techniques for language models, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, fact-checking, and bias mitigation - Question answering over knowledge graphs using small and large language models *Real-World Applications Exploiting Knowledge and NLP* - Knowledge and NLP systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technologies supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment and evaluation of Knowledge and NLP systems in domains such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, healthcare, and medicine - News, media, and data-streaming environments *Paper Submission* We invite original research papers and experience reports addressing the topics listed above. Submissions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACM SAC proceedings template. Authors’ names and affiliations must be entered separately in the submission system and must not appear in the submitted manuscript. All submissions will undergo a *double-blind peer-review process* in accordance with ACM SAC regulations. Submissions to the *Student Research Competition (SRC)* are also welcome. Prospective authors should consult the SAC 2027 SRC page for eligibility requirements and submission instructions. *Submission Policy* - All papers must initially be submitted as *regular papers*. There is no separate submission category for poster papers. - Papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Depending on the outcome of the review process and the overall acceptance-rate constraints, technically sound submissions that cannot be accepted as regular papers may be offered acceptance as posters. - Although there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions shorter than *four full pages* that do not demonstrate a substantial contribution may be desk-rejected without external review. *Submission Links* - *Regular papers and SRC abstracts:* submission links are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> - *Author kit and templates:* formatting instructions and official templates are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> *Important Dates* Please consult the official ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/#important-dates> for up-to-date deadlines and possible changes. - *October 2, 2026:* Regular paper and SRC abstract submission - *November 13, 2026:* Author notification - *November 28, 2026:* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and SRC submissions - *December 5, 2026:* Author registration deadline - *April 5–9, 2027:* Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track at ACM SAC 2027 All deadlines follow the time zone specified on the official conference website. *Further Information* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track website <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and the ACM SAC 2027 conference website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/>. Questions may be addressed to the KNLP Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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**CALL FOR PARTICIPATION**: CLEAR-TEXT Workshop at the conference CLIB 2026 (7 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria)
by Irina Temnikova 25 Aug '26

25 Aug '26

**CALL FOR PARTICIPATION**: CLEAR-TEXT Workshop at the conference CLIB 2026 (7 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria) FREE PARTICIPATION This is an interdisciplinary workshop covering all related fields, such as Linguistics, Translation and Translation Technologies, Psycholinguistics, Education, and Natural Language Processing. The workshop addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT and NLP professionals, publishers, representatives of Bulgarian public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. The list of accepted papers and the detailed workshop programme are now available on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/programme The workshop includes two panels - one with Bulgarian practitioners and representatives of public institutions and one with renowned NLP experts: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/panels **To attend in person in Sofia**, please register through the registration page of the conference CLIB, of which the workshop is a satellite event, and clearly indicate that you want to attend the CLEAR-TEXT workshop: https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/registration/ The oral presentations and the panels can be followed online via a link, which will be published on the workshop website on September 4th, 2026. Regards Irina Temnikova, PhD Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE)

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Call for Co-Editor-in-Chief – Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH)
by nicolas.turenne＠ird.fr 25 Aug '26

25 Aug '26

The Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH) has been publishing since 2013 and is seeking a Co-Editor-in-Chief to join its editorial team for a renewable term: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/. JDMDH is an open-access diamond journal, with no publication fees for authors or readers. The role will involve overseeing peer review and, importantly, contributing to the evolution and future development of the journal, including its editorial scope, visibility, international reach, and connections with emerging research in AI, data mining, and digital humanities. Self-nominations are warmly encouraged. Time commitment: approximately 5–10 hours per month. Please contact us at jdmdh(a)episciences.org if you are interested.

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DGfS-CL Poster session 2027
by Hautli-Janisz, Annette 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DGfS 2027 Computational Linguistics Poster Session We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 49th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Jena. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (dgfs.de/cl). Conference webpage: https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/en/101200/dgfs-2027 DATES - Abstract submission due: September 30, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: October 12, 2026 - Conference dates: March 3-5, 2027 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in English or German. Please submit your abstract via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DGfS.de/2027/Conference_Poster_Session (Please note that authors without an OpenReview profile need to register two weeks in advance.) _______________________________________________________________ Annette Hautli-Janisz, Prof. Dr. Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics University of Passau https://www.fim.uni-passau.de/en/cornlp/ "Worlds in which the normal course of events is realized are a complete bore, there are no adventures or surprises." (Angelika Kratzer, 1981, 'The Notional Category of Modality', p. 47) _______________________________________________________________

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Postdoc and doctoral student positions at ELLIS Institute Finland
by Tiedemann, Jörg 23 Aug '26

23 Aug '26

The ELLIS Institute Finland, a rapidly expanding research hub in AI and machine learning, invites applications for postdoc and doctoral student positions. Deadline: September 21, 2026 More information: https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-and-phd-recruit-autumn-2026 Key information about the positions: * Positions are based within ELLIS Institute Finland and the wider ELLIS community in Finland. * All positions are fully funded and the salaries are based on the Finnish universities’ pay scale. * Postdoc positions are typically offered for up to three years and doctoral student positions for four years. * Starting dates are flexible and the details of each position will be agreed individually. ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #5
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 22 Aug '26

22 Aug '26

*** Reading with NARNiHS *** [reading group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics] ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3288 Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fifth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 24 September 2026, at 10:00 am US Eastern time / 4:00 pm European Central time and features Sandrine Tailleur with her recent historical morpho-syntactic work emphasizing the use of multiple types of data (including historical corpora) to get a fuller picture in the investigation of the complex course of language change. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant venue for engagement with cutting-edge work in historical sociolinguistics, accessible to researchers at all levels. Reading with NARNiHS combines aspects of "meet the author" + "author interview" + "authors read their works" + "classic reading group discussion" as we interact together with new scholarship and its authors. Anna Havinga will be our moderator, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. So, please come along for an enriching one-hour exchange about the most current topics in historical sociolinguistics! To receive the Zoom link and the article we're going to discuss on 24 September, please sign up via the following form by Monday, 21 September 2026 (it takes less than a minute): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKs-ZDztlFQloZ1AUX8kSyb8dXlhJziCB… We are looking forward to seeing many of you on Thursday, 24 September 2026, for Reading with NARNiHS! The NARNiHS Steering Group

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IMPACT-SPEECH@EMNLP’26 ARR Commitment and Extended Abstract
by Monorama Swain 22 Aug '26

22 Aug '26

Dear Colleagues, The last chance to submit and present your work at the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop. You can commit your reviews from the ARR May cycle or extended abstracts until 31st August. We welcome both archival and non-archival submissions. You can showcase an EMNLP-accepted paper or submit high-quality work that could not make it. Have a working paper? We also invite non-archival extended abstracts to receive early feedback from the community. Submission Details @ https://impactspeech.github.io/#submission [https://impactspeech.github.io/#submission] Looking forward to your submissions! On behalf of the IMPACT-SPEECH Organizers

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INLG 2026 - Final call for non-archival papers
by Emiel van Miltenburg 22 Aug '26

22 Aug '26

Dear Corpora List members, Please note that the Non-archival submission deadline for INLG is almost there: August 22, 2026. See our website<https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/> for more information. For this track, we welcome two kinds of submissions: 1. Papers published elsewhere. These may be published either in a journal or at another conference and should be relevant to the INLG audience. 2. Work in progress. These may be papers about completed work that has not yet been published or preliminary results that merit discussion at the conference. Submissions should consist of a title and a short abstract (max. 300 words). Submissions for the non-archival track will undergo a light review process (assessing the relevance of the submission for INLG), and accepted works will be presented as posters. Please note that papers that were rejected for the archival track are also welcome to be re-submitted to the non-archival track. Best wishes, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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Call for Main Conference Papers] NAACL 2027 — ARR deadline October 12 AoE
by ACL Announcements 21 Aug '26

21 Aug '26

Call for Main Conference Papers NAACL 2027: The 2027 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 1-5, 2027 San Francisco, California, USA ARR submission deadline: October 12, 2026 NAACL commitment deadline: December 23, 2026 Full call: https://2027.naacl.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [1] NAACL 2027 invites long and short paper submissions featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Submissions should make a clear and substantive contribution to NLP. Contributions may be methodological, empirical, theoretical, linguistic, resource-oriented, or focused on evaluation methods and reproducibility. Surveys and position papers are welcome when they offer a substantial original synthesis, perspective, insight, or argument. Submission process NAACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Authors first submit papers to ARR, where the papers receive reviews and meta-reviews. Authors may then commit reviewed papers to NAACL 2027, where the conference makes the final acceptance decisions. NAACL 2027 and COLING 2027 share the October 2026 ARR submission cycle. Submissions remain conference-agnostic until meta-reviews are released. At commitment, authors must designate either NAACL or COLING as the primary conference. Each paper may be committed to only one primary venue, and the designated primary conference cannot be changed after commitment. Authors may also indicate that they would like their paper to be considered by the other conference if it is not accepted by their primary conference. Such secondary consideration is not guaranteed. Important dates * ARR submission deadline for long and short papers: October 12, 2026 * Reviewer registration deadline for all authors: October 12, 2026 * Meta-reviews released: December 18, 2026 * NAACL commitment deadline: December 23, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2027 * Camera-ready deadline: To be determined * Conference: June 1-5, 2027 All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12 ("anywhere on Earth"). Full call and submission information: https://2027.naacl.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ [1] Questions about paper submission and the review process: editors(a)aclrollingreview.org Questions about commitment and post-review matters: naacl2027-pcs(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2027.naacl.org/calls/main_conference_papers/

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Corpus Linguistics 2027, 12th-16th July 2027, Venice, Italy
by Mcenery, Tony 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

CALL FOR PAPERS Adaptation and adaptability have become unavoidable in an era defined by profound change and crisis - ecological, socio-political, economic, medical, technological, and beyond. We invite submissions to CL2027 that explore adaptation and adaptability as active strategies of awareness, resilience, responsibility, and resistance (amongst other things). Specifically, we invite submissions that adopt (and adapt) corpus methodologies to explore the many and major disciplinary and global challenges we face today by considering the adaptation and adaptability of various textual and communication strategies pertinent to these challenges. We welcome paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops that explore any aspect of corpus linguistics methodology and theory, but we particularly encourage submissions addressing the core theme of linguistic adaptation and adaptability in relation to the following dimensions, which can include but are not limited to: 1.) Innovation and adaptation of Corpus Methods 2.) Corpus Linguistics: applications and impacts 3.) Variation, Varieties, and Pedagogy 4.) Corpus Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Paper, poster, and thematic panel abstracts, and pre-conference workshop proposals, should be submitted via the CL2027 CMT submission point. The language of the conference is English. We especially encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers. Find details of how to submit a proposal here: https://sites.google.com/view/cl2027/call-for-papers The call for papers opens on the 31st August 2026 and closes at 5 p.m. GMT on 8th January 2027. The CL2027 Organizing Team

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Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/NAACL/COLING) 2027
by Ivan Habernal 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/NAACL/COLING) 2027 The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL), the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), and the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) jointly invite proposals for tutorials in conjunction with the EACL 2027, NAACL 2027, and COLING 2027 conferences. We welcome submissions covering all areas of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP), broadly defined to include related disciplines. We are soliciting proposals for three types of tutorials: Cutting-edge tutorials in CL/NLP: Covering recent advances in emerging areas not previously addressed in tutorials at ACL, EACL, NAACL-HLT, EMNLP or COLING. Introductory tutorials in related fields: Offering overviews of disciplines potentially relevant to the CL/NLP community, such as linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or applications of large language models in non-English languages. Community: Tutorials related to topics relevant for members of the community more generally (e.g., reviewing, good scientific practice, statistical testing, mental health, career planning, etc.). In all cases, the primary goal is to help CL/NLP researchers understand key scientific challenges, their tractability, and their theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of specific technologies or systems are welcome when used to illustrate broader scientific insights. Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: EACL 2027 (the 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Athens, Greece, from March 9-14, 2027. COLING 2027 (the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics), which will be held in Macau, China, from May 9-14, 2027. NAACL 2027 (the 2027 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference and physically held in San Francisco, California, United States from June 1-5, 2027. Other calls will be made in the fall for tutorials colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, and AACL). Important Dates Tutorials EACL/NAACL/COLING shared dates: Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance: November 25, 2026 Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: one month prior to the date of the tutorial All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Fee Waivers For EACL and NAACL, up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops. For COLING, the waiver applies to 1 instructor only. Diversity and Inclusion To foster an inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in CL/NLP, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on minority languages or groups), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory, Black in AI, Disability in AI, Indigenous AI, LatinX in AI, Masakhane, 500 Queer Scientists, and Women-in-ML’s directory. Submission Details Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template. Proposals cannot exceed 4 pages of content (plus one page for tutor biographies and unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the CL/NLP community. Type of the tutorial: “cutting-edge in CL/NLP” vs “introductory to fields related to CL/NLP”. Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisites for the attendees, for example: Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus” Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars” Neural Network: e.g., “Deep familiarity with transformers” Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of PyTorch and Unix command line tools” An outline of the tutorial structure and content, and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial cover work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, as well as work from other disciplines is welcomed if relevant. For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial (or workshops, talks, etc.) has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. A description of special requirements for technical equipment. We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publicly available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain why this is the case. An ethics statement that discusses the ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. A description of any limitations that would restrict the tutorial to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the tutorial is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the tutorial cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on the special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special themes of EACL (theme TBA) or ACL (theme TBA), then please explain why this is the case. OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain why this is the case. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/eacl-tutorials2027. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and, optionally, by a group of external experts. Evaluation Criteria Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, target audience, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion. Instructor Responsibilities Tutorial decisions along with reviews will be released by November 25th, 2026. Accepted tutorial proposers must then provide abstracts for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials (e.g., slides, a relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the start date of the hosting conference. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed). Tutorial Chairs EACL Ivan Habernal Suzan Verberne Ivan Vulić NAACL TBA COLING Michael Roth, University of Technology Nuremberg Leonie Weissweiler, Leipzig University If you have any questions related to tutorial proposals, you can reach us at eacl27-tutorial-chairs(a)lists.ruhr-uni-bochum.de or coling27tutorialchairs(a)googlegroups.com.

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Call for papers KNLP@ACM-SA
by Patrizio Bellan 19 Aug '26

19 Aug '26

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM SAC 2027* *Aim and Scope* The Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing investigates methods and applications at the intersection of *Knowledge Engineering* and *Natural Language Processing*, with particular emphasis on approaches that combine these two areas. KNLP is an emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field at the core of Artificial Intelligence. It brings together and complements scientific advances in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, and related disciplines. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. *Natural Language Processing* - NLP methods for knowledge extraction - NLP for ontology population and ontology learning - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for knowledge-based applications - Interplay between natural language and ontologies - NLP for explainable knowledge - Machine translation techniques for multilingual knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small and large language models - Interaction between small or large language models and knowledge *Knowledge* - Knowledge-enhanced NLP - Knowledge for information retrieval - Knowledge-based sentiment analysis and opinion mining - Combining knowledge and deep learning for NLP - Knowledge technologies for the Web - Knowledge-enhanced agentic reasoning - Agent reasoning over knowledge graphs and ontologies - Knowledge-based agent personalization - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based natural language explainability - Language-model-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - Language-model-based agents for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation using small and large language models - Ontological knowledge representation and memorization in language models - Knowledge-based techniques for language models, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, fact-checking, and bias mitigation - Question answering over knowledge graphs using small and large language models *Real-World Applications Exploiting Knowledge and NLP* - Knowledge and NLP systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technologies supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment and evaluation of Knowledge and NLP systems in domains such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, healthcare, and medicine - News, media, and data-streaming environments *Paper Submission* We invite original research papers and experience reports addressing the topics listed above. Submissions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACM SAC proceedings template. Authors’ names and affiliations must be entered separately in the submission system and must not appear in the submitted manuscript. All submissions will undergo a *double-blind peer-review process* in accordance with ACM SAC regulations. Submissions to the *Student Research Competition (SRC)* are also welcome. Prospective authors should consult the SAC 2027 SRC page for eligibility requirements and submission instructions. *Submission Policy* - All papers must initially be submitted as *regular papers*. There is no separate submission category for poster papers. - Papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Depending on the outcome of the review process and the overall acceptance-rate constraints, technically sound submissions that cannot be accepted as regular papers may be offered acceptance as posters. - Although there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions shorter than *four full pages* that do not demonstrate a substantial contribution may be desk-rejected without external review. *Submission Links* - *Regular papers and SRC abstracts:* submission links are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> - *Author kit and templates:* formatting instructions and official templates are available through the ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/> *Important Dates* Please consult the official ACM SAC 2027 website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/#important-dates> for up-to-date deadlines and possible changes. - *October 2, 2026:* Regular paper and SRC abstract submission - *November 13, 2026:* Author notification - *November 28, 2026:* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and SRC submissions - *December 5, 2026:* Author registration deadline - *April 5–9, 2027:* Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track at ACM SAC 2027 All deadlines follow the time zone specified on the official conference website. *Further Information* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track website <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and the ACM SAC 2027 conference website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/>. 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Third and Final Call for Papers: 13th International Conference on Multimodality (2027 / Helsinki, Finland)
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Dear all, please find below the third and final call for papers for the 13th International Conference on Multimodality, which will be organised in Helsinki, Finland between June 1–4, 2027. Note that the deadline for submissions is September 15, 2026. Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki, Tuomo Hiippala & the 13ICOM organising team --- The phenomenon of multimodality – or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression – is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is essential for moving towards a shared understanding. This is the main theme of the 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM), which celebrates the 25th anniversary of organising the first conference in the series in Salzburg, Austria in 2002. For 13ICOM, we want to specifically emphasise the role of early-career researchers working on diverse aspects of multimodality by organising a doctoral consortium on June 1, 2027 ahead of the main conference on June 2–4, 2027. The doctoral consortium features 5-minute pitch talks from participants and master classes in theories and methods from experts, with plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow early-career researchers. The master classes are taught by John Bateman (multimodal semiotics), Antti Kamunen (multimodal conversation analysis) and Signe Kjaer Jensen (intermediality). The main conference will feature four plenary sessions and multiple parallel sessions with 20-minute presentations. The confirmed plenarists for 13ICOM include (in alphabetical order): - Pentti Haddington (University of Oulu, Finland) - Maria Grazia Sindoni (University of Messina, Italy) - Beate Schirrmacher (Linnaeus University, Sweden) - Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University, Sweden) / Submission formats / We invite submissions for both doctoral consortium and the main conference using the same format. Submissions must be anonymous and are limited to a maximum length of 250 words excluding references. All accepted submissions must be presented in person. Submissions are limited to one per author, but a single author can contribute to several submissions. Doctoral candidates can submit to the main conference, but the doctoral consortium is only open to doctoral candidates. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process that evaluates their quality, novelty and relevance to the broad field of multimodality. The submission portal will close on September 15, 2026 at the end of the day. / Practical information / The regular registration fee is 220€, and the reduced fee for pre-doctoral researchers is 50€. The conference dinner is not included in the registration fee. The conference is organised by the Multimodality Research Group and will be held in the Main Building of the University of Helsinki (Fabianinkatu 33). All premises at this location are highly accessible. If you have any questions, please contact the organisers at 13icom(a)helsinki.fi.

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Postdoc in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning at University of Copenhagen
by Isabelle Augenstein 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on understanding the mechanisms of AI reasoning. Their core duty will be to advance our understanding of how LLMs acquire, integrate and reason over evolving, pluralistic knowledge using mechanistic interpretability methods. This can involve the development of novel conceptual frameworks, methods, or empirical studies. The postdoc’s duties will also to a small degree include teaching or supervision. The position is offered in the context of the context of an ERC Starting Grant held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101077481>)’, as well the Pioneer Centre for AI. The position will be offered from 1 February 2027 or as close to this date as possible, for a period of two years, with the possibility of extension contingent on funding availability. Apply here by 30 September 2026, 23:59 CET to be considered: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=3010&departmentI… Who are we looking for? Applicants should hold a PhD degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, and have good written and oral English skills. The assessment of qualifications will also be made based on previous scientific publications and relevant work experience. The ideal candidate would have an educational background, prior research or work experience on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and/or Explainable AI. Our group and research -- and what do we offer? The successful candidate will join the CopeNLU group<http://www.copenlu.com/> at the University of Copenhagen. CopeNLU is a vibrant and collaborative research group led by Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova with a focus on fair and accountable NLP. We are interested in core methodology research on interpretability, explainability and bias detection; as well as applications to tasks such as fact checking and cross-cultural learning. With a strong focus on both foundational and applied research, we provide a platform for exploring cutting-edge topics in NLP, while also emphasising the importance of transparent and responsible AI development. We are affiliated with the Pioneer Centre for AI<https://www.aicentre.dk/> at the Department of Computer Science<https://di.ku.dk/english/>, Faculty of SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen, located in central Copenhagen. The Pioneer Centre focuses on fundamental AI research, and within an interdisciplinary framework, develops platforms, methods, and practices that address society’s greatest challenges. It consists of seven AI research themes, with one being Speech and Language. The Natural Language Processing research environment at the University of Copenhagen is internationally leading, as e.g. evidenced by it being ranked second in Europe according to CSRankings. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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Join Us in Organising the 11th Edition of the WOAH Workshop!
by Agostina Calabrese 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Dear all, As we prepare for the 11th edition of the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), we are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated organisers to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a vibrant community, shape the future of the workshop, and gain experience in event organisation within the NLP field. If you are interested in becoming part of the organising committee, please fill out this form by August 25th: https://forms.gle/kMdkXbNsB6gA6RZ86 . If you would like to know more, please email us at organisers(a)thewoah.org<mailto:organisers@thewoah.org> or visit our website at https://www.thewoah.org/ . We welcome organisers from diverse backgrounds and experiences to help make the 11th WOAH workshop another great success. We will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of WOAH at EMNLP in Budapest on October 29th, and we hope to see you there! Best regards, Agostina on behalf of the WOAH organisers The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Final Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 and deadline extension
by Menno Van Zaanen 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Final Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 and deadline extension https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za DEADLINE EXTENSION: 31 August 2026 Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17-20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 31 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026-20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types - Long papers: max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) - Short papers: max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) - Executive summaries: max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building, not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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DEADLINE EXTENDED | Third Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026)
by keren.artiaga＠adaptcentre.ie 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026. WSLP 2026 aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working on sign language technologies. The workshop will showcase recent advances in sign language understanding, translation, recognition, generation, and multimodal AI, with a special emphasis on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature shared tasks, invited talks, and discussions on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field. 🔑 Important Links 🌐 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/ 📄 Submission Portal (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP 🏆 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/ 💬 Workshop Discord: https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7 💬 Shared Task Discord: https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) * Paper Submission Deadline: August 24, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026 * Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop Date: October 29, 2026 🔍 Topics of Interest (Including but Not Limited To) * Low-resource and underrepresented sign languages * Sign Language Recognition (SLR) * Continuous and Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) * Sign Language Generation and Avatars * Multilingual, Cross-modal, and Zero-shot Learning for Sign Languages * Large Language Models and Multimodal Models for Sign Languages * Cultural and Dialectal Variation in Sign Languages * Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Data Resources * Fairness, Ethics, Accessibility, and Real-world Applications 🏆 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2026 * Indian Sign Language to English Translation * Isolated Sign Recognition * Word/Sign Presence Prediction We particularly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages, inclusive technologies, and real-world deployment challenges. We warmly invite the community to submit their latest research and join us in advancing sign language technologies that foster accessibility, inclusion, and communication for all.

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August 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

In this newsletter: Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program New publications: Parsed Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T09> Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 - Slavic Group<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S10> LORELEI Arabic Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T08> ________________________________ Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2026. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships> page. ________________________________ New publications: Parsed Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T09> (EEBO-TCP), developed by LDC, is a part-of-speech tagged and syntactically parsed version of the EEBO-TCP<https://www.textpartnership.net/pages/eebo-tcp.html> collection of Early Modern English texts. The corpus consists of 59,433 texts dating primarily from 1600-1700, with a smaller number of texts from earlier and later periods. It contains 48.6 million parsed sentences (trees) comprising more than 1.5 billion tokens. The parses were produced automatically using a parser trained on the Penn Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English, part of the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (LDC2020T16)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T16>. The automatically generated parses were not manually reviewed. Parsed EEBO-TCP includes the CorpusSearch 2 program and associated documentation. This tool allows users to search the data for syntactic structure, word sequences, and words. An alternative version of CorpusSearch 2 for use on very large corpora is also included in this release. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 - Slavic Group<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S10> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 20 hours of Polish and Russian telephone speech. The data was collected to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification; portions of these recordings were used in the NIST 2015 and 2017 language recognition evaluations<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mltg/language-recognition>. The collection focused on language pair discrimination for 20 languages/dialects, some of which could be considered mutually intelligible or closely related. This corpus contains 96 recordings: 61 Polish recordings and 35 Russian recordings. Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 8 minutes, to each acquaintance. Human auditors labeled the calls for language, callee gender, native speaker status, and speech clarity. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Arabic Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T08> contains 2.4 million words of Arabic monolingual text, 930,00 words of which were translated into English, and 225,000 Arabic words translated from English data. Nearly 88,000 words were annotated for simple named entities, and approximately 29,000 words were annotated for full entities (including nominals and pronouns). In addition, over 10,000 words were annotated for noun phrase chunking, 18,000 words were labeled with semantic annotation, and situation frame annotation was applied to more than 24,000 words. 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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[CFP] NeurIPS 2026 Workshop: From Pretrained Representations to Acting Agents
by pinghsieh＠nycu.edu.tw 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

Dear All, We are excited to announce the PTA: From Pretrained Representations to Acting Agents workshop at NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney, Australia! 📋 We’re calling for submissions! ⏰ Paper submission deadline: Aug 29, 2026 (AoE) 🌐 Website: https://ptaworkshop.github.io/ 📋 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/PTA Our goal is to explore how to obtain actionable pretrained representations and align them with control agents at test time—bridging pretraining and test-time decision making. Call for Papers: - Specific topics include, but are not limited to: (1) What makes a pretrained representation actionable? (2) How to align with and use pretrained representations at test time? (3) How to adapt pretrained knowledge to new tasks? (4) How to evaluate actionable representations? (5) What can go wrong when pretrained agents act? - We welcome both short papers (4 pages) and long papers (up to 9 pages), formatted using the NeurIPS template and submitted through OpenReview. - All accepted contributions will be presented during the poster sessions. - A selected number of submissions will also be invited for contributed talks. - Submissions are non-archival and may be under review or concurrently submitted elsewhere. We especially encourage ongoing and unpublished work. If you are excited about connecting representation learning, RL, planning, and test-time decision making, we hope you’ll join us in Sydney! 🦘 Best regards, The Organizing Team Ping-Chun Hsieh (NYCU), Kuang-Huei Lee (Google DeepMind), Bo Dai (Georgia Tech), Yen-Ling Kuo (UVA), Georgia Chalvatzaki (TU Darmstadt), Karen Leung (UW / NVIDIA), Co Yong (NTU), Claas Voelcker (UT Austin)

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Call for Participation: 27th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS-26), September 7th-9th 2026, Udine, Italy
by Angelo Matteo 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

**CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** ICTCS 2026 - 27th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Udine, Italy, September 7-9, 2026 The 27th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2026) will take place in Udine, Italy, on September 7-9, 2026. ICTCS is the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). It provides a forum for researchers working across the broad spectrum of theoretical computer science to exchange ideas and results, and offers an opportunity for junior researchers and PhD students to interact with senior members of the community. The list of accepted papers is now available on the conference website. The detailed conference program will be published shortly. ### Invited Speakers We are pleased to welcome the following invited speakers: * Parosh Aziz Abdulla - Uppsala University, Sweden * Quantum Circuit Verification: Challenges and Opportunities * Nadia Pisanti - University of Pisa, Italy * Alignments to and among Degenerate Strings ### Registration Registration for ICTCS 2026 is open. The registration deadline is August 31, 2026. The registration fee includes access to all conference sessions, coffee breaks and lunches, the conference dinner, the social event, and one-year membership in EATCS and in the Italian Chapter of EATCS. ### Venue The conference will be held at Sala Tomadini, Via Tomadini 30, Udine, within walking distance of the city centre. For the list of accepted papers, registration details, travel information, and forthcoming updates on the program, please visit the ICTCS 2026 conference website: https://ictcs2026.uniud.it/ We look forward to welcoming you to Udine in September! The ICTCS 2026 Organizing Committee Inviato da Outlook per Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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**FINAL** Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

==> Only **one more week** to submit your abstract! <== *** FINAL Call for Abstracts *** *** NARNiHS 2027 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Ninth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** San Francisco, California, USA *** 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3542 . ---------- Call for Abstracts ----------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2027 Deadline: Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:59 PM US Eastern time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 9th Annual Meeting. As a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS will hold its Annual Meeting sessions at the LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday-Saturday, 6-9 January 2027. The 9th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field's enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or 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, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Accepted papers will be organized into thematic sessions that will be scheduled throughout the 4 days of the LSA conference; accepted posters will be scheduled together in the LSA poster gallery. Please note that, at NARNiHS events, poster presentations are an integral and equal part of the intellectual exchange (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, *if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation*, please specify this in your abstract. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and *promise for rich discussion* of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently 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. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11-inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch (2.54 cm) and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page to provide a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting 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 longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - 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 also 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 as the file name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names may 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. Abstracts that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2027 - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in NARNiHS Sessions and at the LSA Annual Meeting or another LSA Sister Society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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[Call for Participation] Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America
by elh97＠cam.ac.uk 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

Call for participation → Shared Task: ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America (SIMBig 2026, Peru) | https://simbig.org/SIMBig2026/en/sharedtask.html Deadline: 21/09/2026 to participate in the shared task (👉 Register: https://forms.gle/112jyHYPq9SVMmvs5) We invite submissions for the SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America, a unique opportunity to contribute to low resource language preservation while competing for publication in Springer CCIS. South America is home to a breathtaking linguistic tapestry, where hundreds of Indigenous languages are spoken, each carrying unique worldviews, ancestral knowledge, and cultural identities. Yet, this rich heritage is at a risk of being left behind. As the world becomes increasingly digital, the survival of these languages faces a new challenge: a deep technological gap. Why participate? We have prepared three tasks to accommodate different interests: Task 1: Puno Quechua ASR baseline (we provide a 66-hour speech corpus) Task 2: ASR for any Indigenous South American language without an existing ASR Task 3: Educational/literacy resource based on language datasets (websites, tutorials, notebooks, etc.) for any Indigenous South American language(s). Publication opportunity: Winning teams receive cash prizes, free registration to SIMBig 2026, and per-review publication in the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. Important dates (all AoE): 24/08/2026 - Release of datasets (Scripted Speech, Spontaneous Speech). 16/09/2026 - Open orientation hour (Register: https://forms.gle/FnL2Xp8X5j3zCsHZ9) 21/09/2026 - Registration deadline 30/09/2026 - Release of test dataset for Task 1 18/10/2026 - Submission deadline for final results and system description paper 28-30/10/2026 - Results announcement during SIMBig 2026 For any inquiries, please contact the organiser, Elwin Huaman (elh97(a)cam.ac.uk)

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PolEval 2026 – Call for task proposals
by Alina Wróblewska 12 Aug '26

