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CFP: StanceNakba 2026 Shared Task (LREC 2026)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 10 Jan '26

10 Jan '26

We are pleased to invite you to participate in StanceNakba 2026, a shared task co-located with LREC 2026 as part of Nakba-NLP 2026: The 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources. The shared task focuses on Actor- and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in polarized social media discourse related to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. Task Overview * Subtask A (English): Actor-Level Stance Detection Labels: Pro-Palestine | Pro-Israel | Neutral * Subtask B (Arabic): Cross-Topic Stance Detection Labels: Favor | Against | Neither Topics: normalization with Israel and refugee presence in Jordan Dataset & Evaluation * 2,606 manually annotated social media posts * English and Arabic datasets * Primary evaluation metric: Macro-F1 Important Dates * Training data release: January 10, 2026 * System submission deadline: February 17, 2026 * Workshop: May 11–16, 2026 (TBC) Participation in the shared task is free of charge. Please note that at least one member of each participating team must be registered for the conference. Further details, data access, and submission instructions are available on the shared task website: https://marsadlab.github.io/stancenakba/index.html If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at stancenakba(a)gmail.com<mailto:stancenakba@gmail.com>. We warmly encourage you to join us in advancing stance detection research and improving our understanding of polarized online discourse. Kind regards, The StanceNakba 2026 Organizing Team

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CfA: Conference "How does artificial intelligence challenge our traditional understanding of legal reasoning?" August 27-28, 2026, University of St.Gallen
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 09 Jan '26

09 Jan '26

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

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Webinar by: Thamar Solorio (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI))
by HiTZ zentroa 09 Jan '26

09 Jan '26

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology (https://hitz.eus/katedra). We are organizing one seminar every month. Next webinar: Speaker: Thamar Solorio (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)) Title: A Research Agenda for Low Resource NLP Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 15:00 Summary: Low resource NLP is nowadays an umbrella keyword that covers a wide set of research directions. In this talk I will argue that it is important to carefully present the low resource scenario and distinguish when the languages are truly lacking resources, as opposed to simulating lack of labeled data. I propose to follow a more systematic way to represent work in this space and to question how we approach technology development for these languages. I will also present recent work in my group that contributes to improve language representation by exploring efficient approaches to diverse languages. Bio: Thamar Solorio is a professor of NLP at MBZUAI where she also serves as Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence and Advancement. Her research interests include NLP for low-resource settings and multilingual data, including code-switching and information extraction. More recently, she has been exploring language and vision problems, focusing on developing inclusive NLP. She served two terms as an elected board member of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL) and was PC co-chair for NAACL 2019, and recently stepped down from being co-Editor in Chief of the ACL Rolling Review Initiative (ARR). She was the general chair of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea Upcoming webinars: Henning Wachsmuth (February 5) José Andrés González-López (March 5) Ranjay Krishna (April 16) 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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Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science
by Roman Klinger 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

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

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Pre-reviewed (ARR) DEADLINE EXTENSION: HEALING Workshop on Health-Related Discourse and Language (EACL 2026)
by murathan.kurfali＠ri.se 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. 📌 Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing 🗓️ Key Dates (AoE) Tentative Timeline Event Date Direct submission deadline December 19, 2025 (**passed**) Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline January **10**, 2026 Notification of acceptance January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due February 3, 2026 Workshop date March 28 (afternoon session) 🧠 Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. 🧩 Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) - Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). - Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. - Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. - Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). - Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. - Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). - Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. - Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. 📝 Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. 👥 Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy

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Second Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026
by Yifei Yuan 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

The KvR Award honours outstanding researchers who have advanced the theoretical foundations of Information Retrieval — those whose work has shaped new models, paradigms, or metrics that deepen our understanding of IR. The award was first presented at ECIR 2024 to Prof. Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam). The second KvR Award will be awarded at ECIR 2026 in Delft! 🔹 Eligibility: active IR researchers with ≥10 years since PhD 🔹 Deadline for nominations: 15 January 2026 🔹 Submit nominations via the form provided below Read more about the award, nomination process, and find the form to submit your nominations here: https://lnkd.in/emecdsXm, https://ecir2026.eu/calls/keith-van-rijsbergen-award

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2nd CFP: Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026
by Paul Thompson 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

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

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – 3rd CfP
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026 The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026 First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025 Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková Conference site: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz Key dates: Submission deadline (extended): 31 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 8–10 April 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026 The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague on 16–19 September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies. The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017. We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field. Call description We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Language for Academic and Specific Purposes Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies Corpora as Pedagogical Resources Multimodal Learner Corpora Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis Corpus-Based Translation Studies English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Data Mining and Exploratory Methods Statistical and Quantitative Approaches Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures Presentation formats We invite submissions for the following formats: Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) Corpus/Software demonstration Poster presentation Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English. Abstract submission We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above. Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract. Abstracts should include: A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used A summary of the main results and their interpretation. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract. Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary). https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Confer... The working language of the conference is English. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

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CFP for the DHOW-MiLLA: Joint Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web and Countering Misinformation in the Age of LLMs and Agents
by Thomas Mandl 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

CFP for the DHOW-MiLLA: Joint Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web and Countering Misinformation in the Age of LLMs and Agents Submission deadline: January 10, 2026 AOE Workshop website: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/ <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026> Co-located with WWW 2026 <https://www2026.thewebconf.org/> Dubai, UAE, April 13-14, 2026 Workshop Description With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also spreads. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s perspective, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share the latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful content spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of a safer internet. In addition to attracting high-quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. Submissions Topics * Studying different types of harmful content * Improving Factual Reliability in LLMs * Computational fact-checking & Misinformation * Detection Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis * Agentic AI Systems and Misinformation * Detection methods for LLM/VLM-generated text, audio, and imagery * Deepfake and Synthetic Media * Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation * Both Qualitative and Quantitative studies on harmful content * Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health * Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large models on harmful content * User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings * Human-AI Collaboration and Defenses Submissions - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/#call <https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2026/#call> - Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2026/Workshop/DHOW-MiLLA <https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2026/Workshop/DHOW-MiLLA> Important Dates Submission deadline: extended to January 7, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2026 Camera-ready papers due: February 2, 2026 Workshop date: April 13-14, 2026 Workshop organizers * Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK * Gautam Kishore Shahi, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India * Durgesh Nandini, University of Bayreuth, Germany * Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, University of Southampton, UK * Junichi Suga, Fujitsu Research, Japan * Dai Yamamoto, Fujitsu Research, Japan * Rahul Mishra, Fujitsu Research, India * Rajakrishnan P Rajkumar, IIIT Hyderabad, India * Sagar Uprety, University College London, UK * Bornali Phukon, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA * Sujit Kumar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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2nd CFP: Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication
by Constantin Orasan 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026 Second call for papers https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026 The conference Building on the success of the first Convergence conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023> in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies at University of Surrey, UK, is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. The conference will be preceded by a Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication between 15th and 17th June 2026. More details about the summer school will be added to the website soon. Conference themes Theme 1: Ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting Theme 2: AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion Theme 3: Which creative turn? Language mediation in the era of GenAI Theme 4: The evolving role of language professionals in the era of AI Theme 5: LLMs supporting multilingual communication Theme 6: Responsible use of language AI in the public sector Full description of the themes is available on the conference website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#themes Submissions and publications Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes: * Long papers - describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices * Short papers - describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices The conference aims to be a platform for in-depth discussion of prevalent themes while also offering contributors the opportunity for swift publication of their work. The event will provide the wide community of Translation and Interpreting Studies and the disciplines it intersects with, a space for networking, collective brainstorming and looking into the future of communication, all sustained by a robust set of papers published in the conference proceedings. Both long and short papers can be associated with rigorous empirical work or conceptual approaches to the themes of the conference. PhD students are also invited to submit papers regardless of the stage of their PhD journey. If accepted, their papers may be selected to any of the sessions of the conference, including a dynamic poster session, in which students may receive feedback and consider new developments for their work. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Full details about paper submission are available on the conference website at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026#submis… Invited speakers * Horacio Saggion<https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion>, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the TALN Group and Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. * John Anthony O'Shea<https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanthonyoshea/>, LL.B, LL.M, Founder of Jurtrans, Chairperson of FIT-Europe, member of EU's Language Industry Expert Group Important dates * 23rd Feb 2026: Registration of intention to submit a paper (optional) * 2nd March 2026: Submissions of full papers * 6th April 2026: Notification of acceptance * 22nd May 2026: Camera ready papers for the draft proceedings * 15th - 17th June 2026: Summer school on Artificial Intelligence for Accessible Communication * 17th - 19th June 2026: The Convergence conference * 1st Sept 2026: Camera ready papers for final proceedings Venue The conference will take place in Guildford at University of Surrey. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us on cts_inquiries(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:cts_enquiries@surrey.ac.uk> Conference organisers Conference chair: Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Programme chairs: Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> and Dr Diana Singureanu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/diana-singureanu> Proceedings chairs: Dr Felix do Carmo<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/felix-do-carmo> and Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan> Summer school chairs: Dr Elena Davitti<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/elena-davitti> and Prof Sabine Braun<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sabine-braun> Sponsorship chairs: Sara Palmer<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sara-palmer> and Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> Local organisers: Aimee Savage<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/aimee-savage> and Dr Yuan Zou<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yuan-zou> --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies>, University of Surrey, UK Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan

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LREC 2026 Workshops and Tutorials Schedule now available
by info＠elda.org 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] LREC 2026 will feature a series of *workshops and tutorials* covering a wide range of topics in Language Resources and Evaluation. Workshops and Tutorials will be held on the *pre- and post-conference days*: * *11–12 May 2026*(pre-conference) * *16 May 2026*(post-conference) Paper submission is *open* for authors who wish to contribute to workshops. Most workshops already issued a CfP and/or published their dedicated website. Check the full schedule: https://lrec2026.info/workshops-and-tutorials/schedule/ Contact: info(a)elda.org

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CfP LANLP: Bridging Ibero and Latin American NLP communities ; Co-located Networking Symposium @ LREC 2026
by GAMALLO OTERO PABLO 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

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

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LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day
by info＠elda.org 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] Call for Industry Day @ LREC 2026 LREC 2026 invites presentation proposals for its signature Industry Day. The Industry Day will take place on 14th May, 2026 in Palma, Mallorca (Spain). The objective of the Industry Day is to: * provide a unique forum for researchers, industry players, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss challenges, achievements and synergies, * bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices, including resource development and evaluation methodologies, * provide a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster international collaborations, * connect researchers and industry leaders in order to identify employment or internship opportunities. The events of the day will include: * presentations by industry participants on their applications and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing, * a panel session where participants will gain insights on both challenges and initiatives that relate to today’s AI advancements, * a networking lunch with a student poster session. Topics of interest include: Language Resource Development Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource development and annotation Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.) Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability Language Resource Use Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area of language and speech processing Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for accessibility Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing Evaluation Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of language technologies Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools Language Resources and Large Language Models Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual, multimodal) (Semi-)automatic generation of training data Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation learning Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models Policy and Organizational Considerations International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and policies Language coverage and diversity Replicability and reproducibility Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues Proposal Format Only an abstract submission is required for a presentation proposal (not a full paper) and it will not be included in the conference proceedings or ACL Anthology. We also welcome abstracts based on previously published work, or papers submitted to LREC’s main conference or workshops. Please submit your abstract proposal via the following form https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7 <https://forms.gle/CQTBLcMxuL1cjmUf7> Applications require an abstract of 150-200 words along with a short bio. Submission Deadline: February 16, 2024 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2024 For more information, please send an email to lrec2026-industry-track-chairs(a)googlegroups.com referring to LREC 2026 Industry Day in the subject line. Industry Chairs Natalie Schluter, Apple and IT University of Copenhagen Teresa Lynn, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #19
by Costas Gabrielatos 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

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

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Final Call: WebSci'26 Workshops & Tutorials (Jan 9) + Additional Upcoming Deadlines
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, This is a final reminder that the submission deadline for Workshops and Tutorials at the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026<https://websci26.org/> (WebSci’26) is January 9, 2026. WebSci’26 will take place May 26–29, 2026, in Braunschweig, Germany, celebrating the theme “20 Years of Web Science.” Workshops and tutorials will be held on May 26, 2026, the first day of the conference. We invite interdisciplinary workshop and tutorial proposals addressing any topic relevant to the Web Science community, including (but not limited to) the Web and AI, society, methods, ethics, sustainability, misinformation, and emerging research areas. Workshops & Tutorials – Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=79> * Proposal submission deadline: January 9, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2026 * Workshops & Tutorials Day: May 26, 2026 For questions regarding workshops and tutorials, please contact the chairs: * Eelco Herder (e.herder(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.herder@uu.nl>) * Lydia Manikonda (manikl(a)rpi.edu<mailto:manikl@rpi.edu>) In addition, the following submission options remain open: WebSci Posters - Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Final version due: April 1, 2026 WebSci PhD Symposium - Details<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> * Submission deadline: February 18, 2026 * Notification: March 11, 2026 * Final version due: April 1, 2026 * PhD Symposium date: May 26, 2026 We encourage you—and your students and colleagues—to contribute and help shape the discussions at WebSci’26. Best regards, The WebSci’26 Organizing Committee Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | BlueSky<https://bsky.app/profile/unistuttgartiris.bsky.social> |X<https://x.com/WebSciConf>