12 Aug '26

Dear All, At the turn of 2026 and 2027, the next edition of PolEval, a shared task competition for computational tools for processing Polish, will take place. The aim of the shared task is to improve the quality of existing solutions, test new algorithms and methods, and support the development of computational linguistics. We are now opening the Call for task proposals for PolEval 2026. Until September 7, 2026, we invite submissions from individuals, teams, and organisations interested in preparing and coordinating shared tasks as part of the competition. A task proposal should include: task title – a short and unambiguous name; task description – outlining its goal, scope, and main assumptions; motivation and relevance – in particular, information on whether a similar task has already been organised as part of other competitions or benchmarks, e.g. for other languages; if the proposal concerns a new problem or a problem specific to Polish, please highlight its uniqueness and potential importance for the development of natural language processing; task preparation status – in particular, information on the availability and status of training and test data, any licensing restrictions, and the expected date by which the complete dataset will be ready; evaluation procedure – a description of how systems will be evaluated, including the proposed metrics, result submission procedure, etc.; proposed timeline for running the task as part of PolEval 2026 – in particular, the expected dates for data release and completion of the evaluation. Task organisers will be responsible for preparing the task description, data, and evaluation procedure; communicating with participants; coordinating the review process for submitted papers; and publishing a paper summarising the task in the PolEval proceedings in the ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/venues/poleval/>. Task proposals should be sent to: lukasz.kobylinski(a)ipipan.waw.pl <mailto:lukasz.kobylinski@ipipan.waw.pl> PolEval 2026 schedule Call for task proposals: August 11, 2026 Task submission deadline: September 7, 2026 Notification of task acceptance: September 14, 2026 First call for participation/papers & release of Train and Test A data: October 13, 2026 Second call for participation/papers: November 13, 2026 Release of Test B data: December 1, 2026 Announcement of final results (Test B): December 8, 2026 Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2026 Notification of paper acceptance: January 5, 2027 Camera-ready paper due: January 19, 2027 Presentation of the results and publication of the PolEval proceedings in the ACL Anthology: March 2027 The following tasks have been organised in previous editions of PolEval: Part of Speech Tagging Sentiment Analysis Dependency Parsing Named Entity Recognition Language Models Recognition and normalization of temporal expressions Lemmatization of proper names and multi-word phrases Entity linking Machine translation Automatic speech recognition Automatic cyberbullying detection Post-editing and rescoring of automatic speech recognition results Morphosyntactic tagging of Middle, New and Modern Polish Word sense disambiguation Information extraction and entity typing from long documents with complex layouts Punctuation restoration from read text Evaluation of translation quality assessment metrics Post-correction of OCR results Question answering challenge Punctuation prediction from conversational language Abbreviation disambiguation Passage retrieval Reading Comprehension Emotion and sentiment recognition Polish Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge Spotting Machine-Generated Text from Language Models for Polish (ŚMIGIEL) Gender-inclusive LLMs for Polish Polish Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge Across these tasks, more than 140 systems have competed, developed by researchers from academia and by private companies. Organising a task is a great opportunity not only to test and compare existing solutions, but also to draw the attention of the research and engineering communities to important challenges in Polish language processing. More information about the competition is available on: the PolEval website <http://poleval.pl/>; the PolEval Discord server <https://discord.gg/dpn94tUSyT>, used for ongoing discussions and information exchange; PolEval on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/18152015>. We would also greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word about PolEval 2026 among your colleagues, students, PhD students, and others interested in computational linguistics and NLP. Thank you in advance for your support and involvement. We look forward to receiving interesting proposals for tasks for PolEval 2026! Best regards, Łukasz Kobyliński Maciej Ogrodniczuk Alina Wróblewska Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences

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[CFP] Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems — Springer Nature / AI and Ethics Submission Deadline Extension: October 7, 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

We invite submissions to the topical collection "Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems", published in the Springer Nature journal AI and Ethics. (New) Submission deadline: October 7, 2026 Journal CFP: https://link.springer.com/collections/fehgbcihbb This collection explores how participatory approaches can address risks and limitations of AI-powered technologies by engaging diverse stakeholders in the design process. Drawing on the sociotechnical tradition, it brings together work at the intersection of sociotechnical studies and participatory design, investigating how AI and digital systems can be co-designed to reflect shared values, accountability, and agency. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Methods, frameworks, and design solutions for participatory AI (co)design - Experiments, simulations, prototypes, or case studies of co-design in AI development - Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design - Critical reflections on challenges and limitations of participatory approaches - Analyses of power dynamics and ethical considerations in participatory AI - Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement - Assessing AI impacts through participatory and stakeholder engagement approaches We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with theoretical, methodological, or experimental contributions. Interdisciplinary work is explicitly encouraged. Submitted manuscripts must contain at least 80% original content. This collection is connected to the workshop Mind the AI GAP: Co-designing sociotechnical systems (HHAI 2025), but is open to all contributions aligned with the scope. Guest Editors: Costanza Alfieri, University of L'Aquila Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Rui Prada, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Events, 16/17 September 2026
by Mcenery, Tony 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

As part of the celebration of the launch of the new LANA Corpus of spoken conversational American English, a series of free to attend events are being held at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on the 16th and 17th September 2026. On the 16th, an event in the morning will launch the LANA corpus, present details of how to download it, discuss its compilation and highlight some early results from the corpus. People can register to attend this event in person or online. In the afternoon of the 16th, Prof. Vaclav Brezina will provide a workshop on the use of the #LancsBox tool - this is an in person only event. On the 17th, a full day of talks on corpus-based research will take place with registration available for both in person and online attendance. To register for the event, visit: https://polyu.hk/RstBb<https://t.edm.polyu.edu.hk/activities_web/track/click?msgid=fae75f5b-88dd-4…> Face to face attendees will find details of the venue (Hung Hom Bay Campus) on the registration page. Online attendees will be sent joining instructions after registration. Details of the events are given below. Note that the timings given are for Hong Kong. We hope to see colleagues old and new both in person and online next month, Tony McEnery 16th September - morning, LANA Launch Event 9:00-9:15 Introduction, Prof. Anthony McEnery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 9:15-10:15 Building LANA-CASE: Spoken Corpus Design, Compilation, and Lessons Learned, Dr Elizabeth Hanks 10:15-11:15 Is Casual Conversation Linguistically similar to Other Spoken Registers? Prof. Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University 11:15-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-12:45 and I was like wait what? The Language of Gen Z Americans, Prof. Paul Baker, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 12:45-13:00 Accessing LANA, Prof. Anthony McEnery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Prof. Vaclav Brezina, Lancaster University 16th September - afternoon 14:00-17:00 #LancsBox Workshop, Prof. Vaclav Brezina, Lancaster University 17th September - all day, symposium 9:00-10:00 Evaluating Chatbot Authenticity in Simulations of Spoken Interaction, Prof. Vaclav Brezina, Lancaster University 10:00-11:00 Changes in the Register of Conversation over Time - a Discourse Unit Approach, Prof. Anthony McEnery, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:15 Using Corpora to Analyse Health Communication: A Study of the R/Dementia Subreddit, Dr Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University 12:15-13:15 When Does a Clause Become a Story? Tracing Discourse Across Languages and Centuries, Dr Hanna Schmück, University of Augsburg 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:00 Surprise Words and Core Words: Using Vibe Coding to Identify Collocational Divergence Across Corpora, Prof. Paul Baker, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 15:00-15:15 Coffee Break 15:15-16:15 Comparing and Contrasting in Corpus Linguistics, Dr Niall Curry, University of Birmingham 16:15-17:15 Getting on the Same Wavelength: Synergising Text, Sound, and Vision in Corpus Design, Dr Samuel Schmück, Lancaster University

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2nd CfP: Methods Fair at the IDS Annual Conference 2027 "Language and Literature"
by Roman Schneider 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Apologies for cross-posting. The Call for Papers below is provided in German, as it concerns a conference event dedicated to methods and resources for research on the German language. Please feel free to forward it to interested colleagues. Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur" Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf ab, Phänomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. März 2027, im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet. Der Fokus der Methodenmesse ist praxisnah und liegt auf Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeugen, die idealerweise anhand kurzer Anwendungsstudien demonstriert werden. Die Vorstellung von spezifischen Studien ist ebenfalls möglich, wobei transparente Methodik, Dokumentation und möglichst reproduzierbare Forschungsprozesse im Vordergrund stehen sollten. Wir begrüßen insbesondere Beiträge, die sich mit der deutschen Sprache beschäftigen bzw. auf das Deutsche anwendbare Methoden oder Tools vorstellen. Geplante Themenbereiche sind: • Korpora oder andere Ressourcen für die empirische Arbeit mit literarischen Texten • Tools, Strategien und Workflows für die empirische Untersuchung literarischer Texte mit Bezug auf deren sprachliche Struktur, hierbei auch besonders: o Untersuchungen und kritische Reflexion zum Einsatz von KI-Methoden o Untersuchungen zu multimodalen und neuartigen Literaturformen (z.B. Songs, Graphic Novels, Social-Media-Formate, interaktive Formate, KI-generierte Literatur) • Didaktisch-methodische Konzepte für die Verknüpfung von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft in Lehre und Unterricht Weitere Themenbereiche können berücksichtigt werden, sofern der Bezug zum Tagungsthema in der Einreichung klar herausgearbeitet ist. Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt. Anschließend gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca. eineinhalbstündigen Poster-Session zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung bei IDSopen ( https://idsopen.de ) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip publiziert werden. Wenn Sie einen Beitrag zur Methodenmesse beisteuern möchten, bitten wir um ein nicht anonymisiertes Abstract auf Deutsch (ca. 500 Wörter exkl. Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) bis zum 15.09.2026 an folgende Adresse: methodenmesse2027(a)ids-mannheim.de Über die Annahme der Beiträge wird bis zum 15.11.2026 entschieden. Konferenz-Webseite:https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/jahrestagung-2027/ Organisationsteam: Annelen Brunner, Katharina Gloning, Peter Meyer, Roman Schneider -- Prof. Dr. Roman Schneider Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R5 6-13, 68161 Mannheim Tel: +49 621-1581-217 http://www.ids-mannheim.de/gra/personal/schneider.html

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[Call for Workshop Proposals] ACL-family conferences 2027 — deadline September 4 AoE
by ACL Announcements 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Call for Workshop Proposals- ACL-family conferences 2027 -- deadline September 4 AoE ACL invites workshop proposals for EACL 2027, COLING 2027, NAACL 2027, ACL 2027, or EMNLP 2027. This is the single joint workshop-proposal call for the 2027 conference cycle. Proposals are welcome across computational linguistics and related areas, including linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Important dates: - Proposal submission: September 4, 2026, 11:59 p.m. UTC-12 (AoE) - Notification: October 2, 2026 Full call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-workshops-proposals-2027 [1] Submission: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/ [2] Questions: star-acl-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joint-call-workshops-proposals-2027 [2] https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/

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[CFP] Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics
by ACL Announcements 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Special Issue on the Ethics of NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics Language processing technologies from Siri to Google Translate and ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our societies. Consequently, there has been a decade of attention to algorithmically mediated harms, including harms arising from social biases and discriminatory technologies. In this special issue, we broadly invite contributions that reflect on the ethics of language technologies. We invite theoretical and technical submissions around - but not limited to: * Reflection on bias and fairness research and its outcomes; * Interdisciplinary perspectives on bias, fairness, and algorithmically mediated harms; * Critiques of existing approaches; * Development of new theories for bias, fairness, and algorithmically mediated harms; * Analyses of power relationships (including conflicts of interests) and their impacts; * Multilingual considerations; * Decolonisation in relation to bias and fairness; * Reflections on ongoing debates on bias, fairness, and ethics; * Language technologies in context (e.g., in political/social/cultural tensions); * Slow science and its relationship to bias and fairness; * Luddite and decomputing perspectives on language technologies, bias, and fairness; * Environmental impacts of language technologies * The impacts and social considerations of data labour; * Social and societal harms of language technologies; and * External perspectives on language technologies. We particularly encourage inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary submissions which center questions around the fairness, bias, justice, and ethics of natural language processing technologies and computational linguistics. Important dates and information _Submission deadline_: 27 November, 2026 _Notification_: February, 2027 _Publication (Expected)_: October, 2027 Submission site: https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission Guest Editors * Karën Fort, Université de Lorraine / LORIA, France * Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany * Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us cl_si_ethics(a)inria.fr About the journal Computational Linguistics is the longest-running publication devoted exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. This highly regarded quarterly offers university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of all the facets of research on language. Computational Linguistics is a diamond open access journal, which means that "there is no fee to publish and the content is open to anyone to read. All of these titles employ a Creative Commons license for individual articles." (https://direct.mit.edu/journals/pages/open-access)

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Call for Registration: International Conference LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages Fes, Morocco
by Amal Haddad 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

International Conference: 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] Call for Registration ***Early registration available until 16 August 2026*** LaTeLL (https://latell.org/2026/) is the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of low-resource languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and particularly in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. The list of accepted papers is available on https://latell.org/2026/accepted-papers/ Early registration available until 16 August 2026. See the registration link on the conference webpage for more details. -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/

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articles in honour of Patrick Hanks
by Robert Lew 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 14-15 January 2027, London
by Andrea Farina 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultur… Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) 14–15 January 2026 | King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27), to be held at King’s College London (Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS) on 14–15 January 2026. The conference is funded by the ERC-selected project COALA<https://coala.er.kcl.ac.uk/>. See the conference webpage here<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultur…>. Language is in constant flux, shaped by social, cultural, and cognitive forces over time. With the increasing availability of large-scale textual data and computational tools, researchers are now better equipped than ever to uncover patterns and mechanisms of language change across different linguistic areas (e.g., morphology, syntax, semantics). This conference explores the intersection of quantitative diachronic linguistics and cultural analytics, to investigate how language evolves and how these changes relate – directly or broadly – to cultural dynamics. Confirmed keynote speakers are Prof Dirk Geeraerts<https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english/our-staff/emeritus-professors/dirkgeer…> (KU Leuven) and Dr Stefania De Gaetano-Ortlieb<https://stefaniadegaetano.com/> (Saarland University). Submission Guidelines * We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. * The abstracts should be anonymised and consist of a maximum of 400 words (excluding references). * Please submit your abstract as a .docx file via email to: quantitative.diachronic.ling(a)gmail.com<mailto:quantitative.diachronic.ling@gmail.com>. Use the following subject line: “ABSTRACT Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics” In case of a large number of high-quality submissions, some abstracts may be selected for poster presentations. Authors will be invited to indicate whether they would consider their submission suitable for a poster session, should one be included in the programme. Poster selections will be based both on authors’ preferences and on reviewers’ recommendations, as reviewers will also be asked to assess the suitability of submissions for poster presentation. Deadline: 13 September 2026, 23:59 BST Suggested Topics (non-exhaustive list) Submissions may include (but are not limited to) the following areas, with no restrictions on language(s) or historical periods: * Quantitative studies of language change across time * Corpus-based analyses of language evolution * Computational modelling of diachronic syntax, semantics, morphology, etc. * Cross-linguistic comparisons using large-scale data * Language change in connection with historical, literary, or cultural trends * Digital methods for exploring linguistic and cultural shifts * Applications of cultural analytics to linguistic data Important Dates * 13 September 2026: Abstract Submission Deadline * 26 October 2026: Notification of Acceptance * 14–15 January 2026: Conference Dates For any inquiries, please contact the organiser, Dr Andrea Farina<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/andrea-farina> (andrea.farina(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:andrea.farina@kcl.ac.uk>).

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

*** Call for Participation *** 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 *** Early Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026 *** We are pleased to invite researchers, practitioners, educators, and students to participate in the inaugural edition of VARIABILITY 2026, the new flagship conference dedicated to variability engineering, software reuse, and software product line engineering. As modern software systems must cope with evolving requirements, heterogeneous platforms, changing user needs, adaptive behaviour, and increasingly AI-enabled development processes, variability engineering has become more important than ever. The conference provides a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in variability-enabled systems including modelling, analysis, automation, architectures, tools, empirical studies, software reuse, and software product line engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 builds upon the legacies of three leading conferences in the field: • International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) • International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS) • International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) By bringing these communities together, VARIABILITY 2026 creates a unified international forum for advancing the engineering, management, and exploitation of variability in software-intensive systems. Keynote Speakers VARIABILITY 2026 will feature keynote presentations by: • Prof. Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson / Mälardalen University) • Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel (University of Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IUF) Tracks VARIABILITY 2026 will feature presentations spanning many tracks including: • Research • Industry • Journal-First • Demonstrations and Tools • Projects Showcase • Doctoral Symposium Workshops • MODEVAR - International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability https://modevar.github.io/ • GAIV - Workshop on Generative AI and Variability https://sites.google.com/view/gaiv-2026 Tutorials • Product Comparison using Feature Similarity Matching by Mike Mannion and Hermann Kaindl • The Engineering and Manufacture of Software-based Products by Grady Campbell Awards The conference will honour excellence through: • Awards for the most influential papers published more than 10 years ago in the predecessor conferences • Best Research Paper and Best Industry Paper awards (sponsored by Springer) Join us in Cyprus for this historic inaugural edition and help build the future of variability- enabled systems and software! 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] KEIR @ CIKM 2026
by Luca Ragazzi 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

📢 Call for Papers — KEIR @ CIKM 2026 The Third Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval 📍 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 📅 November 8, 2026 🎓 Co-located with ACM CIKM 2026 🌐 Website: https://keir-workshop.github.io/ After two successful editions at ECIR (2024 & 2025), the Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR) workshop is coming to CIKM 2026 in Rome! KEIR brings together researchers from Information Retrieval, NLP, Data Mining, and Knowledge Management to advance the principled integration of external knowledge into retrieval systems and the language models that power them. We invite both short and long papers presenting original or work-in-progress research, as well as position, applied, and resource papers. We especially encourage submissions addressing knowledge-intensive and domain-sensitive applications where factuality, trustworthiness, and discovery are essential, including medicine, law, finance, and science. 🔍 Topics include (but are not limited to): • Knowledge-enhanced retrieval and recommendation models, both representational and generative • Knowledge-aware data augmentation and query processing • Knowledge-enhanced agentic IR: LLM agents that plan, reason, and decide when, what, and how to retrieve, navigate structured knowledge, and curate and link knowledge • Self-evolving, dynamic knowledge and automated discovery • Multimodal knowledge sources for IR • Test-time adaptation of retrievers and language models • Efficient knowledge-enhanced retrieval • Evaluation, interpretability, uncertainty quantification, bias, and fairness • Domain-specific retrieval applications 📅 Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: August 24, 2026 • Notification: September 23, 2026 • Workshop: November 8, 2026 📝 Submissions • Double-blind reviewing • Original unpublished work and suitable CIKM 2026 rejected papers are welcome • Authors may optionally publish an extended version of their accepted paper in a Springer LNCS post-proceedings volume; participation is entirely optional, helping preserve the opportunity to submit a revised version of the work to another conference or journal if desired We look forward to welcoming the community to Rome this November! Luca Ragazzi, PhD DISI UniBO NLP<https://disi-unibo-nlp.github.io> DISI - University of Bologna l.ragazzi(a)unibo.it<mailto:l.ragazzi@unibo.it>

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: ARR Commitment Deadline Extension
by daryna.dementieva＠tum.de 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

Dear community, As there is still an issue with OpenReview papers links that influenced several workshops, we also accept ARR Commitment submissions via form: https://forms.gle/swiwbUA1EsNF65gs8 till August 12th, EoD, AoE. Looking forward to gather in one place all amazing positive impact papers! Best wishes, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Organisers

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Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

Second Call for Papers DHASA Conference 2026 https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17-20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 20 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026-20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types - Long papers: max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) - Short papers: max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) - Executive summaries: max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building, not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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PhD position in Digital Forensic Linguistics
by Tatjana Scheffler 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

We are looking for a PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics The position is located in the group headed by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Digital Forensic Linguistics) in the Institute for German Studies. The research focus of the group is the theoretical and computational analysis of human language in digital media, in particular computational approaches to forensic linguistics. Research topics of the group include disinformation, hate speech, and automatic approaches to digital authorship, among others. The position includes a small teaching requirement (approximately 1 class per semester), which will be carried out in the undergraduate and graduate programs in German linguistics. This position is meant to lead to further qualification of the holder in the form of a Ph.D. degree. Work on the Ph.D. thesis is considered part of the tasks in this position and should center around a project in the newly established field of digital forensic linguistics. Your tasks: - Investigating new computational linguistic methods of analyzing, detecting and combating harmful online language (disinformation, hate speech, or other digital forensic applications) - Contributing to the development of the emerging research field Digital Forensic Linguistics - Creation of annotated corpora and datasets - Collaboration in an interdisciplinary team - Preparing research results for publication in leading venues (conferences and journals) - Teaching (1 class per semester) in the field of German linguistics (preferably in German) - Supervising student research assistants (m/f/x) Your profile: - Very good Master's degree in computational linguistics or a related subject - Knowledge of and ideally practical experience with natural language processing (NLP), including machine learning methods (statistical methods, deep learning, LLMs) - Solid programming skills (e.g., Python) - Excellent language skills (reading and writing) in English; German skills preferred - Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following fields would be beneficial: forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, analysis of social media data, psycholinguistic experiments, visual communication - Willingness to participate in interdisciplinary research We offer: - Compensation according to TV-L E13, 65% - An interdisciplinary team including colleagues from computational linguistics, linguistics, and computer science - The opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. with strong support - Challenging and varied tasks with a high level of independence - Professional development, mentoring, and training - The opportunity to join one of the largest universities in Germany, embedded in the University Alliance Ruhr Your application should include the following documents: (1) Cover letter, including your motivation for the position, (2) current CV, (3) transcript of records for the Bachelor's and Master's degree, (4) sample of your academic writing, e.g. (chapter from) Master's thesis, and (5) names and email addresses of two references. We would prefer that CVs do not include a personal photo. Your cover letter and CV should be written by you and clearly demonstrate the ways in which you match the requested profile. Please submit your application via the online form. Interviews are planned to take place in August 2026 via video conference (Zoom). We look forward to receiving your application via our online application portal by 2026-08-24. Please make sure to mention the reference number ANR 5953. Application Deadline: 24-Aug-2026 Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d… --- 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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Second Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026)
by keren.artiaga＠adaptcentre.ie 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026. WSLP 2026 aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working on sign language technologies. The workshop will showcase recent advances in sign language understanding, translation, recognition, generation, and multimodal AI, with a special emphasis on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature shared tasks, invited talks, and discussions on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field. 🔑 Important Links 🌐 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/ 📄 Submission Portal (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP 🏆 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/ 💬 Workshop Discord: https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7 💬 Shared Task Discord: https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) * Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026 * Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop Date: October 29, 2026 🔍 Topics of Interest (Including but Not Limited To) * Low-resource and underrepresented sign languages * Sign Language Recognition (SLR) * Continuous and Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) * Sign Language Generation and Avatars * Multilingual, Cross-modal, and Zero-shot Learning for Sign Languages * Large Language Models and Multimodal Models for Sign Languages * Cultural and Dialectal Variation in Sign Languages * Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Data Resources * Fairness, Ethics, Accessibility, and Real-world Applications 🏆 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2026 * Indian Sign Language to English Translation * Isolated Sign Recognition * Word/Sign Presence Prediction We particularly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages, inclusive technologies, and real-world deployment challenges. We warmly invite the community to submit their latest research and join us in advancing sign language technologies that foster accessibility, inclusion, and communication for all.

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Call for System Demonstrations - EACL 2027
by ACL Announcements 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

Call for System Demonstrations EACL 2027 March 9-14, Athens, Greece https://2027.eacl.org/ Submission deadline: 22 September 2026 Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2026 The EACL 2027 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. Demonstrations may range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. We encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics and (applied) natural language processing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing systems or system components * Application systems using language technology components * Software tools for natural language processing research * Software for demonstration or evaluation * Software supporting learning or education * Tools for data visualization and annotation * Tools for model inspection * Development tools * Reusable components (parsers, generators, taggers, speech recognizers, etc.) * Systems that do not necessarily employ LLMs Submissions require a paper (up to 6 pages), a demonstration video (up to 2.5 minutes), and a live demo website or installable package. Please see the following page for more information: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/demos/ [1] Contact: eacl2027-sysdemo(a)googlegroups.com Links: ------ [1] https://2027.eacl.org/calls/demos/

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2 PhD Positions on Integrating Values, Beliefs, and Social Dynamics into Conversational Agents and Knowledge-Driven NLG for Combating Hateful Misinformation. Application deadline: August 27th
by Marco Guerini 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

----------------- Apologies for cross-posting. ----------------- The Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD <https://land.fbk.eu/>) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://www.fbk.eu/en/> (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of two fully-funded PhD position: *1) TITLE*: *Integrating Values, Beliefs, and Social Dynamics into Conversational Agents* *DESCRIPTION*: Providing neural models with a persona profile has demonstrated that conditioning such models on specific characteristics produces more coherent and engaging conversations. However, current representations remain shallow, typically relying on static biographical facts. In reality, human communication is shaped by both profound internal traits - such as goals, opinions, values, and beliefs - and dynamic situational factors, including emotional states, conversational context, and the specific relationship between speakers. The goal of this PhD Thesis is to bridge these dimensions, moving beyond rigid profiles to develop adaptive, context-sensitive persona models. By integrating deep profile characteristics with real-time social dynamics, the research aims to advance the state of language generation for conversational agents across multiple domains and languages. *Link to the call*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A5 *2) TITLE*: *Knowledge-Driven Natural Language Generation for Combating Hateful Misinformation* *DESCRIPTION*: The convergence of online misinformation and hate speech poses a significant threat to social cohesion, especially when manipulated content is used to incite hostility toward marginalized groups. While large language models (LLMs) offer potential for fact-checking and counterspeech, current systems often struggle with factual accuracy, complex reasoning, and the nuanced social dynamics of harmful content. This PhD project aims to overcome these hurdles by developing knowledge-enhanced neural generation frameworks. The research will integrate external knowledge and computational argumentation to produce reliable, persuasive, and ethically grounded responses, while also addressing the moral values and motivations of users spreading hate-based misinformation. Ultimately, this work seeks to advance generative AI that can mitigate harmful discourse and clarify its underlying mechanisms. *Link to the call*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/reserved-topic-scholarships#A6 *COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT*: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application *IMPORTANT DATES:* deadline for application is 27th August 2026, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) *FURTHER INFORMATION:* For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact me (guerini(a)fbk.eu) Best Regards, Marco Guerini -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Final CfP [extended deadline]: 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026
by Veronika Laippala 05 Aug '26

05 Aug '26

Final Call for Papers [deadline extended] 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026 https://wackyworkshop.org The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limited metadata, and the under-representation of many languages and domains. These challenges call for a shift toward Data-Centric AI, focusing on the curation, analysis, and responsible use of web-derived data. The 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for research addressing the full lifecycle of web data. We invite submissions on methods, resources, and applications related to web corpora, with special emphasis on multilingual data and less-resourced languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (e.g., data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification) * Use of web data in empirical linguistic research * Analysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insights * Ethical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data By bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, and the social sciences, WaC aims to advance best practices for one of the field’s most influential data sources. Important dates Direct paper submission deadline: 15 August, 2026 (extended) Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: 1 September, 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 September, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: 20 September, 2026 Workshop date: 29 Oct, 2026 Submissions Submit your papers through https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13 (both archival and non-archival option available) or through ARR commitment https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13_ARR_Commitment. Workshop Organizers Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo, Norway Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl Foundation Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation Thom Vaughan, Common Crawl Foundation Vuk Dinić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (MLCR27)
by Frey Jennifer-Carmen 05 Aug '26

05 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the "International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (MLCR27)", which will take place on 6–7 May 2027 at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of multilingualism and learner corpus research to discuss theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in this emerging field. We welcome concluded research as well as work-in-progress discussions and poster presentations on topics including (but not limited to): * design, compilation, and annotation of multilingual learner corpora * methodological challenges in capturing multilingual learner profiles * plurilingual competence and repertoire-based approaches * multilingual speaking, writing and translation practices * longitudinal perspectives on multilingual development * pedagogical implications of multilingual learner corpus research * innovative methods and tools for analysing multilingual learner data * multilingual learner corpus data in mixed methods designs For the full call for papers, submission guidelines, and further information, please visit the workshop website: https://www.porta.eurac.edu/mlcr27/ Please submit anonymised abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) via ConfTool<https://conftool.lt.eurac.edu/MLCR27/>. Submission deadline: 15 October 2026 Confirmed keynote speakers * Heike Wiese (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) * Hildgunn Dirdal (University of Oslo, Norway) Contact: For any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us via porta(a)eurac.edu<mailto:porta@eurac.edu> We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Bolzano in May 2027! Best regards, Aivars Glaznieks and Jennifer-Carmen Frey Eurac Research, Bolzano ___ Jennifer-Carmen Frey, PhD [cid:498ac965-0a22-49b5-8568-d89da750be1f] <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-6394> Eurac Research Institute for Applied Linguistics Drususallee/Viale Druso 1 I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano www.eurac.edu<http://www.eurac.edu/> Facebook<https://facebook.com/eurac.research> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/EURACtv> | X<https://twitter.com/eurac> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/euracresearch> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/euracresearch/> [signature_1401579056]<https://www.eurac.edu/en> According to regulation (EU) 2016/679 this transmission is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete all copies of this message and any attachments.

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Call for paper - LLMs for Equitable Education Systems (second reminder)
by Marco Bombieri 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research Topic “LLMs for Equitable Education Systems” is approaching. The Research Topic explores how LLMs and agentic AI can contribute to more equitable, inclusive, and responsible educational systems. We welcome original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and other contributions addressing topics such as AI-driven personalized learning, fair and transparent assessment, bias detection and mitigation, accessibility, and the ethical and policy implications of LLMs in education. - Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 September 2026 - Further information and submission guidelines are available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77438/llms-for-equitable-educat… We warmly encourage interested colleagues to submit their work and to share this call with potentially interested researchers. With best regards, The Research Topic Editorial Team

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: ARR Commitment Deadline
by daryna.dementieva＠tum.de 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Dear community! The last chance to submit and present at our NLP for Positive Impact Workshop -- you can commit your reviews from ARR May cycle till August 5th, EoD, AoE! Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI_ARR_Commitment Accepted at EMNLP 2026 main conference? Come present it with us! We welcome both archival and non-archival submissions — you can showcase an EMNLP-accepted paper at NLP4PI with no need to re-publish. It's a great way to reach a community focused on real-world, responsible NLP. Looking forward to yours submissions! All the best, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Organisers

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[Call for Participation] Volunteer annotators for temporal RAG and GraphRAG evaluation
by Murad Mustafayev 02 Aug '26

02 Aug '26

Dear colleagues, I am looking for volunteer annotators for a research study on the human evaluation of temporal question-answering, RAG, and GraphRAG systems. The study investigates whether existing and newly developed automatic metrics can reliably evaluate answers that depend on temporal facts, retrieved evidence, and graph-based reasoning. Human judgments will serve as the reference against which these metrics are compared. Annotation task Participants will evaluate 20 system-generated answers. Depending on the sample, the judgments concern: - answer correctness; - temporal correctness; - whether the supplied evidence supports the answer; - whether citations are temporally appropriate; - whether graph evidence is sufficient; and - whether a system’s decision to answer or decline to answer is appropriate. All required questions, evidence, graph information, and reference material are provided in the annotation interface. External search and AI tools should not be used. Expected commitment - Guided tutorial: approximately 15 minutes - Main annotation task: approximately 60-80 minutes Total expected time: approximately 1.5 hours Progress is saved automatically, allowing the task to be paused and resumed A desktop or laptop computer is strongly recommended The dataset and interface are entirely in English. Participants should therefore be fluent English readers. Experience with NLP, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, question answering, RAG, or LLM evaluation is helpful but not required. No prior familiarity with this project is necessary. This is a voluntary and unpaid academic contribution. Access is distributed individually rather than through a public link. Each participant receives a private study URL, an annotation guide, and a pseudonymous participant ID. To participate, please contact me at: [ mailto:murad.mustafayev4@etu.univ-lorraine.fr | murad.mustafayev4(a)etu.univ-lorraine.fr ] with the subject: Temporal RAG annotation study Please feel free to forward this call to colleagues, researchers, students, or practitioners who may be interested. Best regards, Murad Mustafayev

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Two PhD positions in computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen
by Lea Frermann 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

We are hiring two PhD candidates to join an interdisciplinary team spanning computational linguistics, medical informatics and cultural studies. Both candidates will be based in the computational linguistics department and work on automatic speech recognition (Project 1) or models of cultural narratives (Project 2) for historical German dialects. The positions will be filled as soon as possible, with a final deadline for applications on September 30th. For full details and application instructions see link below, or contact me directly for informal inquiries. https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/299892

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[Job] Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Cultural Evolution of Literature – MPI Frankfurt
by Sobchuk, Oleg 31 Jul '26

31 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, I would like to share the information about two positions opening in my new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, in Frankfurt. I am building a team for my ERC starting grant Macroevolution of European Literature, as well as my Max Planck Independent research group. The team's goal will be to study the fundamental principles governing the dynamics of literature and other arts. For this we are will be using massive datasets and computational methods. You can find more details in the calls: * PhD student position: https://www.mpg.de/26850384/doctoral-candidate-in-computational-literary-st… * Postdoc position: https://www.mpg.de/26850398/postdoctoral-position-in-computational-humaniti… Where? Frankfurt am Main, Germany Deadline? August 15, 2026 (anywhere on Earth) More about me: https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/oleg-sobchuk.html Please share this information with anyone interested in these positions. Thank you! Best wishes, Oleg Sobchuk Dr. Oleg Sobchuk Cultural Evolution of the Arts Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

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[Call for Participation] AIxIA 2026, Perugia, Italy, October 6 to 9, 2026
by Francesco Santini 31 Jul '26

31 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, (apologies for multiple copies) Registration is open for AIxIA 2026, the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia, Italy, from October 6 to 9, 2026. The Organizing Committee invites researchers, practitioners, students, and industry professionals to attend. The programme includes technical sessions, keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, and social events, and offers a forum for presenting recent research and discussing the current directions of Artificial Intelligence across academia, industry, and public institutions. REGISTRATION https://aixia2026.unipg.it/registration.html ACCOMMODATION: PLEASE BOOK EARLY October is a high season month in Perugia, and several cultural and academic events overlap with the conference dates. Hotel availability is expected to be limited well in advance. Participants are advised to reserve accommodation immediately after registering, in order to avoid reduced availability, higher rates, and longer commutes to the venue. We look forward to welcoming the AI community to Perugia. The AIxIA 2026 Organizing Committee https://aixia2026.unipg.it

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AI and the Self (NeurIPS 2026 Workshop): Call for Papers & Reviewers
by Mukund Choudhary 30 Jul '26

30 Jul '26

Hello all, The Call for Papers and Call for Reviewers are now open for the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI and the Self: Human Identity, Authenticity, and Agency in the Age of AI. The workshop explores how AI shapes identity, agency, authenticity, memory, learning, creativity, and human flourishing. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions, early findings, works in progress, and new research directions. Key dates (AoE): Paper deadline: August 24, 2026 Workshop: December 12 or 13, 2026 More details about the timeline, calls, registration, and the workshop: https://aintheself.github.io/ OR https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/AI_and_the_Self Please share with relevant colleagues, students, and research communities! Thank you, Mukund Choudhary, MBZUAI, on behalf of AI and the Self Organizers

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COLING 2027: First Call for Papers
by Joakim Nivre 30 Jul '26

30 Jul '26

COLING 2027: First Call for Papers Website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Benchmarking and Evaluation * Computational Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics * Cross-lingual and Multilingual NLP (including Machine Translation) * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * NLP for Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics * Discourse and Pragmatics * Ethics, Bias, Fairness, Alignment and Security * Human-AI Interaction and Social Impact of AI systems (including User Studies) * Information Extraction and Retrieval * Interpretability and Analysis of NLP Models * Knowledge-based NLP and Reasoning * Language Acquisition, Learning and Evolution * Language Diversity and NLP for Low-resourced/Less-studied Languages * Language Modeling, including Novel Architectures * Language Resources * Linguistic Theories and Language Modeling for Linguistic Insights * Machine Learning, including Resource-efficiency and Explainability * Agent-based LLM systems * Morphology and Syntax: Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification * NLP and LLM Applications * Phonology and Speech: Recognition, Synthesis, Spoken Language Modeling * Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level * Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining, Offensive Language Detection COLING 2027 will also feature a special theme track devoted to uses of NLP/LLMs in service of linguistic research, with a particular focus on linguistic diversity. A more detailed description of the special theme will be distributed in mid-August. Submission Details All papers must be submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR). The latest possible time to submit is the ARR 2026 October cycle, but papers that have already received reviews and a meta-review from ARR from earlier cycles can also be committed to COLING 2027. Please note that the October ARR cycle is shared between COLING 2027 and NAACL 2027 and that authors will be able to choose which conference they want to commit their paper to (only) after the meta-reviews have been released. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight (8) pages and short papers of up to four (4) pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusion but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2027 proceedings, which will be published on the conference website together with submission templates. Important Dates * ARR submission deadline (long & short papers): October 12, 2026 * Commitment after meta-reviews: December 23, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2027 * Main Conference: May 9–14, 2027 General Chairs * Katrin Erk, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chairs * Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University * Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University * Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder * Sina Zarrieß, University of Bielefeld For questions about submissions: coling2027-pcchairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:coling2027-pcchairs@googlegroups.com> När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Call for posters: Building Commons for Clinical LLMs (Oct 1-2, 2026) Paris [fixed submission link]
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

Call for poster submission: Building Commons for Clinical LLMs October 1-2, 2026, PariSanté Campus, Paris, France https://health-data-hub.fr/page/building-commons-clinical-llms-internationa… Fixed submission link: https://hdhpds.limesurvey.net/361124?lang=en As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to transform the medical landscape, the need for shared, compliant with regulations, and clinically-validated solutions has never been more vital for healthcare professionals. This conference aims to bridge the gap between academic research and medical application, focusing on the unique challenges of data privacy, model robustness, and clinical accuracy. On top of keynote presentations, panel sessions, and working group meetings, the conference aims to provide a space for researchers, clinicians, and industry players to share their latest findings and innovative projects through poster sessions. We solicit communications that will be presented as posters. All topics relevant to the conference themes are welcome: clinical applications of LLMs, clinical benchmarks for LLMs, regulatory/ethical/safety frameworks, new technical approaches, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS - Format: an extended abstract of 3 pages, plus unlimited references. The document, in PDF format, must contain at least: poster title; authors, affiliations, and contact; and a summary of the presented work. - Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE) - Submission link [fixed]: https://hdhpds.limesurvey.net/361124?lang=en - Selection criteria: abstracts will be selected based on their relevance to the conference themes and the clarity of their contribution - Document templates are available: - docx: https://health-data-hub.fr/sites/default/files/2026-06/Document_template_fo… - LaTeX: an Overleaf document is provided at https://www.overleaf.com/read/jmjkfptzknpq#b5b164 - File> Download> Download as source (.zip) or log into Overleaf and File> Make a copy Preregistration for the conference is open through the form at https://hdhpds.limesurvey.net/911354 --- the number of participants is limited, please preregister soon. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: 31 July 2026 - Notification: 30 August 2026 - Conference: 1-2 October 2026 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Emmanuel Bacry, French Health Data Hub, 75015, Paris, France ; Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, CNRS, CEREMADE, 75016, Paris, France Aurélie Névéol, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, 91400, Orsay, France François Portet, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000, Grenoble, France Xavier Tannier, Sorbonne Université, Limics, 75006, Paris, France Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, 91400, Orsay, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Program Committee comprises all members of the Scientific Committee listed above, joined by: Judith Abécassis, Inria Saclay – SODA, 91120, Palaiseau, France Rémi Flicoteaux, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of medical information, Paris, France Chuyuan Li, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000, Grenoble, France KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Confirmed keynote talks include: - Evaluation and implementation of LLMs for medical tasks – Stanford Medicine (USA) - Development and evaluation of a Japanese Medical LLM – RIKEN iTHEMS (Japan) - Development of open-source digital commons (models, data, tools) for generative AI in healthcare and in French - PARTAGES Consortium (France) VENUE: PARISANTÉ CAMPUS Join us at PariSanté Campus, the beating heart of French excellence in digital health. Founded by leading public institutions, including Inserm, Inria, Université PSL, ANS, and the French Health Data Hub, this global innovation hub unites public research, over 60 cutting-edge startups, and healthcare industry leaders. 2-10 Rue d'Oradour-sur-Glane, 75015 Paris, France

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Invitation to participate in a community survey on research (meta)data quality
by camilla.h.blixhavn＠uit.no 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

Dear researchers and preservation professionals, Have you encountered any issues when it comes to sharing, finding, accessing, and working with research data? If you are: - a researcher who works with data on a daily basis, - a professional who manages or curates research data - a professional who works with the technical infrastructure required for managing or curating research data, then your perspective on the future of FAIR long-term data preservation is invaluable. We invite you to fill out a survey that investigates how research communities work with research data, and how data archives and repositories work with the different aspects that contribute to the quality of research (meta)data. Link to survey: https://nettskjema.no/a/eosc-eden-survey-2026 The Horizon Europe-funded EOSC EDEN project investigates and develops strategies for curation and long-term preservation of research data. One important aspect of the project is to collect insights from researchers and preservation professionals, with the aim of turning identified challenges into actionable improvements. Your professional insights will support our work on: - Improving and standardising curation and preservation practices - Developing the services and tools needed to enhance digital preservation strategies - Enabling the reusability of research data - Bridging knowledge across disciplines - Equipping researchers with the knowledge to answer central research questions Whether you work at a repository or in research, in a large organisation or a small team, and whatever your discipline or career stage, we would like to hear from you. Multiple responses from the same organisation are welcome, and we encourage you to share information about the survey with your professional networks. Filling out the survey should take between 20-30 minutes to complete, and we will keep it open until Monday, 31st August, 2026. You can find the survey here: https://nettskjema.no/a/eosc-eden-survey-2026 For any questions about the survey or the work of EOSC EDEN, please contact Helene N. Andreassen (Project Task Lead) at helene.n.andreassen(a)uit.no. Thank you for sharing your experience — your contribution is greatly valued! Sincerely, Camilla Hagen Blixhavn, Helene N. Andreassen, and Philipp Conzett, UiT The Arctic University of Norway – On behalf of EOSC EDEN Work Package 3 “Discipline-specific requirements, validation, and future use” https://eden-fidelis.eu ____ Camilla Hagen Blixhavn PhD in neuroinformatics Senior adviser, UiT The Arctic University of Norway camilla.h.blixhavn(a)uit.no https://en.uit.no/ansatte/camilla.h.blixhavn

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Call for Shared Task Participation: AstroCLIMB (Astronomy Citation Linking from Illustrations, a Multimodal Benchmark)
by ACL Announcements 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

==================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AstroCLIMB: Astronomy Citation Linking from Illustrations, a Multimodal Benchmark Shared task of the 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026), co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 Workshop: November 9-10, 2026 (online) Task page: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/shared_task [1] Kaggle competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/astroclimb/overview [2] Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/adsabs/AstroCLIMB [3] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW Scientists rely on figures to communicate their results, yet the information locked in those figures is hard to parse, archive, and search. Recent multimodal models promise to change that, but they have seen little testing on real scientific figures. AstroCLIMB, built in partnership with astroexplorer.org [4], offers a benchmark to probe exactly this capability: can a model reconstruct part of the citation graph of astronomy papers from their figures and captions alone? The dataset comprises over 100K figure-and-caption pairs drawn from recent open-access astronomy papers. TASK Multi-class, single-label classification. Each input is a pair of objects: two figures, a figure and a caption, or two captions. The relation is symmetric, and each pair has exactly one label: - same figure: the two objects come from the same scientific figure (figure-caption pairs only) - same paper: the two objects come from the same paper (same DOI) - related papers: one object's paper cites the other's - unrelated papers: none of the above A note on scope: AstroCLIMB is meant as a benchmark for multimodal models rather than an end in itself. Participants are not expected to train large models from scratch for it; computing basic statistics or folding it into a larger multimodal training pipeline is very much in keeping with the intent. DATA Two versions of the same dataset are available: - Full dataset (Hugging Face): over 94K rows, each with a figure, its caption, and metadata (source DOI, title, authors, cited and citing DOIs) describing an astronomy citation graph as an adjacency list. Pairs are not enumerated; you generate them from the adjacency list. https://huggingface.co/datasets/adsabs/AstroCLIMB [3] - Evaluation dataset (Kaggle): 10K enumerated pairs each in the train and test splits, with labels. Many more pairs can be generated from the full dataset. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/astroclimb/overview [2] In the Kaggle data, some objects are English-language strings, and others are images encoded as strings; a helper notebook for decoding them to images is provided on Kaggle. EVALUATION Systems are evaluated on Kaggle using macro-F1 over the four classes. Submissions are CSV files with per-class indicators; a sample submission is available on the competition page. HOW TO PARTICIPATE 1. Register and join the competition on Kaggle to access the data and score submissions: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/astroclimb/overview [2] 2. Optionally, write up your system description as a paper using the ACL LaTeX template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [5]) and submit it via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [6] System description papers undergo light peer review and, if accepted, are published in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. We encourage a submission regardless of leaderboard position. TIMELINE (subject to change; all deadlines 11.59 pm UTC-12h, anywhere on Earth) - 1st CfP + Registration opens: July 27, 2026 - Train and scoring portion of test data release: July 27, 2026 - Registration ends: September 12, 2026 - System run and output submission: September 13, 2026 - System paper submission: September 14, 2026 - Result announcement: October 1, 2026 - Camera-ready submission: October 12, 2026 - Full data release: November 2, 2026 - Workshop: November 9-10, 2026 CONTACT For inquiries, contact Felix Grezes at felix.grezes(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your participation. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/shared_task [2] https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/astroclimb/overview [3] https://huggingface.co/datasets/adsabs/AstroCLIMB [4] http://astroexplorer.org/ [5] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [6] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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CFP: Dialogue and Discourse Vol. 17(2)
by Pierre Lison 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

Journal: Dialogue and Discourse [ https://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org ] Issue: Volume 17, Issue 2 Call Deadline: October 1st, 2026 We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by October 1st, 2026 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue. About the journal Dialogue and Discourse (D&D) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and related fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically, or experimentally rigorous approaches. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. As of July 2026, D&D has published 125 papers, and the journal's h-index is 31. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by major databases including ACL Anthology, DBLP, DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, LLBA, MLA International Bibliography, and Scopus. Submissions Submissions should be made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml Authors should provide a concise cover letter with their submission. The cover letter should: (i) present an argument for why the submission is appropriate for D&D, with explicit reference to the journal's aims and scope [ see https://dialogue-and-discourse.org/about.shtml ] and (ii) outline the innovative aspects of the submission. Extended versions of previously published conference papers are welcome provided they contain substantial new material. Simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the next SIGDIAL Conference [ https://www.sigdial.org ]. Issue Editors: Pierre Lison (Volume 17, Issue 2) Rebecca Clift (Volume 17, Issue 1) Manfred Stede (Volume 16, Issue 2) Casey Kennington (Volume 16, Issue 1) Editor-in-Chief: David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States Associate Editors: Rebecca Clift, University of Essex, UK Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, US Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, US Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, UK Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Casey Kennington, Boise State University, US Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London & Utrecht University Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, US

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New Element in Corpus Linguistics: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing
by Gaëtanelle Gilquin 28 Jul '26

28 Jul '26

Dear all, We are glad to announce the publication of "Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics" by Tove Larsson and Gregory R. Hancock in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. It is freely downloadable until 11 August, using the following URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/statistical-modeling-for-actual-hyp… Here is a summary of the Element: By building knowledge in a deliberate and systematic manner, we can gain a more complete understanding of a given research area relevant to corpus linguists. Specifically, empirically informed hypotheses (i.e., hypotheses that result from a synthesis of findings from all relevant prior studies) play a key role in this endeavor in that they enable us to test to what extent generalizations from previous research are consistent with our results, or if we need to make adjustments to our existing knowledge or theory. In this Element, we aim to provide a practical and accessible introduction to select statistical methods for evaluating such empirically informed hypotheses. In particular, we illustrate techniques from the broader null-hypothesis significance testing framework (e.g., equivalence testing), and structural equation modeling framework (e.g., measured variable path analysis), with the goal of encouraging knowledge building in a more principled and systematic manner in corpus linguistics. Best wishes, Paul Baker & Gaëtanelle Gilquin (series editors)

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Assoc & Assist Professor vacancies (open contract)
by Mark Lee 27 Jul '26

27 Jul '26

The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is recruiting academic staff to fulfil its ambitions as a leading UK university for computer science. We seek to recruit in all areas of computer science, with an emphasis for candidates with research activity in or related to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence including Natural Language Processing. The adverts are below: Associate Professor (Research and Education) https://edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_6… Assistant Professor (Research and Education) https://edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_6… With best regards, Mark Mark Lee Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (India) Professor of Artificial Intelligence www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl> University of Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk>

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PhD position in Natural Language Processing at Inria, France
by Oana Balalau 27 Jul '26

27 Jul '26

Hello, We are looking for a driven PhD candidate to work on NLP tools that help us change how we measure and mitigate bias in the media. Instead of focusing solely on factual accuracy, this project shifts the paradigm to narrative and argumentative diversity. Please share the job offering with potential candidates. Applications should only be made via the Inria website. The PhD student will be part of CEDAR at Inria Saclay, France, in the Paris area. [ https://lnkd.in/exXntevw ] [ https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 | https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 ] Best regards, Oana Balalau

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Lector/Ayudante doctor position in French linguistics and language, DTCL, UPF
by Gemma Boleda 25 Jul '26

25 Jul '26

Our department is looking for a Lecturer in French linguistics and language (specialization open). Please read the job announcement here for more information, and note that the application deadline is *July 30*: https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2404/

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2nd Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

==> Only one more month to submit your abstract! <== *** 2nd Call for Abstracts *** *** NARNiHS 2027 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Ninth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** San Francisco, California, USA *** 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3542 . ---------- Call for Abstracts ----------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027 Deadline: Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:59 PM US Eastern time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 9th Annual Meeting. As a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS will hold its Annual Meeting sessions at the LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday-Saturday, 6-9 January 2027. The 9th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field's enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or 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, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Accepted papers will be organized into thematic sessions that will be scheduled throughout the 4 days of the LSA conference; accepted posters will be scheduled together in the LSA poster gallery. Please note that, at NARNiHS events, poster presentations are an integral and equal part of the intellectual exchange (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, *if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation*, please specify this in your abstract. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and *promise for rich discussion* of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently 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. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11-inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch (2.54 cm) and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page to provide a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting 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 longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - 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 also 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 as the file name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names may 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. Abstracts that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027 - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in NARNiHS Sessions and at the LSA Annual Meeting or another LSA Sister Society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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[CFP] Global Wordnet Conference 2027, Amsterdam Netherlands
by Vossen, P.T.J.M. (Piek) 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

14th International Global Wordnet Conference Amsterdam, Netherlands February 1-4, 2027 The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the 14th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2027), to be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 1 to 4 February, 2026. The GWC2027 conference will be held under the auspices of the Global WordNet Association, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Important information about registration and participation for GWC2027 will be incrementally added to the conference website: https://cltl.github.io/GWC2027/ We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. This year’s special theme is language documentation: how can wordnets be used to support language documentation around the world. As such, we would like to invite submissions on this special. We hope this will foster collaboration and cross-pollination between the both fields. Conference Topics Lexical semantics and meaning representation * Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations * Proposed new relations * Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency statistics * Word, sense, and context embeddings * Necessity and completeness issues * Ontology and wordnet * Lexical semantics of emotions and other lexical fields of interest for lexical typology (e.g. body parts, colors, motion verbs, etc.) * Wordnets and other modalities * Wordnets and other theoretical frameworks for modelling lexical semantics * Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to wordnet-style meaning representation Architecture of lexical databases * Language independent and language dependent components * Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (e.g., CLARIN, ELG, ELRA, etc.) * Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD) Tools and methods for wordnet development * User and data entry interfaces * Methods for constructing, extending, and enriching wordnets * Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources * Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with large language models * Methods for wordnet development specific for under-resourced languages Applications of wordnet * Word sense disambiguation * Text generation * Commonsense reasoning * Machine translation * Information extraction and retrieval * Document structuring and categorization * Text classification * Automatic hyperlinking * Language teaching * Psycholinguistic applications * Embeddings and pretrained language models * Probing large language models Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools * Best practices for wordnet maintenance, standardization, and distribution * Evaluation metrics for wordnet tools and resources * Interoperability across wordnets and wordnet tools * Licensing and legal considerations for wordnets distribution * APIs and other web services for accessing wordnets * Strategies for community involvement in wordnet standardization Language documentation and wordnets * Building wordnets for endangered, indigenous, and minority languages * Representing culture-specific concepts, folk taxonomies, and indigenous knowledge systems through wordnets * Integration of wordnet development with linguistic fieldwork tools (e.g., FLEx, ELAN, SayMore) * Multimodal wordnets: Linking synsets to audio, video, and archival field recordings * Wordnets as resources for language revitalization and community-based teaching * Community-driven wordnet creation and participatory lexicography * Overcoming data scarcity in wordnet construction for documented languages * Ethical considerations, data sovereignty, and open access in endangered language wordnets ________________________________ Submissions should fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references): * Long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation * Short papers: 5 pages max, 15 minute presentation * Project reports: 5 pages max, 10 minute presentation * Demonstrations: 5 pages max, with up to 3 additional pages for screenshots or images, 20 minute presentation Submissions must be anonymized, and any identifying information must be removed. Authors should indicate their preferred submission category; however, the final category of acceptance may be adjusted by the organising and scientific committees (e.g., if need be, a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper). At least one author from each paper must register and present the paper in person in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings. To enhance replicability and transparency, authors are encouraged to share the data and code used in their research, whenever possible in an anonymized form. We recommend exploring data repositories that support anonymization techniques and open-source code hosting platforms like GitHub<https://github.com/>. Camera-ready and final papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only. Paper submissions must adhere to the official ACL style templates available here for LaTeX and Word. Please also follow the general paper formatting guidelines established by the “*ACL” conferences available here<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>. Authors should not modify these style-sheet files or use templates designed for other conferences. Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2027 ________________________________ Important Dates * New Paper Submission Deadline: October 16, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: November 27, 2026 * Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027 * Conference Dates: February 1-4, 2025 * Final Paper Submission for Proceedings: February 28, 2027 ⏰ The deadline timezone is Anywhere on Earth<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Mile for Paper Submission for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Announce 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability, dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The goals of the Doctoral Symposium are: • Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; • Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; • Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the software reliability engineering community. The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical research, etc. The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the Doctoral Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation research at the conference. Who should participate Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the Doctoral Symposium. Submissions Each submission consists of two elements: • Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments. • Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the subject "ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation". Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work; 2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Formatting guidelines Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates). Submissions must comply with IEEE’s author guidelines for AI-generated texts (https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-gene…). Process All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026 . Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the submission process. Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2026 Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, authors of accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation research at the conference. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 29, 2026 (extended and final) • Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 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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Summer School on Methods to Advance Language Technologies - 25 -38 August 2026
by Daniele Falavigna 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

Sorry for multiple posts. ------ The *Summer School on Methods to Advance Language Technologies (MALT)* will take place on 25-28 August. This four-day event, co-organised by the Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC) and Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e), and supported by the LLMs4EU project, will focus on the critical themes of *data and evaluation* in language technologies. It will feature high-level speakers <https://malt-summer-school-2026.eventmaker.io/speakers> and represents a unique opportunity for participants to network and learn about how to move the field of language technologies forward. We invite you to share the information through your networks. Key Details: - Dates: *25-28 August* 2026 (participants are invited to *apply by 10 August*) - Location: Château de *Villers-Cotterêts*, France - Target Audience: *PhD students, young researchers, and industry professionals* with an interest in advancing language technologies - Participation Fee: *€350* (no VAT), including access to all sessions, materials, meals, and networking events Further details, including registration information, are available on the Summer School website <https://malt-summer-school-2026.eventmaker.io/>. For any enquiries, please contact us at events(a)alt-edic.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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[CFP] EACL 2027 (ARR August Cycle)
by ACL Announcements 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

Second Call for Main Conference Papers *EACL 2027*: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece *Special Theme*: The Human in Language *ARR submission deadline*: Aug 3, 2026 *EACL commitment deadline*: Oct 11, 2026 *Details*: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ *Overview* The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 will take place in Athens, Greece, from March 9 to 14, 2027. *Submission information* EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of articles for review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process: *Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors. * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g. EACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via the commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed. The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about commitment and post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com. *Important Dates* * *ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026 * *Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026 * *Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026 * *Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September 2026 * *Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026 * *EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). *Important change*: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer discussion are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September 2026), authors take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers will not be engaged at this stage. In the second (20-24 September 2026), reviewers and authors engage in any necessary discussion and reviewers finalise their reviews. Further details will be provided in due time. *Contact Information* General Chair: * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen Program Chairs: * Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen * Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology * Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler For questions related to paper submission and the review process in general, email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email: eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/

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[cfp] AACL-IJCNLP 2026: the First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR)
by ACL Announcements 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

LT4CPR: Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response @ AACL 2026 [1] We invite submissions to the First Workshop on Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) at AACL 2026. The workshop focuses on advancing speech and language technologies that support crisis preparedness, crisis response, communication in crises and disaster risk reduction, and aims to bring together LT research communities with crisis management stakeholders (such as practitioners, NGOs, and industry) to bring to the fore interdisciplinary solutions that have real-world impact. In this first edition, we especially welcome work on: * Identifying Community Needs: The crisis ecosystem is quite diverse, composed by affected populations, policy-makers, NGOs, industry, public officers, and emergency management. * Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, design, and evaluation of LT systems: insights from communication studies, social sciences, psychology, among others, on how to design and evaluate trustworthy crisis technology that fits stakeholders needs. * Translating LT research into operational tools: how to go beyond AI model development to user adoption of technology in high-stakes scenarios. * Ethics and societal implications of AI in crisis communication and management. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite submissions that fall under the following list (but not limited to): * Research work on AI for crisis response, such as information extraction (e.g., NER and geolocation), situational awareness (e.g., automated triage), and more * Qualitative studies to understand user needs and guide technology design * Multilingual and multimodal research on crisis and humanitarian initiatives * Evaluation and deployment considerations * Automatic approaches to enhance or facilitate communication from and to communities during crisis (e.g., computational social media and news analysis, summarization, translation, etc.) * Position papers and literature surveys on current trends, challenges and future directions * Abstracts for talk proposals or field reports from practitioners, NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and field experts, including experience reports. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadlines are end-of-day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time. * Direct submission deadline: August 24, 2026 * ARR commitment deadline : August 31, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready version due: October 10, 2026 * Workshop day: November 9, 2026 CONTACT For questions, please contact: LT4Crisis(a)gmail.com More information: https://lt4cpr.github.io/aacl2026-workshop-LT4CPR/cfp.html Links: ------ [1] https://lt4cpr.github.io/aacl2026-workshop-LT4CPR/cfp.html

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Multiple Positions (Lecturer/S. Lecturer/ A. Professor) at Massey University (New Zealand and China)
by Surangika Ranathunga 24 Jul '26

24 Jul '26

The School of Mathematical & Computational Sciences at Massey University is seeking multiple full-time, permanent academic staff members to join its team in China as part of the University’s joint undergraduate and postgraduate programs with Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT). The positions will be based at the HEBUT campus in China (Tianjin and Langfang). We are interested in candidates with a research focus in AI, software engineering, cybersecurity, or computer systems. Associate Professor (Ref: JR-2209) https://massey.t1cloud.com/T1Default/CiAnywhere/Web/MASSEY/OrganisationMana… <https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmassey.t1…> Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (two positions) (Ref: R-1788) *https://massey.t1cloud.com/T1Default/CiAnywhere/Web/MASSEY/Public/Function/%24ORG.REC.EXAPN.WIZ/RECRUIT_EXT?suite=CES&token=0e492ba5-3450-404d-a04d-ced2f13a6026* <https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmassey.t1…> More information about the positions, including details on how to apply, is available here (use the reference numbers above) http://massey.t1cloud.com/T1Default/CiAnywhere/Web/MASSEY/OrganisationManag… Regards Surangika

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[CfP] Last Deadline Reminder - NL4AI @ AIxIA 2026 - 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence | 6-9 October 2026, Perugia, Italy
by Elisa Leonardelli 23 Jul '26

23 Jul '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── [EXTENDED] Paper Submission deadline: 24 July 2026, 23:59 AoE (Firm Deadline)🚨 Notification to authors: 19 August 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── We invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/). The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to: NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation Discourse and Pragmatics Semantics Natural Language Generation Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation Summarization Information Extraction in AI Applications Machine Learning for NLP LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP Natural Language Inference Question Answering and Reading Comprehension Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation Abusive Language Detection and Analysis NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction Speech and Spoken Language Processing Language and other Multimodality Multimodal (text-image) data sources Machine Translation and Multilinguality Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP NLP and Industrial Challenges Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References. Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website or accessed as a Template in Overleaf. All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026 Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) We look forward to seeing you in Perugia! The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Call for Participation: 1st Workshop on the Dynamics of Information and Misinformation Ecosystems
by Villavicencio, Aline 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

Call for Participation 1st Workshop on the Dynamics of Information and Misinformation Ecosystems (DIME 2026) Date: August 4–5, 2026 Venue: Cultural Centre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil R. Eng. Luiz Englert, 333, Porto Alegre, Brazil Website: https://biocomplex.github.io/Dime/index.html The 1st Workshop on the Dynamics of Information and Misinformation Ecosystems (DIME 2026) brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the complex dynamics underlying the creation, dissemination, and persistence of information and misinformation in interconnected sociotechnical systems. The workshop will examine topics spanning artificial intelligence, social media, network science, computational social science, natural language processing, and media literacy. A particular focus will be placed on understanding how interactions between social media, traditional news media, and official government communications shape the epistemic environment in which individuals and communities evaluate the reliability and truthfulness of information. Registration Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Registration form: https://biocomplex.github.io/Dime/participation.html Invited Speakers * Johan Bollen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield, UK) * Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) * Zeerak Talat (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Wagner Meira Júnior (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) * Erdem Yörük (Koç University, Turkey; Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UK) * José F. F. Mendes (University of Aveiro, Portugal) * Marcelo Träsel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Diogo Pacheco (University of Exeter, UK) Organisers * Sebastian Gonçalves (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Marco Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter, UK) * Mendeli Henning Vainstein (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter, UK) * Rodrigo Wilkens (University of Exeter, UK) Sponsorship CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT (Project No. 444867/2024-4) Contact dime(a)biocomplexlab.org<mailto:dime@biocomplexlab.org>