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IVACS 2026 - Malta - CfP deadline extension
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Call for Papers extended to January 23rd IVACS 2026 – Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 1–3 July 2026 | University of Malta, Valletta, Malta The IVACS Association is pleased to announce that the 12th Biennial IVACS Conference will be hosted by the University of Malta, Valletta Campus, from 1–3 July 2026. The IVACS Conference series is a leading international forum for corpus-based research into linguistic varieties and applications of corpus linguistics in professional, pedagogical, and social contexts. Following the successful series of conferences, IVACS 2026 will continue to build on this tradition of collaboration and innovation. We welcome proposals related to (but not limited to): * Corpus Design & Methodology: compilation, annotation, and representativeness * Applied Contexts: workplace and professional discourse, minority and endangered languages, translation, interpreting, multilingual communication, stylistics * Innovations & Emerging Directions: GenAI tools and platforms, multimodal corpora * Teaching & Learning: corpus applications in pedagogy, data-driven learning, assessment, teacher education, learner corpora, genre-based approaches * Corpus-Informed Materials: pedagogic grammars, textbooks, syllabi design * Theoretical Perspectives: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication * Corpus Linguistics and Ethical Practice: Ethical, transparent, and inclusive methods in corpus-based research Submission Details * Individual Papers: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion * Colloquia: 90 minutes, consisting of 3 thematically linked papers * Posters: especially suitable for work-in-progress or early-stage projects * Paper, colloquia and poster abstracts should be submitted to ivacs2026(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:ivacs2026@um.edu.mt>. The language of the conference is English. We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers. Abstract specifications for Individual Papers and Posters: * 250 – 350 words in length (including references, if any) * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Title; Presenter(s); Affiliation(s); Email address(es), plus abstract * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Title and abstract only Abstract specifications for Colloquia: * A maximum of 1,000 words in length (not including list of references) * A single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Theme for the panel; Title of each contribution; Presenters; Affiliations; Email addresses, plus abstracts * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Titles and abstracts only Important Dates * Abstract submission opens: 1 October 2025 * Abstract submission deadline: 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: Early March 2026 * Early-bird registration deadline: April 2026 * Conference dates: 1–3 July 2026 Séanadh Ríomhphoist / Email Disclaimer https://www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/college-services/ict-services?index=5

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Call for Papers: Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP
by Neele Falk 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

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

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[CFP] Sci-ImageMiner Competition 2026: Scientific Figure Understanding -- 1st call
by D'Souza, Jennifer 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

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

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3rd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) 2026: 2nd CFP
by Georg Rehm 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

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

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CfP: FLAIRS-39 Track on Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA)
by Davide LIGA 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Dear Colleagues, We invite submissions for the Normative Reasoning for Agentic AI (NORA) special track at the 39th International FLAIRS Conference, to be held 17-20 May 2026 in Marco Island, Florida. The goal of the NORA special track is to advance research on how norms can shape, guide, and explain agentic behavior in AI systems. It aims to bring together scholars exploring formal models of norms and deontic reasoning with those developing applied approaches to norm-aware, agent-based, collaborative, and responsible AI. By fostering dialogue between logic-based, data-driven, and human-centered perspectives, the track seeks to bridge theoretical foundations and practical implementations of normative reasoning across diverse domains such as multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, robotics, security, law, and AI ethics. The track welcomes both established scholars and early-career researchers from diverse AI domains who wish to explore how normative approaches can enrich and support contemporary AI research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Formal and computational models of normative reasoning * Norm-aware and norm-adaptive agents (including agents for coordination, negotiation, and institution design) * Normative alignment and behavioral conformity in agentic and adaptive AI systems * Normative reasoning in multi-agent interaction, collaboration, and collective decision-making * Dialogue and interaction protocols for proposing, contesting, and revising norms * Learning, planning, and control under normative constraints (reinforcement learning, safe exploration, and compliance by design) * Automated normative reasoning for verification, monitoring, and compliance checking * Normative reasoning in robotics, embodied and hybrid agents, and practical decision making * Causal reasoning and norms (responsibility, accountability, blame/credit assignment, and trust) * Normative explainability and interpretability (e.g., argumentation- or deontic-based explanations) * Translation of natural-language norms into formal or executable specifications * Applications of normative reasoning in law, security, machine ethics, and AI governance For full details on the track and how to submit see the track website: https://sites.google.com/view/flairs-nora/ Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: January 19, 2026 (Abstract is required to submit full paper.) * Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2026 * Paper acceptance notifications: March 9, 2026 * Camera ready version due: April 6, 2026 Types of submissions The track is accepting three types of paper submissions: * Full papers (up to 6 pages excluding references) * Short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references) * Posters (up to 2 pages excluding references) Proceedings The proceedings of FLAIRS-39 will be published by Florida Online Journals (https://journals.flvc.org/) which is indexed in DBLP and Scopus. Paper submission Papers must use the <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view> FLAIRS-39 template<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZDlUkHPxAUVe4nenFm0_FoOtJPLNqsh/view> and must be submitted as a PDF. We look forward to your contributions! The NORA Track Chairs Réka Markovich, University of Luxembourg, reka.markovich(a)uni.lu<mailto:reka.markovich@uni.lu> Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, leon.vandertorre(a)uni.lu Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg, davide.liga(a)uni.lu Luca Pasetto, University of Luxembourg, luca.pasetto(a)uni.lu Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, liuwen.yu(a)list.lu

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PsyDefDetect shared task (co-located with BioNLP @ ACL 2026) - call for participation
by Paul Thompson 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

PsyDefDetect invites researchers to tackle a novel challenge at the intersection of Clinical Psychology and Natural Language Processing: detecting and classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues. Grounded in the clinically validated Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS) framework, this shared task aims to advance the understanding of unconscious defensive functioning in text. Shared task website: https://psydefdetect-shared-task.github.io/ Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/AhuspeXNkM Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/psydefdetect RedNote: https://xhslink.com/m/34ddMoz7E4L Evaluation Platform (Codabench): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/ Task Overview Psychological defenses are the “immune system” of the mind, shaping what speakers disclose and how they accept or resist help. Despite their critical role in mental health and counseling, defensive functioning remains largely unmodeled in current emotional support conversation systems. This shared task invites participants to bridge the gap between clinical theory and NLP by analyzing the PSYDEFCONV dataset. Participants will work with multi-turn dialogues to identify the specific defense level of a target utterance given its context. The goal is to develop models that can recognize subtle, context-dependent defensive maneuvers—ranging from adaptive coping to immature distortion. Data and Labels PSYDEFCONV is the first conversational dataset annotated with defense levels based on the DMRS. The dataset is constructed from a stratified subset of the ESConv corpus to ensure diverse coverage of problem types and emotions. The corpus contains 200 dialogues and 4,709 total utterances, including 2,336 help-seeker turns annotated for defense levels. Participants must classify utterances into 9 categories, comprising seven hierarchical levels of defensive maturity and two auxiliary labels. Key Challenge Capturing subtle linguistic cues of deep-seated psychological mechanisms within highly informal and context-dependent emotional dialogues. Timeline This preliminary timeline is subject to change. Follow our website and channels for updates. Dec 15 2025: Task announced. Dec 20 2025: Task Launch on CodaBench. Mar 15 2026: Start of evaluation period. Apr 05 2026: End of evaluation period. TBA: Paper submission. TBA: Author notifications. TBA: Camera ready due. Baseline and Evaluation Metrics Baseline runs and official metrics are published on our CodaBench Page (https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12124/) Organizers Hongbin Na, University of Technology Sydney Zimu Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Zhaoming Chen, University of Utah Yining Hua, Harvard University Rena Gao, The University of Melbourne Kailai Yang, The University of Manchester Ling Chen, University of Technology Sydney Wei Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Shaoxiong Ji, ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku John Torous, Harvard University Sophia Ananiadou, The University of Manchester & ELLIS Manchester -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round)
by Announce 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

*** First Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CFP: Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026) at ACL 2026
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

*Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2026)* at The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 Place: San Diego, California, United States Link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2026/home Tagline: Towards Fair and Inclusive Language Technologies for All. Call for Papers: Following the success of the first five editions of the LTEDI 2026 workshop (LDK 2025, EACL 2024, RANLP 2023, ACL 2022. EACL 2021), the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on NLP, LLMs and other AI fields with social scientists and interdisciplinary researchers. LT-EDI-2026 invites theoretical, empirical, and applied papers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and interdisciplinary communities particularly those focusing on bias in language technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Datasets, and Benchmarks for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - - - - Construction and annotation of datasets for EDI, including benchmarks for bias detection and mitigation. - Compilation of resources curated for fairness, inclusivity, and accessibility. - Methodologies for annotating intersectional identities (gender, race, disability, religion, sexual orientation, etc.). - Bias Detection and Mitigation in LLMs - - - - Techniques for identifying, measuring, and mediating gender, racial, disability, and other societal biases in NLP and LLMs. - The impact of bias in deployed NLP/LLM systems - Gender-neutral modeling and representational fairness in LLMs - Detection and mitigation of intersectional biases including gender, racial, gender identity, disability, and other societal biases. - Advances in bias mitigation in large language models: in-context learning, prompt engineering, conditional text generation, and adversarial training. - Inclusive Language and Counter-Narratives for LLMs - - - - Algorithms and resources for inclusive language generation with LLMs. - Counter-narrative modeling for combating toxicity, hate speech, and misinformation targeting marginalized communities. - Dialogue systems and multi-agent approaches that align with inclusivity goals. - Human-in-the-loop and participatory strategies for enhancing inclusiveness. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches for LLMs - - - - Multicultural and multilingual LLMs and approaches - Speech and language recognition for minority and under-resourced groups - Code-mixed and cross-lingual approaches for inclusive technologies - Responsible, Explainable, and Trustworthy LLMs for EDI - - - - Detecting and mitigating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity in LLM systems - Explainable and trustworthy LLMs - Evaluation frameworks incorporating ethics, accountability, and transparency - Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 - Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 - Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026

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CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026) (Deadline extended)
by Amal Haddad 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/eacl2026/AbjadNLP2026/ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 15 January 2026 ARR submissions: 15 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 15 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [1]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [2] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Demos & DC & T
by Announce 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

*** Last Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, is available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Important Dates (AoE) Demo Track • Submission Deadline: January 9, 2026 • Author Notification: February 6, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: February 25, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 • Demonstrations: May 27-29, 2026 Doctoral Consortium • Abstract Deadline: January 19, 2026 • Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026 • Author Notification: February 23, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: March 2, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 Tutorials • Proposal Submission: January 16, 2026 • Organiser Notifications: January 30, 2026 • Tutorial Site Online: March 4, 2026 • Tutorial Forum: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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Call for Participation: CLEF eRisk 2026: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
by ACL Announcements 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

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

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

04 Jan '26

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

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

03 Jan '26

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

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

02 Jan '26

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

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

02 Jan '26

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

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

01 Jan '26

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

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

31 Dec '25

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

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3rd CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

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

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

30 Dec '25

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

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

29 Dec '25

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

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European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2026: Save the Dates!
by Elisabeth Burr 27 Dec '25

27 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We’re excited to announce that the European Summer University in Digital Humanities will take place at Université Marie-et-Louis-Pasteur, Besançon, from July 6 to July 18, 2026! Each year this intensive two-week program brings together scholars, students, and practitioners from across the Digital Humanities to learn, collaborate, and explore innovative research methods. Stay tuned: we aim to open the call for participants late February once we finalise the workshops. In the meantime, you can explore the previous school’s offerings and archives here <https://esudh.github.io/esubesancon/>. If you have any questions at this stage, please feel free to contact the ESU steering committee at esudhsteering [@] gmail.com or the local organiser, Fred Spagnoli, at frederic.spagnoli [@] univ-fcomte.fr. With best wishes for the winter holidays, Elisabeth Burr on behalf of Fred Spagnoli(local organiser) & Artjoms Šeļa (steering committee) ______________________________ Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Französische, frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Gründerin und Direktorin der European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T) 2009-2022 (https://esu.fdhl.info/) Präsidentin der European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) 2016-2023 (https://eadh.org/) (Vize-)Präsidentin des Constituent Organisations Board der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) 2019-2021 (https://adho.org/) Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftlichen Programmkomitees von EADH2020-2021, Krasnoyarsk (https://eadh2020-2021.org/) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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Call for Participation: OSACT7 Shared Tasks — LREC 2026
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 26 Dec '25