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IWSLT 2027 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) <https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems, as well as scientific papers on key algorithmic advances and best practices, are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA <https://iwslt.org/>. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as references for all researchers and practitioners working in speech translation and related fields. Many challenges in speech translation have not yet been addressed; among them, we are really interested in topics related to new application scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, and automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for shared tasks. As a task organizer you can promote a particular challenge in speech translation, either newly identified or worthy of continued research. For those proposing new tasks, for inspiration, you can find the tasks run in the previous year on the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>. Tasks will be selected in November based on their relevance and readiness for the evaluation campaign, to enable data to be released by the end of the year. To ensure an appropriate number of total tracks, highly related proposals may be encouraged to merge after initial review. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to: *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2026. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2027 will be announced by *November 1st, 2026* . For further information on this initiative, please refer to the * <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>CFP <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> *( https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2027-Call_for_Tasks.pdf). Best, Marcello, Alex, Antonios, Luisa, Matteo, Marco, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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Three research positions at WüNLP, University of Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

The Chair for Natural Language Processing<https://www.caidas.uni-wuerzburg.de/nlp/> at the University of Würzburg (led by Prof. Goran Glavaš), part of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS<https://www.caidas.uni-wuerzburg.de/>), offers three research positions (PhDs and/or postdocs) in the following areas: (i) vision-language-action (VLA) models for embodied AI, (ii) LLM post-training with a focus on massive multilinguality, and (iii) sample-efficient adaptation of modular LLMs for low-resource domains. Here you can find detailed descriptions for each position: - Sample-efficient LLM adaptation for low-resource domains: https://go.uniwue.de/position-sild - VLA models: https://go.uniwue.de/position-vla - Post-training multilingual LLMs: https://go.uniwue.de/position-soofi Positions are open until filled (no strict application deadline, early applications encouraged). A complete application should include: a curriculum vitae, a position-tailored motivation letter, relevant transcripts/certificates, and publications or thesis (if applicable) -- all concatenated into a single PDF -- and be sent to the following address: caidas-nlp(a)uni-wuerzburg.de<mailto:caidas-nlp@uni-wuerzburg.de> With kind regards, Goran Glavaš -- Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš CAIDAS Chair for Computer Science: Natural Language Processing Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Würzburg [1762938895534]

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[2nd CfP]: DBpedia Day 2026 || SEMANTiCS Conference|| Deadline Extension
by DBpedia 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

==== DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2026 Ghent, Belgium September 15, 2026 Submission Deadline: July 29, 2026 (extended) Submission Form: https://forms.gle/Ed9GwC2Fd1dGckvi7 ==== DBpedia Day brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and organizations working on Knowledge Graphs and the technologies that enable them. We invite contributions from leading experts as well as emerging initiatives that are shaping the future of the Knowledge Graph ecosystem. This year's event focuses on two complementary themes: * Knowledge Graphs – new, emerging, and established knowledge graphs that provide valuable structured knowledge. * Tools, Methods, and Systems for Knowledge Graphs – technologies that create, maintain, analyze, connect, enrich, and exploit knowledge graphs. We are particularly interested in submissions that discuss pressing challenges as well as success stories in publishing, analyzing, maintaining, and utilizing Knowledge Graphs. The goal of DBpedia Day is to showcase innovative knowledge graph solutions, highlight successful long-term initiatives, and foster discussion on the next generation of technologies that will unlock the full potential of structured knowledge. = Topics of Interest = Knowledge Graphs * Challenges and lessons learned in publishing, analyzing, maintaining, and using Knowledge Graphs * New and emerging Knowledge Graphs * Mature and widely adopted Knowledge Graphs * Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs * Community-driven and open Knowledge Graph initiatives * Enterprise and organizational Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Graph sustainability, governance, and maintenance * Applications and use cases of Knowledge Graphs Tools, Methods, and Systems for Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Graph construction and enrichment * Knowledge extraction and integration * Entity linking and record linkage * Knowledge Graph alignment and interoperability * Querying, reasoning, and analytics * Visualization and exploration tools * Profiling and quality assessment * Summarization and overview generation * Knowledge Graph maintenance and evolution * AI-assisted Knowledge Graph engineering * Tools operating across multiple Knowledge Graphs * Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks = Submission Guidelines = Please submit your proposal by July 29, 2026 (AoE) via: https://forms.gle/Ed9GwC2Fd1dGckvi7 Your proposal should include: * Title * Abstract (max. 300 words) * Short biography of the speaker(s) On-site participation is required for all accepted speakers. Event page: https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2026/ Join us in Ghent and help shape the next generation of Knowledge Graph technologies! Best regards, Julia, Milan & Sebastian DBpedia Team

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CfP: 10th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-10)
by Antti Arppe 21 Jul '26

21 Jul '26

ComputEL-10: Tenth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages First CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop dates: March 2-3, 2027 Place: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (hybrid) Submission deadline: October 2, 2026 Submission link: TBD ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do **not** have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submissions that present their work from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on one of three areas: (i) Academic: develop new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource, and in particular, endangered languages; propose models in the study or processing of under-documented languages; or evaluate tools or methods for curation and analysis of data in such languages, oriented towards language documentation, description, reclamation and revitalization; (ii) Community: develop new technology toward the goals of language reclamation, revitalization, including language teaching and acquisition; propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols and involvement; describes new uses of language technology by the language's community; (iii) Collaboration: describe challenges and rewards in past or on-going collaboration and interaction among computer scientists and/or documentary linguists that involve(d) language communities; formulate concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. Note: priority will be given to descriptions of actual collaborations (successful or unsuccessful) over proposals or position papers. (For an example, see Cox et al. 2025: https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.12/) IMPORTANT DATES 2 October, 2026 Deadline for submission of papers 13 November 2026 Notification of Acceptance 2-3 March 2027 Workshop SUBMISSIONS We offer two types of submissions: abstracts and papers. Please carefully read the requirements below. Submissions that do not fulfill all relevant requirements will be desk-rejected. The type of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be anonymous. Both submission types have the same deadline. Authors may submit no more than two submissions where they are co-author. In no case may an author submit more than one individually- or first-authored submission. Authors must submit and present in English. Proposals will undergo blind review, so please do not list your name, affiliation, or contact information within the file. (Author names appearing in reference lists or citations are fine and do not need to be anonymized.) ABSTRACTS Abstracts clearly describe the content that author intends to present to the ComputEL-10 audience. Abstracts are max. 800 words not including title or references. Abstracts will NOT be published (in the Proceedings of the workshop in ACL Anthology). Abstracts are intended for academics not accustomed to publishing in proceedings or non-academic community members wishing to share with and receive feedback from the other communities. Upload your abstract as a PDF or MS Word file. PAPERS Paper submission can be of two lengths: short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8 pages) paper. The length of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Both paper types must include a section on ethical consideration and a section on limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit. Papers must follow the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions that violate anonymity, exceed the length requirements, or are missing an ethics or a limitations section will be desk rejected. ACL has discontinued making available a submission template for Microsoft Word. Therefore, we strongly recommend using the above LaTeX template with Overleaf, which enables WYSIWYG editing. Nevertheless, we do allow the use of the older ACL Microsoft Word template: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/. While we intend to help accepted authors convert their paper into a format acceptable for ACL Anthology, we may not be able to resolve all potential discrepancies. Therefore, using the MS Word template may run the risk of not being accepted for publication. If you wish assistance with LaTeX, please email soon. A. Short Paper: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. They are max. 4 pages excluding references and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. A short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers have a small, focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”). Recommended topics for short papers include pilot studies, negative results, opinion pieces, interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of initial collaborative teamwork. B. Long Paper: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices and sections on ethical consideration and limitations. Wherever appropriate, concrete qualitative and quantitative evaluation and analysis should be included. PROCEEDINGS The Organizing Committee will select from the papers (excluding all abstracts) that have been accepted for presentation at the workshop for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the publication. Long and short papers that are accepted for publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references and ethics and limitations sections. Papers accepted for inclusion in the Anthology must be revised versions of the work that underwent ComputEL-10 review. Revisions and improvements should address reviewer comments or add relevant details and clarifications, but should not include entirely new, unreviewed content. ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Please see the ComputEL-10 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-10/ Organizing Committee Email: 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 - 21c.tools Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash July 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 21 Jul '26

21 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, The July edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out! Highlights include: * Opening of virtual registration for CLARIN2026<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCYoiqATvWToBU2_3XR0N-XEshxOKBK--…> * Technical updates: * Mozilla Data Collective now discoverable through CLARIN VLO * LDS integration with dSpace * Materials available from: * CLARIN Cafe * CLARIN Centre meeting * Launch of a new collaborative project lead by LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ and CLARIN-CH Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-july-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter: here<https://clarin.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8bae79dc9813797e81387ebaa&i…>. Kind regards, --- 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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Call for workshop proposals for the 2027 conference cycle
by ACL Announcements 20 Jul '26

20 Jul '26

Joint Call for Workshops Proposals (EACL/COLING/NAACL/ACL/EMNLP) 2027 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with one of the following conferences: EACL 2027, COLING 2027, NAACL 2027, ACL 2027, or EMNLP 2027. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: * EACL 2027 (The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Athens, Greece, from March 9-14, 2027. * COLING 2027 (The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Macau, China, from May 9-14. * NAACL 2027 (The 2027 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in San Francisco, USA, June 1-5, 2027. * ACL 2027 (The 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference in the summer of 2027, physically held in Japan August 17-22. * EMNLP 2027 (The 2027 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), which will be held as a hybrid conference, tentatively scheduled for early November 2027 and physically held in Mexico or Central America. The workshop and tutorial co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. _This call is for all listed conferences occurring in 2027; unlike last year, there will not be a second call for workshops for this conference cycle._ IMPORTANT DATES ACL Conferences Workshop Proposals Shared Dates: Proposal submission deadline September 4th, 2026 Notification of acceptance October 2nd, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). SUBMISSION INFORMATION Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be _at most two pages_ for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Please use the LaTeX template [1] for your submission. _Failure to comply with these formatting guidelines, or to provide the listed information below, will result in a desk rejection of your proposal._ The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title, short name / acronym, and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Some conferences might take place only or partially virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion of planned measures to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a hybrid or virtual-only attendance. * A description of special requirements and technical needs. * If the workshop has been held before, details on: how many prior editions occurred, where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received in the last iteration and how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and an estimate of how many in-person attendees the workshop attracted. * Diversity and Inclusion Efforts (see more details below) * (Optional/If Known) A list of invited speakers, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers. * (Optional) A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Having a shared task is optional. The submission form will request information that does not factor into the decision process, but are necessary for logistical reasons: * An estimate of the maximum number of attendees at one given time * Number of estimated in-person posters * Preferred Venue (first and second preference). Providing a second preferred venue is _optional_; while we will do our best to adhere to these preferences, we cannot guarantee that they will be satisfied. * Incompatible Venues. Please list any conferences that you will be unable to be co-located with for logistical reasons. _We will assume that any venue that is not listed here is a viable location for your workshop, and withdrawing based on venue will result in a one-year ban on all organizers from submitting workshop proposals._ * Duration of the workshop (1-day / 2-day workshop) Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently, including registration for more than one invited speaker. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and prior experience in organizing workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. * An indication if the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); or whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. * References Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2027/ If you are resubmitting a proposal from the previous call, please create a new submission to be considered in this review process. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION The proposals should describe the ways your workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: * Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. * Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP [2] initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. * Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. Please note that the conferences' D&I Chairs focus on supporting main conference participants, and supporting and sponsoring workshop participants is the responsibility of the individual workshops. ORGANIZER RESPONSIBILITIES The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL's anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. However, it is worth noting that workshops may also accept non-archival submissions, such as findings papers, for presentation, which are allowed in this case. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers are free to deviate from the proposed schedule for all dates that are not marked as inflexible, though changes should be made in consultation with the relevant workshop chairs. In submitting a proposal, workshop chairs will be asked to agree to the workshop non-compliance policy [3]. All workshops must agree to this policy, which states that egregious cases of not living up to the responsibilities of running a workshop will be penalized by a 1-year ban on the organizers from submitting another workshop proposal. Workshop proposals for which all authors do not agree to this policy will be desk-rejected. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops in the Conference Handbook [4]. Review Process Workshop proposals will be holistically reviewed by a committee of workshop chairs and the ACL workshop officers based on: their originality and impact, the experience of the Organizing and Program Committees, and adherence of the workshop proposal to ACL's code of ethics, including a discussion of the ethical considerations for the workshop topic if relevant. In addition to the proposals themselves, acceptance decisions will take into account the diversity of accepted topics, particularly in areas underrepresented in main conference spaces, to ensure a well-balanced and relevant workshop program. A well-written proposal can be rejected if it does not bring a new perspective to the workshop program, and we may merge workshops that propose similar programs. This committee will also allocate workshops to the conferences included in the call, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints given in the workshop proposal. However, the aim of the review process is to accept as many high-quality, diverse workshops as possible. Given space limitations at conference venues and the increasing number of workshop proposals, the review committee can not guarantee that a proposal will be co-located with their preferred venue in lieu of extenuating circumstances. TENTATIVE WORKSHOP TIMELINES EACL 2027 (Athens, Greece) First call for workshop papers October 13, 2026 Second call for workshop papers November 13, 2026 Direct paper submission deadline December 15, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline December 22, 2026 Notification of acceptance January 5, 2027 Camera-ready paper due January 19, 2027 Proceedings due (hard deadline) February 9, 2027 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) February 12, 2027 Conference dates March 9-14, 2027 COLING 2027 (Macau, China) First call for workshop papers November 21, 2026 Second call for workshop papers December 21, 2026 Direct paper submission deadline January 5, 2027 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline TBA Notification of acceptance February 6, 2027 Camera-ready paper due March 5, 2027 Proceedings due (hard deadline) April 5, 2027 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) April 15, 2027 Conference dates May 9-14, 2027 NAACL 2027 (San Francisco, USA) First call for workshop papers October 26, 2026 Second call for workshop papers November 23, 2026 Third call for workshop papers (Optional) January 4, 2027 Direct paper submission deadline February 5, 2027 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline March 12, 2027 Notification of acceptance March 26, 2027 Camera-ready paper due April 16, 2027 Proceedings due (hard deadline; tentative) May 7, 2027 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline; tentative) May 14, 2027 Conference dates June 1-June 5, 2027 ACL 2027 (Kyoto, Japan) - all dates To Be Confirmed (TBC) First call for workshop papers December 6, 2026 Second call for workshop papers January 17, 2027 Third call for workshop papers (Optional) March 13, 2027 Direct paper submission deadline April 25, 2027 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline April, 2027 TBC Notification of acceptance May 22, 2027 Camera-ready paper due June 12, 2027 Proceedings due (hard deadline; TBC) July 3, 2027 Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline; TBC) July 18, 2027 Conference dates August 17-22, 2027 Workshop dates August 21-22, 2027 EMNLP 2027 (TBA) Conference dates TBA WORKSHOP CHAIRS EACL * Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d'Azur) * Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich) * Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki) COLING * Nikhil Krishnaswamy (Colorado State University) * Xin Zhao (Renmin University) NAACL * Jeremy Gwinnup (Air Force Research Laboratory) * Manling Li (Northwestern University) * Freda Shi (University of Waterloo; Vector Institute) ACL * Naomi Saphra (Boston University) * Karin Verspoor (RMIT University, Australia) * Zhongyu Wei (Fudan University) EMNLP * TBA ACL WORKSHOP OFFICERS * Terra Blevins, Northeastern University * Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Links: ------ [1] https://www.overleaf.com/read/ytktkdvzgshk [2] http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ [3] https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1hhocb0fXBBJhqJHoOfZtx1V1kcTATpA4IMU… [4] http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook

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ERC Project TENACITY: 2 PhDs and 1 postdoc (KU Leuven, Belgium)
by tim.vandecruys＠kuleuven.be 20 Jul '26

20 Jul '26

We are recruiting two PhD researchers and one postdoc for TENACITY, an ERC Consolidator project on creative language generation. Full details and application: PhD: Constraint-Based Neural Language Models for Creative Language Generation https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705337 PhD: Tensor Factorization Models for Creative Language Generation https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705413 Postdoctoral Position: Latent Variable Models for Creative Language Generation https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705453

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Lectureship in English Language - University of Leeds
by Eric Atwell 19 Jul '26

19 Jul '26

University of Leeds UK Lectureship in English Language - AHCEN1087 Closing date: 31 Jul 2026 Grade: Grade 7 to Grade 8 - £41,064 to £59,966 per year https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 We wish to appoint an outstanding teacher and scholar with a background in digital humanities-enabled English Language research. This might include but is not limited to: corpus linguistics and text analysis, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, digital/interactive media, forensic linguistics, or sociolinguistic approaches. For further information, please contact: Professor Hazel Hutchison, Head of School Email: H.Hutchison(a)leeds.ac.uk <mailto:H.Hutchison@leeds.ac.uk%20>

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Recruitment of Research Annotator - AddressHate
by kglanz＠addresshate.org 17 Jul '26

17 Jul '26

Job Location: New York City, USA Web Address: https://www.addresshate.org/ Job Title: Research Annotator Job Rank: Other Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Specialty Language(s): English (eng, stan1293) English based Description: Research Annotator AddressHate · Part-time · US-based (Eastern Time preferred; NYC-based ideal) About AddressHate: Hate speech online is growing faster than any organization can track by hand. AddressHate is building the tools to change that. We are a public interest technology company at the intersection of research, AI, and policy. We build detection infrastructure and intelligence tools that help platforms, policymakers, educators, civil society organizations, and real people understand and counter digital hate in real time. There is no good solution in the for-profit world for this problem, so we are building it. Our mission and the business are the same thing: the better we get at detecting hate, the more valuable our tools become to the world. The Opportunity: AddressHate is hiring Research Annotators to support our core mission: building detection infrastructure that identifies how hate circulates, adapts, and normalizes in digital environments. This is a direct hire position with AddressHate. All work product — including annotated datasets, analytical memos, and contributions to coding schemes — is owned by AddressHate. We’re looking for annotators with high sensitivity to the layered, implicit, and multimodal forms hate takes online — particularly where meaning is carried through irony, coding, visual reference, intertextual play, and shifting register across platforms. Rather than mechanical tagging, the position requires theory-informed interpretive work that feeds directly into AddressHate’s annotation pipeline and classifier development. Our work demonstrates that a large portion of hate content in mainstream digital spaces operates through implicit, coded, or multimodal forms — spread through irony, political framing, and shared references that are largely undetectable by automated systems. Understanding this requires human expertise grounded in linguistics, multimodal analysis, and discourse studies. The role is US-based (Eastern Time preferred; NYC-based ideal) and reports into AddressHate’s research and technology teams. Core Responsibilities: - Conduct continuous, systematic annotation of social media content across platforms including TikTok, X, Instagram, and Reddit - Analyze textual, visual, and multimodal content, including memes, image–text combinations, and visual rhetoric - Identify implicit meanings, indirect references, metaphors, narrative frames, and visual-symbolic cues - Identify shared rhetorical and discursive mechanisms across hate domains — including dehumanization, conspiracy narratives, victim–perpetrator reversal, moral inversion, and normalization strategies - Analyze intersecting and overlapping hate discourses, including cases where antisemitism, misogyny, and racism co-occur or mutually reinforce one another - Distinguish between legitimate political expression and harmful discourse, with close attention to context, pragmatics, and discursive positioning - Participate in regular team meetings and inter-annotator calibration sessions - Contribute to the iterative refinement of AddressHate’s coding schemes, category definitions, and annotation guidelines - Work closely with AddressHate’s data science team, translating qualitative insights into structured input for computational analysis - Produce analytical memos and structured documentation that make interpretive decisions transparent and reproducible What We’re Looking For: - MA or PhD student (or completed degree) in Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Semiotics, Visual Studies, Media Studies, Hate Studies, History, Political Science, or related field. Candidates with a background in linguistics and multimodal/visual analysis are particularly valued. - Demonstrated experience with qualitative content analysis, discourse-analytical methods, and mixed methods research - High awareness of the different layers of hate speech and digital hate — including implicit, coded, ambiguous, and context-dependent forms in both text and imagery - Native or near-native English proficiency with strong language sensitivity - Fluency with contemporary social media platforms, particularly TikTok, X, Instagram, and Reddit - Openness and resilience to engage with hate speech content, including antisemitism, different forms of racism, and misogyny - High motivation and capacity for autonomous work. The role involves sustained, continuous engagement with difficult online content. Strong candidates structure their time independently and maintain rigor and momentum across long annotation cycles. - Curiosity and flexibility. AddressHate’s annotation work is a collaborative environment where coding schemes evolve, new platforms enter the pipeline, and analytical questions sharpen over time. Strongly Preferred: - Research experience across more than one hate ideology — antisemitism, misogyny and gender-based hate, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, or intersectional hate research. We particularly value candidates who can think comparatively across domains rather than specialists in only one. - Experience with multimodal analysis (memes, visual rhetoric, image–text relations) - Experience with MAXQDA or comparable qualitative analysis software - Strong written documentation skills - Based in or near New York City Why Now: By the time hate’s effects are visible in the world, the discourse that produced it has long since moved on. AddressHate is building the infrastructure to see it as it happens — and to understand what it means. The analytical tools we develop inform education, policy, and platform governance. This role sits at the center of that work. Terms: 20–30 hours per week · $25 USD per hour · Hired directly by AddressHate To Apply: Send your CV, a short statement of interest, and one writing sample (academic or analytical) to careers(a)addresshate.org Application Deadline: 31-Oct-2026 Mailing Address for Applications: 152 W 57th St 21st Floor, New York City, New York USA Email Address for Applications: careers(a)addresshate.org Web Address for Applications: https://www.addresshate.org/ Contact Information: Email: careers(a)addresshate.org

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Final Call for Papers – DDS 2026 at ISWC in Bari, Italy
by Pasquale Lisena 17 Jul '26

17 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, This is the final call for papers for the Data-driven Storytelling: Bridging Semantics, AI, and Narrative (DDS 2026) workshop, co-located with ISWC 2026 in Bari, Italy. We invite researchers and practitioners in knowledge graphs, NLP, HCI, and generative AI to submit their work exploring how semantic technologies can enhance narrative creation and engagement. Extended Submission Deadlines Abstracts: July 24, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Full papers: July 30, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Key Dates Notifications: August 21, 2026 Camera-ready Version: September 18, 2026 Workshop Dates: October 25–26, 2026 Topics of Interest We welcome submissions of research papers, demos, and short papers addressing: Knowledge graphs and ontologies for storytelling AI-driven narrative generation (LLMs, GenAI) Benchmarking narrative quality and coherence Interactive and participatory storytelling tools Ethics and explainability in automated storytelling Don’t miss the opportunity to share your work in Bari! Website and submission: https://data-driven-storytelling-workshop.replit.app/ We look forward to your contributions! Best regards, The DDS 2026 Organizing Committee -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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Third CfP: 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026
by Veronika Laippala 17 Jul '26

17 Jul '26

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

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[Second CFP] WASP 2026: 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications @AACL-IJCNLP 2026
by ACL Announcements 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

==================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 9, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [1] Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 * Registration deadline for shared task: [TBA] * System Run and Output Submission (shared task): [TBA] * System Paper Submission (shared task): [TBA] * Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 * Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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[CFP:Survey] Survey on Knowledge Graph enrichment
by Oğuzhan MENEMENCİOĞLU 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleague, We kindly invite you to share your experience on knowledge graph enrichment by completing this survey: <https://forms.gle/tyW9M42nQc8fciLV6> https://forms.gle/tyW9M42nQc8fciLV6 We are especially interested in the meaning and boundaries of the KG enrichment task, best practices and pitfalls, and suggested methods for KG enrichment. Form completion can take 5 to 10 minutes. Your insights will contribute to a public deliverable on best practices and practical guidelines for KG enrichment. We appreciate your time and input. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. Best regards, the Chairs of <https://goblin-cost.eu/working-group-1-knowledge-graphs-engineering/> GOBLIN Task 1.4<https://goblin-cost.eu/working-group-1-knowledge-graphs-engineering/> Dr. Oğuzhan MENEMENCİOĞLU ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://oguzhan.menemencioglu.info<http://oguzhan.menemencioglu.info/> Assistant Professor Karabük University, Department of Computer Engineering, Office 159, Iron and Steel Campus, 78050, Karabük, Turkey.

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July 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

In this newsletter: Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program New publications: 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S09> CALLHOME American English Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08> CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L05> ________________________________ Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2026. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships> page. ________________________________ New publications: 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S09> was developed by LDC and NIST and contains 10,321 hours of English conversational telephone speech and in-person recorded studio sessions for evaluation and modeling, along with answer keys, trial files, and documentation from the NIST-sponsored 2012 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE12)<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mltg/speaker-recognition-evaluation-2012>. SRE12 introduced a revised evaluation structure in which training data for target speakers was drawn from prior SRE corpora developed by LDC and was provided in advance of the evaluation period. Test data was drawn from Mixer 7 English Speech (LDC2025S08)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> and REMIX Telephone Collection (LDC2023S09)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S09>. Those datasets also provided segments for modeling data; other modeling segments were drawn from Mixer 3 Speech (LDC2023S02)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S02>, Mixer 4 and 5 Speech (LDC2020S03)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020S03>, and Mixer 6 Speech (LDC2013S03)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013S03>. The test data contains English speech only; some non-English speech is contained in modeling segments. This release is comprised of 130,844 test segments, specifically, 83,778 call segments and 47,066 interview segments. Modeling data consists of 46,948 segments. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME American English Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08> was developed by LDC and contains 56 hours of speech from 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native American English speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME American English collection, combining CALLHOME American English Speech (LDC97S42)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S42> and CALLHOME American English Transcripts (LDC97T14)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T14>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 120 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME American English Speech which represented training and development data and a subset of evaluation data. Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for gender, language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and region. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development/evaluation partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification, and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L05> was developed by LDC and contains 90,988 English words with citation-form pronunciations. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure, and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) (LDC97L20)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97L20>. The words in the lexicon were derived from Wall Street Journal text used in the continuous speech recognition publication series CSR-1 WSJ0 Complete (LDC93S6A<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S6A>), transcripts<https://isip.piconepress.com/projects/switchboard/> from the Switchboard telephone collection (LDC97S62)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S62>, and transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native American English speakers contained in CALLHOME American English Second Edition (LDC2026S08)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08>. PRONLEX transcription is a phonemic transcription system designed to support speech recognition by providing a consistent and simplified representation of how words are pronounced in standard American English that allows variation to be generated later to avoid listing many pronunciation variations for each word. This single systematic base form can be expanded through rules or modeling. The transcription was created using a modified ARPABET phoneme set<https://learnius.com/slp/3+Speech+Production%2C+Perception+and+Phonetics/4+…>. The lexicon contains three tab-separated information fields: (1) word: orthographic representation of word; (2) pron: transcribed citation-form pronunciations using modified ARPABET phoneme set; and (3) comments: (OPTIONAL) comment on the entry. It is presented as a tab-delimited TSV file encoded in UTF-8 format and includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in UTF-8 encoded CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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[CfP] Deadline Reminder - NL4AI @ AIxIA 2026 - 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence | 6-9 October 2026, Perugia, Italy
by Elisa Leonardelli 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── [EXTENDED] Paper Submission deadline: 24 July 2026, 23:59 AoE (Firm Deadline)🚨 Notification to authors: 19 August 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── We invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/). The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. TOPICS OF INTEREST - Topics include but are not limited to: - NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) - Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics - Natural Language Generation - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Summarization - Information Extraction in AI Applications - Machine Learning for NLP - LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications - Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Natural Language Inference - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Abusive Language Detection and Analysis - NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis - Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Language and other Multimodality - Multimodal (text-image) data sources - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP - NLP and Industrial Challenges - Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: - Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References - Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References. Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org/> for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CEURART-NL4AI-2…> or accessed as a Template in Overleaf <https://it.overleaf.com/read/cfvwgnqpvpys%23a7a014>. All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026 Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) We look forward to seeing you in Perugia! The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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🚀 2nd Workshop on Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs, Language Models and Agents (SESAME) at JCDL 2026
by Ansgar Scherp 14 Jul '26

14 Jul '26

📍 /Co-located with JCDL 2026, October 13-26, 2026, Texas, USA/ 🌐 Website: https://sesame-workshop.github.io/SESAME/ *Topics of interest include: * * 📚 Research Artifacts Metadata Modeling and Granularity * 🤖 Large Language Models (LLMs), NLP, and *Agents* for Metadata * 🕸️ Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data * 🏛️ Digital Libraries and Infrastructure * 🌍 Societal, Ethical Impact, and Future Policy Directions We invite original research contributions addressing the above topics in three categories: * *Long Papers:* 6–8 pages (excluding references) * *Short or Position Papers:* 2–4 pages (excluding references) * *Demo, Dataset, or Benchmark Papers*: 2–4 pages (excluding references) 📅 *Important Dates* * 📝 Paper submission: 15.08.2026 * 📩 Author notification: 01.09.2026 * 📄 Camera-ready submission: 10.09.2026 * 📍 Workshop date: *To be announced*

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Call for papers: Workshop on Collective States in Multimodal Interaction, at ICMI 2026
by Gualtiero Volpe 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear colleagues, We invite you to our workshop: Collective States in Multimodal Interaction 9 October 2026 at ICMI 2026, Napoli, Italy https://honda-research-institute.github.io/Collective_States_in_Multimodal_… Call for Papers We invite you to submit your unpublished work to the Workshop on Collective States in Multimodal Interaction, to be held in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) in Napoli, Italy. The workshop will take place on one of the conference workshop days, 9 October 2026. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. See the workshop website for updates and submission details. Understanding collective states in group interaction is an emerging challenge at the intersection of multimodal AI, communication science, and social signal processing. While a large body of prior work has focused on individuals or dyads, many real-world settings, from meetings and brainstorming sessions to collaborative human-AI teams, depend on group-level phenomena such as collective engagement, shared attention, group affects, rapport, cohesion, and coordination. Recent progress in multimodal sensing and agentic AI creates new opportunities to model how these collective states arise, evolve, and influence individual behavior within groups. This workshop focuses on multi-party interaction settings in which AI systems must not only sense individuals, but also understand emergent group dynamics and, potentially, support them as peers or facilitators. The goal is to bring together researchers across artificial intelligence, multimodal interaction, and organization and communication science to advance methods, benchmarks, and applications for sensing and reasoning about collective states. The workshop will feature invited talks by Prof. Carlos Busso (Carnegie Mellon University) and Prof. Kazuhiro Otsuka (Yokohama National University). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multimodal sensing and modeling of collective states in group interaction * Group-level phenomena such as collective engagement, shared attention, group affect, rapport, cohesion, and coordination * Links between individual participant states and emergent group dynamics * Audio, video, language, physiological, and behavioral cues for multiparty interaction analysis * Multimodal fusion and temporal modeling for group behavior understanding * Annotation schemes, datasets, and benchmarks for collective states * AI agents as peers or facilitators in human-AI hybrid teams * Adaptive systems for improving participation, coordination, brainstorming, and collaboration * Explainability, robustness, fairness, privacy, and ethics in group sensing * Applications in meetings, education, healthcare, robotics, organizational settings, and other collaborative environments Submission Information We invite authors to submit papers in accordance with the ICMI formats via the PCS. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop committee. The review process will be double-blind. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 17 July 2026 Notification to authors: 27 July 2026 Camera-ready deadline: 2 August 2026 Workshop day: 9 October 2026 Best, Giovanna Varni

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INLG 2026 final call for papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Emiel van Miltenburg 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Dear Corpora List members, We hereby issue the final Call for Papers for INLG 2026, to be held in Utrecht. Program chairs will be Laura Perez, Guanyi Chen, and myself. We have a great team of local organizers, chaired by Albert Gatt. NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE * The new submission deadline for direct submissions is July 18, AoE. * The ARR commitment to INLG deadline remains August 5, 2026. SUBMISSION We have two submission venues: * Direct submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_Direct_Subm… * ARR commitments: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_ARR_Commitm… Please also note that we have a NON-ARCHIVAL track as well this year, for work-in-progress and papers published elsewhere. Hopefully this will help authors develop and publicise their important work. Direct link to the website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ FULL CFP —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2026 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17 to October 21, 2026. INLG 2026 will be hosted by Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference will be taking place before EMNLP (in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24th to October 29th, 2026). IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) Regular paper submission deadline: July 18, 2026. System demo paper submission deadline: July 15, 2026. ARR commitment to INLG deadline: August 5, 2026. Notification: August 15, 2026 Non-archival submission deadline: August 22, 2026. Camera ready: September 7, 2026 Conference: October 17 - October 21, 2026 Topics INLG 2026 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG - Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems - Explainability in and Trustworthiness of NLG systems - Generalizability of NLG systems - Bias and fairness in NLG systems - Reasoning models for NLG - Affect/emotion generation - Analysis and detection of automatically generated text - Cognitive modeling of language production - Computational efficiency of NLG models - Corpora and resources for NLG - Ethical considerations of NLG - Multimedia, multimodality and grounding in generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models - NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots - NLG for human-robot interaction - NLG for low-resourced languages - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing, summarization and translation - Personalisation and variation in text - Storytelling and narrative generation - Sub-tasks of the classic NLG pipeline - NLG architectures SUBMISSIONS This year’s INLG will have two tracks: an archival track where papers will be published in the ACL Anthology, and a non-archival track for works in progress and papers published elsewhere. Three kinds of papers can be submitted for the archival track: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The 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 are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2026. Next to the standard paper types (surveys, experiments, resource papers, position papers), we also welcome squibs: papers that present an empirical or theoretical issue without necessarily providing a solution. NON-ARCHIVAL TRACK Through the non-archival track, we hope to foster more discussion on current trends in NLG, and to offer a space for researchers to obtain feedback on their current projects. For this track, we welcome two kinds of submissions: - Papers published elsewhere. These may be published either in a journal or at another conference, and should be relevant to the INLG audience. - Work in progress. These may be papers about completed work that has not yet been published or preliminary results that merit discussion at the conference. Submissions should consist of a title and a short abstract (max. 300 words). Submissions for the non-archival track will undergo a light review process (assessing the relevance of the submission for INLG), and accepted works will be presented as posters. FORMAT Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics. If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find this checklist of use. Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist. Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2026 website. To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2026, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR. For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth). If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2026 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 5, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2026 is May 25, 2026. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2026 paper submission site by July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2026 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2026 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Submitted papers for review at INLG 2026 must not be published elsewhere until after the notification of acceptance. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. AWARDS INLG 2026 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: - Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. - Best Evaluation Award: The award was introduced at INLG 2024. This award is designed to honour authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siggen/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@siggen_acl X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/inlgmeeting —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Best wishes, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg Groeten, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Werkdagen: Maandag, Woensdag, Donderdag, Vrijdag. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 15 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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Deadline extension: LM Playschool Workshop at EMNLP 2026
by Sabrina McCallum 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

We have received several requests for a little more time to prepare submissions. To allow authors to further polish their papers, we are extending the LM Playschool Workshop paper submission deadline. ⚠️ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 17, 2026 This extension applies to: * Paper-only submissions on topics relevant to the workshop, such as those listed below * Technical reports accompanying submitted models for the LM Playschool Challenge 🎯 PAPER-ONLY TRACK: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals, including RL from game-state success * Benchmarking and evaluation via dialogue games * Data efficiency, social interaction, and Theory of Mind * Human-agent collaboration, coordination, and communicative grounding 📅 IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED!) 🟠 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 17, 2026 (extended!) ⚪ Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 2, 2026 ⚪ Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2026 ⚪ Camera-ready due: August 23, 2026 ⚪ Workshop at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest: October 28, 2026 You can find more information on our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ We look forward to your submissions! Organisers: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia

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NLP4PI @ EMNLP2026: Last call for direct submissions
by daryna.dementieva＠tum.de 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Dear all! The very last call for the direct submissions to the 5th Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact co-located at EMNLP 2026! Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact Call for paper: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2026 Direct submission deadline: July 14th, 23:59, AoE Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI Special Theme: Measuring the Societal Impact of AI and NLP This year we would like to find an answer to the question: How can we measure the social impact of AI and NLP? With even the bigger raise of opportunities of AI and language technologies, we would like to understand how it influences society and if in positive manners. Position, philosophical-grounded, and new evaluation framework suggestion papers are very much welcomed to enhance the discussion! We are very much looking forward to discussions on how modern AI and language technologies can be responsible and safely applied for various societal applications. Papers Format: Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information, including: Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages). If you are with ARR May 2026 cycle and would like to the meta-reviews, it is great: you can commit later your paper with reviews to our workshop till August 3rd via our commitment track: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI_ARR_Commitment Both direct submission and commitment tracks have archival and non-archival options. Looking forward to see your impactful work! Organizers: Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University) Angana Borah (University of Michigan) Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Prof Elisa Kreiss (University of California) Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr) Jiarui Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) Liz Olson (Dataminr) Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University) Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California) Steering Committee: Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan) Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr) Dr. Zhijing Jin (University of Toronto) Contact Email: nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com All positive regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers

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NLP4CALL 2026: second call for papers
by Arianna Masciolini 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

November 19-20, 2026. Gothenburg, Sweden and online ________________________________________________________________________________ https://spraakbanken.gu.se/forskning/teman/icall/nlp4call-workshop-series/n… We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day hybrid event that will take place on November 19-20, 2026. Onsite participation will be possible at the Humanisten building of the University of Gothenburg (Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, Sweden) and a link for remote participation will be shared closer to the workshop dates. Both onsite and online participation are free of charge. Workshop description ________________________________________________________________________________ The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising from this connection. The latter includes, among others, the integration of insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, and the promotion of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructures. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research — Intelligent CALL, or short, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into SLA theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop therefore invites a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential use in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application, or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL; - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year, the workshop has a special focus on process-oriented approaches to educational NLP, including but not limited to work related to the collection and analysis of keystroke data from langauge learners. Submission information ________________________________________________________________________________ Submissions should describe original unpublished complete or in-progress work and will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be published both in the NEALT Proceeding Series and through the ACL anthology. We accept short, long and demo papers, all of which have to adhere to the following page limits: - short and demo papers: between 4 and 7 pages - long papers: between 8 and 12 pages. Also note that: - references and appendices do not count towards these page limits - the main body of the paper has to be self-contained, as reviewers are not required to read any appendices - camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be allowed an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should be submitted as PDFs through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4call2026). LaTeX and Word templates are available at https://github.com/NLP4CALL/current/blob/website/_includes/other_info/submi…. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ - paper submission deadline: September 24, 2026 - notification of acceptance: October 15, 2026 - camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2026 - workshop: November 19-20, 2026 All deadlines are AoE. Invited speakers ________________________________________________________________________________ Andrea Horbach Bio: Andrea Horbach has been professor for Educational NLP at Kiel University and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) since 2024. Her research interests include free-text scoring, argument mining, automated feedback, and the use of process data for assessment. She is particularly interested in developing explainable and fair methods that support human agency in writing and assessment processes. Dr. Rianne Conijn Bio: Rianne Conijn is an assistant professor in learning analytics in the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on developing methods to capture and model learning behavior (e.g., self-regulated learning) and writing behavior (e.g., revision processes), using fine-grained behavioral data, such as keystroke and clickstream data. In addition, she uses these methods to examine how educational technologies, such as generative AI, affect the learning process. Rianne recently received a NWO Veni grant on “Human-Centered AI in education” where she aims to improve human-AI collaboration in writing in higher education. Organizers ________________________________________________________________________________ - Arianna Masciolini, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - David Alfter, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Herbert Lange, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway - Elena Volodina, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ For more information about the workshop, you are welcome to reach out to nlp4call2026(a)easychair.org. Funding ________________________________________________________________________________ This workshop is jointly supported by: - Språkbanken – jointly funded by its 10 partner institutions and the Swedish Research Council (2025–2028; project id 2023-00161); - Huminfra; - the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology; - the IncluEdS project.

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PostDoc in NLP and Research Knowledge Graphs (Cologne, Germany)
by Dietze, Stefan 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, Starting on *1. October 2026 *our GESIS department *Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS)*, *Team Information and Data Retrieval* located in *Cologne* is looking for a *Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs* *(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100%, limited till 31.12.2028, option to extend)* The department *Knowledge Technologies for Social Sciences (KTS* <https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/departments/knowledge-technologies-for-t…>*)* conducts research at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, semantic technologies and human information interaction as foundation for innovative web portals and platforms for the search and use of research data for example the GESIS Knowledge Graph <https://data.gesis.org/gesiskg/site/>. AI is transforming the scientific process across disciplines. In the NFDI4DS project, we develop infrastructures that empower researchers to responsibly adopt AI methods—for example, by establishing fair benchmarking protocols, ensuring transparent evaluation and documentation of AI models and LLMs, and curating a repository of open, reusable AI-based methods, along with related training materials and events. In this context, we are seeking a motivated researcher to coordinate and lead these activities. *Your tasks will be:* * Lead dedicated work packages and a team of researchers within the NFDI4DS <https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/> project including coordination with project partners and supervision of PhD students * Research scholarly information extraction and develop methods for building Research Knowledge Graphs (e.g., GESIS KG <https://data.gesis.org/gesiskg/site/>) * Develop, integrate, and evaluate services, models, and systems using established benchmarks * Advance the NFDI4DS Academy through community engagement, content acquisition (methods, tutorials, training material) and integration with third party infrastructures * Exchange with scientific and user communities and dissemination of project results through publications and workshops at national and international level *Your profile:* * Scientific university degree (Master) and completed a PhD in computer science, data science, or a related field * Experience in project management * Proven experience in NLP research and knowledge graphs, specifically in the context of scholarly information extraction * Very good experience in software development with Python, AI-tooling, NLP technologies and database technologies * Very good verbal and written communication skills in English; good knowledge of German desirable *Contact* For further information concerning the tasks please contact Philipp Mayr via phone +49 221 47694 533 or via E-Mail (philipp.mayr(a)gesis.org). If you have questions about the application process, please contact Franca Tosetti via E-Mail (franca.tosetti(a)gesis.org). *Interested?* Please apply via our Online-application portal until *27 July 2026*. <https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2709312?language=en <https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2709312?language=en>> Please feel free to share further. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421 Web: http://stefandietze.net

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Call For Interest: ChildSafeAds Shared Task @ NLLP (EMNLP 2026)
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Call for Interest: ChildSafeAds @ NLLP (EMNLP 2026) Children are exposed to commercial content on YouTube every day, yet detecting, categorising, and assessing compliance with advertising regulations remains an open challenge. We are excited to announce ChildSafeAds, a new shared task co-located with the NLLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026. Interested in participating? Register your interest: https://forms.office.com/e/q0JSkSuGzD ChildSafeAds is the first NLP benchmark to jointly address: * Detection and categorisation of commercial content * Compliance assessment with EU advertising law * Retrieval-augmented reasoning over legal sources The task uses a large-scale dataset of community-verified sponsored segments from SponsorBlock. Evaluation will take place on CodaBench, and selected teams will be invited to submit a system description paper for publication in the ACL Anthology (subject to peer review). Shared tasks: ST1 — Commercial Type: Classify the legal nature of promotions (e.g., physical goods, digital content, services, digital services, or no commercial content). ST2 — Product Category: Multi-label classification across categories including toys, food, apps, fashion, health, education, financial products, and more. ST3 — Compliance Risk Flags: Retrieval-augmented classification over legal sources (EU directives, CJEU case law, and platform guidelines) to identify risks such as undisclosed advertising, direct exhortation, prohibited products, or misleading claims. Timeline: 20 July 2026 — Training and development data release 3 August 2026 — Evaluation phase opens 11 August 2026 — System submission deadline 1 September 2026 — System description paper deadline (invited teams) 15 September 2026 — Notification 22 September 2026 — Camera-ready papers 28 October 2026 — NLLP @ EMNLP 2026 The full call for participation, including dataset details, evaluation protocol, and submission instructions, will follow soon. If you are interested in NLP, computational social science, AI for public interest, or legal NLP, we would love to have you participate. Questions: Thales Bertaglia (t.f.costabertaglia(a)uu.nl<mailto:t.f.costabertaglia@uu.nl>) Organising team: Thales Bertaglia (Utrecht University), Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University), Güneş Acar (Radboud University), Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis (Maastricht University)

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EACL 2027 CFP - ARR deadline 3 August 2027
by ACL Announcements 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Call for Main Conference Papers ---------------------------------- *EACL 2027*: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece *Special Theme*: The Human in Language *ARR submission deadline*: Aug 3, 2026 *EACL commitment deadline*: Oct 11, 2026 *Details*: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ *Overview* The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 will take place in Athens, Greece, from March 9 to 14, 2027. *Submission information* EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of articles for review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors. * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g. EACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via the commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed. The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about commitment and post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com. *Important Dates* * *ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026 * *Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026 * *Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026 * *Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September 2026 * *Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026 * *EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). *Special Theme: The Human in Language* The EACL 2027 special theme, "The Human in Language", invites papers that explore how the human sciences of language can inform and shape NLP research across the full research cycle: model development, representation learning, data collection and annotation, evaluation, interpretability, interaction, and deployment. We also welcome work that uses NLP methods and contemporary language models to advance the scientific study of language, cognition, communication, and the brain, while the central focus of the track remains on strengthening the role of the language sciences as a source of scientific grounding, methodological guidance, and conceptual insight for NLP itself. *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Short Papers* Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. A short paper is not a shortened long paper; instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Presentation at the Conference* All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. *Contact Information* General Chair: * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen Program Chairs: * Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen * Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology * Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler For questions related to paper submission and the review process in general, email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email: eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ Follow us at: BlueSKY: https://bsky.app/profile/eaclmeeting.bsky.social X: https://x.com/eaclmeeting LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

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HPSG 2026 (Norway) -- Programme & Registration
by Antonio Machicao y Priemer 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- HPSG 2026 -- (Bergen, Norway) Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026 Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway) Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer Email: hpsg2026(a)easychair.org Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/ Conference fee: free of charge, both for in-person and online attendees Registration: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/registration/ Programme: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/program/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science; Meeting Description: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July). Keynote speakers: * Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) * Nurit Melnik (Open University, Israel) PROGRAMME: August 3 Section 1 09:00 - 09:10 Petter Haugereid: Welcome & Opening 09:10 - 10:10 Dag Haug: Exclamatives - A discourse perspective Section 2 10:30 - 11:10 Jakob Maché and Vesela Simeonova: Expressive vocatives and exclamative sluices 11:10 - 11:50 Daniil-Konstantin Arbuzov and Stefan Müller: An HPSG Analysis of Bulgarian ‘egati’ and ‘super’ constructions: Adjunct-related constructions with a formally definite article 11:50 - 12:30 Adam Przepiórkowski: HPSG-Based Model-Theoretic Dependency Grammar Section 3 14:00 - 14:40 Miriam S. Schmidt: Meaning in order. On SOURCE-GOAL asymmetries in German werden-copula constructions werden-Copula Constructions 14:40 - 15:00 Jieun Oh: Partial VP-fronting structure in German complex predicate constructions 15:00 - 15:40 Petter Haugereid: VP fronting in Norwegian Section 4 16:00 - 16:20 Emily Luedke: A cross-linguistic analysis of noun incorporation in HPSG 16:20 - 17:00 Isaac Schifferer: A Typologically-Motivated Approach to Automatic Morphotactic Inference 17:00 - 17:40 Berthold Crysmann: Udi Infixation in Information-based Morphology August 4 Section 5 09:10 - 10:10 Nurit Melnik: The Two Senses of Flip Perception Verbs Section 6 10:30 - 11:10 Adam Przepiórkowski and Berke Şenşekerci: Gradient Selectional Restrictions in HPSG 11:10 - 11:50 Juan Zhong and Jean-Pierre Koenig: The grammar of dish names in Mandarin Chinese 11:50 - 12:30 Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Zehui Guo: Two types of modification in Mandarin Chinese NPs Section 7 14:00 - 14:20 Müge Gedik: Scrambling in Turkish 14:20 - 15:00 Frank Van Eynde: On the combination of prepositions with an infinitive 15:00 - 15:40 Chia-Hsiang Hsu: Kalaallisut Participles in Relative Clauses (online presentation) Programme Committee: - Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université de Paris) - Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (Universität Zürich) - Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) - Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) - Felix Bildhauer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) - Olivier Bonami (Universite Paris Diderot) - Francis Bond (Palacký University) - Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, Université de Paris) - Petter Haugereid (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) - Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) - Anke Holler (University of Göttingen) - Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) - Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) - Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Jakob Maché (Universidade de Lisboa) - Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) - Luis Morgado Da Costa (Palacký University Olomouc) - Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Tsuneko Nakazawa (The University of Tokyo) - Joanna Nykiel (UC Davis) - David Oshima (Nagoya University) - Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) - Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Manfred Sailer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Frank Van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Elodie Winckel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Shûichi Yatabe (The University of Tokyo) - Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University) - Olga Zamaraeva (Universidade da Coruña) -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Department of German Studies and Linguistics - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Project: Building register into the architecture of language – an HPSG account (CRC 1412, Project A04) Series: Textbooks in Language Science (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tbls)

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Deadline extension: Call for Papers: FEL XXX 2026, Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 - Submission deadline now 19 July 2026
by Steven Krauwer 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

CALL FOR PAPERS The 30th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXX (2026) "Endangered Languages and Innovative Technologies: Documentation, Processing and Revitalisation" Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages(FEL <https://ogmios.org/>), the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains Américains et Asiatiques (CESSMA <https://www.inalco.fr/en/cessma>) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO <https://www.inalco.fr/en>) Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and promote the maintenance and revitalisation of endangered languages. We strongly encourage submissions from community members, educators, activists, and practitioners, as well as presentations of collaborative work between academic and non-academic partners. More about the theme: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2026/theme.php Important dates: # 19 July2026:New deadlineforsubmission of abstracts # 20 July 2026: Registration opens # 01 August2026:Selectedapplicantsinformed # 15 September2026:Deadlineforsubmission of extended versions of accepted abstracts # 03-05November 2026:Conference dates # 06 November 2026: Excursion (to be confirmed) Conference website: https://ogmios.org/conferences/2026 Email: fel2026(a)ogmios.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/TLC, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Announce 11 Jul '26

11 Jul '26

*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability, dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The goals of the Doctoral Symposium are: • Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; • Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; • Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the software reliability engineering community. The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical research, etc. The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the Doctoral Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation research at the conference. Who should participate Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the Doctoral Symposium. Submissions Each submission consists of two elements: • Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments. • Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the subject "ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation". Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work; 2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Formatting guidelines Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates). Submissions must comply with IEEE’s author guidelines for AI-generated texts (https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-gene…). Process All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026 . Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the submission process. Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2026 Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, authors of accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation research at the conference. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 22, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 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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[2nd CFP] Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems -- Springer Nature / AI and Ethics Submission Deadline: September 7, 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 10 Jul '26

10 Jul '26

We invite submissions to the topical collection "Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems", published in the Springer Nature journal AI and Ethics. Submission deadline: September 7, 2026 Journal CFP: https://link.springer.com/collections/fehgbcihbb This collection explores how participatory approaches can address risks and limitations of AI-powered technologies by engaging diverse stakeholders in the design process. Drawing on the sociotechnical tradition, it brings together work at the intersection of sociotechnical studies and participatory design, investigating how AI and digital systems can be co-designed to reflect shared values, accountability, and agency. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Methods, frameworks, and design solutions for participatory AI (co)design - Experiments, simulations, prototypes, or case studies of co-design in AI development - Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design - Critical reflections on challenges and limitations of participatory approaches - Analyses of power dynamics and ethical considerations in participatory AI - Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement - Assessing AI impacts through participatory and stakeholder engagement approaches We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with theoretical, methodological, or experimental contributions. Interdisciplinary work is explicitly encouraged. Submitted manuscripts must contain at least 80% original content. This collection is connected to the workshop Mind the AI GAP: Co-designing sociotechnical systems (HHAI 2025), but is open to all contributions aligned with the scope. Guest Editors: Costanza Alfieri, University of L'Aquila Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Rui Prada, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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[CfP]: DBpedia Day 2026 || SEMANTiCS Conference || Sept 15
by DBpedia 10 Jul '26

10 Jul '26

==== DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2026 Ghent, Belgium September 15, 2026 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 (AoE) Submission Form: https://forms.gle/Ed9GwC2Fd1dGckvi7 ==== DBpedia Day brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and organizations working on Knowledge Graphs and the technologies that enable them. We invite contributions from leading experts as well as emerging initiatives that are shaping the future of the Knowledge Graph ecosystem. This year's event focuses on two complementary themes: * Knowledge Graphs – new, emerging, and established knowledge graphs that provide valuable structured knowledge. * Tools, Methods, and Systems for Knowledge Graphs – technologies that create, maintain, analyze, connect, enrich, and exploit knowledge graphs. We are particularly interested in submissions that discuss pressing challenges as well as success stories in publishing, analyzing, maintaining, and utilizing Knowledge Graphs. The goal of DBpedia Day is to showcase innovative knowledge graph solutions, highlight successful long-term initiatives, and foster discussion on the next generation of technologies that will unlock the full potential of structured knowledge. = Topics of Interest = Knowledge Graphs * Challenges and lessons learned in publishing, analyzing, maintaining, and using Knowledge Graphs * New and emerging Knowledge Graphs * Mature and widely adopted Knowledge Graphs * Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs * Community-driven and open Knowledge Graph initiatives * Enterprise and organizational Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Graph sustainability, governance, and maintenance * Applications and use cases of Knowledge Graphs Tools, Methods, and Systems for Knowledge Graphs * Knowledge Graph construction and enrichment * Knowledge extraction and integration * Entity linking and record linkage * Knowledge Graph alignment and interoperability * Querying, reasoning, and analytics * Visualization and exploration tools * Profiling and quality assessment * Summarization and overview generation * Knowledge Graph maintenance and evolution * AI-assisted Knowledge Graph engineering * Tools operating across multiple Knowledge Graphs * Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks = Submission Guidelines = Please submit your proposal by July 15, 2026 (AoE) via: https://forms.gle/Ed9GwC2Fd1dGckvi7 Your proposal should include: * Title * Abstract (max. 300 words) * Short biography of the speaker(s) On-site participation is required for all accepted speakers. Event page: https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2026/ Join us in Ghent and help shape the next generation of Knowledge Graph technologies! Best regards, Julia, Milan & Sebastian DBpedia Team

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 10 Jul '26

10 Jul '26

*** Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 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/ Workshops at ISSRE provide additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information, for both practitioners from industry and academic researchers. The workshops aim at discussing recent developments and open challenges in engineering high-assurance software and systems, and they are open to exchange of ideas at an early stage before maturation. All accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE in the ISSRE 2026 accompanying proceedings volume. The following workshops are confirmed and will be organized co-located with ISSRE 2026. 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Intelligent Software Quality (AISQ 2026) https://sites.google.com/view/aisq-2026/home In the era of Industry 4.0, advanced intelligent software systems, such as cyber-physical systems (CPS), machine learning-based systems, manufacturing systems, digital twin systems, quantum software applications, multi-agent systems, real-time systems, and LLM-based systems, are playing an increasingly important role in both the industrial world and our daily lives. Failures or requirement violations in these systems may lead to disruptive consequences or even catastrophic outcomes. Nowadays, extensive research, spanning both formal methods and engineering practices, has been conducted to improve the quality of advanced intelligent software from various aspects, such as usability, correctness, reliability, scalability, and robustness. New research topics and directions, such as prompt engineering and harness engineering, are constantly emerging. Our AISQ aims to bridge the gap between the increasing complexity of modern systems and the scalability of quality assurance approaches and fundamental theories. Specifically, AISQ seeks to collect promising and high-quality research achievements and provide an international venue to discuss advanced discoveries and emerging trends related to the quality of Advanced Intelligent Software in both academia and industry. 3rd International Workshop on Human Factors for Software Dependability (HFSD 2026) https://hfsdworkshop.github.io/ Software is created by humans and widely used by humans, with the ultimate goal of benefiting society. HFSD is a specialized workshop that brings together researchers from multiple disciplines to address the human factors that shape the reliability, safety, security, and availability of software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, human error, human–AI collaborative programming, social factors in security risks, and human-in-the-loop approaches for trustworthy autonomous systems. 1st International Workshop on Quality Assurance of Conversational Agentic Systems (QA4AGENTS) https://qa4agents.github.io/ The QA4Agents workshop focuses on quality assurance techniques, methodologies, and tools for conversational agentic systems, namely systems capable of interacting with users and external services through natural language. As these systems become increasingly autonomous and deeply integrated into complex software ecosystems, ensuring their reliability, robustness, safety, and correctness represents a critical challenge. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of software engineering, software testing, artificial intelligence, and runtime verification to discuss emerging approaches for the evaluation, testing, monitoring, benchmarking, and validation of conversational agentic systems. 4th IEEE International Workshop on Reliable and Secure AI for Software Engineering (ReSAISE 2026) https://resaise.github.io/2026/ Artificial Intelligence is now deeply embedded in software engineering workflows, from code generation and program repair to vulnerability detection, test generation, maintenance, and developer support. Large Language Models and agentic AI systems make these workflows more powerful, but they also introduce dependability questions that software engineering research cannot treat as an afterthought. ReSAISE’26 brings together researchers and practitioners from the AI and Software Engineering communities to discuss how AI-based solutions for software engineering can be made reliable, secure, trustworthy, and useful in real development settings. The workshop continues the ReSAISE focus on reliability and security while reflecting the growing role of LLMs, AI coding assistants, and multi-agent software engineering systems. We welcome contributions that study the development, deployment, evaluation, and operation of reliable and secure AI for software engineering, including methods, empirical studies, tools, benchmarks, experience reports, and lessons learned from negative or unexpected results. 18th International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (WoSAR 2026) https://www.wosar.net/ WoSAR is the premier international venue for discussing the recent advances and discoveries in theoretical and practical aspects of software aging and rejuvenation research. Software aging is the progressive degradation of performance and dependability in computer programs, especially those executing for a long period of time. This phenomenon has been extensively studied for more than 20 years, as it affects many systems, from embedded devices to server software to critical systems. Software rejuvenation, i.e., proactive restart of application (components/threads/tasks), reboot of VMs or machines, and failover to a replica are the most prominent approaches to combat software aging. A variety of rejuvenation techniques, scheduling plans, scope and granularity, have been proposed for different application types and platforms. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 20, 2026 (indicative, refer to the workshops' websites) • Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: August 17, 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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Second call for paper IMPACT-SPEECH
by Monorama Swain 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

HI everyone, Friendly Deadline Reminder! The submission deadline for IMPACT-SPEECH 2026 is fast approaching! If your research aligns with any of the topics listed below, we encourage you to submit your latest work and be part of the workshop. We look forward to your exciting contributions! The extended workshop paper submission deadline is July 15, 2026. For more details please visit: https://impactspeech.github.io/ https://impactspeech.github.io/ [https://impactspeech.github.io/] https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-speech-2026/posts/?feedView=all [https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-speech-2026/posts/?feedView=all] With regards Organizing Committee of IMPACT-SPEEH 2026

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Journal First, Conference Second Proposals
by Announce 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

*** Last Call for Journal First, Conference Second Papers *** 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/ ISSRE 2026 will continue running the “Journal First Conference Second” track that seeks to include journal papers in the ISSRE 2026 program. The authors of papers published recently in prestigious software reliability engineering journals are invited to send a proposal to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Note that the submitted J1C2 paper shall not be a former workshop or conference paper. Via this scheme authors have the possibility to present their work to a wider audience in person, discuss, network with peers, and drive renewed interest to their work. The journal-first manuscripts are published through the journals and will not be part of the ISSRE proceedings. The journal-first papers will be listed in the conference program. At least one author of each presentation accepted for the journal-first program must register and attend the conference to present the paper at the time identified in the program. Scope A journal-first presentation submitted to ISSRE 2026 must adhere to the following criteria: • The paper was accepted for publication not earlier than January 1st 2025. • The paper is in the scope of the conference, as defined in the call for ISSRE 2026 research papers. • The paper reports completely new research results or presents novel contributions that significantly extend and were not reported in prior work. • The paper has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences. Submission of Proposals Authors of manuscripts that respect these criteria are invited to send a one-page presentation proposal (in IEEE 2-column format) via this submission link on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026, consisting of the paper's title, the paper's authors, the paper's abstract, a description of how the paper fits into the conference theme, and a pointer to the original journal paper at the journal's Web site. If the paper is not online yet, then specify so. Authors will also have to upload a copy of the paper. Please make sure to select the J1C2 track at the beginning of the submission process. Authors will be invited to present their paper at ISSRE 2026 after a check that the paper is in scope for the conference and it adheres to the criteria above. The papers will not be reviewed again for technical content. In case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, presentation proposals will be prioritized according to their fit to the conference theme and structure of sessions. The J1C2 Track Chairs will notify the authors about their decision. Important Dates (AoE) • J1C2 proposal submission deadline: July 20, 2026 • J1C2 notification deadline: August 10, 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 posters: Building Commons for Clinical LLMs (Oct 1-2, 2026) Paris
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