26 Dec '25

Dear all, Registration is now open for the shared tasks at OSACT7, the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain (11–16 May 2026). Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the OSACT 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. Shared Tasks 1- QIAS 2026: Questions & Answers in Islamic Studies Assessment Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qias2026/<https://sites.google.com/view/qias2026/> 2- AdabEval 2026: Arabic Politeness Detection Website: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home 3- AraSentEval 2026: A Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Swapping in Arabic Website: https://ezzini.github.io/AraSentEval/ 4- AraHAHA 2026: Arabic Humour Generation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home 5- KSAA 2026: Arabic Speech Dictation with Automatic Diacritisation Website: https://arai.ksaa.gov.sa/sharedTask2026/ We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including datasets, evaluation protocols, and timelines, are available on the respective shared task websites. For general information about OSACT7 and workshop participation, please visit the official workshop page: https://osact-lrec.github.io/ Best regards, OSACT7 Organizing Committee ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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OSACT7: 1st Call for Papers
by El-Haj, Mo 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7) Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 11 May 2026 Co-located with LREC 2026. OSACT7 invites submissions on open-source Arabic language resources and processing tools. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and students working in computational linguistics, NLP, and IR, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, reproducibility, and support for underrepresented Arabic varieties. The workshop will feature five shared tasks, alongside regular paper submissions, addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP. We particularly welcome work on Arabic corpora, language models, and processing technologies, including Large Language Models and Generative AI, dialectal Arabic, and practical tools for real-world applications. Topics include: * Arabic language resources and annotated corpora * Pre-trained & fine-tuned Arabic language models * Dialect identification and translation * Sentiment analysis, text classification, and fake news detection * Core Arabic NLP tasks and processing tools * Crowdsourcing, annotation, & resource creation Submission types (excluding references): * Long papers (up to 8 pages), * Short papers (up to 4 pages,) * Shared task system papers (up to 4 pages). Important dates: * Submission deadline: 18 February 2026 * Notification: 12 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 * Workshop: 11 May 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/OSACT7/ Best wishes, OSACT7 Organizing Committee: -Hend Al-Khalifa -Mo El-Haj -Saad Ezzini ———— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk https://arabicnlp.uk<https://arabicnlp.uk/> https://vinnlp.com

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Call for PIs at the ELLIS Institute Finland
by Tiedemann, Jörg 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The ELLIS Institute Finland invites applications for Principal Investigator (PI) positions. Deadline: January 12, 2026 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026 Part of this call is a position at the University of Helsinki on Reliable Communicative AI connected to Helsinki-NLP Research topics of interest include: * Development of reliable interactive AI and AI-mediated communication * Robust generative AI across domains and languages * Efficiency and trustworthiness * Explainable AI and ethical/societal aspects of AI development More details about this position are available from https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/pi-positions-2026#12-university-of-helsinki--… ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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PhD Position at SpeechTek research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler: application deadline January 7, 2026
by Daniele Falavigna 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

We apologize for the inadvertent multiple submissions Are you motivated to conduct impactful research? Do you want to collaborate with a diverse group of scientists to advance wildlife conservation practices? If so, we invite you to apply to the “WildBotics - Autonomous Sampling with Robotics in the Wild for Nature Conservation” MSCA Doctoral Network (WildBotics - Recruitment <https://www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment>). This innovative program brings together leading European institutions and industry partners to develop autonomous robotic solutions for nature conservation. In particular, you will have the opportunity to work closely with an Italian research group renowned for its long tradition in audio and speech analysis (https://speechtek.fbk.eu/) , applying these methods to ecological monitoring and biodiversity protection. Aim: The research explores AI-driven analysis of soundscapes to detect species and bioevents, focusing on ultrasonic recordings critical for understanding biodiversity and ecosystem health. By automating the analysis of extensive audio data, AI enables faster, efficient tracking of animal populations and ecosystem changes. This approach offers essential tools for conservation, aiding in the preservation of species and habitats, particularly those impacted by human activity or climate change. These sounds, collected by microphones and specialised devices, are crucial for identifying various animal species and understanding ecosystem dynamics. Analytics will support the study of natural soundscape losses, a reflection of declining biodiversity and disrupted ecosystems. Analytics will be based on data filtering, feature extraction and segmentation with CNN/RNN/Transformers models. AI models will be deployed for offline (post-flight) or almost real-time data processing, exploiting on-board GPU capabilities, for field work activities (DC11). Host institution: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy PhD enrolment: University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain Principal / Academic supervisor: A. Brutti (FBK) / D. Gonzalez-Aguilera (USAL) The available 12 PhD topics for the Doctoral Candidates are summarized here <https://www.wildbotics.eu/network/topics>. The PhDs call is centralized by FBK - the project coordinator - and more info is available here <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_12_Doctoral_Candidates_to_joi…> . Once you are ready to apply, please submit your candidature here <https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbwMXmh7dVoIHtRXJqwuXaetmmMw16pc09fH…> . The candidature phase will close on January 7th, 23:59 CET. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: EvaLatin 2026 at LREC 2026
by Iurescia Federica (federica.iurescia) 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

CFP: EvaLatin 2026 - The Fourth Evaluation Campaign of NLP tools for Latin * Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin * Date: Monday, May 11 2026 * Place: co-located with LREC 2026, May 11-16, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) * Submission runs: check task guidelines * Submission technical reports: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ * DESCRIPTION EvaLatin 2026 is the fourth evaluation campaign of NLP tools for Latin. The campaign is designed with the aim of promoting the development of resources and language technologies for the Latin language, and foster collaboration among scholars working on Latin, as well as attracting researchers from different disciplines. EvaLatin 2026 edition focusses on 2 tasks: * Dependency Parsing; * Named Entity Recognition (NER). The dependency parsing task is based on the Universal Dependencies<https://universaldependencies.org/> (UD) framework. No specific training set is released but participants are free to make use of any (kind of) data/resource they consider useful for the task, including the Latin treebanks already available in the UD collection. In this regard, one of the challenges of this task is to understand which treebank (or combination of treebanks) is the most suitable to deal with new test data. Test data will be distributed in the CoNLL-U format with gold tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and morphological annotation. For more details, see the guidelines at the specific section of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin> webpage. In the NER task, participants are required to develop systems capable of automatically identifying and classifying proper names in provided Classical Latin texts. The goal is to detect the span of the mention and assign it to a pre-defined category. A small sample set (plain text HIPE IOB format) will be made available in advance, together with the guidelines. Test data will be distributed in the same HIPE IOB format with the values for the NER predictions obscured. For more details, see the guidelines at the specific section of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin> webpage. * SUBMISSIONS Participants are required to submit their runs using specific email addresses (see the guidelines for each task) and to provide a technical report that should include a brief description of their approach, focusing on the adopted algorithms, models and resources, a summary of their experiments, and an analysis of the obtained results. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format). Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). Reports should be submitted using the START submission page of the workshop (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ ). Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. All participants will have the opportunity to present their results at the workshop, as an oral or poster presentation. Participants are allowed to use any approach (e.g. from traditional machine learning algorithms to Large Language Models) and any resource (annotated and non-annotated data, embeddings): all approaches and resources are expected to be described in the systems’ reports. Technical reports should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. * WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES * 22 December 2025: guidelines available * Evaluation Window I - Task: Dependency Parsing * 3 February 2026: test data available * 10 February 2026: system results due to organizers * Evaluation Window II - Task: Named Entity Recognition * 12 February 2026: test data available * 19 February 2026: system results due to organizers * 10 March 2026: reports due to organizers * 20 March 2026: short report review deadline * 27 March 2026: camera ready version of reports due to organizers (strict deadline) Best Regards, Federica Iurescia (on behalf of the organizing committee) Federica Iurescia Postdoctoral Researcher LiLa: Linking Latin https://lila-erc.eu/#page-top CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 219 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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Data science and Software engineering professor positions in Software Science TalTech
by Marko Kääramees 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

The Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology is seeking for 2 positions on associate professor level, but good candidates at assistant and full professor level are encouraged to contact us as well. Our department is currently welcoming new people in software engineering and data science fields. Details of the job and on what it is like to work in Estonia can be found here: Professor of Data Science<https://candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad/en/d99ed3c8-5> Professor of Software Engineering<https://candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad/en/fedc5c5d-1> Our department has strong research groups in programming languages, compositional systems, natural language processing, cyber security and applied AI among others and we are leading many study programs both at graduate and undergraduate level. -- Marko Kääramees Head of department of Software Science Tallinn University of Technology marko.kaaramees(a)taltech.ee

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The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training: Call for Papers
by Announce 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

(Apologies for crossposting) Dear Colleague We are pleased to announce that CSEE&T 2026 (The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training) will be held at The University of Florence, Italy, from July 20 - 22. The CFP is posted at https://cseet26.techconf.org/download/CFP-CSEE&T-2026.pdf<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> Please refer to the conference website for the most recent updates. If you have any questions related to paper submission to the main conference, please send emails to the Program Chairs: Professor Matthew Barr Professor Lin Liu, or Professor Rafal Wlodarski. For the Academy for Software Engineering Education & Training (ASEE&T) Workshop, please visit its website or contact Professor Nancy Mead and Professor Hossein Saiedian. For other inquiries, please get in touch with the CSEET 2026 Secretariat. We look forward to working with you for a successful conference. CSEE&T Secretariat

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CFP | EvaHan2026 Ancient Chinese OCR Shared Tasks
by 李斌 21 Dec '25

21 Dec '25

Dear editor, I am Bin Li, one of the organizers of EvaHan2026. Would you spread this CFP to the corpora list? Thank you so much! -- Best wishes! Bin Li Phone: (86)13813878144 Homepage: http://cognitivebase.com/lib/ School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University,China CFP | EvaHan2026 Ancient Chinese OCR Shared Tasks EvaHan 2026 https://github.com/GoThereGit/EvaHan EvaHan 2026 is the Fifth International Evaluation of Ancient Chinese Information Processing, focusing on OCR tasks for multimodal large language models in ancient Chinese. Co-organized with LT4HALA 2026@LREC 2026, which will be held from May 11 to 16, 2026, in Mallorca, Spain. EvaHan 2026 is organized by Dongbo Wang, Bin Li, Minuxan Feng, Chao Xu, Weiguang Qu, Liu Liu, Si Shen. Previous Tasks: EvaHan 2022 The First Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was successfully held in Marseille, France, in 2022, with a focus on automatic word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2023 The Second Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was successfully held in Macau, China, in 2023, with a focus on machine translation of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2024 The Third Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was held in Turin, Italy, in 2024, with a focus on automatic sentence segmentation and punctuation of ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2025 The Fourth Bake-off of Ancient Chinese Automatic Processing was held in New Mexico, USA, in 2025, with a focus on named entity recognition in ancient Chinese. Important Dates for EvaHan 2026: Registration deadline: January 30, 2026 Training data release: January 1, 2026 Test data release: February 1, 2026 Running results submission: February 6, 2026 Technical report submission deadline: February 28, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2026 Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2026 Participation To participate in EvaHan 2026, you must complete the following steps: Registration: Submit a registration form to officially register your team for the task. Registration is open from December 1, 2025, to January 30, 2026. Only registered participants will gain access to the training dataset. Accessing the Training Data: After completing the registration process, participants will receive instructions for downloading the training dataset, which includes image--text pairs from ancient Chinese texts for OCR. Submitting Results and Reports: Participants must use the provided test data to generate results and submit their system outputs and a technical report as per the shared task schedule. For inquiries or to request the registration form, please contact us at evahan2026(a)gmail.com. Data The Evahan 2026 dataset comprises three datasets, covering image-text pairs: plain text images, mixed image-text images, and handwritten images-text. The data underwent initial automatic annotation, followed by meticulous correction and refinement by experts in classical Chinese language and history to ensure the highest quality of the training materials and gold-standard texts. ● Dataset A （ Printed Texts） consists of data selected from the Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Treasuries), including classics, history, philosophy, and literature, as well as various other ancient books. ● Dataset B （Mixed Layouts） contains mixed image-text data selected from the Siku Quanshu and other ancient books. ● Dataset C （Handwritten Texts） includes handwritten ancient books, primarily the Chinese Buddhist canon, including the Chinese Buddhist canon (TKH) dataset, and the Chinese Buddhist canon (MTH) dataset. Training Data The training set consists of designated portions of subsets A, B, and C. All training samples are provided in image-text pair format, with text in Traditional Chinese (UTF-8), approximately 5000-10000 image-text pairs per subset. Registered participants will receive the training data via email. Test Data The test set includes the remaining unseen portions of subsets A, B, and C to ensure comprehensive evaluation of all three challenge types. The data is also provided in image-text pair format, approximately 200-500 image-text pairs per subset. Detailed information and a download link for the test data will be provided to participants before the start of the formal evaluation period. Task This section offers a detailed description of the tasks encompassed in EvaHan 2026. OCR In many Chinese language processing systems,OCR is a critical task, often performed in parallel with other processing functions. The accuracy and speed of OCR directly determine the overall system's performance and user experience in downstream applications such as document digitization, information extraction, and intelligent retrieval. Evaluation Metrics Each team will only have access to the training data. Later, unlabeled test data will also be released. After the evaluation is complete, the labels for the test data will also be released. Tables 2,3 and 4 provide examples of the scorer output. The evaluation will align the system-generated text with the gold standard. Next, OCR will be evaluated: precision, recall, and F1 score will be calculated. BLEU ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L will also be evaluated, bringing the competition's evaluation to multiple metrics. This evaluation adds layout analysis metrics: mAP and IoU. T he team's final ranking will be based on the overall score. The final ranking of teams will be based on the combined scores. Two Modalities Each participant can submit results for both modes. In the closed mode, each team has limited resources. Each team can only use training data and a pre-trained model. This model is a word embedding pre-trained on a large Traditional Chinese corpus. No other resources are allowed in the closed mode. In the open mode, there are no restrictions on resources, data, or models. Annotated external data, such as processed images or text, may be used. However, each team must disclose all resources, data, and models used in each system in the final report. How to Participate Registration time is mentioned above. Participants will be required to submit their runs and to provide a technical report for the task they participated in. Submitting Runs Each team can submit runs for two tasks. A run should be produced according to the closed modality. The second run will be produced according to the open modality. The closed run is compulsory, while the open run is optional. Once the system has produced the results for the task over the test set, participants have to follow these instructions to complete their submission: The annotated results should be submitted as three plain text files encoded in UTF-8 (four-byte encoding). The specific submission format will be released along with the pre-trained dataset. Organizers Dongbo Wang, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Bin Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Minxuan Feng, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Chao Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Weiguang Qu, School of Computer and Electronic Information /School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Normal University, China Liu Liu, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Si Shen, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China Student Members Dongmei Zhu, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Jieqiong Li, College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Ruifeng Wu,College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Junyi Yang，College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Zhixing Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Junjie Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Yue Zhu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China Mengting Xu, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China