Call for poster submission: Building Commons for Clinical LLMs October 1-2, 2026, PariSanté Campus, Paris https://health-data-hub.fr/page/building-commons-clinical-llms-internationa… As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to transform the medical landscape, the need for shared, compliant with regulations, and clinically-validated solutions has never been more vital for healthcare professionals. This conference aims to bridge the gap between academic research and medical application, focusing on the unique challenges of data privacy, model robustness, and clinical accuracy. On top of keynote presentations, panel sessions, and working group meetings, the conference aims to provide a space for researchers, clinicians, and industry players to share their latest findings and innovative projects through poster sessions. We solicit communications that will be presented as posters. All topics relevant to the conference themes are welcome: clinical applications of LLMs, clinical benchmarks for LLMs, regulatory/ethical/safety frameworks, new technical approaches, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS - Format: an extended abstract of 3 pages, plus unlimited references. The document, in PDF format, must contain at least: poster title; authors, affiliations, and contact; and a summary of the presented work. - Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE) - Submission link: https://hdhpds.limesurvey.net/911354 - Selection criteria: abstracts will be selected based on their relevance to the conference themes and the clarity of their contribution - Document templates are available: - docx: https://health-data-hub.fr/sites/default/files/2026-06/Document_template_fo… - LaTeX: an Overleaf document is provided at https://www.overleaf.com/read/jmjkfptzknpq#b5b164 - File> Download> Download as source (.zip) or log into Overleaf and File> Make a copy Preregistration for the conference is open through the form at https://hdhpds.limesurvey.net/911354. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: 31 July 2026 - Notification: 30 August 2026 - Conference: 1-2 October 2026 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Emmanuel Bacry, French Health Data Hub, 75015, Paris, France ; Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, CNRS, CEREMADE, 75016, Paris, France Aurélie Névéol, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, 91400, Orsay, France François Portet, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000, Grenoble, France Xavier Tannier, Sorbonne Université, Limics, 75006, Paris, France Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, 91400, Orsay, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Program Committee comprises all members of the Scientific Committee listed above, joined by: Judith Abécassis, Inria Saclay – SODA, 91120, Palaiseau, France Rémi Flicoteaux, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of medical information, Paris, France Chuyuan Li, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000, Grenoble, France KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Confirmed keynote talks include: - Evaluation and implementation of LLMs for medical tasks – Stanford Medicine (USA) - Development and evaluation of a Japanese Medical LLM – RIKEN iTHEMS (Japan) - Development of open-source digital commons (models, data, tools) for generative AI in healthcare and in French - PARTAGES Consortium (France) VENUE: PARISANTÉ CAMPUS Join us at PariSanté Campus, the beating heart of French excellence in digital health. Founded by leading public institutions, including Inserm, Inria, Université PSL, ANS, and the French Health Data Hub, this global innovation hub unites public research, over 60 cutting-edge startups, and healthcare industry leaders. 2-10 Rue d'Oradour-sur-Glane, 75015 Paris, France

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[CfP] Final Deadline Extension - NL4AI @ AIxIA 2026 - 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence | 6-9 October 2026, Perugia, Italy
by Elisa Leonardelli 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026 <https://aixia2026.unipg.it/>) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── [EXTENDED] Paper Submission deadline: 6th July 2026 24 July 2026, 23:59 AoE 🚨 Notification to authors: 19 August 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── Deadline extended. Following requests, we are giving authors two extra weeks to submit their papers. If you have work in progress at the intersection of NLP and AI, this is your window. Now in its ninth edition, NL4AI brings together researchers working where Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing meet the broader field of Artificial Intelligence. The most interesting problems often live at that boundary: AI systems become more capable when they understand language deeply, and NLP methods gain new meaning when tested in wider AI settings. NL4AI is meant to be a moment for the Italian NLP community to come together. Co-located with AIxIA 2026 and supported by AILC, the workshop is a friendly, discussion-oriented venue to meet colleagues, present finished results, ongoing work, and early ideas, and to get feedback across both sides of the NLP–AI boundary. We warmly invite contributions from labs and researchers in Italy and beyond. We especially welcome contributions that connect language to reasoning, interaction, multimodality, and real-world applications, as well as critical work on evaluation, interpretability, and the societal impact of language technologies. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: - Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References - Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CEURART-NL4AI-2…> or accessed as a Template in Overleaf <https://it.overleaf.com/read/cfvwgnqpvpys#a7a014>. All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026 Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) We look forward to seeing you in Perugia! The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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PhD position at Trier University / Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Phonetics
by Hoffmann, Sebastian, Univ.-Prof. Dr. 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

Dear all, Applications are invited for a doctoral researcher position (3 years, E 13 TV-L, 50%) in English Linguistics at Trier University, starting 1 October 2026: https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisation/ABT3/Stellen_WissMitarbeite… Preference will be given to a candidate who intends to pursue a doctorate investigating aspects of the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation (PRA), either in spoken British English (e.g. using the Audio BNC) or in the context of English as a World Language (e.g. using GloWbE). Applicants who have not yet completed their MA may be considered, provided the degree will be completed by 1 October 2026. Deadline for applications: 18 July 2026 For questions, please contact Sebastian Hoffmann at hoffmann(a)uni-trier.de<mailto:hoffmann@uni-trier.de> Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann FB II Anglistik Tel. +49 651 201-2287 E-Mail hoffmann(a)uni-trier.de [image001.png] Universität Trier | Universitätsring 15 | 54296 Trier | Germany www.uni-trier.de

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Special Issues of Digital Comparative Literature (Call for Expressions of Interest)
by Pianzola, Federico 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

We are seeking articles for a number of special issues within the framework of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Short-term Research Committee on Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) Comparative Literary Studies and Digital Humanities pose a double, mutually enriching challenge to one another. Distant reading and large-scale digitization have opened new perspectives on literature, yet comparative work remains among the hardest terrains for digital research, not least because of multilingualism and intermediality, since computational tools and corpora are still overwhelmingly English-centric and text-focused. This collection invites contributions that work at this intersection and that speak to a readership of comparative literature scholars. We welcome proposals addressing any aspect of digital comparative literature, including but not limited to: computational and distant reading methods and their epistemological stakes; the construction, use, and politics of large digital archives; books and reading in a postdigital context (multimodality, digital social reading); data visualization for literary analysis (network analysis, mapping); electronic literature, interactive digital narrative, digital storytelling; and machine translation, language models, and artificial intelligence (AI) for literary analysis. Theoretical reflections, methodological proposals, and concrete case studies are all welcome, provided they are framed for and accessible to comparative literature scholars. We have confirmed interest from a few comparative literature journals for the publication of special issues. A selection of the proposals received will be made — in consultation with the ICLA-DCL committee — and accepted articles will be assigned to the best-fitting venue, with a concrete proposal then made to each author. Two article formats - Short articles: max. 4,000 words - Long articles: max. 8,000 words Please indicate your intended format in your submission. How to express interest Submit an abstract of up to 500 words together with a short biographical note (max. 150 words) to Federico Pianzola (f.pianzola(a)rug.nl) and Samya Brata Roy (sroy4(a)gitam.edu). Deadline: 7 September 2026. Indicative timeline - September 2026: review of proposals and assignment to venues, in consultation with the ICLA-DCL committee - Late September 2026: authors contacted with a proposed venue and timeline - From Autumn 2027 onwards: first publications, with subsequent articles appearing on a rolling basis depending on each venue's schedule Selection and timelines will depend on fit with the participating journals; not all expressions of interest can be guaranteed placement. Preliminary inquiries for the suitability of contributions are welcome, please address them to Federico Pianzola (f.pianzola(a)rug.nl). The text of this call is also available at https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/ICLA-DCL-journals-cfp.html Kind regards, ICLA-DCL committee

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Second Call for Papers: The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP 2026)
by Agnieszka Faleńska 07 Jul '26

07 Jul '26

Second Call for Papers: The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP 2026) 5th AACL & 15th IJCNLP, November 9, 2026 Hengqin, China (Remote-only mode) About the Workshop The GeBNLP workshop <https://gebnlp-workshop.github.io/> serves as a leading venue for the study, evaluation, and mitigation of gender bias in natural language processing. As large language models (LLMs) become foundational to recent NLP applications, addressing how these systems represent and affect different genders, alongside intersecting demographic axes such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and ability, remains a critical challenge for the AI community. While foundational progress has been made in algorithmic debiasing and balanced data collection, recent large-scale evaluations reveal that state-of-the-art models continue to exhibit persistent stereotypes and confidence disparities across intersectional identities (Siddique et al., 2024; Savoldi et al., 2024). Our workshop serves as a multidisciplinary bridge, enabling researchers to define shared standards for tasks and metrics that ensure technical advancements are deeply rooted in the social and ethical realities of systemic harm (Dai et al., 2024). Topics of Interest We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to gender bias in NLP, including but not limited to: Measurement and Evaluation: New metrics and datasets for quantifying bias in LLMs, MT, and multimodal systems. Mitigation Strategies: Technical approaches to debiasing (e.g., fine-tuning, adapter-based methods, or prompting strategies). Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Bias in low-resource languages or non-Western cultural contexts. Intersectionality: Research exploring how gender bias intersects with race, disability, age, or nationality. Ethical and Legal Frameworks: Policy implications and the "Human-in-the-loop" role in auditing AI systems. Authors are encouraged to go beyond binary gender definitions and discuss how their work addresses the complexity of intersecting stereotypes and the diverse demographic contexts involved. Submission Guidelines Long Papers are up to 8 pages and short Papers are up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendix). Non-Archival Submissions: Authors may opt for non-archival submission, allowing work of standard conference quality to be presented without being published in the official proceedings. Submission Link <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/GeBNLP…> (Blind submission is required) Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 2, 2026 Camera-Ready Version Due: Monday, October 12, 2026 Workshop Date: Monday, November 9, 2026 Organizers Giuseppe Attanasio, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon Christine Basta, Alexandria University & HiTZ, University of the Basque Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Vera Neplenbroek, University of Amsterdam Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Karolina Stańczak, ETH AI Center, Zurich Marta R. Costa-jussà, FAIR, Meta Christian Hardmeier <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABSOopUB6XvolRQqI6UWAi0yorvyB1w75aY>, IT university of Copenhagen References Dai, Y., Gu, H., Wang, Y. and Wang, X., 2024, November. Mitigate extrinsic social bias in pre-trained language models via continuous prompts adjustment. In Proceedings of the 2024 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing (pp. 11068-11083). Siddique, Z., Turner, L. and Anke, L.E., 2024, November. Who is better at math, jenny or jingzhen? uncovering stereotypes in large language models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 18601-18619). Savoldi, B., Papi, S., Negri, M., Guerberof-Arenas, A. and Bentivogli, L., 2024, November. What the harm? quantifying the tangible impact of gender bias in machine translation with a human-centered study. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 18048-18076).

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[EACL 2027] First Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 07 Jul '26

07 Jul '26

*First Call for Main Conference Papers* EACL 2027: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece Special Theme: The Human in Language ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026 EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026 Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ *Overview* EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce (or fail to reproduce) previous results. We also introduce the Special Theme "The Human in Language", which we hope will stimulate exciting research contributions. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. *Submission information* EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of articles for review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors. * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g. EACL 2027), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via the commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed; please check the ARR Call for Papers for details. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. During the commitment phase, it is not allowed to modify the author list (addition/deletion of authors is not allowed); however, modification of author order is possible. The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors [at] aclrollingreview.org. For questions about commitment and post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com. *Important Dates* * *ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026 * *Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026 * *Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026 * *Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September 2026 * *Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026 * *EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026 * *Notification of acceptance (long & short papers)*: 12 November 2026 * *Camera-ready papers due (long & short)*: 26 November 2026 * *Main Conference (Workshops/Tutorials dates TBD)*: 9 - 14 March 2027 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). *Important change*: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer discussion are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September 2026), authors take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers will not be engaged at this stage. In the second (20-24 September 2026), reviewers and authors engage in any necessary discussion and reviewers finalise their reviews. Further details will be provided in due time. Mandatory Reviewing Workload All authors are expected to sign up to review, or serve as an Area Chair or Senior Area Chair, with assignments subsequently based on qualifications. After submission, all authors must complete the author registration form by 5 August 2026 EoD AoE. If you receive assignments, reviews must be completed by 7 September, and meta-reviews by 2 October. In case of emergencies, the chairs should be warned via the emergency declaration form. Exemptions to this policy are detailed in the ARR Author Reviewer Exemption Policy page. Highly irresponsible reviewers may be ineligible to (re-)submit or commit their work during the next ARR cycle. Submitting authors should (a) make sure all other authors are aware of this policy, and (b) check that everybody on their team(s) submits their (meta-)reviews on time and in accordance with the guidelines. Additional details on the definition of highly irresponsible reviewers and the corresponding ARR policy are available at https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025 *AI Reviewing Experiment (opt-in)* The Program Committee plans to run an opt-in AI Reviewing Experiment to collect feedback from authors on the utility of AI Reviewers in the review process. The AI reviews for opted-in submissions will not inform any part of the conference decision process. The experiment will run under IRB approval, using open-weights models on in-house compute resources, or closed models that guarantee zero-data retention. *Paper Submission Details* Both long and short paper submissions should follow all ARR submission requirements, including instructions for two-way anonymized review; authorship; citation and comparison; the multiple submission, resubmission and withdrawal policies; ACL's Publication Ethics Policy and ARR's Ethics Policy (including the responsible NLP research checklist); ACL's Disclosure Policy; a dedicated Limitations section; writing assistance rules; paper templates; and optional supplementary materials. Please see the ARR CfP for full details (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp). *Contact Information* General Chair: * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen Program Chairs: * Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen * Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology * Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler For questions related to paper submission and the review process in general, email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email: eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/

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Postdoctoral position: Autonomous Agents in Distributed Ledger Technologies
by Damir Korenčić 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Institution: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Closing date: June 20th 2026 We recently opened a position of potential interest to NLP researchers. We are looking for a motivated candidate with relevant technical expertise and compatible scientific interest. The successful candidate will work in a group consisting of two senior researchers and a PhD student. The focus of the project is twofold: 1) researching how autonomous agents operate on DLT platforms, and 2) developing and deploying a long-running agents to interact with DLT platforms and social networks. The first part encompasses collection and analysis of relevant DLT data, while the second part will focus on development and deployment of an LLM-based agentic system, and on studying its behavior and patterns of interaction. Initially, we plan to focus on Farcaster as the target platform. The candidate will be welcome and expected to actively participate in the design of the research. How to apply: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/446392 (basically you need to send a cover letter, plus the other information described as required). If you have any questions, you can contact us at: matija.piskorec(a)irb.hr damir.korencic(a)irb.hr

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Postdoctoral position in Switzerland (USI, Lugano)
by lonneke.vanderplas＠usi.ch 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

One fully funded postdoc position in NLP, for two years, renewable for another 2 years at the USI NLP Lab, in Lugano, Switzerland, as part of the SATURNA project. SATURNA (https://www.saturna.ch/) is a large-scale four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between the University of Bern, EPFL, Idiap Research Institute and the National University of Singapore, with specialists in NLP, graph deep learning, knowledge-enhanced AI, computational biology and translational science. The role of the team at USI is to draw parallels between text sequences and RNA sequences, thereby leveraging advances made in the NLP field to learn informative representations of RNA sequences. Vice versa, handling the intricacies of RNA, such as extremely long-distance dependencies, context-dependency, structure, function etc. sheds new light on assumptions made in NLP models, that will be tested for their applicability on language. The postdoc will work under the scientific supervision of Prof. Lonneke van der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks) and will be offered the possibility to work in a fast-growing, cross-institutional, dynamic research team. The postdoc is expected to collaborate with the PhD students in the USI NLP lab that are working on a wide variety of topics in NLP, both at USI and the EPFL, as well as with the researchers in the SATURNA project, that includes work on interpretability and foundations of transformer-based language models, and benchmarking these. Screening will start on July 13th 2026, but the positions will remain open until filled. More information and application link here: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-id…<https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-id….> -- Prof. Lonneke van der Plas Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing USI Università della Svizzera italiana https://usi.to/bkks

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Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026)
by keren.artiaga＠adaptcentre.ie 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026. WSLP 2026 aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working on sign language technologies. The workshop will showcase recent advances in sign language understanding, translation, recognition, generation, and multimodal AI, with a special emphasis on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature shared tasks, invited talks, and discussions on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field. 🔑 Important Links 🌐 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/ 📄 Submission Portal (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP 🏆 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/ 💬 Workshop Discord: https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7 💬 Shared Task Discord: https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) * Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026 * Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop Date: October 29, 2026 🔍 Topics of Interest (Including but Not Limited To) * Low-resource and underrepresented sign languages * Sign Language Recognition (SLR) * Continuous and Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) * Sign Language Generation and Avatars * Multilingual, Cross-modal, and Zero-shot Learning for Sign Languages * Large Language Models and Multimodal Models for Sign Languages * Cultural and Dialectal Variation in Sign Languages * Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Data Resources * Fairness, Ethics, Accessibility, and Real-world Applications 🏆 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2026 * Indian Sign Language to English Translation * Isolated Sign Recognition * Word/Sign Presence Prediction We particularly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages, inclusive technologies, and real-world deployment challenges. We warmly invite the community to submit their latest research and join us in advancing sign language technologies that foster accessibility, inclusion, and communication for all.

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06 Jul '26

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[CALL FOR PARTICIPATION] Long-Form Analogy Evaluation Challenge @ INLG 2026
by Bhavya - 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Long-Form Analogy Evaluation Challenge, a shared task focused on automatically evaluating generated analogies for explaining Computer Science concepts. The shared task will be co-located with INLG 2026 (https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/), and participants will have the opportunity to write a paper describing their system and approach. Submission Deadline: August 1, 2026 Prizes: The top 3 participants will receive $100, $50, and $25, respectively. About the Challenge Participants are asked to develop a system that predicts human quality ratings for long-form analogies. Given a concept, its description, a textual analogy, and an accompanying animation video, systems must predict scores across textual and video-based criteria. Submissions are evaluated using rank correlation with human judgments. Links * Competition: https://huggingface.co/spaces/analogy-evaluation/Analogy-Evaluation-Challen… * Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/analogy-evaluation/challenge-dataset * Baseline code: https://github.com/yurinoviello/analogy-eval-baseline-INLG We warmly encourage members of this community to participate and share this announcement with colleagues and students who may be interested. Best regards, Bhavya Research Scientist, IBM Yuri Noviello PhD Student, Delft University of Technology

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Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 06 Jul '26

06 Jul '26

*** NARNiHS 2027 *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** Ninth Annual Meeting *** 100% IN PERSON *** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting *** San Francisco, California, USA *** 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting. Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3542 . ---------- Call for Abstracts ----------. Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027 Deadline: Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:59 PM US Eastern time. Late abstracts will not be considered. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 9th Annual Meeting. As a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS will hold its Annual Meeting sessions at the LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday-Saturday, 6-9 January 2027. The 9th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field's enduring questions. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or 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, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Accepted papers will be organized into thematic sessions that will be scheduled throughout the 4 days of the LSA conference; accepted posters will be scheduled together in the LSA poster gallery. Please note that, at NARNiHS events, poster presentations are an integral and equal part of the intellectual exchange (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, *if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation*, please specify this in your abstract. Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and *promise for rich discussion* of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently 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. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. - Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. - Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11-inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch (2.54 cm) and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page to provide a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting 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 longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review. - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - 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 also 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 as the file name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names may 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. Abstracts that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Requirements ***. - Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027 - Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. - Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in NARNiHS Sessions and at the LSA Annual Meeting or another LSA Sister Society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA). - Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. - After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet. - Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. - Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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CFP for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2026 @ Melbourne, Australia
by Wei Zhang 04 Jul '26

04 Jul '26

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the call for paper for the 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2026 Details are available on our website at https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates - Submission open: 16 July 2026 - Submission deadline (long and short papers): 11 September 2026 - Submission deadline for presentation abstracts and non-archival papers: 9 October 2026. - Author notification: 23 October 2026 - ALTA 2026: 30 November - 2 December 2026 Overview The 24th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2026) will be held in person at Deakin University Downtown Campus, Melbourne, from 30 November to 2 December 2026. ALTA is the key local forum for presenting and discussing research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). The workshop will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published online in the ACL Anthology and on the ALTA website. Papers will be presented either as oral or poster presentations at the workshop. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2026 Conference Rankings as Australasian C. Topics - Commonsense Reasoning. - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. - Dialogue and Interactive Systems. - Discourse and Pragmatics. - Efficient Methods for NLP. - Ethics in NLP. - Information Extraction. - Information Retrieval and Text Mining. - Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. - Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. - Machine Learning for NLP. - Machine Translation. - Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. - Natural Language Generation. - NLP Applications. - Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. - Question Answering. - Resources and Evaluation. - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. - Speech and Multimodality. - Summarisation. - Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors We welcome long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) Archival Submissions, and Non-Archival Submissions. Please refer to our CfP webpage<https://alta2026.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> for specifics. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… LinkedIn (group): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ X: https://x.com/altanlp Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2026 Team: Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, General Chair Prof Massimo Piccardi, Program Chair Dr Ming Liu, Program Chair Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Program Chair Dr Zhuang Li, Publication Chair Mong Yuan Sim, PhD candidate, Publication Chair Aymen Rayane Khouas, PhD candidate, Technology Chair Dr Fatima Ansarizadeh, Sponsorship Chair Sara Mirabi, PhD candidate, Local Chair Saeedeh Javadi, PhD candidate, Local Chair A/Prof Wei (Emma) Zhang, Publicity Chair

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Call for Participation: Terminology Shared Task @WMT2026
by Kirill Semenov 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

[apologies for cross-posting] Terminology Translation Task @WMT2026 �C Call for Participation We are excited to announce the 4th Terminology Translation Shared Task, which will be held as part of the 11th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. TL;DR * Two tracks on terminology-aware document-level machine translation. * Language pairs: Spanish��Basque, English��Polish, and Traditional Chinese��English across engineering, medicine, and finance domains. * Evaluation metrics: both general MT quality and terminology-oriented metrics. * Task started: 30 June 2026 * System submission deadline: 31 July 2026 (AoE) * Shared task website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html * Pre-registration: https://forms.gle/nCHmek9UkdJaraqu9 OVERVIEW Despite remarkable progress in machine translation, accurately translating specialized terminology while maintaining overall translation quality remains a challenging problem. Previous editions of the Terminology Translation Shared Task demonstrated that document-level terminology translation is still substantially more difficult than sentence-level translation, particularly when consistent terminology usage is required throughout a document. This year's edition introduces two major developments. First, we expand the shared task to lower-resource, morphologically rich languages: Basque and Polish. Second, alongside our established terminology-dictionary setting, we introduce a new track in which systems must infer terminology from seed bitexts, providing a more realistic and challenging evaluation scenario. We welcome submissions from both academia and industry and impose no restrictions on models or training resources. IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) * 1 Jul 2026: Test data and submission form released; shared task begins * 31 Jul 2026: System submission deadline * 7 Aug 2026: paper description submission (according to the WMT 2026 schedule) * 28-29 October 2026: WMT 2026 conference SUBMISSION TRACKS Track 1: Document-Level Translation with Explicit Dictionary Participants receive document-level source texts together with terminology dictionaries and evaluate their systems under different terminology conditions. Track 2: Document-Level Translation with Seed Bitexts Instead of explicit terminology dictionaries, participants receive terminology-rich parallel examples ("seed bitexts") and must leverage them to translate related documents. LANGUAGES AND DOMAINS * Spanish �� Basque (Engineering & Technology), * English �� Polish (Engineering & Technology, Medicine), * Traditional Chinese �� English (Finance) EVALUATION Following the previous editions of the shared task, systems will be evaluated under multiple terminology modes to assess the causal effect of the explicit terminology contents: * No terminology * Proper terminology * Random terminology Submissions will be assessed using two complementary groups of metrics: * Overall translation quality, including automatic MT metrics (e.g., BLEU) together with evaluation of grammatical term usage. * Terminology-oriented metrics, including terminology success rate and terminology consistency. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Before submitting, we kindly ask participants to: 1. (Recommended) Pre-register using our Google Form to receive reminders and help us estimate participation. 2. Validate system outputs using the official validation script. 3. Submit translations through the official submission form together with a brief system description. Participants are also encouraged to submit a WMT system description paper following the main conference guidelines. * The participants are allowed to submit systems for one track and/or only subset of the language pairs (however, we encourage you to test your strengths across all language pairs) * Detailed task descriptions, data formats, input/output specifications, and submission instructions are available on the shared task website. ORGANIZERS Nathaniel Berger, Adrian Charkiewicz, Pinzhen Chen, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Harritxu Gete Ugarte, Kamil Guttmann, Xu Huang, David Ponce, Artur Nowakowski, Fr��d��ric Odermatt, Arturo Oncevay, Kirill Semenov, Dawei Zhu, and Vil��m Zouhar. Contact: Kirill Semenov �� firstname.lastname [at] uzh [dot] ch WEBSITE https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html We look forward to your participation!

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[Final CfP] LM Playschool Workshop at EMNLP 2026 — Challenge Deadline in 2 Days!
by Sabrina McCallum 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Interaction Co-located with EMNLP 2026 — 28 October 2026, Budapest Website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ Starter Kit: https://github.com/lm-playpen/playpen The submission deadlines for the LM Playschool Workshop are almost here! The challenge submission deadline is this Sunday, July 5, 2026 (only 2 days away!), followed shortly by the direct paper submission deadline on July 12, 2026 (9 days away!). 📝 SUBMISSION TRACKS We welcome either long or short submissions for the following tracks: 1. Challenge track: Technical reports for the LM-Playschool challenge (archival). 2. Paper-only track: Work-in-progress (archival or non-archival) or recently published papers (non-archival). 🏆 CHALLENGE TRACK (SHARED TASK) The shared task focuses on post-training LLMs to master communicative skills in unseen dialogue games while retaining original language capabilities. Participants are free to choose any base model; evaluation is based on improvement relative to that base model on an unseen test set. Not signed up yet? Register here: https://forms.gle/fhpXPH5kZk4psPXp9 🛠️ STARTER KIT Our sandbox environment Playpen is available on GitHub and ready to use. Key features: * Comprehensive Evaluation: A single command to get your "clemscore" (interactive competence) and "statscore" (classic benchmarks). * Training Recipes: Example scripts for SFT and GRPO to help models learn from game-state success. * Resource Friendly: We encourage using the Qwen3.5 family (0.8B to 27B) to ensure participation is possible with modest compute. 🎯 PAPER-ONLY TRACK: TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome original research and work-in-progress on: * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents. * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals (RL from game-state success). * Benchmarking via dialogue games. * Data efficiency and social interaction. * Social cognition and Theory of Mind in interactive systems. * Human-agent collaboration and coordination. * Embodied interactive agents. * Communicative and perceptual grounding. 📅 IMPORTANT DATES * Challenge submission deadline: July 5, 2026 (only 2 days away!) * Direct paper submission deadline: July 12, 2026 (9 days away!) * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 2, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2026 * Camera ready due: August 23, 2026 * Challenge winners announced: Early October 2026 * Workshop at EMNLP 2026: October 28, 2026 — Budapest For more information, visit our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ We look forward to your submissions! The LMP 2026 Organizing Committee: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia

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5 Positions for Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers at the Text & Language Lab, FAU
by Michaela Mahlberg 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

Dear all, Please see the information on job opportunities below. I’d be grateful if you could share with potential candidates. Where: The Text & Language Lab in the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is recruiting up to five outstanding postdoctoral and doctoral researchers. Join a highly collaborative team pursuing an ambitious research agenda on various aspects of language in today’s digital world. Led by Alexander von Humboldt-Professor Michaela Mahlberg, the lab offers an inspiring environment where curious researchers work across disciplines and produce results with clear, real-world relevance. What: Depending on your qualifications and experience there are different options of appointment, which include opportunities to make a contribution to the teaching of the Department. • PhD positions are for up to 4 years (75% or 100%), initial contract 1 year with extension after successful completion of first year • Postdoctoral positions for up to 4.5 years (100 %), initial contract 2 years, after successful completion of that period there is the opportunity to extend the positions until 31.03.2031 The positions: 1) Postdoctoral researcher with focus on web application development and CLiC (clic-fiction.com) Specific responsibilities will include: • Corpus compilation • Modular software development • Leading on the organisation of training workshops and dissemination activities • Developing training materials for workshops • Producing documentation • Collaboration with external software developers • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports 2) Postdoctoral researcher with focus on experimental methods Specific responsibilities will include: • Designing and running experiments that focus on the engagement with texts and tools (reader response, surveys, interviews, eye-tracking, Human-AI interaction) • Analysing research data • Leading on the organisation of training workshops and dissemination activities • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports 3) Doctoral researcher - PhD Project: Fictional people and the climate crisis The project will be situated within a research context that deals with textual patterns of characterization with a focus on the relationship between fictional people and their environment. This environment will cover both the natural and the built environment. The textual patterns will be studied on the basis of data from a variety of texts (including climate and science fiction). Methods of analysis will draw on computational textual analysis. The specific research questions of the project will be developed together with the successful candidate. Specific responsibilities will include: • Text and data analysis • Corpus design and compilation • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports More detail on required qualifications and how to apply: https://www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/621d437fb9ed15d519420c8046d50aa9431c66ec0 Deadline: 24 July 2026 If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me Michaela -- Professor Michaela Mahlberg https://michaelamahlberg.com/<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fmichaelamahlberg.com%2f…> Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor of Digital Humanities<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkKhcwvWgI> Head of Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dhss.phil.fau.de%2f…> FAU - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fau.de%2f&c=E,1,fU0…> Honorary Professor of Corpus Linguistics University of Birmingham, UK<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/> Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbenjamins.com%2fcatalog…> President of the Dickens Society<https://dickenssociety.org/> Host of the Life and Language Podcast <https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/> https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/

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2nd CfP for the HeMAI workshop at ICMI 2026 - Deadline Extended
by Stefan Hillmann 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

========================================================= 2nd Call for Papers - Deadline EXTENDED: HeMAI 2026 Multimodal Interaction with Generative AI Health Applications Workshop at ICMI 2026, Naples, Italy, 9 October 2026 (in person) https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/ Submission via PCS until July 13, 2026 ========================================================= Generative AI is changing how people interact with health technology. Large language models, multimodal foundation models, and conversational agents make it possible to combine text, speech, vision, and physiological signals in ways that weren't practical a few years ago, and they raise difficult questions about usability, safety, explainability, trust, and evaluation when the stakes involve someone's health. HeMAI 2026 brings HCI, AI, and health researchers together to work through those questions. We welcome contributions on multimodal interaction techniques for health systems, conversational and embodied agents in healthcare, integration of text/speech/vision/biosignals, explainability and transparency, human-AI collaboration, safety and trust, ethical and regulatory issues, evaluation methodologies, and real-world deployments. Submission types: - Full research papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references) - Short / work-in-progress / position / demo papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references) Submissions follow ICMI 2026 author guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/ Papers rejected from the main ICMI track are welcome if they fit the scope. Important dates (AoE): - Paper submission: 6 July 2026 (via PCS) - Notification: 29 July 2026 - Camera-ready: 1 August 2026 - Workshop: 9 October 2026 Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings associated with ICMI 2026. Organizers: - Stefan Hillmann (TU Berlin) - Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin) - Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS--ISIR, Sorbonne University) - Lisa Raithel (TU Berlin & BIFOLD & DFKI Berlin & Charité--IKIM) - Roland Roller (DFKI Berlin) Workshop website: https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/ We are looking forward to your submissions!

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Job Openings: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models
by Shaoxiong Ji 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

We are recruiting a Doctoral Researcher and a Postdoctoral Researcher! Both roles focused on training health foundation models and medical reasoning using Finland's nationwide health databases. 💻 Access to world-class computing resources, including local clusters (Roihu and Triton) and the LUMI Supercomputer (one of the world's fastest and greenest). 🤝 Direct integration into the ELLIS Institute Finland and the University of Turku research ecosystems. 🌲 Excellent work-life balance and competitive salary in Finland. 📅 Application Deadline: August 17, 2026 at 16:00 (Helsinki time) Find full job details and apply here: https://www.olaresearch.org/news/job-openings-foundation-health-models.html

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CfP – Special Issue on "Big Data Analytics and Mining for Information Retrieval" [BDCC Journal]
by Ida Mele 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions to the Special Issue "Big Data Analytics and Mining for Information Retrieval" in the "Big Data and Cognitive Computing" Journal (IF 5.3, CiteScore 11.4). This Special Issue seeks advanced analytics and mining methods that integrate big-data technologies with intelligent retrieval models. We welcome original research articles and review papers on research areas including, but not limited to: - web search - social media analytics - recommendation systems - enterprise search - digital libraries - biomedical informatics For details and submission instructions, visit the Special Issue webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/4643ZF82B5 If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, kindly register a tentative title and abstract via the "Submit Abstract to Special Issue" form on the Special Issue webpage at your earliest convenience. Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues and collaborators. We look forward to receiving your contributions. Kind regards, Guest Editor Dr. Ida Mele IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy

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3rd and last Call for Papers: FEL XXX 2026, Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 - Submission deadline 10 July 2026
by Steven Krauwer 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

CALL FOR PAPERS The 30th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXX (2026) "Endangered Languages and Innovative Technologies: Documentation, Processing and Revitalisation" Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages(FEL <https://ogmios.org/>), the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains Américains et Asiatiques (CESSMA <https://www.inalco.fr/en/cessma>) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO <https://www.inalco.fr/en>) Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and promote the maintenance and revitalisation of endangered languages. We strongly encourage submissions from community members, educators, activists, and practitioners, as well as presentations of collaborative work between academic and non-academic partners. More about the theme: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2026/theme.php Important dates: # 10July2026:Deadlineforsubmission of abstracts NB:***Due to the tight schedule this deadline can not be extended!* # 13 July 2026: Registration opens # 01 August2026:Selectedapplicantsinformed # 15 September2026:Deadlineforsubmission of extended versions of accepted abstracts # 03-05November 2026:Conference dates # 06 November 2026: Excursion (to be confirmed) Conference website: https://ogmios.org/conferences/2026 Email: fel2026(a)ogmios.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/TLC, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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Call for participation: the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) @ ACL 2026
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

Dear Corpora-list community, We are excited to welcome you to the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026), taking place July 3, 2026, as part of ACL 2026! This year's workshop highlights how our field continues to evolve from traditional event extraction toward large language models, multimodal event understanding, symbolic reasoning, agent-based systems, and socially impactful AI applications. Some of the key themes of EEUCA 2026 include: * Event extraction and understanding with LLMs * Multimodal analysis of real-world events * Low-resource and multilingual approaches * Benchmark creation and evaluation * Geopolitical event analysis * Shared tasks on multimodal vaccine discourse and toxicity detection in online gaming communities If you are attending ACL 2026, we warmly invite you to join us on July 3. Whether your interests are in information extraction, NLP, computational social science, multimodal AI, or generative models, we would love to see you there! Proceedings: https://aclanthology.org/events/acl-2026/#2026eeuca-1 🗓️ Workshop schedule and additional information: https://research.ku.edu.tr/research-infrastructure/research-centers-and-uni… We sincere thank to all authors, shared task participants, reviewers, program committee members, keynote speakers, and organizers whose hard work made this year's workshop possible. We look forward to welcoming the community and discussing the next generation of event-centered AI research. Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Surendrabikram Thapa

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Last CfP: 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
by Elisa Leonardelli 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026 <https://aixia2026.unipg.it/>) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── [EXTENDED] Paper Submission deadline: 29 June 2026 6 July 2026, 23:59 AoE🚨 Notification to authors: 31 July 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── We are pleased to invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/). The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to: - NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) - Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics - Natural Language Generation - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Summarization - Information Extraction in AI Applications - Machine Learning for NLP - LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications - Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Natural Language Inference - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Abusive Language Detection and Analysis - NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis - Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Language and other Multimodality - Multimodal (text-image) data sources - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP - NLP and Industrial Challenges Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: - Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References - Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CEURART-NL4AI-2…> or accessed as a Template in Overleaf <https://it.overleaf.com/read/cfvwgnqpvpys#a7a014>. All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026 Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) We look forward to seeing you in Perugia! The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Deadline extension: 6th Workshop on Computational Perspectives on Social Science (CPSS 2026). New deadline (archival and non-archival): July 10th
by Gabriella Lapesa 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

Dear colleagues, The submission deadline for the 6th Workshop on Computational Perspectives on Social Science (CPSS 2026), co-located with KONVENS 2026 in Hamburg, has been extended to ***July 10, 2026 (AoE)***. CPSS brings together researchers from NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Social Science, and Computational Political Science to foster interdisciplinary exchange on computational approaches to studying social and political phenomena. This year’s special theme is: Can (and should) LLMs simulate human perspectives? We especially invite submissions on the simulation of human perspectives with LLMs, including questions related to ethics, bias, data quality, evaluation, and reproducibility. We also welcome contributions on the broader spectrum of Computational Social Science and NLP, including topics such as language model bias, modeling complex social concepts, political communication, synthetic and human data quality, data leakage, open science, and interdisciplinary methodologies. We invite three submission types: * Archival papers (long and short papers, also via ARR) * Non-archival abstracts (1 page) describing ongoing or previously published work * PhD Forum submissions (2 page abstracts) for doctoral researchers at all stages Important dates * Direct submissions (archival and non-archival): July 10, 2026 (AoE) * ARR submissions (archival only): July 15, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2026 For the full Call for Papers and submission details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2026konvens/home-page We look forward to your submissions and hope to welcome you to Hamburg this September! Best regards, The CPSS 2026 Organizing Committee

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REMINDER: Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense | Specialisation Course in Forensic Linguistics
by Rui Sousa Silva 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

***ENGLISH VERSION BELOW*** PRAZO DE CANDIDATURA: 7 DE JULHO DE 2026 Estão abertas as candidaturas ao Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense da Universidade do Porto (7ª edição). Este curso, o primeiro curso de pós-graduação de 60 ECTS no espaço de língua portuguesa dedicado à linguística forense, reflete o papel pioneiro da Universidade do Porto no desenvolvimento de formação académica especializada nesta área. O curso, concebido em modo b-learning para proporcionar preparação avançada na interseção entre linguagem, direito e justiça, oferece um currículo rigoroso, inovador e altamente relevante para graduados e profissionais que desejam aprofundar a sua especialização em linguística forense. Através de uma combinação de fundamentos teóricos e aplicações práticas, o curso visa reforçar a competência analítica e apoiar o desenvolvimento profissional em áreas de crescente relevância social e institucional. Esta formação constitui uma oportunidade distinta para aqueles que desejam envolver-se com uma das áreas mais dinâmicas e especializadas do estudo da linguagem. Enquanto universidade pública, a Universidade do Porto oferece este programa a um nível de propinas comparativamente acessível, tornando a educação especializada de elevada qualidade mais acessível a um leque mais amplo de pessoas candidatas. As candidaturas estão abertas até 7 de julho de 2026. Para mais informações, não hesite em entrar em contacto, ou visite https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881 ***ENGLISH VERSION*** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 7 JULY 2027 We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Specialisation Course in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Porto (the 7th cohort of the programme). This programme, the first 60 ECTS-credit postgraduate course in the Portuguese-speaking arena dedicated to forensic linguistics, reflects the University of Porto's pioneering role in the development of specialised academic training in this field. The course, which was designed to provide advanced preparation at the intersection of language, law, and justice, offers a rigorous, innovative and highly relevant curriculum for graduates and professionals seeking to further their expertise in forensic linguistics. Through a combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications, the course aims to strengthen analytical competence and support professional development in areas of growing social and institutional relevance. It stands as a distinctive opportunity for those who wish to engage with one of the most dynamic and specialised areas of linguistic study. As a public university, the University of Porto is able to offer this programme at a comparatively accessible tuition level, making high-quality specialised education more attainable for a broader range of candidates. Applications are open until 7 July 2026. Please do not hesitate to reach our to us for further information - or visit https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881 All best Rui Rui Sousa Silva Professor Auxiliar / Assistant Professor NORTE IA+ | Principal Investigator Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto www.linguisticaforense.pt<http://www.linguisticaforense.pt/> | https://s.up.pt/qjur | http://tinyurl.com/37w2ec6x | norteia.pt<http://www.norteia.pt/> Publicação mais recente / Latest publication: “The facts speak for themselves”: dismantling conspiracy theories as disinformation<https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0160/html> Escola Prática, Curso de Especialização em Linguística Forense<https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=13881> Selo INOVPED - Inovação Educativa 2025 NORTE2030-FEDER-02724200 | NORTE 2030 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (NORTE 2030 - Projetos Integrados ICDT), Portugal 2030 e Comissão Europeia.Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte - www.norteia.pt<http://www.norteia.pt/> AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDADE: Esta mensagem e os seus anexos são confidenciais e dirigidos unicamente aos destinatários da mesma. Se não for o destinatário, solicito que não faça qualquer uso do seu conteúdo e proceda à sua eliminação, notificando-me do sucedido. Obrigado. // CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: This message and its attachments are confidential and exclusively addressed to the recipients above. Should you not be one of the recipients, I kindly ask you not to make use of its contents and delete the message and its attachments. Please reply to this e-mail to warn me about this incident. Thank you.

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[CFP] The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026)
by ACL Announcements 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 9, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [1] Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 * Registration deadline for shared task: [TBA] * System Run and Output Submission (shared task): [TBA] * System Paper Submission (shared task): [TBA] * Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 * Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) - deadline extended
by Amal Haddad 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 15 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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Fully funded PhD fellowships in NLP and ML, University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] Integreat, the Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, is recruiting 8 full-time PhD students for a range of cross-disciplinary projects across Machine Learning, Language Technology, Statistics, Logic, and Ethics. Integreat is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway (2023–2033). The centre is hosted by the University of Oslo, with partners including the Arctic University of Norway and Norwegian Computing Center. The full announcement is available through the link below, with further details about the application procedure, online information meetings, the research environment, detailed descriptions of the individual projects, and more: https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2026/ Note that several of the projects are in Natural Language Processing and will have supervisors from the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. In particular, see: * Project 3, on new data attribution methods for LLMs: https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2026/projects/03.h… * Project 4, on measuring ideological bias in multimodal image–text models: https://www.integreat.no/about/vacancies/phd-recruitment/2026/projects/04.h… The application deadline is 9 August 2026. Best, -e -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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PhD Position - Human-AI Collaboration for Psychiatry Research, Max Planck School of Biomedical AI, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

🚀 We are offering a fully funded PhD position on human-AI collaboration to support psychiatry research, jointly supervised by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Dr. Dr. Elisabeth Binder (Director, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich). The position is embedded in the Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence (MPS-BMAI), which trains doctoral researchers at the interface of AI and the life sciences. The project Psychiatry is rich in deep, multimodal data but poor in tools that let experts make sense of it together with AI. You will develop human-AI collaboration and machine-learning methods that help clinicians and researchers explore, integrate and interpret heterogeneous psychiatric data - and unlock the value of existing cohorts such as the BeCOME study (a deep-phenotyping study combining genetic, molecular, neuroimaging, actigraphy, neurocognitive and psychometric data to identify biologically-informed subtypes of stress-related disorders). - Methods for multimodal data integration and exploration with experts in the loop - Verification-first, interpretable AI that clinicians and researchers can trust - Privacy-preserving and ethically grounded handling of sensitive clinical data Your profile - A Master's degree in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computational Neuroscience, or a related field - Solid programming and ML skills; experience with multimodal, biomedical or NLP data is a plus - Genuine interest in mental health and interdisciplinary, collaborative research - Willingness to work across Darmstadt and Munich; very good English What we offer - A fully funded position - E13 employment contract, 36 months - Joint supervision by two leading groups in AI and in psychiatry - Access to unique clinical cohorts and the MPS-BMAI / ELIZA / ELLIS doctoral networks - Strong compute, structured training, and an international, interdisciplinary environment How to apply & timeline (Max Planck School - Cohort 0) This PhD is offered as a Cohort 0 position of the Max Planck School of Biomedical AI<https://www.maxplanckschools.org/en/news-events/launch-of-the-max-planck-sc…>. Cohort 0 candidates are nominated by a pair of primary and secondary supervisors - here, Prof. Gurevych (TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Binder (MPI of Psychiatry). - Interested candidates: contact us as early as possible to be considered for nomination. An in-person meeting in September 2026 will help form supervisor-candidate pairs. - Eligibility note: you may already be a PhD student in your first two years - the earlier the better - but the official Cohort 0 start falls within the December 2026 to February 2027 window Apply: via https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ by July 24th, 2026, quoting reference to this post. Review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in NLP & AI (m/f/d), UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

🚀 We’re hiring Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in NLP & AI (m/f/d), UKP Lab<http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/>, TU Darmstadt The UKP Lab, led by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, is one of Europe’s leading groups in Natural Language Processing and is recruiting researchers to join a highly international team at the frontier of trustworthy and applied AI. We combine fundamental research with open-source tools used worldwide (e.g., Sentence Transformers, AdapterHub), and are embedded in a rich ecosystem — ELLIS, Konrad Zuse School ELIZA, hessian.AI, and ATHENE. We are looking for outstanding researchers who want to shape how humans and AI systems work together — and ensure that they do so reliably, safely, and in the service of people. Priority research directions: We especially welcome applications in the following areas, though strong candidates across UKP’s wider profile are encouraged to apply: · Verification-first AI & evaluation of agentic systems — rigorous, expert-grounded evaluation of LLMs and AI agents; trajectory-level reliability and safety; calibration; evaluation that scales when content is cheap to produce but expensive to verify. · Human–AI co-construction for expert and scientific work — mixed-initiative interaction, preference elicitation, and AI for science and education that preserves human understanding and skill rather than replacing it. · Trustworthy NLP for high-stakes domains — misinformation and fact-checking, content provenance and AI-text forensics, privacy-preserving health and clinical NLP, and NLP for cybersecurity (in collaboration with ATHENE). Related interests are also welcome: LLM reasoning and planning, interpretability and robustness for safety, computational argumentation and AI for democratic deliberation, efficient and modular models, and multilingual/multimodal NLP. You bring: a PhD or Master’s degree in NLP/ML/CS/HCI or related, a strong top-venue publication record (ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, CHI), and solid programming skills. We offer: a world-class ecosystem (ELLIS, ELIZA, hessian.AI, ATHENE), strong compute and engineering support, mentorship toward research independence, and a vibrant international team in Darmstadt. TV-TU E13, full-time, initially 2 years (extension possible), starting a.s.a.p. Apply: via https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ by July 24th, 2026, quoting reference to this post. Review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/index.en.jsp

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Official release_Issue 73_Miscelanea Journal
by Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce the official release of ISSUE 73 of _Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies_, published by the Department of English Studies at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). _Miscelanea_, with 73 issues published to date, and with number 74 coming out in December, is one of the longest-running international journals on English Studies in Spain. You can access the new issue here: Vol. 73 (2026) | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [1] We would like to thank all authors, reviewers, advisors and production staff involved in the publication of this issue. We kindly ask you to share this information with your colleagues and invite you to follow us on Bluesky @miscelanaeauz.bsky.social [2] and on X @MiscelaneaUZ [3]. The journal obtained the renewal of the Certification of Publishing and Scientific Quality of the FECYT last November 2025. _Miscelánea_ is also indexed in many databases (ERIH PLUS, SCOPUS-Elsevier, DOAJ, Scimago Journal Rank, among others; see https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en/about for details). Back in April, our journal was also included in the European Union's _Diamond Discovery Hub_ platform for high quality open-access journals: https://ddh.edch.eu/en/journals/3198 We remind you that the journal admits submissions all year round. We therefore invite you to submit your manuscripts to our journal at any time through our platform: Submissions | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [4] 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 our best wishes, The _Miscelánea _Editors Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro (Language & Linguistics Co-Editor) Beatriz Oria-Gomez (Literature, Film and Cultural Studies Co-Editor) Maria Ferrandez-San Miguel (Reviews Co-editor) -- 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 [5] Member of: _IUI Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) [6]_ Universidad de Zaragoza Language and Linguistics Editor _- Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [7]_ Links: ------ [1] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en/issue/view/736 [2] https://bsky.app/profile/miscelaneauz.bsky.social [3] https://twitter.com/MiscelaneaUZ [4] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en/about/submissions [5] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [6] https://bifi.es/ [7] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/index

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CFP: AIAS+ - Symposium for AI Accelerated Science - elra
by Sol Rosenberg 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

*Apologies for Cross Posting* The paper submission deadline AIAS+ 2026 (Chen Institute Symposium for AI Advancing Science and Society) is quickly approaching. - *July 15, 2026.* More info at: https://www.aiasplus.org/call-for-papers *Call for Papers - For Researchers & Academics* We invite submissions exploring how core advancements in artificial intelligence are accelerating progress in science. AIAS+ 2026 focuses on transformative AI innovations that expand the boundaries of scientific discovery—from prediction and simulation to reasoning, hypothesis generation, and experimental design. *TOPICS OF INTEREST:* - Foundational and frontier AI methods for scientific discovery - Scientific reasoning, inference, and hypothesis generation - AI for simulation, prediction, and interpretation in science - Research process automation (literature synthesis, experimental design) - AI systems for biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering - Benchmarks, evaluation methods, and infrastructure for AI-accelerated science *SUBMISSION TYPES & PAGE LIMITS:* Full Research Papers: 6–8 pages Short Papers: 2–4 pages Vision or Position Papers: Up to 4 pages Extended Abstracts (summarizing previously published work): Up to 2 pages *KEY DATES:*Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2026 Camera Ready Deadline: September 7, 2026 Symposium Dates: November 5–7, 2026 Submit a Paper at https://www.aiasplus.org/call-for-papers ᐧ ᐧ ᐧ

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[CFP] WASP 2026: 4th Workshop on AI for Scientific Publications (AACL-IJCNLP 2026)
by Alkan, Atilla 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

(Apologies for cross-posting) ==================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 9, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 - Registration deadline for shared task: [TBA] - System Run and Output Submission (shared task): [TBA] - System Paper Submission (shared task): [TBA] - Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 - Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. -- *Atilla Kaan Alkan* *Postdoctoral Research Fellow* NASA Astrophysics Data System *Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics* 60 Garden Street | MS 83 | Cambridge, MA 02138 ads.harvard.edu | *scixplorer.org* <http://scixplorer.org> | *atillaalkan.com <http://atillaalkan.com>*

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PhD in NLP at Inria,France
by Oana Balalau 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

Hello, We are looking for a driven PhD candidate to work on NLP tools that help us change how we measure and mitigate bias in the media . Instead of f ocusing solely on factual accuracy, this project shifts the paradigm to narrative and argumentative diversity . Please share the job offering with potential candidates. Applications should only be made via the website below. The PhD student will be part of CEDAR at Inria Saclay, in the Paris area. [ https://lnkd.in/exXntevw ] [ https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 | https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 ] Best regards, Oana Balalau

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Full professorship in contemporary English linguistics (W2) with a cognitive focus at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
by Neumann, Stella 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ RWTH Aachen University is one of Germanys pre-eminent Universities of Excellence and is renowned for its high-quality teaching and world-class research. Assuming profound responsibility towards society, RWTH addresses bold scientific questions and translates its knowledge into meaningful applications. RWTH strives for the convergence of knowledge, methods, and findings and integrates in-depth disciplinary knowledge within the interdisciplinary research consortia established in its eight profile areas. The Universitys dynamic, creative, and international environment encompasses efficient research networks and institutionalized collaborations. With its innovative RWTH Aachen Campus project, the University boasts one of the largest technology-oriented research environments in Europe. Full Professor (W2) Contemporary English Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities We are inviting applications for the position of full professor in the area of contemporary English linguistics, to be filled as soon as possible. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated research and teaching focus on the empirical study of the contemporary English language based on approaches from the spectrum of cognitive theories (e.g. cognitive linguistics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, usage-based approaches). One focus of their work should be in a subfield of linguistics, with multimodality and/or semantics/pragmatics being particularly welcome. The successful candidate will teach in all study programs offered by the Department of English Studies at the bachelor's and master's level and have teaching experience ideally in more than one subfield of English linguistics. In addition, a demonstrable interest in collaborating with literary studies and participating in planned interdisciplinary research networks is expected. Experience in acquiring third-party funding is desirable. The Department of English Studies at RWTH Aachen is particularly committed to high-quality teaching and expects the successful candidate to have a corresponding profile and commitment. As participation in academic self-administration is expected, evidence of previous involvement in this area is desirable. The requirements include a doctoral degree and additional research experience, such as a habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) or equivalent achievements gained as a university researcher or professor or in a research position outside academia. Teaching ability and dedication are essential and the application should include proof of this. Fluent German is not required to start the position but the successful candidate will be expected to hold classes in German within the first 5 years. Link to the official job ad: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/global/show_document.asp?id=aaaaaaaadloiyeb Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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Final Call for Papers: Readability and Text Simplification - scientific and industry workshop CLEAR-TEXT 2026
by Irina Temnikova 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

Final Call For Papers: CLEAR-TEXT Workshop at the conference CLIB 2026 (7 September 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home FREE PARTICIPATION IMPORTANT DATES: 30 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) all articles submission deadline 28 July 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) review decisions sent to authors 18 August 2026 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) camera-ready submissions due 7 September, 2026 - Workshop date This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Specifically, we invite submissions from scientific researchers, representatives of IT companies, publishers, public institutions (such as the Ministries of Education and public schools), and practitioners (such as authors of children's books, school materials, and teachers). The scientific articles can present completed or ongoing work with methods coming from all related fields, such as Linguistics, Translation and Translation Technologies, Psycholinguistics, Education, Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology. The workshop will feature one renowned invited speaker (Prof. Ruslan Mitkov), an NLP panel with well-known experts, such as Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Prof. Dimitar Kazakov, Prof. Constantin Orasan, Dr Matthew Shardlow and a panel with Bulgarian industry and public institutions representatives. The aim of the panels will be to discuss the current state-of-the-art, existing public issues and possible solutions to them. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/clear-text/home Irina Temnikova, PhD Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE)

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COLING 2027 Tutorials: Call for Expressions of Interest
by leonie.weissweiler＠uni-leipzig.de 29 Jun '26

29 Jun '26

The tutorial chairs of COLING 2027 invite expressions of interest for tutorials in conjunction with the conference in Macau in May 2027. We seek tutorials in all areas of computational linguistics (CL) / natural language processing (NLP), broadly conceived to include related disciplines. We invite expressions of interest for three types of tutorials: * Cutting-edge: Tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas not recently covered in a tutorial at COLING, LREC, EACL, NAACL-HLT, ACL, AACL, EMNLP or related venue. * Introductory: Tutorials that provide introductions to related fields that are potentially relevant for the CL / NLP community (e.g., linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning techniques, human-computer interaction, large language models for non-English languages, etc.). * Community: Tutorials related to topics relevant for members of the community more generally (e.g. reviewing, good scientific practice, statistical testing, mental health, career planning, etc.). In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help CL/NLP researchers to understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be "self-invited" long talks. The content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only from the teachers of the tutorial. Tutorials will be held at COLING between May 9 and May 14, 2027. The specific tutorial days will be confirmed at a later date, together with a full call for proposals. Expressions of interested are intended to help us plan the review process, and as such are highly encouraged, but not mandatory. Expressions of interest should be submitted by July 24, 2026, via https://forms.gle/GzgjseZpHVmqH75A6 , or as an email to coling27tutorialchairs(a)googlegroups.com, and contain: * Name and email address of primary presenter * Proposed title of tutorial * Type of tutorial * Optional: anything you would like to tell or ask us

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*Deadline Update* Last Call for Abstracts and Tutorials – 2nd Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting CPL 2026
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 27 Jun '26

27 Jun '26

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting Conference website: https://cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/ We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of a new recurring workshop dedicated exclusively to computational psycholinguistics. The field has seen significant growth in recent years, not only due to developments in large language models but also to advances in symbolic processing models, Bayesian approaches, mechanistic models, and frameworks such as ACT-R. These diverse models aim to capture various aspects of human language processing, including semantics, syntax, sentence comprehension, speech, and more. This meeting aims to provide a dedicated platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss computational models that explain and predict human linguistic behavior (e.g., as observed in psycholinguistic experiments), to bring together experts from different subfields to advance our understanding of language processing mechanisms, and to analyze the successes and limitations of different modeling approaches. The meeting will cover a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Exploring how models like (large) language models, symbolic models, Bayesian models, connectionist models, and ACT-R based models can explain and predict human behavior in language tasks. - Analyzing where different types of models succeed or fall short in capturing human language processing. - Investigating what linguistic information should be integrated across different levels (words, sentences, discourse) and how this affects comprehension and production - Examining the potential of models that combine neural and symbolic approaches to better mimic human language processing. - Applying computational, algorithmic, and implementational levels of analysis to understand language processing mechanisms. - Focusing on recent developments in computational modeling of semantics, syntax, sentence processing, speech perception and production. The abstract submission deadline is July 17. The abstracts can be submitted at https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2026/CPL Next to the conference abstracts, we are also looking for abstracts for tutorials, which could cover any topic related to computational psycholinguistics and should be planned to run for between 1 and 3 hours. The tutorial abstracts will have the same submission deadline as the main conference, July 17. The conference will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on December 3 and December 4, and it will be preceded by tutorials on the afternoon of December 2. Best regards, CPL Organizing Committee Jakub Dotlacil (Utrecht University) Li Kloostra (Utrecht University) Philine Link (Utrecht University) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University) Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University) Lena Jäger (University of Zurich)

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Karen Spärck Jones Award call
by ACL Announcements 27 Jun '26

27 Jun '26

~ An award to commemorate Karen Spärck Jones ~ A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Spärck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding, highly influential and lasting, and include the introduction of Inverse Document Frequency for relevance ranking. Her achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. Karen was also an outspoken advocate for women in computing, and we encourage former advisors of talented scientists to provide the judges with a rich and diverse candidate pool to select from. In order to honour Karen's achievements, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Information Retrieval (IR) with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the award is invited to present a keynote lecture at BCS IRSG's annual conference: the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), or at BCS IRSG's partner conference: the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). These forums provide excellent venues to present and announce the award because the conferences attract many new and young IR and NLP researchers. The recipient of the 2026 award will give a keynote lecture at ECIR 2027 in Southampton, UK, March 2027. To learn more about the award and how to submit a nomination, visit: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… [1] https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… [2] Timeline for the 2026 Award: * 04 September 2026 - Closing date for nominations * 11 September 2026 - Deadline for support letters * 11 December 2026 - Notification of the prize recipient * March 2027 - Winner presents keynote at ECIR 2027. BCS IRSG would like to thank Bloomberg for their generous sponsorship of the KSJ Award in recent years. For a list of previous recipients of the award, visit: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… [3] If you have any questions, please contact Dr Graham McDonald: graham.mcdonald(a)glasgow.ac.uk Graham McDonald KSJ Award Panel Chair of the BCS IRSG Committee Links: ------ [1] https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… [2] https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… [3] https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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*Deadline Update* Last CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

*Deadline Update* Last CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication. Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/ The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided). We welcome work on topics including: - computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose; - cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems; - multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data; - evaluation methods for multimodal interaction; - applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis. Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files. MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers: - Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings. - Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings. Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references). Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous. We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration. MINT will accept submissions through two channels: 1. Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee. 2. ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment **Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)** - ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026 - Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026 July 22, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026 Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks. The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/ For questions, please contact: mint.organizers(a)gmail.com On behalf of the workshop organisers: - Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) - Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich) - Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) - Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University) - Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University) - Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) - Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)

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2nd Call for Participation: Daleel 2026 - Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining Shared Task
by Nabhani, S. 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

*Daleel 2026 - Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining Shared Task* *ArabicNLP Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026* Dear All, Registration is now open for *Daleel 2026: Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining Shared Task*, which will be held as part of the ArabicNLP 2026 Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. The shared task focuses on *the detection and classification of argumentative discourse units in Arabic* across two text genres: Editorials and Debates. *Tasks* - Task 1: Argumentative Discourse Unit Classification - Task 2: Argumentative Discourse Unit Detection *Awards* Monetary prizes will be awarded to the authors of the top three system description papers: - 1st Place: $400 - 2nd Place: $200 - 3rd Place: $150 *Important Dates* - June 5, 2026: Release of data, baselines, and evaluation scripts - July 25, 2026: Registration deadline and release of final evaluation input data - July 30, 2026: System submission deadline and final evaluation - August 6, 2026: System description paper submission deadline - August 13, 2026: Notification of acceptance - August 22, 2026: Camera-ready submission of system papers *For detailed information about the shared task and registration, please visit:* https://qatardebate.org/programs/academic-programs/daleel2026-shared-task/ *For questions, please contact:* daleel26(a)argsbase.net We look forward to your participation and to advancing research in Arabic argument mining together. *Organizers* - Sara Nabhani, University of Groningen - Nahla Bassyouni, QatarDebate - Ali Al-Zawqari, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Mohammad Khader, QatarDebate - Khalid Al-Khatib, University of Groningen

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Question about OPUS Books v1 alignment process
by Hugo Sanjurjo González 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Dear Corpora List members, I am using the Books v1 corpus from OPUS <https://opus.nlpl.eu/datasets/Books?pair=en&es> as part of my research and have a question regarding the alignment process. The corpus description mentions that some texts were manually reviewed by András Farkas, but it is not entirely clear whether this review concerned sentence-level alignments, paragraph-level alignments, or both. Specifically, I would like to know whether the sentence-level alignments (including 1-to-1, 1-to-2, 2-to-1, and unmatched sentences) can be considered manually verified gold-standard data, a partially reviewed silver standard, or fully automatic alignments without human validation. I would be very grateful if someone could provide any clarification or pointers to relevant documentation. If this is not the most appropriate forum for this question, I apologize in advance, but I thought someone here might be able to help. Thank you very much for your time. Hugo