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[CfP] Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 - Dubai
by ddessi＠sharjah.ac.ae 21 Dec '25

21 Dec '25

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

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Third CFP: The 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2026)
by Priya Rani 20 Dec '25

20 Dec '25

*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)* *Workshop description* The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology. In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological research. *SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):* - *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,” what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML algorithms? - *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse languages. - *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging approaches. - *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual data generation/selection, and annotate texts. - *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of cross-linguistic variation and universals. - *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? - *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic generalisations? - - *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to typology, and automated approaches to etymology. *Important Dates (23:59 AoE)* - *Direct submission deadline: December 26, 2025* - *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026* - *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026* - *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026* - *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)* *Submissions* We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. *Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person.* *Format: * Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/SIGTYP *SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/ *Organizing Committee* Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova *Anti-harassment policy* The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. *Contact* For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com Regards, Priya.

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Re: New release: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (links)
by Sangwan Jeon 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, Apologies for the omission in our previous announcement. Here are the relevant key links: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/17828433 OLiNDiNUM — Linguistic Observatory of Online/Digital Debate: https://olindinum.huma-num.fr/en/research/research-projects/ FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 1.0 (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/17652658 ____________________________________________________________________ We are pleased to announce the release of the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0: https://zenodo.org/records/17828433 The MIGR-TWIT Corpus is a multilingual corpus of tweets developed within the framework of OLiNDiNUM — the Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate. With the aim of documenting and analyzing online public discourse on (im)migration in contemporary European politics, this corpus makes it possible to observe diachronic evolution over the past decade (2011–2022) and linguistic variation across the political spectrum and in two national contexts: France and the UK. The corpus has previously been published through the following modules: • Tweets of right and far-right politics in Europe (Battaglia, Blandino, Jeon & Pietrandrea, 2022) https://zenodo.org/records/7347479 o UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2012-2022 o FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 • Tweets of French left-wing politics (Pietrandrea & Jeon, 2023) https://zenodo.org/records/7871602 o FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Taken together, the published corpora have attracted research interest from, among others, corpus linguistics, discourse studies, and communication and information sciences, reaching more than 2K downloads on Zenodo by 2025. Compiled from the FR-R and FR-L modules, the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus comprises 17,395 tweets posted by 39 French political figures and parties (16 right-wing and 23 left-wing) between 2011 and 2022. Tweets containing migr- derivatives were retrieved via the Twitter API v2 Academic Research, and truncated retweets (>140 characters) were restored through targeted verification. This second version provides multilayer linguistic annotations of all occurrences of forms derived from the Latin root migr-. The FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 offers: • multilayer linguistic annotations associated with each occurrence of a migr- derivative (MIGR-LEXICON), including semantic roles (ROLE_SEM), syntactic functions (FUNC_SYN), lemmatised forms (LEMMA), as well as features and collocational items related to modification (MODIFICATION, LEMMA_MODIF_*, LEMMA_NOUN-1) and list/parallelism constructions (LIST_PAR, LENGTH-1, #forme#_MIGR-LIST_PAR) (Non-exhaustive list); • tweet URLs (tweet_url) and 44 types of data retrieved through the Full Archive Search endpoints of the Twitter API v2, such as the textual content of tweets, posting date, user ID, number of retweets, likes, replies, and quotes. (Non-exhaustive list) The corpus is available in CSV and TEI-XML formats, with TEI files providing the text layer and CSV files providing stand-off linguistic annotations. Following FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 1.0 (Jeon, Battaglia & Pietrandrea), FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 (https://zenodo.org/records/17828433) was developed by Sangwan Jeon (Université de Lille) and Paola Pietrandrea (Université de Lille, IUF). Changelog version 2.0 (© 2025 Jeon & Pietrandrea) – Added multilayer linguistic annotations – Corrected delimiter-related errors – Added TEI-XML format – Added a basic Python query script – Added README.md The creation of the corpus and the inter-annotator agreement process were funded by Université de Lille, Campus France, and the Institut Universitaire de France. The corpus is accessible through Zenodo and is scheduled to be archived in Ortolang. Best regards, Sangwan Jeon (University of Lille) Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, Institut Universitaire de France)

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by ahmet güneri 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear Colleagues, If you have the link to this event, could you please share it with me?

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Call for Papers – LLMs4SSH Workshop at LREC 2026 (11 May 2026)
by Arturo Montejo-Ráez 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

*Apologies for cross-posting* *LLMs4SSH: Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities* Workshop at LREC 2026 – 11 May 2026 📍 Location: LREC 2026, Mallorca, Spain 🗓 Date: 11 May 2026 🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home <https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home> ------------------------------ Description Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing in terms of multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these developments have transformed language and data processing, their potential remains insufficiently aligned with the specific research needs, methodologies, and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The LLMs4SSH workshop aims to bridge the gap between Language Technologies (LT) and SSH, bringing together researchers from AI, NLP, Digital Humanities, linguistics, social sciences, cultural heritage, and related fields. The workshop will provide a forum to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-oriented LLMs can support SSH research tasks, while critically examining their methodological, ethical, and societal implications. ------------------------------ Topics We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: Multilinguality and Cultural Diversity - Multilingual LLMs for low-resource and underrepresented languages - Cross-lingual transfer and cultural adaptation - Bias, fairness, and inclusivity - Translation, code-switching, and cross-cultural communication Multimodality in SSH Research - Integration of text, image, audio, and speech modalities - LLMs for multimodal archives, museum collections, and heritage data - Generative and interpretive multimodal applications in humanities research Reasoning and Agentic LLMs - Reasoning and interpretive capacities for SSH tasks (e.g. argumentation, causality, hermeneutics) - Agentic LLMs as autonomous or collaborative research assistants - Tool use, planning, and hypothesis generation - Epistemological and ethical implications of reasoning and agency Methodologies and Evaluation - SSH-oriented datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics - Explainability, transparency, and reproducibility - Human–AI co-creation and qualitative evaluation methods - Comparative studies across languages, domains, and modalities Applications in SSH Domains - Digital humanities and cultural analytics - Political science, sociology, and media studies - History, philosophy, law, psychology, education, and ethics FAIR, Ethics, and Governance - Responsible and participatory design of LLMs - Ethical challenges in data use, authorship, and accountability - Policy frameworks for open and inclusive AI infrastructures Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Infrastructure - Co-design of tools and workflows between LT and SSH - Integration of LLMs into research infrastructures and curricula - Open science initiatives and community building ------------------------------ Submission Types We welcome: - Short research papers - Position papers - Case studies - Posters and demos ------------------------------ Submission Information Submissions must be made electronically through the START Conference Manager (Softconf) system: 🔗 Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH <https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH> All submissions should follow the official LREC 2026 workshop guidelines regarding format, length, and anonymity. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and details regarding proceedings publication will be announced on the workshop website. ------------------------------ Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 23 February 2026 - Review Period: 2–23 March 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2026 - Workshop Date: 11 May 2026 ------------------------------ Workshop Format The full-day workshop will include: - An invited keynote from the Language Technologies community - Oral paper sessions on foundations, methodologies, and applications - Poster and demo sessions - Breakout groups and roundtable discussions - A closing panel to summarize insights and outline future research directions Hybrid participation options will be available to foster inclusivity. ------------------------------ Organizing committee Jeremy Barnes (HiTZ Center, EHU) Elena Battaner (URJC) Joanna Blochowiak (University of Zurich) Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich) Arturo Montejo-Ráez (University of Jaén) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute) Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) German Rigau (HiTZ Center, EHU) Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb) Friedel Wolff (SADiLaR, North-West University) ------------------------------ Diversity and Inclusion The workshop actively supports: - Underrepresented languages and research communities - Geographic and gender diversity - Interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, LT, and SSH [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Arturo Montejo Ráez Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured) amontejo(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Departamento de Informática, A3-114 Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 - Jaén (Spain) +34 953 212 882 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714 Researcher ID: D-3387-2009 SINAI Research Group <https://sinai.ujaen.es> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Antes de imprimir este mensaje, piense si es necesario. 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Call for Papers – LLMs4SSH Workshop at LREC 2026 (11 May 2026)
by Arturo Montejo-Ráez 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

*LLMs4SSH: Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities* Workshop at LREC 2026 – 11 May 2026 📍 Location: LREC 2026, Mallorca, Spain 🗓 Date: 11 May 2026 🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home ------------------------------ Description Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing in terms of multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these developments have transformed language and data processing, their potential remains insufficiently aligned with the specific research needs, methodologies, and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The LLMs4SSH workshop aims to bridge the gap between Language Technologies (LT) and SSH, bringing together researchers from AI, NLP, Digital Humanities, linguistics, social sciences, cultural heritage, and related fields. The workshop will provide a forum to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-oriented LLMs can support SSH research tasks, while critically examining their methodological, ethical, and societal implications. ------------------------------ Topics We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: Multilinguality and Cultural Diversity - Multilingual LLMs for low-resource and underrepresented languages - Cross-lingual transfer and cultural adaptation - Bias, fairness, and inclusivity - Translation, code-switching, and cross-cultural communication Multimodality in SSH Research - Integration of text, image, audio, and speech modalities - LLMs for multimodal archives, museum collections, and heritage data - Generative and interpretive multimodal applications in humanities research Reasoning and Agentic LLMs - Reasoning and interpretive capacities for SSH tasks (e.g. argumentation, causality, hermeneutics) - Agentic LLMs as autonomous or collaborative research assistants - Tool use, planning, and hypothesis generation - Epistemological and ethical implications of reasoning and agency Methodologies and Evaluation - SSH-oriented datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics - Explainability, transparency, and reproducibility - Human–AI co-creation and qualitative evaluation methods - Comparative studies across languages, domains, and modalities Applications in SSH Domains - Digital humanities and cultural analytics - Political science, sociology, and media studies - History, philosophy, law, psychology, education, and ethics FAIR, Ethics, and Governance - Responsible and participatory design of LLMs - Ethical challenges in data use, authorship, and accountability - Policy frameworks for open and inclusive AI infrastructures Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Infrastructure - Co-design of tools and workflows between LT and SSH - Integration of LLMs into research infrastructures and curricula - Open science initiatives and community building ------------------------------ Submission Types We welcome: - Short research papers - Position papers - Case studies - Posters and demos ------------------------------ Submission Information Submissions must be made electronically through the START Conference Manager (Softconf) system: 🔗 Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH All submissions should follow the official LREC 2026 workshop guidelines regarding format, length, and anonymity. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and details regarding proceedings publication will be announced on the workshop website. ------------------------------ Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 23 February 2026 - Review Period: 2–23 March 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2026 - Workshop Date: 11 May 2026 ------------------------------ Workshop Format The full-day workshop will include: - An invited keynote from the Language Technologies community - Oral paper sessions on foundations, methodologies, and applications - Poster and demo sessions - Breakout groups and roundtable discussions - A closing panel to summarize insights and outline future research directions Hybrid participation options will be available to foster inclusivity. ------------------------------ Organizing committee Jeremy Barnes (HiTZ Center, EHU) Elena Battaner (URJC) Joanna Blochowiak (University of Zurich) Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich) Arturo Montejo-Ráez (University of Jaén) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute) Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) German Rigau (HiTZ Center, EHU) Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb) Friedel Wolff (SADiLaR, North-West University) ------------------------------ Diversity and Inclusion The workshop actively supports: - Underrepresented languages and research communities - Geographic and gender diversity - Interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, LT, and SSH [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Arturo Montejo Ráez Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured) amontejo(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Departamento de Informática, A3-114 Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 - Jaén (Spain) +34 953 212 882 <https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/sinformatica/sites/servicio_sinformatica/fil…> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714 Researcher ID: D-3387-2009 SINAI Research Group <https://sinai.ujaen.es> [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> *Antes de imprimir este mensaje, piense si es necesario. Proteger el medio ambiente es cosa de todos.* *** 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 recipient and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL. 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 by mistake, please let us know immediately via e-mail and delete it.

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Second CFP: LoResMT 2026 at EACL 2026
by Atul K. Ojha 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

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

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New Book: Understanding Conversational AI Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models
by Thierry Poibeau 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share the publication of my last book: Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, fully open access, downloadable as a whole book or chapter by chapter, paperback version on demand. Bets regards, Thierry Poibeau --- Understanding Conversational AI Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models Thierry Poibeau 270 pages, Ubiquity Press, fully open access, downloadable as a whole book or chapter by chapter, paperback version on demand. What do large language models really know—and what does it mean to live alongside them? This book offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of large language models (LLMs), examining how they reshape our understanding of language, cognition, and society. Drawing on philosophy of language, linguistics, cognitive science, and AI ethics, it investigates how these models generate meaning, simulate reasoning, and perform tasks that once seemed uniquely human—from translation to moral judgment and literary creation. Rather than offering a purely technical account, the book interrogates the epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions of LLMs. It explores their limitations, their embedded biases, and their role in processes of automation, misinformation, and platform enclosure. At the same time, it reflects on how LLMs prompt us to revisit fundamental questions: What is understanding? What is creativity? How do we ascribe agency or trust in a world of synthetic language? Written for scholars, students, and curious readers across the humanities, social sciences, and computer science, this is both a philosophical inquiry and a practical guide to navigating the era of generative AI. It invites readers to think critically about the promises and perils of language technologies—and about the kind of future we are shaping with them. Feel free to read it and share it widely! https://www.ubiquitypress.com/chapters/m/10.5334/bde.d Table of content: • Introduction. Speaking machines, thinking humans • Latent linguistics: the conception of language in large language models • From the design of large language models to a reassessment of linguistic theory • Large language models and the future of writing • Large language models and reasoning, the boundaries of mind and consciousness • Large language models and creativity • Moral reasoning and synthetic judgment in large language models • Large language models and critical thinking: bias, social impact, and political implications • Disinformation, misinformation, and the crisis of trust in AI-generated content • Ethics at scale • Conclusion. Thinking with machines • Annex. The architecture and training of large language models

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CfP Translation in Transition Conference 8
by Neumann, Stella 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

### Apologies for multiple postings ### <https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve…> Translation in Transition Conference 8[1] RWTH Aachen University, Germany | 9-11 September 2026 Second Call for Papers The Translation in Transition conference series has served as a meeting site for empirical translation scholars for over ten years now. After seven successful editions of this conference series, the tradition will be continued with the 8th edition taking place in 2026 in Aachen, where a special focus will be on translation and interpreting at the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts. In keeping with tradition, the conference will make room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in translation and interpreting studies (TIS). In addition to this, the 2026 edition will host a workshop on the topic of transfer from TIS into other fields both within and outside of academia in cooperation with the newly founded <https://institut-translatologie.de/institute/> Institute of Translatology (see below for submission guidelines). Keynote speakers Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) Jean Nitzke (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway) Conference Topics We invite submissions reporting original empirical studies (including multi-methods approaches) on one or more of the topics below, though the following list is by no means exhaustive: * Different types of bilingual text production (including AI-based language generation) * Constrained communication * Directionality and L2 writing * Indirect translation and interpreting * Cognitive processing during translation and interpreting * Translationese and specific properties of translation and interpreting * MT post-editing types, practices, ethics * Audiovisual translation * Register or genre variation * Quality assessment * Workflow studies * The role of external agents (e.g. editors, GenAI-based agents) We also welcome methodological contributions that reflect on (established) research paradigms or that make proposals towards the establishment of reproducible paradigms in empirical TIS. The official language of the conference is English. Abstract submission Submission is now open! Please visit <https://openreview.net/group?id=TT%2F2026%2FConference> the conference venue on OpenReview[2] to submit your abstract as a PDF by January 5. If you do not yet have an account, it is advised to register in advance of submitting. Note that OpenReview requires you to fill in the ‘Abstract’ text field. Your extended abstract, however, should be in the form of a submitted PDF. Main conference Submissions should be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words (excluding references), which include a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study as well as (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1-inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centered, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should appear below the table or figure in 10pt Arial font. References must be in 9pt Arial font, following the APA7 citation style. Transfer workshop Submissions should follow above guidelines but be limited to max. 500 words describing the outline of a transfer activity or project to a field outside of TIS (either within or outside of academia). The abstract should give a clear idea of the type of activity or project, should describe the transfer target audience and should highlight how the audience and potentially the field of TIS benefits from the transfer activity or project. Program The conference will be held in person at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. A round table discussion will be organised on the conference theme. Important dates * Submission of abstracts: 12 January 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2026 * Registration TBA * Conference: 9-11 September 2026 Publication We plan to publish selected papers, such as on the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts, in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Organizing committee Celina Brost Kurt Derichs Zoë Miljanović Stella Neumann in cooperation with the private TIS research and transfer institute ‘ <https://institut-translatologie.de/institute/> Institut für Translatologie’ IfTra. Scientific committee Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University) Alina Karakanta (Universiteit Leiden) Andrea Wurm (Saarland University) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Bogdan Babych (University of Heidelberg) Bogusława Whyatt (Adam Mickiewicz University) Callum Walker (University of Leeds) Chantal Gagnon (Université de Montréal) Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Verona) Defeng Li (University of Macau) Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) Dragoș Ciobanu (University of Vienna) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) Éric Poirier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) Evy Woumans (Ghent University) Fabio Alves (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain) Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University) Heike Przybyl (Saarland University) Isabel Lacruz (Kent State University) Jean Nitzke (University of Agder) Jelena Vranjes (University of Ghent) Joke Daems (Ghent University) Josep Marco Borillo (Universitat Jaume I) Katrin Menzel (Saarland University) Kerstin Kunz (University of Heidelberg) Khatuna Beridze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University) Koen Plevoets (Ghent University) Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund (University of Copenhagen) Krzysztof Łoboda (Jagiellonian University Kraków) Laura Ivaska (University of Turku) Lieve Macken (Ghent University) Lorenzo Mastropierro (University of Nottingham) Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Maja Popović (Dublin City University) Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) Marie Aude Lefer (UCLouvain) Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (University of Poznan) Maryam Foradi (Institut für Translatologie) Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) Michael Carl (Kent State University) Natalie Kübler (Université Paris-Diderot) Olga Nádvorníková (Charles University in Prague) Oliver Czulo (Institut für Translatologie) Patricia Rodríguez Inés (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Pawel Korpal (University of Poznan) Ralph Krüger (TH Köln) Sandra Halverson (University of Agder) Sara Castagnoli (Università di Macerata) Silvana Deilen (University of Hildesheim) Silvia Bernardini (Università di Bologna) Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Tatiana Serbina (Saint Louis University Madrid) Vahram Atayan (University of Heidelberg) Website and contact [1] https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Ve… [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=TT%2F2026%2FConference <mailto:events@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de> events(a)ifaar.rwth-aachen.de Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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New release: FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0
by jeon.sangwan2311＠gmail.com 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the release of the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0. The MIGR-TWIT Corpus is a multilingual corpus of tweets developed within the framework of OLiNDiNUM — the Linguistic Observatory of Online Debate. With the aim of documenting and analyzing online public discourse on (im)migration in contemporary European politics, this corpus makes it possible to observe diachronic evolution over the past decade (2011–2022) and linguistic variation across the political spectrum and in two national contexts: France and the UK. The corpus has previously been published through the following modules: • Tweets of right and far-right politics in Europe (Battaglia, Blandino, Jeon & Pietrandrea, 2022) o UK-R-MIGR-RA-TWIT-2012-2022 o FR-R-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 • Tweets of French left-wing politics (Pietrandrea & Jeon, 2023) o FR-L-MIGR-TWIT-2011-2022 Taken together, the published corpora have attracted research interest from, among others, corpus linguistics, discourse studies, and communication and information sciences, reaching more than 2K downloads on Zenodo by 2025. Compiled from the FR-R and FR-L modules, the FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus comprises 17,395 tweets posted by 39 French political figures and parties (16 right-wing and 23 left-wing) between 2011 and 2022. Tweets containing migr- derivatives were retrieved via the Twitter API v2 Academic Research, and truncated retweets (>140 characters) were restored through targeted verification. The FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 offers: • multilayer linguistic annotations associated with each occurrence of a migr- derivative (MIGR-LEXICON), including semantic roles (ROLE_SEM), syntactic functions (FUNC_SYN), lemmatised forms (LEMMA), as well as features and collocational items related to modification (MODIFICATION, LEMMA_MODIF_*, LEMMA_NOUN-1) and list/parallelism constructions (LIST_PAR, LENGTH-1, #forme#_MIGR-LIST_PAR) (Non-exhaustive list); • tweet URLs (tweet_url) and 44 types of data retrieved through the Full Archive Search endpoints of the Twitter API v2, such as the textual content of tweets, posting date, user ID, number of retweets, likes, replies, and quotes. (Non-exhaustive list) The corpus is available in CSV and TEI-XML formats, with TEI files providing the text layer and CSV files providing stand-off linguistic annotations. Following version 1.0 (Jeon, Battaglia & Pietrandrea), FR-MIGR-TWIT Corpus 2.0 was developed by Sangwan Jeon (Université de Lille) and Paola Pietrandrea (Université de Lille, IUF). Changelog version 2.0 (© 2025 Jeon & Pietrandrea) – Added multilayer linguistic annotations – Corrected delimiter-related errors – Added TEI-XML format – Added a basic Python query script – Added README.md The creation of the corpus and the inter-annotator agreement process were funded by Université de Lille, Campus France, and the Institut Universitaire de France. The corpus is accessible through Zenodo and is scheduled to be archived in Ortolang. Sangwan Jeon (University of Lille) & Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, Institut Universitaire de France)

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New Release of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM)
by Stefanie Dipper 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the new Version 2 of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM), which is available for download via the project website: https://linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German (1050–1350) consists of more than two million tokens, providing a mostly complete collection of written records from Early Middle High German (1050–1200) as well as a careful selection of Middle High German texts from 1200 to 1350. The corpus was compiled in the context of a series of projects at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Bochum, beginning in the mid-1980s. This new version of the corpus contains numerous corrections and improvements, both to the tokenization and to the linguistic annotations, as well as several new documents that were added to the corpus. In addition to CorA-XML, various new formats are available for download, including TEI XML and GraphML, which, among other things, is usable with a local ANNIS 4 instance. There is also a JSON-based format that contains all available annotations and provides easy access for data analysis scripts. The new version of the corpus can be accessed via ANNIS 4 at the following URL: https://newannis.linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). -- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dipper (she/her) - Professur fuer Computerlinguistik Sprachwiss. Institut - Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum - 44780 Bochum - Germany Email: stefanie.dipper(a)rub.de - https://www.linguistics.rub.de/~dipper/

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Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) - new submission deadline: December 27
by Verginica Barbu Mititelu 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026) https://multiword.org/mwe2026/ Organized, sponsored, and endorsed by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, and by UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr> Cost Action CA21167. Half-day workshop collocated with the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026, https://2026.eacl.org/), Rabat, Morocco. NEW Important Dates - Direct Submission deadline: December 19, December 27, 2025 - Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, January 5, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 - Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 - Workshop dates: *March 28*, 2026, All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Hybrid (on-site & on-line) ******************************************* Multiword expressions (MWEs), i.e., word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin and Kim, 2010), such as “by and large”, “hot dog”, “make a decision” and “break one's leg” are still a pain in the neck for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The notion of MWE encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g., annotation), NLP tasks (e.g., parsing), and end-user applications (e.g., natural language understanding and Machine Translation), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Miletić and Schulte im Walde, 2024; Ramisch et al., 2023; Phelps et al., 2024; Mahajan et al., 2024). For more than two decades, the topic of modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the focus of the MWE workshop, organized by the MWE section <https://multiword.org/> of ACL-SIGLEX <http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research, considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; - Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, WordNets, constructions (also for low-resource languages); - Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); - Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; - Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; - Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); - Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; - Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; - Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarisation, language learning, etc.); - Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; - Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; - Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; - Multiword terminology extraction; - Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Co-located Shared tasks The workshop MWE 2026 will host two shared tasks <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=other-events:parseme-admire-st…> : - PARSEME 2.0, whose objective is to identify and paraphrase MWEs in written text, and - AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), which explores the comprehension ability of multimodal models for MWEs in a variety of languages. Submission formats The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere, which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's submission page <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Authors are encouraged, wherever relevant, to adopt the conventions on citing, glossing and translating multilingual examples of MWEs <https://gitlab.com/parseme/pmwe/-/blob/master/Conventions-for-MWE-examples/…> promoted by the editors of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> published by Language Science Press. Organizing Committee Verginica Barbu Mititelu, A. Seza Doğruöz, Alexandre Rademaker, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mathieu Constant, Ivelina Stoyanova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mwe2026workshop(a)gmail.com.