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Webinar by: Marco Valentino (University of Sheffield)
by HiTZ zentroa 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '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. This will be the final event for this cycle, but we will return with a new series next October. Have a great summer! Speaker: Marco Valentino (University of Sheffield) Title: Reconciling Plausible and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models Date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 - 15:00 CET Summary: A persistent challenge in AI is the effective integration of plausible and formal reasoning - the former concerning the plausibility and contextual relevance of arguments, the latter focusing on their logical and structural validity. Large Language Models (LLMs) are not immune to such a challenge. By virtue of their extensive pre-training, LLMs can generate plausible and linguistically fluent arguments, but struggle with the systematicity and consistency required for robust logical reasoning. At the same time, LLMs offer new opportunities to study and overcome this intrinsic conflict. This talk will focus on such opportunities, presenting different research directions aimed at reconciling plausible and formal reasoning, including LLM-driven neuro-symbolic integration, quasi-symbolic abstractions, and latent circuit disentanglement. The final part of the talk will discuss the persisting challenges in achieving truly unified reasoning and outline possible directions for future research in the field. Bio: Marco is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Applications of AI in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, he was a member of the Neuro-Symbolic AI Group at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland, and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. His research focuses on developing AI systems that can use explanation as a core mechanism for learning and reasoning, investigating the integration of neural and symbolic AI methods. Moreover, he is interested in developing methodologies to interpret, control, and evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs), with a focus on disentangling knowledge acquisition from abstract logical reasoning, and enabling out-of-distribution, out-of-domain generalisation. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars 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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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 30 June 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. 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Morphology datathon (Paralex) @ LIFT2 2026. Paris, datasets, morphology.
by Sacha Beniamine 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a Paralex (www.paralex-standard.org<http://www.paralex-standard.org/>) datathon, co-located with the Journées LIFT 2 2026 (https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/journees-scientifiques/), on the 18th of November 2026. Content: This datathon aims to guide participants through the creation of high-quality, FAIR morphological data. Participants will create Paralex datasets, machine-readable collections of inflectional paradigms. These collections are of benefit to people working on descriptions of individual languages, language typologists, theorists and quantitative linguists. Participants are expected to bring morphological data they are interested in, be it content from a grammar, their own fieldwork collection, other datasets, etc. See: www.paralex-standard.org<http://www.paralex-standard.org/> Practical details: * Participants: max. 15; application required. Travel funding available for up to 3 students (max 400€ each, no plane trips, travel and two hotel nights covered), see application. * Where: Université Paris-Nanterre, France * When: 18 November 2026 * Programme: * Morning: Introduction to Paralex. * Afternoon: Start creating your own Paralex dataset. * Instructors: Jules Bouton, Sacha Beniamine. * Applications: Fill-in the application form before 15th August 2026, on https://paralex-standard.org/events/ Best, Jules Bouton & Sacha Beniamine Contact: jules[at]bouton.eu.com

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Position Announcement: Assistant Professor (TTE) in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at Iowa State University
by Gray, Bethany D E [ENGL] 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Iowa State University For the full job posting, please visit https://isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/job/Ames-IA/Assistant-Profe… For guaranteed consideration, applications should be received by August 16, 2026, but will be accepted until the position is filled. Job Description The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek a faculty member who specializes in at least one of the following areas: the use of AI and language-generating technologies in first- and second- language learning, teaching, or assessment; linguistics-based qualitative and quantitative research on the humanlike language generated by AI; the study of generative AI in human-computer language interaction; or the role of language in the subjective experience of generative AI users. The ideal applicant will have an established or emerging research agenda focusing on AI with expertise relevant to natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, applied linguistics, or a related area. We are especially interested in scholars who are using AI in innovative ways in applied linguistics. At the undergraduate level, the faculty member will teach general courses in linguistics and applied linguistics, courses that serve as electives in the university's minor in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and new course offerings that integrate AI technologies into linguistics. At the graduate level, the faculty member will have the opportunity to teach courses in applied linguistics and technology, and may contribute to interdisciplinary programs such as Human Computer Interaction, depending on area of specialization. Potential graduate courses include seminars on AI-assisted technologies and generative AI for language learning and assessment, language-based analytics, automated dialogue systems, and speech-driven user interfaces, as well as courses on programming for NLP, computational and/or corpus-based text analysis, statistical analysis of language, or other areas related to the candidate's expertise. The successful candidate will join a community of faculty in applied linguistics who are exploring the uses and implications of AI in the field. This faculty member will strengthen cross-disciplinary efforts in an area of excellence in the Department of English-the use of technology for teaching, assessing, and researching language. In addition, the faculty member will have opportunities to forge connections with faculty from other department programs specializing in AI, as well contribute to campus-wide strategic initiatives related to trusted innovation and artificial intelligence. The position begins August 16, 2027. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. ----------------- Bethany Gray, PhD Professor Applied Linguistics & Technology and TESL/Applied Linguistics Department of English Iowa State University

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First Call for Papers — DHASA Conference 2026
by Menno Van Zaanen 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

First Call for Papers — DHASA Conference 2026 https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa Conference: 17–20 November 2026 · University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Important dates Submission deadline: 20 August 2026 Date of notification: 21 September 2026 Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026 Conference: 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026 Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Submission types Long papers — max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in 30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions) Short papers — max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in 15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions) Executive summaries — max 1 page, presented as posters References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties, contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). About the conference This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and infrastructure- building — not only tool use. It invites scholarship that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets, workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians, archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners. Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged) - AI in the humanities, responsibly - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and co-located events, is available at https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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2nd Call for Papers: FEL XXX 2026, Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 - Submission deadline 10 July 2026
by Steven Krauwer 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

CALL FOR PAPERS The 30th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXX (2026) "Endangered Languages and Innovative Technologies: Documentation, Processing and Revitalisation" Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages(FEL <https://ogmios.org/>), the Centre d'Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains Américains et Asiatiques (CESSMA <https://www.inalco.fr/en/cessma>) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO <https://www.inalco.fr/en>) Paris, France, 3-5 November 2026 The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and promote the maintenance and revitalisation of endangered languages. We strongly encourage submissions from community members, educators, activists, and practitioners, as well as presentations of collaborative work between academic and non-academic partners. More about the theme: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2026/theme.php Important dates: # 10July2026:Deadlineforsubmission of abstracts NB:***Due to the tight schedule this deadline can not be extended!* # 13 July 2026: Registration opens # 01 August2026:Selectedapplicantsinformed # 15 September2026:Deadlineforsubmission of extended versions of accepted abstracts # 03-05November 2026:Conference dates # 06 November 2026: Excursion (to be confirmed) Conference website: https://ogmios.org/conferences/2026 Email: fel2026(a)ogmios.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/TLC, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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Tenure-track assistant professor position at Stockholm University
by Robert Östling 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

[Apologies for cross-posting] The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University is happy to announce a tenure-track assistant professor position in Computational Linguistics. Applications must be submitted through the university's online system by the ***August 31 2026*** deadline: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:928790/where:4/ For inquiries, please contact Robert Östling (robert(a)ling.su.se) or Beata Megyesi (beata.megyesi(a)ling.su.se), although note that during vacation times you may not receive an immediate response. Please feel free to forward this information to relevant groups or persons. Regards, Robert Östling Department of Linguistics Stockholm University

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[2nd CfP] 3rd Shared Task of the Open Language Data Initiative @ WMT26
by Laurie Burchell 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

We invite submissions for the 3rd Shared Task of the Open Language Data Initiative (OLDI), held as part of WMT at EMNLP 2026 (Budapest, 28–29 October). *Key dates (AoE):* - Paper and data submission: 7 August 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 2 September 2026 - Camera-ready: 11 September 2026 *Background* Foundational datasets such as FLORES and NTREX have played a key role in enabling progress in language technologies for some under-served languages. OLDI aims to empower language communities to contribute to the key datasets that expand language technology to more language varieties. Additionally, machine translation depends increasingly on automatic quality evaluation for tasks such as filtering training data, ranking candidates, reinforcement learning, and benchmarking. However, human-annotated quality data exists for only a handful of languages, and how well evaluation methods generalise to new ones remains an open question. *Scope* The task's primary goal is to expand OLDI's open datasets to more languages. We solicit contributions to: - the MT evaluation dataset FLORES+ ( https://huggingface.co/datasets/openlanguagedata/flores_plus) - the OLDI Seed dataset ( https://huggingface.co/datasets/openlanguagedata/oldi_seed) - other high-quality, massively-parallel, open-source datasets (e.g. SMOL, WMT24++, BOUQuET) Contributions may add new languages, varieties or dialects; substantially improve existing datasets; or create entirely new massively multilingual open translation datasets. We also welcome new or extended datasets of *translation quality annotations* for under-served languages: source texts, their machine or human translations, and human judgements of translation quality. *Submissions* To help us gauge interest and coordinate efforts, please email the organisers before submitting: info(a)oldi.org. Full contribution guidelines and submission format are on the shared task website ( https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/open-data.html) and OLDI's homepage ( https://oldi.org/).

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10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: Submission Deadline Extension
by Agostina Calabrese 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

*** Submission Deadline Extension *** We invite paper submissions to the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on the 29th of October at EMNLP 2026. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Registration deadline for mentorship programme: April 10, 2026 * Notification of mentor/mentee match: April 25, 2026 * Submission due: June 26, 2026 July 3, 2026 * ARR reviewed submission due: August 3, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop: 29th October 2026 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers” In its 10th edition, WOAH highlights the theme “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers”. Over the past decade, WOAH has become a central interdisciplinary venue for online harms research. As harms and enabling technologies have evolved, the field has moved beyond an early focus on textual hate speech and harassment to address more complex phenomena. Advances in AI and online ecosystems have expanded the scale and diversity of harms. Transformer models, multimodal platforms, and recommendation systems have contributed to the escalation of issues like misinformation, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation, identity-based abuse, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and AI-mediated harms. Methods tackling this have evolved from monolingual lexicon-based approaches to deep learning, multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, and interdisciplinarity. Despite this progress, fundamental challenges remain. There is limited consensus on what constitutes “harm”, how context and thresholds should be defined, or how harms vary across cultures and modalities. These ambiguities affect datasets and models, constrain comparability, and often marginalise affected communities. The past decade also calls for critical self-reflection. Research has frequently prioritised detection, high-resource languages, and narrowly defined phenomena over intervention, global perspectives, and systemic or structural harms, with insufficient attention to user agency, platform incentives, lived experience, and participatory approaches. Finally, ten years of work have underscored that interdisciplinarity is essential for addressing the sociotechnical nature of the phenomenon. Addressing future online harms will require deeper integration across NLP, ML, social sciences, law, policy, and HCI. WOAH 10 seeks to consolidate lessons from the past decade, identify enduring gaps, and connect research, practice, and policy to guide the next generation of work on online harms. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2026/woah2026/ The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, Cohere Thomas Davidson, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Urja Khurana, Delft University of Technology Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Paloma Piot, Universidade da Coruña Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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KGCSW-SETN 2026: Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop: Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: SETN 2026 WORKSHOP KGCSW-SETN 2026: Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop OVERVIEW -------- The workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction is an essential step towards harnessing the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in understanding complex data landscapes. Knowledge graphs stand out as pivotal tools for structuring data, making it interpretable and actionable by AI systems. They enable the representation of data in a form that mirrors human understanding, facilitating more natural interaction between humans and machines. The construction of knowledge graphs embodies the synthesis of various AI disciplines, including natural language processing, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. By organizing this workshop, we aim to foster a collaborative environment where experts and enthusiasts across these fields can converge to share insights, challenges, and breakthroughs. This workshop is held for the second time, following its previous edition at SETN 2024. WORKSHOP FORMAT --------------- Half-day event Location: SETN 2026 Conference (Chania, Crete, Greece) Date: September 9, 2026 TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ FOUNDATIONS & TECHNICAL TOPICS: 1. Foundations of Knowledge Graphs 2. Knowledge Extraction and Integration 3. Machine Learning, Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs 4. Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Knowledge Graphs 5. Knowledge Graph Construction Tools and Technologies 6. Scalability and Performance Optimization APPLICATION AREAS: 1. Healthcare and Life Sciences 2. Security and Cybersecurity 3. Finance and Economics 4. Human-computer interaction / Conversational agents 5. E-Commerce and Retail 6. Smart Cities and IoT 7. Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities 8. Environmental Science and Sustainability SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- PAPER TYPES: - Full papers: 6-10 pages - Short papers: 2-4 pages SUBMISSION PLATFORM: EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setn2026 (Select "SETN 2026 Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction") REVIEW PROCESS: - Double-blind peer review - At least 2 reviewers per paper - Evaluation criteria: technical quality, relevance, originality, novelty, significance, and clarity PUBLICATION: - All accepted papers will be included in the SETN 2026 Conference Proceedings - Published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Available through the ACM Digital Library - Special issue planned for all accepted workshop papers AUTHOR REQUIREMENTS ------------------- For papers to be included in the proceedings and presented at the conference: * At least one author MUST fully register at SETN 2026 as an "Author" * At least one author is EXPECTED to attend the conference for presentation IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 13, 2026 (AOE)* Author Notification: July 17, 2026 (AOE)* Workshop Date: September 9, 2026 *AOE = Anywhere On Earth Time Zone (UTC-12) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Maria Papoutsoglou (Chair) School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Email: mpapo(at)csd.auth.gr Georgios Meditskos School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Efstratios Kontopoulos Choreograph Johannes Wachs Center for Collective Learning, Corvinus University Budapest Nick Bassiliades School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Stefanos Vrochidis Information Technologies Institute, CERTH CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- For questions or inquiries regarding the workshop: Email: mpapo(at)csd.auth.gr ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Workshop Page: https://www.setn2026.tuc.gr/en/program/workshop EasyChair Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setn2026 ============================================================== SETN 2026 Conference - September 9-12, 2026 Chania, Crete, Greece ==============================================================

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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash June 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, The June edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out! Highlights include: * Programme<https://www.clarin.eu/content/programme-clarin-annual-conference-2026> and invited speakers of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2026 * ELEXAI project kick-off meeting * MoU signed between CLARIN-PL and IBM Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-june-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter here<https://clarin.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8bae79dc9813797e81387ebaa&i…>. Kind regards, --- 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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ConCorDial III (2026) – Extended Submission Deadline
by sascha.diwersy＠univ-montp3.fr 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, We would like to inform you that the abstract submission deadline for the ConCorDial III conference (12–13 November 2026, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France) has been extended to 15 July 2026. Further information is available on the conference website: https://concordial.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Best regards, Sascha Diwersy (on behalf of the organising committee)

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Mile for Industry Track Submissions
by Announce 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

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

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CFP: International AIWolf Competition 2026 and AIWolfDial 2026 International Workshop
by Yoshinobu Kano 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Call for Participation: International AIWolf Competition 2026 and AIWolfDial 2026 International Workshop Official Details Page: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/page/inlg_2026/ [Call for Participation] This is a call for participation for the international competition competing in the automated play of the conversational game "Werewolf," as well as for the peer-reviewed international workshop. We look forward to your participation. [Overview] "The 4th International Workshop on AI Werewolf and Dialog Systems (AIWolfDial2026)" will be held as a co-located workshop with INLG 2026 (19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation) on a date between October 17 and October 21, 2026, in Utrecht, Netherlands. Prior to the workshop, we will host the 2026 International AIWolf Contest Natural Language Track. This tournament is divided into two rounds (1st and 2nd); the results of the 1st round can be used to submit a paper to the INLG main conference, and the results of the 2nd round can be used to submit to the AIWolfDial 2026 workshop. The language for agents in the international competition is English only. [Workshop Overview] This workshop focuses on the integration of dialog systems, natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and game AI, with a particular emphasis on their application to the Werewolf game. The Werewolf game is a social deduction game that requires advanced communication skills such as discussion, reasoning, persuasion, and deception, making it an ideal test environment for evaluating the advancement of AI capabilities like coherent dialogue, long-context understanding, consensus building, and logical reasoning. [Shared Task (Contest)] This workshop will host a public international contest for AI agents that play the Werewolf game. Participants are challenged to develop agents capable of not only strategic play but also logical, persuasive, and sometimes deceptive conversation with other AIs. This contest serves as a benchmark for discovering critical challenges and future research directions in the NLP field, while also exploring the limitations of current LLMs. [Hosted Tracks] Turn-Based Track: This is a turn-based track where the agent speaks and acts when a request is received from the server provided by the management. o 5-Player Village (2 Villagers, 1 Seer, 1 Possessed, 1 Werewolf) o 9-Player Village (3 Villagers, 1 Seer, 1 Bodyguard, 1 Medium, 1 Possessed, 2 Werewolves) Anytime Utterance Track: This is a track where the agent can speak at any timing alongside the start signal of each day. There is an upper limit to the number of utterances per day (4 times). o 5-Player Village (2 Villagers, 1 Seer, 1 Possessed, 1 Werewolf) [Important Dates (Shared Task)] The schedule for this tournament is divided into a 1st and 2nd round, as shown below. A connection check will be conducted prior to the main tournament. During the connection check, you must verify that you can connect to the official competition server and run the game normally. Teams whose normal connection and game execution are confirmed on the server side will advance to the main tournament. The deadlines are as shown below. While a separate final tournament will not be held, top teams may be selected based on subjective evaluations and win rates from the main tournament results, and statistics may be compiled solely for these top teams by extracting the main tournament logs of matches played among them. Note: Deadlines related to papers are included below; please refer to this schedule from each page on this website. All dates are in AoE. 1st Round (For INLG Main Conference) o July 4, 2026: Registration deadline for "1st + 2nd" participating teams / Connection check deadline o From July 6, 2026: 1st Round Main Tournament (Online matches) o July 10, 2026: Return of 1st Round results o July 15, 2026: INLG main conference paper deadline 2nd Round (For AIWolfDial 2026 Workshop) o August 1, 2026: Registration deadline for "2nd only" participating teams / 2nd round connection check deadline o From August 3, 2026: 2nd Round Main Tournament (Online matches) o August 10, 2026: Return of 2nd Round results o From August 15, 2026: AIWolfDial 2026 workshop paper deadline (After INLG main conference acceptance notification / Submissions are allowed even if rejected from main) o September 7, 2026: Notification of acceptance o September 15, 2026: Camera-ready manuscript deadline o October 17 - October 21, 2026: AIWolfDial 2026 Workshop / INLG 2026 Conference (Utrecht) [Further Information] Please check here for detailed competition rules and specifics regarding the implementation of AIWolf agents. o Official Details Page: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/page/inlg_2026/ o Contest Registration Form: https://forms.gle/53MJBSaLTe6xDw5o6 o Past Competition Logs: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp-viewer -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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INLG 2026 second call for papers - Submissions are open
by Emiel van Miltenburg 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Dear Corpora List members, It is my pleasure to announce the second Call for Papers for INLG 2026, to be held in Utrecht. Program chairs will be Laura Perez, Guanyi Chen, and myself. We have a great team of local organizers, chaired by Albert Gatt. NEW INFORMATION We now have two submission venues: * Direct submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_Direct_Subm… * ARR commitments: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_ARR_Commitm… Please also note that we have a NON-ARCHIVAL track as well this year, for work-in-progress and papers published elsewhere. Hopefully this will help authors develop and publicise their important work. Direct link to the website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2026 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17 to October 21, 2026. INLG 2026 will be hosted by Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference will be taking place before EMNLP (in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24th to October 29th, 2026). IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) Regular paper submission deadline: July 15, 2026. System demo paper submission deadline: July 15, 2026. ARR commitment to INLG deadline: August 5, 2026. Notification: August 15, 2026 Non-archival submission deadline: August 22, 2026. Camera ready: September 7, 2026 Conference: October 17 - October 21, 2026 Topics INLG 2026 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG - Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems - Explainability in and Trustworthiness of NLG systems - Generalizability of NLG systems - Bias and fairness in NLG systems - Reasoning models for NLG - Affect/emotion generation - Analysis and detection of automatically generated text - Cognitive modeling of language production - Computational efficiency of NLG models - Corpora and resources for NLG - Ethical considerations of NLG - Multimedia, multimodality and grounding in generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models - NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots - NLG for human-robot interaction - NLG for low-resourced languages - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing, summarization and translation - Personalisation and variation in text - Storytelling and narrative generation - Sub-tasks of the classic NLG pipeline - NLG architectures SUBMISSIONS This year’s INLG will have two tracks: an archival track where papers will be published in the ACL Anthology, and a non-archival track for works in progress and papers published elsewhere. Three kinds of papers can be submitted for the archival track: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The 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 are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2026. Next to the standard paper types (surveys, experiments, resource papers, position papers), we also welcome squibs: papers that present an empirical or theoretical issue without necessarily providing a solution. NON-ARCHIVAL TRACK Through the non-archival track, we hope to foster more discussion on current trends in NLG, and to offer a space for researchers to obtain feedback on their current projects. For this track, we welcome two kinds of submissions: - Papers published elsewhere. These may be published either in a journal or at another conference, and should be relevant to the INLG audience. - Work in progress. These may be papers about completed work that has not yet been published or preliminary results that merit discussion at the conference. Submissions should consist of a title and a short abstract (max. 300 words). Submissions for the non-archival track will undergo a light review process (assessing the relevance of the submission for INLG), and accepted works will be presented as posters. FORMAT Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics. If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find this checklist of use. Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist. Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2026 website. To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2026, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR. For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth). If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2026 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 5, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2026 is May 25, 2026. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2026 paper submission site by July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2026 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2026 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Submitted papers for review at INLG 2026 must not be published elsewhere until after the notification of acceptance. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. AWARDS INLG 2026 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: - Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. - Best Evaluation Award: The award was introduced at INLG 2024. This award is designed to honour authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siggen/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@siggen_acl X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/inlgmeeting —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Groeten, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Werkdagen: Maandag, Woensdag, Donderdag, Vrijdag. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg Groeten, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Werkdagen: Maandag, Woensdag, Donderdag, Vrijdag. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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Call for Participation(26/6/2026 online or in person): Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability and Neuro-symbolic Models by-design
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Site: <https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/> MeMo Workshop https://sites.google.com/view/memo-workshop/ Date: 26/6/2026 Location: online or in person (Rome, Italy) Registration link (free but necessary): <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Kr7FJGTXxUCZdYLQiuR9Dnl 0_dxZ6e5PtNMq7QTRydxUNkpEODRHQkFVWEhJTDE5S0NCSkdVR0hLQi4u> Register here Are you surprised about the ability of LLMs to perform complex reasoning tasks? Do you have a particular keenness for cracking the code of their inner workings? If the answer is yes, that's the case you are working in mechanistic interpretability or in neuro-symbolic reasoning of LLMs. Then, this is the workshop for you! Observing properties and understanding the inner workings are two sides of the same coin. Another way is possible (e.g., <https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.785/> Position Paper: MeMo: Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms - ACL Anthology)! In the workshop, authors will discuss focused contributions on: * Mechanistic Interpretability by-design * Neuro-symbolic approaches by-design Apologies for multiple posting, but we really hope to see you there.

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Call for Participation: MRL Shared Task at EMNLP 2026
by ljvm2＠cam.ac.uk 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Call for Participation: MRL Shared Task at EMNLP 2026 =========================================== As part of the Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP 2026, we are organizing another collaborative shared task. We are asking contributors to write culturally specific question-answer pairs in their language. All contributors to the dataset will be *invited to be authors on the dataset paper*, which we will submit for publication next year. This is a great project if you’re looking to get involved in NLP research for the first time! We are accepting submissions in any language, but we especially welcome submissions in languages with few speakers and non-standard varieties! Last year, we collectively created a benchmark for over 140 language varieties with over 350 collaborators around the world, called Global PIQA. We are hoping to create another huge dataset with at least as much impact. Help us make sure your language is represented! If you are interested in contributing or getting updates, please fill out the Interest Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFeJihiU8UHmb51zuBtLGfa1xq5Lf3tWf… [1] See our task website for up-to-date information: https://mrlbenchmarks.github.io/ [2] And join our Discord to meet potential collaborators! https://discord.com/invite/35tgtC36eT [3] Follow the workshop account on Twitter/X [4] and Bluesky [5] for updates and announcements! Organizing Committee ================== * Catherine Arnett, EleutherAI * Tyler Chang, Google DeepMind * Jesujoba Alabi, Saarland University * Omer Goldman, University of Cambridge * Lj V. Miranda, University of Cambridge * David Stap, NXAI Important Dates ============= * June 8th 2026: Call for participation released, task specifications and submission guidelines published. * July 10th 2026: Information Session, online event to find out how to participate and ask questions. * August 1st 2026: Dataset submission deadline, submit your dataset and dataset description. * September 2026: Decision notification, acceptance decisions sent to participants. * Early October 2026: Benchmark paper publication, organizers work with authors to compile and publish the final dataset and paper. * October 24-29 2026: MRL Workshop @ EMNLP 2026, shared task results presented at the workshop. Important Links ============= [1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFeJihiU8UHmb51zuBtLGfa1xq5Lf3tWf… [2] https://mrlbenchmarks.github.io/ [3] https://discord.com/invite/35tgtC36eT [4] https://x.com/mrl_workshop [5] https://bsky.app/profile/mrl-workshop.bsky.social

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LxGr2026: Call for Participation - one week to register
by Costas Gabrielatos 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026) LxGr2026 will be held online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2026. Registration closes in one week (30 June). Programme, abstracts, and registration (free): https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr Invited Speakers Stefan Th. 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) If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Model Compression Shared Task @ WMT 2026 - Second (Last) Call for Participation
by Marco Gaido 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to announce the second call of the Model Compression Shared Task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-compression.html> at WMT 2026 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/>. This shared task aims to evaluate the potential of model compression techniques in reducing the size of general-purpose large language models, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between practical deployability and high translation quality in specific machine translation (MT) scenarios. The task’s broader objectives include fostering research into the efficient, accessible, and sustainable deployment of LLMs for MT, establishing a common evaluation framework to monitor progress in model compression across a wide range of languages, and enabling meaningful comparisons with state-of-the-art MT systems through standardized evaluation protocols designed to assess not only translation quality but also computational efficiency. Although the focus is on model compression, the task is closely aligned with the General MT shared task <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/translation-task.html>, sharing test data from a subset of its language directions, as well as protocols for automatic MT quality evaluation. Additionally, the task follows the same timeline as the flagship WMT task. We warmly invite participation from academic teams and industry players interested in applying existing compression methods to MT or exploring innovative, cutting-edge approaches. THE TASK IN A NUTSHELL Goal: Reduce the size of a general-purpose LLM while maintaining a balance between model compactness and MT performance. Languages: The second round of the task will focus on a subset of the languages covered by the General MT task, namely: Czech to German, English to Chinese (Simplified), and English to Arabic (Egyptian). Conditions: - Constrained: Participants will compress a specific model, using a predefined pool of data for calibration and fine-tuning (if needed) to ensure directly comparable results. - Unconstrained: Participants are free to compress any model, provided its original size is below 20B parameters, and use any additional data for calibration and fine-tuning. Participation format: Participants will share their compressed models to be run on a standardized hardware environment provided by the organizers. Evaluation Criteria: - Translation quality: Automatically assessed using multiple metrics, e.g. Comet, MetricX, and an LLM-as-a-judge framework. - Model size: Defined by memory usage. - Inference speed: Measured by total processing time over the test set. IMPORTANT DATES - Test data and submission information has just been released - Model Submission deadline: July 2, 2026 - System description paper submission: in line with WMT26 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/index.html> - Camera-ready submission: in line with WMT26 <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/index.html> - WMT 2026 Conference (co-located with EMNLP2026 <https://2026.emnlp.org/> in Budapest, Hungary): November, 2026 WEBSITE: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-compression.html ORGANIZERS: Marco Gaido, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Matteo Negri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Roman Grundkiewicz - Microsoft Translator TG Gowda - Microsoft Translator CONTACTS: Marco Gaido - mgaido(a)fbk.eu Matteo Negri - negri(a)fbk.eu -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Second CfP and Deadline Extension: 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
by Elisa Leonardelli 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

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

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Replications and Negative Results
by Announce 21 Jun '26

21 Jun '26

*** Last 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. 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[ÚLTIMA CHAMADA] XVII Encontro de Linguística de Corpus (ELC) e XIV Escola Brasileira de Linguística Computacional (EBRALC)
by Jackson Souza 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

*XVII Encontro de Linguística de Corpus (ELC)* *XIV Escola Brasileira de Linguística Computacional (EBRALC)* *9 a 12 de novembro de 2026, na Universidade Federal da Bahia* *ÚLTIMA CHAMADA* para ELC/EBRALC 2026, um dos principais encontros acadêmicos dedicados às relações entre linguagem, tecnologia e sociedade. Nesta edição, o evento trará como tema central: *“Linguística de Corpus, Inteligência Artificial e Transformação Digital: Dados, Métodos e Impactos Sociais na Era Digital”.* O evento [presencial] reunirá pesquisadores, estudantes e profissionais interessados em discutir os desafios e as oportunidades das tecnologias linguísticas contemporâneas, com foco em inteligência artificial, ética de dados e análise baseada em grandes volumes de informação. O *ELC* consolida-se como um espaço de divulgação científica e debate acadêmico, promovendo o intercâmbio de pesquisas sobre linguagem em contextos digitais e sociais. Já a *EBRALC* possui caráter formativo, oferecendo oficinas e minicursos voltados à aplicação prática de ferramentas de Linguística de Corpus e Processamento de Linguagem Natural. Nesta edição, o encontro será realizado na *Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)*, fortalecendo a presença da pesquisa linguística baseada em dados na região Nordeste e incentivando o diálogo interdisciplinar. Compartilhem a chamada em suas respectivas instituições e programas de pós-graduação! *Indicações de temas* ● Linguística de corpus e análise baseada em dados ● Processamento de Linguagem Natural ● Modelos de linguagem e representação semântica ● Métodos computacionais e análise de dados linguísticos ● Linguagem, discurso e cultura digital ● Ética, governança e impactos sociais da IA ● Linguística de corpus aplicada ● Terminologia, Lexicografia ● Tradução ● Linguística de corpus e ensino ● Linguística de corpus e cultura digital *Datas importantes* *28/06/2026* – Submissão de trabalhos para ELC *28/06/2026* – Submissão de propostas de oficinas/minicursos para EBRALC *27/07/2026* – Resposta aos autores/proponentes *09/08/2026* – Envio das versões finais 09 a 12/11/2026 – Realização do evento *Submissão de propostas* Acesse o formulário: https://forms.gle/d8uHzNY86xWSh7YSA *Dúvidas e contato* Site do evento <https://sites.google.com/view/elc-ebralc2026/in%C3%ADcio>. elcebralc2026(a)gmail.com | acksoncruz(a)ufba.br <jacksoncruz(a)ufba.br> --

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Two PhD positions in Uncertainty Quantification and Communication for LLMs
by Christian Hardmeier 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

We have two open PhD positions in our project on Uncertainty Quantification and Communication for Large Language Models. Large language models (LLMs) have become immensely popular tools for laypeople and experts to find quick answers to any questions, including such that require specialized knowledge or complex reasoning. Their replies are far from always correct. Right or wrong, but often couched in a confident and persuasive tone, they may fool even experts into believing entirely false statements. Accurate and trustworthy LLM tools must know how much confidence a model has in its output and communicate this to the user in a nuanced and understandable form, respecting the principles of communication between humans. Our interdisciplinary project unites machine learning, natural language processing and linguistics. We study how LLMs acquire and verbally communicate (un)certainty, develop novel methods in Bayesian uncertainty quantification and apply them to LLMs in health applications. Using methods from linguistics, we emphasize targeted communication that gets interpreted correctly by diverse users, including laypeople and experts, and create LLMs that communicate their uncertainty according to humanlike standards. One position is in natural language processing at the IT University of Copenhagen, supervised by me and Jes Frellsen (DTU). In this position, you will develop methods to help LLMs express their uncertainty in a way that humans understand, while matching the perceived uncertainty to the model's internal state. Application deadline 24 June (very soon!). This position was advertised before. Apply here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… The second position is in machine learning at the Technical University of Denmark, supervised by Jes Frellsen and me. In this position, you will develop efficient machine learning methods to quantify the uncertainty of large language models. This position is new. Application deadline 7 August. Apply here: https://efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_2… Both positions include an extended research stay at the University of Edinburgh, the first with Prof. Hannah Rohde (Linguistics) and the second with Prof. Ivan Titov (NLP/machine learning). -- Christian Hardmeier Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/

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