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Apply to MATS Summer 2026 research fellowship by Jan. 18
by Eric Dhan 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

MATS Summer 2026 applications are now open! <https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…> We believe reducing risks from unaligned AI is one of the world's most urgent and talent-constrained challenges, and that ambitious people from a wide range of backgrounds can meaningfully contribute to this work. That's why we're training the next generation of AI alignment, interpretability, security, and governance researchers. Running June-August 2026, MATS’ 12-week research program provides everything you need to launch your career in AI safety. This includes field-leading research mentorship, funding ($15k stipend + $12k compute), Berkeley/London offices (depending on mentor preference), housing, talks/workshops with AI experts, and a global network of peers. MATS has accelerated 450+ researchers so far. Among alumni who graduated before 2025, 80% are working directly in AI safety/security and 10% have co-founded active AI safety startups. Participants have coauthored 150+ papers, with 7,800+ citations <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VgJaUK4AAAAJ&hl=en>, and rate our program 9.4/10. Our mentors include world-class researchers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, UK AISI, GovAI, Redwood, METR, Apollo Research, Goodfire, RAND, AI Futures Project, and more. *Apply by January 18 AoE to be considered!* Visit our website <https://matsprogram.org/apply?utm_source=corpora&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=s…> for details. Help us spread the word with people you know who'd be a good fit, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Best, Eric -- Eric Dhan Operations Generalist, MATS LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-dhan/>

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Registration Open – Shared Tasks at AbjadNLP 2026
by El-Haj, Mo 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Dear all, Registration is now open for the shared tasks at AbjadNLP 2026, which will run at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. The workshop will host four shared tasks covering Arabic and other Abjad languages. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the AbjadNLP 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. Shared Tasks 1. AbjadGenEval AI-generated text detection for languages using Arabic script https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadGenEval/ 2. AbjadStyleTransfer Authorship style transfer while preserving meaning https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadStyleTransfer/ 3. AbjadAuthorID Authorship identification across genres and historical periods https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadAuthorID/ 4. Medical Text Classification in Arabic Multi-class classification task in the medical domain https://balajinaga.github.io/EACL2026-Abjad-NLP-SharedTask/ We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including data, evaluation, and timelines, are available on the task websites. Best regards, Mo - AbjadNLP 2026 https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ ———— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk https://arabicnlp.uk<https://arabicnlp.uk/> https://vinnlp.com

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Two 2-years Postdoc positions in NLP at Bocconi University (Italy)
by Debora Nozza 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

We are seeking highly motivated and talented individuals to join our MilaNLP research team as Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing. The positions offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research with a focus on two interdisciplinary projects that explore socially aware language technologies (SALMON) and innovative speech-based data collection frameworks (TOLD). To learn more about the two research projects, please visit: https://milanlproc.github.io/open_positions/postdoc_tef/. Your profile: - A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics/NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields. - Excellent programming skills in Python. - Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Italian is not required. - Familiarity with modern neural network models and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch). - A strong publication record in NLP or related areas. Position Details: - Starting date: March 1st, 2026 (flexible) - Duration: 2 years (renewable) - Deadline: January 31st, 2026 - Competitive Salary How to apply: Submit your application via the Bocconi job market portal: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=889 Candidates should upload a CV, a cover letter, a research statement, and the required documentation listed on the application page. Online interviews will take place during February 2026. Please contact debora.nozza(at)unibocconi.it and dirk.hovy(at)unibocconi.it if you have any questions.

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CFP: ClimateCheck 2026 Shared Task (12 May 2026, hosted by NSLP 2026, co-located with LREC 2026)
by Georg Rehm 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

ClimateCheck 2026: Shared Task on Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims Hosted as part of the NSLP 2026 Workshop at LREC 2026 12 May 2026 Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2026/docs/climatecheck_shared_task.html Competition on Codabench: to be announced Task Overview The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives in climate discourse, and a focus on sustainable solutions. We offer two tasks: * Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification Given a claim and a corpus of publications, retrieve the top 5 most relevant abstracts and classify each claim-abstract pair as supports, refutes, or not enough information. Evaluation: Recall@K (K=2, 5) and B-Pref (for retrieval) + Weighted F1 (for verification) based on gold data; additional unannotated documents will be evaluated automatically. In addition, we will ask participants to use CodeCarbon<https://codecarbon.io/> to assess emissions and energy consumption at test inference. * Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification Given a claim, predict which climate disinformation narrative exists according to a predefined taxonomy. Evaluation: Macro-, micro-, and weighted-F1 scores based on annotated documents. Important dates * Release of datasets: December 15, 2025 (task 1); December 19, 2025 (task 2) * Testing phase begins: January 15, 2026 (Codabench link TBA) * Deadline for system submissions: February 16, 2026 * Deadline for paper submissions: February 20, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: March 30, 2026 * Workshop: May 12, 2026 We encourage and invite participation from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Participants are also highly encouraged to submit a paper describing their systems to the NSLP 2026 workshop. Datasets, Evaluation, and Rankings Task 1: Abstract retrieval and claim verification The dataset for task 1 will follow the same structure as the 2025 iteration, but with triple the amount of available training data. We will evaluate systems on both abstract retrieval and claim verification tasks in an end-to-end manner. Abstracts retrieval will be evaluated using Recall@K and B-Pref, while claim verification will be evaluated using weighted F1 scores. Gold annotations will be used for both, with an automatic evaluation approach to evaluate incomplete judgments iteratively (more details will be announced soon). In addition, this year’s iteration will focus on coming up with sustainable solutions, encouraging the development of systems that can potentially be used in real-world scenarios. Thus, we will ask participants to use the CodeCarbon library when running the test inference to measure emission rates and energy consumption. This will not, however, be counted towards the final rankings. Task 2: Disinformation narrative classification The dataset for task 2 will consist of the same claims used for task 1, each annotated with labels denoting whether the claim is an example of a known climate disinformation narrative, and if so, which one(s). We follow the CARDS taxonomy (levels 1 and 2) to annotate our claims in a multi-label manner. Results will be evaluated using macro-, micro- and weighted-F1 scores. Participants can take part in task 1, task 2, or both tasks (better yet – think of ways to incorporate task 2 into the task 1 pipeline!). Organisers * Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI, Germany) * Aida Usmanova (Leuphana University, Germany) * Max Upravitelev (XplaiNLP Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) * Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)

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WG: CfP First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026)
by Wissik, Tanja 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Dear all, this is the cfp for the first Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026) on 16 May 2026. see details below. Apologies for cross-posting! ------------ First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026) Call for Papers Date: 16 May 2026, half-day workshop Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PressMint/ Workshop Website: https://www.clarin.eu/PressMint-LREC2026 ________________________________ Workshop description Historical newspapers are of interest to historians and historical linguists, as well as to social and political scientists, ethnologists, anthropologists, media and communication scholars, and researchers in cultural studies. All of these are fields where contemporary digital resources, tools and methods (e.g. “distant reading”) are still underutilised. On the other hand, corpora of historical newspapers already exist for a number of languages and countries to a large extent, as they are out of copyright. Also, the images, and often OCR, are available through the national libraries. Also, in recent years these data started to be of big interest to the researchers since they preserve the historical, cultural, political, societal past. However, these corpora are not interoperable, which precludes methods for their comparison, as well as any translingual and transnational research, an especially important consideration, as statehood and nationhood are highly dynamic in Europe in the period to be covered by the project corpora. An initial joint attempt towards the creation of a corpus of historical newspapers from the beginning of 20. century on, is the CLARIN flagship project PressMint<https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint>. The project features data from 20 partners at the moment, aiming to develop a standard for interoperable resources of newspapers in diachronic timespans. The final goal is to provide structured and high quality multilingual data in a common format, with the same type of linguistic annotation that covers (at least partially) the same time period. The workshop is supported by CLARIN <https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/ou…> and the PressMint project. Objective The PressMint workshop aims to gather experts interested in creating, processing and analyzing interoperable corpora of historical data in general, but especially with a focus on newspapers. Another very important objective is to consider also the perspective of the communities who use historical data - their purposes, requirements, feedback. We encourage the interested colleagues to present their work on both types of levels – national and pan-European; monolingual and multilingual as well as task-specific and multidisciplinary. We view this workshop as a venue to exchange research ideas and start collaboration on this topic. The workshop will feature one invited speaker: Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, CH We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to) on the following topics: * compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical newspaper corpora of the period relevant to PressMint (ideally around the start of the 20th century but not constrained by this period) * harmonisation of the existing multilingual historical newspaper corpora that contain either synchronic or diachronic data, or both * linking or comparing historical newspaper corpora with other datasets, including sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets * enrichment of historical newspaper corpora (with e.g. sentiment annotation, etc.) * machine translation of historical newspaper corpora * employment of LLMs as stand alone tools or as parts of architectures for historical data processing, maintenance and knowledge deployment. * various scenarios of usage of historical data ________________________________ Submission & Publication We accept submission of long papers (from 6 to 8 pages), short papers (4 pages) and demo papers (4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation or poster presentations at the workshop. To support double-blind reviewing, all submissions must be fully anonymized and should be formatted according to the stylesheet available on the LREC 2026 website<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. At the time of submission, authors are also offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides metadata for the resources. Please note that the LREC style guide should be followed. The formatting guidelines can be found here: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026 * Camera-ready paper: 30 March 2026 * Workshop date: TBA ________________________________ Organizing Committee * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL * Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT * Petya Osenova, Sofia University ”St. Kl. Ohridski” & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG To contact the organisers, please email maciej.ogrodniczuk(a)gmail.com<mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com>. Programme Committee (in alphabetical order) * Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI * Maria Gavriilidou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, GR * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, LV * Matyáš Kopp, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics. Charles University, CZ * Taja Kuzman, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI * Nikola Ljubešic, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI ́ * Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL * Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski" and IICT-BAS, BG * Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław, PL * Stelios Piperidis, Athena Research Centre, GR * German Rigau, HiTZ Basque Research Center for Language Technology, EHU, ES * Claudia Resch, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT * Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, LV * Steinþór Steingrímsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, IS * Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT Dr. Tanja Wissik ACDH- Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, A-1010 Vienna E-mail: Tanja.Wissik(a)oeaw.ac.at Tel: + 43 1 51581 - 2206 http://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/ CLARIN National Coordinator for Austria https://www.clarin.eu/governance/national-coordinators-forum Editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.…>

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cfp: Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026) at LREC2026
by Martin Wynne 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026), a pre-conference workshop at LREC2026 Date: 11 May 2026 Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Workshop web page: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026 Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/HTRes2026/ Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describes the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived from these data. The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how various theories, techniques, and tools from corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and digital humanities can contribute to the examination, analysis, dissemination, and preservation of Holocaust testimonies and other Holocaust-related documents. The workshop is supported by CLARIN and EHRI. Please find full details of the call for papers at the workshop web page at https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2026. The main conference website is at https://lrec2026.info/ . IMPORTANT DATES Final date for paper submission: 12 February 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 Camera-ready version submission: 30 March 2026 Workshop date: 11 May 2026 To contact the organisers, please email holocausttlr(a)gmail.com From Martin Wynne on behalf of the organizing committee. -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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DEADLINE EXTENSION -- ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Gualtiero Volpe 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES !!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!! ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ -> THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 16, 2026 We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference's goals are to implement believable, autonomous, adaptive, context-aware Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems able to infer how organizational, cultural and physical contexts shape individual perception, choices and actions. Such systems, e.g. synthetic agents, robots, avatars or analysis systems act in real-time, sustain dyadic/group interactions and actively cooperate in discussion, decision-making, problem solving, learning/knowledge building. These systems gather information and meanings in the course of everyday activity and build knowledge and practical ability to render the world interpretable while interacting with users attuned to behavioural sequences that underpin collaboration. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible. Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI. We invite the ICMI community from various fields related to multimodal interaction to collectively define and tackle these scientific Grand Challenges in this domain including but not limited to the following categories: 1. DATA CHALLENGES: gathering new experimental data and theories across a spectrum of disciplines; 2. ALGORITHM CHALLENGES: developing algorithms, models and computational paradigms that may equip machines with human level automaton intelligence; 3. APPLICATION CHALLENGES: implementing HCI systems that enhance quality of life in society and simplify the user access to future telecommunication services; 4. MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES: promoting multidisciplinary exchanges, educational initiatives, and new socio-psychological and computational approaches towards socially-emotionally-context-aware Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information: 1. Title 2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge 3. Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals 4. Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction 5. Length (full day or half day) 6. Plan for soliciting participation 7. Description of how submissions (challenge's submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers 8. Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions 9. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) 10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization 11. Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations; important dates Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2025 challenges are welcome, even if we require submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year. The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference. =============================================== Important Dates and Contact Details =============================================== -> Proposals due: January 16, 2026 EXTENDED Proposal notification: February 7, 2026 POSTPONED Grand challenge date: October 5, 2026 =============================================== Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2025 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sebastian Zepf (sebastian.zepf(a)mercedes-benz.com) and Alessandro Vinciarelli (Alessandro.Vinciarelli(a)glasgow.ac.uk). ============================================ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ============================================ Please note that the call for workshops remains open until January 16, 2026. We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.

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CogSci 2026 - 1st CfP
by Gemma Boleda 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

*CogSci 2026 - Call for Submissions to the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Conference* Theme: Cognitive (In)Efficiency Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 20 - 25, 2026 The Cognitive Science Society invites submissions to the 2026 edition of its annual conference, *CogSci*. Submissions should address cognition from any area related to Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Education. Submission guidelines, including submission categories, templates and important dates are available at https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/. Submission will be open from November 26th 2025 to February 2nd 2026. *Special Theme: Cognitive (In)Efficiency* A core objective of cognitive science is to identify the mental processes that guide thought and behavior. Much research has focused on understanding these processes through the lens of utility and cognitive efficiency. Human and non-human species are often seen as striving toward learning, problem-solving, communication, and other goals by making optimal use of cognitive resources. However, many behaviors and mental processes are not a product of this ideal of efficiency and often deviate from it. CogSci 2026 focuses on the theme of Cognitive (In)Efficiency, and aims at exploring through three thematic symposia: *(In)efficiency in Language and Communication*, *(In)efficiency in Social Cognition and Cooperation*, and *(In)efficiency in Cognitive Science Research*. The first two emphasize the critical need to address both cognitive efficiency and inefficiency as natural and influential aspects of processing and behavior. By exploring instances where cognitive processes and behavioral outputs appear suboptimal—particularly in the contexts of communication and social coordination—we invite a deeper examination of what constitutes “optimality” across different domains and settings. In doing so, we aim to broaden the understanding of cognitive processes by considering both efficient and inefficient pathways that shape thought and behavior. The third symposium addresses (in)efficiencies arising from disparities in research conditions across cognitive science laboratories and departments worldwide. This symposium will spotlight how unequal access to funding creates systemic barriers to global representation while showcasing cognitive scientists who produce impactful research despite facing disadvantaged material conditions. Our aim is to advocate for a more equitable approach that values contributions from researchers across diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, ultimately enriching the field as a whole. Each symposium topic will feature one keynote and three invited speakers. Our keynote speakers include: - Balthasar Bickel, Universität Zürich - Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon, Stanford University - Julia Hermida, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and National University of Hurlingham *Conference Format* CogSci 2026 will be fully hybrid with streaming of the entire program, except for workshops (which will all be in-person). Presenters can choose to present in-person in Rio de Janeiro or virtually, and virtual attendees will be able to view the entire program synchronously. Virtual talks will be presented synchronously throughout the program, and virtual posters will be available for asynchronous interaction via the conference app, as well as synchronous online interaction via video conferencing. *Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives* CogSci is committed to providing opportunities for people with different backgrounds to attend the conference. Therefore, and since this is the first time the Cognitive Science Society Conference comes to South America, on top of the already existing initiatives promoted by the society, CogSci 2026 will feature reduced registration rates for participants from South America. --- Gemma Boleda Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA https://gboleda.github.io/

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PhD/Postdoc Positions on LLM Architectures, Interpretability, and Safety
by Michael Hahn 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

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

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Deadline extended: AfricaNLP @ EACL 2026
by Constantine Lignos 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Deadline Extension and Final Call for Papers: 7th AfricaNLP Workshop @ EACL 2026 (Rabat, Morocco) Theme: Multilingual Multimodal LLMs Website: https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2026/home Submission URL: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/AfricaNLP The AfricaNLP workshop at EACL 2026 invites papers related to any aspect of NLP for African languages. In the current landscape, large language models (LLMs) have seen widespread use and significant innovation, yet African languages remain underrepresented. To address this disparity, the theme for the 2026 workshop is Multilingual Multimodal LLMs. We believe this is an especially timely theme as LLMs are becoming more multilingually capable, but their performance across other modalities such as images and speech continues to lag behind. This workshop invites research and discussion on how multilingual and multimodal systems can better reflect the diversity of African languages and communities. Key Dates (all deadlines Anywhere on Earth time zone) - Direct Submission: December 22nd, 2025 (extended) - ARR Submission: January 9th, 2026 - Acceptance Notification: January 23, 2026 - Workshop: day-long event during EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026) Submission Formats - Full Papers: 4–8 pages (archival or non-archival) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (non-archival) - ARR Submissions: Papers from the October 2025 ARR cycle (or earlier) with completed reviews and metareview AfricaNLP aspires to bring together a diverse group of researchers to explore solutions, collaborations, and innovation around enhancing LLMs’ capabilities in African languages and ensuring cultural awareness in their applications. We particularly welcome first-time authors, collaborative efforts, and work connecting multiple modalities — text, speech, or vision — for the benefit of African communities. *Contact: *africanlp-eacl2026(a)googlegroups.com Constantine Lignos Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Pronouns: he/him/his

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Call for Participation: HealTAC 2026
by Jaya Chaturvedi 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

-------------------------------------------- HealTAC 2026 June 8-10th, 2026, Brighton (UK) https://healtac2026.github.io/ -------------------------------------------- The 9th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2026) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. This year’s theme is Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice ---------------------------- Call for Contribution ---------------------------- We invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) describing methodological or application-focused work that has not been previously presented at a conference. Submissions should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. This year, we will focus on Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice, so we encourage submissions in that space in particular. We also invite submissions describing ongoing PhD research (at any stage) or planned fellowship applications. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. In addition, we invite submissions for software demonstrations, and new for 2026, we are also welcoming proposals for panel discussions. See the website (Call for Contribution<https://healtac2026.github.io/cfp/>) for full details. --------------------------- Key dates ---------------------------- Submissions open: January 9, 2026 Deadline for all contributions: February 27, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2026 Early-bird registration deadline: May 4, 2026 Pre-conference workshop: June 8, 2026 Conference: June 9-10, 2026 As in previous years, there will be a post-conference call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. ---------------------------- Registration fees ---------------------------- Due to generous support from our sponsors, we will keep the registration fee low as before: An early registration fee for students is expected to be £100 and for others £200. All registrations include the full 3-day programme and lunches. Conference dinner (optional) will be separate. Students with accepted papers will be able to register for free. More details on registration can be found here<https://healtac2026.github.io/registration/>. Travel and accommodation details are also available here<https://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/>. Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2026 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton! Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD Research Associate in Health Related Natural Language Processing Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Jah-yah Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi Bluesky: @Jayachatur.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayachaturvedi/ [cid:image001.png@01DAF499.ADF8D370] If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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CfP: AraSentEval Shared Task - OSACT7 within LREC 2026
by Saad Ezzini 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Call for Participation: AraSentEval 2026 Shared Task Subject: Call for Participation: AraSentEval 2026 Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Swapping in Arabic (Hosted with OSACT7 at LREC 2026) We are delighted to invite you to participate in the AraSentEval 2026 Shared Task, hosted in conjunction with the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7) at LREC 2026. Overview Sentiment analysis remains a critical application in NLP, yet Arabic presents unique challenges due to its rich morphology and dialectal variations. AraSentEval 2026 aims to push the boundaries of Arabic sentiment analysis by evaluating both understanding (classification) and generation (style transfer) in diverse contexts. Task Description AraSentEval features two complementary subtasks designed to foster innovation in Arabic NLP: Subtask 1: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis A multi-class classification task to identify the sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) of texts written in various Arabic dialects (Moroccan, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Saudi). This subtask focuses on robustness across lexical and syntactic diversity. Subtask 2: Arabic Sentiment Swap A challenging generative task where systems must rewrite an Arabic sentence to invert its sentiment polarity (e.g., positive to negative) while preserving its core meaning. This task requires deep semantic understanding and high-quality generation capabilities. Datasets * Subtask 1: Multi-Dialect-Sent (MDS-3), a balanced dataset of 3,000 sentences across five major dialects. * Subtask 2: MAAKS, a manually-curated parallel dataset of 5,000 Modern Standard Arabic sentence pairs. Important Dates (Tentative) * January 01, 2026: Release of training/dev data and evaluation scripts. * February 10, 2026: Registration deadline and release of test data. * February 17, 2026: End of evaluation cycle (Test set submission closes). * February 24, 2026: Announcement of results. * March 10, 2026: System description paper submissions due. * March 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance. * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready versions due. * May 2026 (TBC): Workshop at LREC 2026. Participation Participants are welcome to submit to one or both subtasks. The shared task will be managed via CodaLab. For more details, participation guidelines, and data access, please visit our task website: https://ezzini.github.io/AraSentEval/ Organizers * Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA * Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK * Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity, Vietnam / Lancaster University, UK * Samaher Alghamdi, Lancaster University, UK * Reem Alotaibi, King Abdulaziz University, KSA * Salmane Chafik, UM6P, Morocco We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The AraSentEval 2026 Organizers ********************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: The information in this email and its attachments (if any) is intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email and its attachments from your system and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, disclose, copy, or use this email or any of its contents for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. KFUPM is not responsible for changes made to this message after it was sent. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of KFUPM. KFUPM is not liable for any effect or virus damage caused by this message. إن المعلومات الواردة في هذا البريد الإلكتروني ومرفقاته إن وجدت، قد تكون خاصة أو سرية؛ فإذا لم تكن المقصود بهذه الرسالة؛ فيُرجى منك حذفها ومرفقاتها من نظامك وإخطار المرسل بخطأ وصولها إليك فورا. كما لا يجوز نسخ أي جزء منها أو مرفقاتها ، أو الإفصاح عن محتوياتها لأي شخص أو استعمالها لأي غرض آخر. إن جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن لا تتحمل مسؤولية التغييرات التي يتم إجراؤها على هذه الرسالة بعد إرسالها. وإن البيانات أو الآراء المعبر عنها في هذا البريد، هي بيانات تخص مُرسلها، ولا تعكس بالضرورة رأي وبيانات الجامعة. كما لا تتحمل الجامعة مسؤولية أي تأثير ينتج عن هذه الرسالة أوعن أي فيروس قد تحمله.

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1st CFP: 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

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

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CfP: NakbaVirality Shared Task - NakbaNLP within LREC 2026
by Saad Ezzini 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Call for Participation: NakbaVirality Shared Task Multimodal and Textual Virality Prediction in High-Stakes Discourse Organized within the second Nakba-NLP Workshop at LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ 11-16 May 2026 Palma de Mallorca, Spain We invite you to participate in the NakbaVirality Shared Task, a new challenge focusing on predicting the reach and engagement of content surrounding the Nakba and the post-October 7th war on Gaza. This task operates at the intersection of NLP, Computer Vision, and Computational Social Science, aiming to understand information diffusion in highly polarized and emotionally charged contexts. Website: https://ezzini.github.io/NakbaVirality/ Registration: https://forms.gle/ufj2gqRyMrrdDs5f9 Motivation Understanding what makes a post "go viral" in conflict zones is critical for analyzing propaganda spread, public sentiment, and information maneuvering. This shared task challenges participants to model "virality" not just as a number, but as a function of nuanced text, graphic imagery, and deep historical context. Tasks We propose two distinct tasks: Task 1: Multimodal Virality Classification * Goal: Classify posts into Low, Medium, or High virality buckets. * Input: Text + Image. * Challenge: Aligning mismatched modalities (e.g., peaceful image vs. violent interaction) and handling "dog whistles." * Metric: Macro-F1 Score. Task 2: Textual Virality and Interaction Prediction (Regression) * Goal: Predict distinct Likability (agreement) and Interactivity (controversy/engagement) scores. * Input: Text only. * Challenge: Distinguishing between content that is "liked" versus content that provokes "debate." * Metrics: Pearson Correlation (r) and MSE. Data * Sources: X (Twitter) and Reddit. * Size: ~5,000 anonymized samples (post-Oct 2023). * Content: Posts related to "Gaza," "Nakba," "Palestine," "Israel," etc. Important Dates * Jan 1: Release of Training Data (3,500 samples) * Feb 1: Release of Development Data (500 samples) * Feb 15: Evaluation Period Begins * Feb 20: Evaluation Period Ends * Mar 1: Paper Submission Deadline Participation & Submission * Participation is free. * Teams must verify their results by submitting a system description paper (max 4 pages). * Papers will be published in the proceedings (ACLAnthology). * Detailed guidelines: https://ezzini.github.io/NakbaVirality/guidelines Organizers * Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals * Samir El-Amrany, University of Luxembourg * Walid Alsafadi, University College of Applied Sciences Gaza For more information, please visit our website https://ezzini.github.io/NakbaVirality/ or contact us at saad.ezzini(a)kfupm.edu.sa<mailto:saad.ezzini@kfupm.edu.sa> ********************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: The information in this email and its attachments (if any) is intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email and its attachments from your system and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, disclose, copy, or use this email or any of its contents for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. KFUPM is not responsible for changes made to this message after it was sent. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of KFUPM. KFUPM is not liable for any effect or virus damage caused by this message. إن المعلومات الواردة في هذا البريد الإلكتروني ومرفقاته إن وجدت، قد تكون خاصة أو سرية؛ فإذا لم تكن المقصود بهذه الرسالة؛ فيُرجى منك حذفها ومرفقاتها من نظامك وإخطار المرسل بخطأ وصولها إليك فورا. كما لا يجوز نسخ أي جزء منها أو مرفقاتها ، أو الإفصاح عن محتوياتها لأي شخص أو استعمالها لأي غرض آخر. إن جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن لا تتحمل مسؤولية التغييرات التي يتم إجراؤها على هذه الرسالة بعد إرسالها. وإن البيانات أو الآراء المعبر عنها في هذا البريد، هي بيانات تخص مُرسلها، ولا تعكس بالضرورة رأي وبيانات الجامعة. كما لا تتحمل الجامعة مسؤولية أي تأثير ينتج عن هذه الرسالة أوعن أي فيروس قد تحمله.

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[CfP] Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026
by Gilles Sérasset 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

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

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The Fifth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM): 1st call for papers
by Simon Mille 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, Please find below information about the upcoming GEM workshop! Event Type: Call for Papers Conference: GEM at ACL 2026 Date: July 2nd or July 3rd, 2026 Location: San Diego, California, USA Website: https://gem-workshop.com/ Contact: gem-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com ------------------------------ Overview The fifth edition of the Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) Workshop will be at ACL 2026 in San Diego! Evaluation of language models has grown to be a central theme in NLP research, while remaining far from solved. As LMs have become more powerful, errors have become tougher to spot and systems harder to distinguish. Evaluation practices are evolving rapidly—from living benchmarks like Chatbot Arena to LMs being used as evaluators themselves (e.g., LM as judge, autoraters). Further research is needed to understand the interplay between metrics, benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop evaluation, and their impact in real-world settings Topics of Interest We welcome submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: - Automatic evaluation of generation systems, including the use of LMs as evaluators - Creating evaluation corpora, challenge sets, and living benchmarks - Critiques of benchmarking efforts, including contamination, memorization, and validity - Evaluation of cutting-edge topics in LM development, including long-context understanding, agentic capabilities, reasoning, and more - Evaluation as measurement beyond raw capability, including ideas such as robustness, reliability, and more - Multimodal evaluation across text, vision, and other modalities - Cost-aware and efficient evaluation methods applicable across languages and scenarios - Human evaluation and its role in the era of powerful LMs - Evaluation of sociotechnical systems employing large language models - Surveys and meta-assessments of evaluation methods, metrics, and benchmarks - Best practices for dataset and benchmark documentation - Industry applications of the above-mentioned topics, especially internal benchmarking or navigating the gap between academic metrics and real-world impact. Special TracksOpinion and Statement Papers Track (New!) We are introducing a special track for opinion and statement papers. These submissions will be presented in curated panel discussions, encouraging open dialogue on emerging topics in evaluation research. We welcome bold, thought-provoking position papers that challenge conventional wisdom, propose new directions for the field, or offer critical perspectives on current evaluation practices. This track is an opportunity to spark discussion and debate—submissions need not present new empirical results but should offer well-argued viewpoints supported by scientific evidence (e.g. prior studies) that advance our collective thinking about evaluation. ReproNLP The ReproNLP Shared Task on Reproducibility of Evaluations in NLP has been run for six consecutive years (2021–2026). ReproNLP 2026 will be part of the GEM Workshop at ACL 2026 in San Diego. It aims to (i) shed light on the extent to which past NLP evaluations have been reproducible, and (ii) draw conclusions regarding how NLP evaluations can be designed and reported in order to increase reproducibility. Participants submit reports for their reproductions of human evaluations from previous NLP literature where they quantitatively assess the degree of reproducibility using methods described in Belz. (2025). More details can be found in the first call for participation for ReproNLP 2026 at https://repronlp.github.io. Workshop Format We aim to organize the workshop in an inclusive, highly interactive, and discussion-driven format. Paper presentations will focus on themed poster sessions that allow presenters to interact with researchers from varied backgrounds and similar interests. The workshop will feature panels on emerging topics and multiple short keynotes by leading experts. 🎭 GEM Comic-Con Edition! In the spirit of San Diego's famous Comic-Con (July 23-26), this year's GEM will be a special Comic-Con edition! We encourage participants to embrace creativity! Whether that’s through themed poster designs, comic-style slides, or dressing up as your favorite evaluation metric personified, we want this year's workshop to be memorable and fun! Submission Types Submissions can take any of the following forms: - Archival Papers: Original and unpublished work, for all the following tracks—Main, ReproNLP, and Opinion/Statement. - Non-Archival Extended Abstracts: Work already presented or under review at a peer-reviewed venue. This is an excellent opportunity to share recent or ongoing work with the GEM community without precluding future publication. - Findings Papers: We additionally welcome presentation of relevant papers accepted to Findings, and will share more information at a later date. All accepted papers will be given up to an additional page to address reviewers comments. Submission Guidelines - Papers to be reviewed should be submitted directly through OpenReview, selecting the appropriate track, and conform to ACL 2026 style guidelines - Review requirement: For each submitted paper, authors may be asked to provide 2 reviews (either one author doing 2 reviews, or two authors each doing one review) - Length. - Archival papers should be within 4–8 pages, and opinion/statement papers should be within 2–4 pages. We make no “Short” or “Long” paper distinctions; we advise authors to tailor their submission length proportional to their contribution. - Extended abstracts should be within 1–2 pages. - Opinion/Statement Papers: These should be titled with the “Position:” prefix. - Dual submission: Dual submission of archival papers is not allowed. Authors interested in presenting work submitted to a different venue should instead use the non-archival extended abstract track. Important Dates - March 19, 2026: Direct paper submission deadline - April 9, 2026: Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline - April 28, 2026: Notification of acceptance - May 14, 2026: Camera-ready paper due - June 4, 2026: Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline) - July 2–3, 2026: Workshop at ACL in San Diego Contact For any questions, please check the workshop page or email the organisers: gem-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com *Dublin City University* *Simon Mille *| Postdoctoral Research Fellow ADAPT Centre School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland www.adaptcentre.ie *ADAPT Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Centre for Digital Content Technology* Privileged/confidential information: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. 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CLARIN ERIC Newsflash: December 2025
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, The December edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * A review of 2025 with key achievements and milestones * Direct links to the Annual Conference recordings and an impression video, perfect inspiration if you are considering to submit your abstracts for CLARIN2026 * An overview of CLARIN’s presence at LREC including co-organised workshops Additionally, the call for extended abstracts for CLARIN 2026 is now open. Submission deadline 6 April 2026. Link to the call: https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-confere… Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-december-2025 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. Kind regards, CLARIN ERIC --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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Call for Shared Task Proposals: ArgMining 2026
by Musi, Elena 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

We invite submissions of shared task proposals for ArgMining 2026, the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning, co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego). Background Argument mining (also known as argumentation mining) is a well-established area in computational linguistics focusing on the automatic identification of argumentative structures such as premises, conclusions, and inference schemes. The field has historically emphasized the development of large-scale datasets and tasks including argument quality assessment, argument persuasiveness, and argumentative text synthesis across domains such as legal, social, medical, political, and scientific settings. In line with broader advances in CL and NLP, recent work has expanded toward explainable argumentation, multimodal settings, and modeling human label variation. Previous editions of ArgMining have promoted shared tasks to advance research on specific aspects of argument mining, including: * Multimodal argumentative fallacy detection: https://nlp-unibo.github.io/mm-argfallacy/2025/ Dialogical argument mining: http://dialam.arg.tech/ ArgMining 2026 Shared Tasks Following the success of prior workshops, ArgMining 2026 plans to feature one or more shared tasks addressing unsolved problems for the community to investigate. In keeping with this year’s special theme—“Understanding and evaluating arguments in both human and machine reasoning”—we particularly encourage proposals aligned with this focus. What to Include in a Proposal Shared task proposals should include: * Title and brief task description * Description of the datasets to be used and their readiness * Previous work on the datasets, including relevant publications (if any) * A short description of the evaluation methodology for submitted systems * Brief introduction of the task organizers * Anticipated timeline, including dates for dataset releases and final evaluation How to Submit Submit your shared task proposal via email to: argmining.org [at] gmail.com * Submission deadline: December 22, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: beginning/mid January 2026 Tentative Shared Task Schedule * Mid January: Training data release * Early March: Test data release; evaluation start * Mid/late March: Evaluation end * Early April: Results announcement * Mid April: Paper submission deadline * Mid May: Camera-ready deadline * July: ArgMining 2026 workshop (at ACL) Organizers Mohamed Elaraby (University of Pittsburgh) Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau) John Lawrence (University of Dundee) Elena Musi (University of Liverpool) Julia Romberg (GESIS) Federico Ruggeri (University of Bologna)

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ARHAHA 2026
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

We’re excited to invite you to take part in ARHAHA 2026, a shared task on Arabic Humor Generation, hosted at OSACT7 and co-located with LREC 2026. Description: Participants will develop systems that generate original, safe, and culturally appropriate humorous content in Arabic under a set of carefully designed constraints. The task aims to push models beyond memorization and towards genuine humorous creativity. Humor Generation Task This task focuses on building and evaluating systems that generate short humorous texts in Arabic given constrained prompts. Task Summary Input: A pair of Arabic words Output: A short humorous Arabic text (maximum 100 characters) Evaluation: Automated format and constraint validation Human evaluation of humor quality, originality, fluency, and cultural appropriateness The website for the shared task is: https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home How to Participate? Registration is required, please complete the registration form. Join the ARAHAHA at Slack workspace. System Description Papers All participating teams are encouraged to submit a short system description paper. Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and do not require high leaderboard ranking. We welcome creative approaches, analysis, and lessons learned. Contact For questions or clarifications, please contact the organizing team at arhaha2026(a)gmail.com We look forward to your participation and contributions! Best regards, The ARHAHA 2026 Organizing Team ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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Call for Participation in Touché @ CLEF 2026: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems (Fallacies, Causality, Generalizability, Advertisements)
by Johannes.Kiesel＠gesis.org 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

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

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Deadline extended: VarDial 2026 @ EACL – The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by verena.blaschke＠cis.lmu.de 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

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

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December 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

In this newsletter: LDC 2026 membership discounts now available LDC's 1000th corpus Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break December 25 - January 2 New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Development and Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S11> LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T17> ________________________________ LDC 2026 membership discounts now available Now through March 2, 2026, any organization that joins the Consortium or renews their membership will receive a 10% discount off the 2026 membership fee. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership options and benefits. LDC's 1,000th corpus LDC is delighted to announce the release of the 1,000th corpus into the Catalog! This milestone represents the commitment we made over thirty years ago to provide large quantities of diverse data, robust research program support, and exceptional member services. We are grateful for the continued support and collaboration of our members, friends, and the community. Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications Attention students: don't miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2026 data scholarships are due January 15, 2026. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 2 LDC will be closed from Thursday, December 25, 2025, through Friday, January 2, 2026, in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy. Our offices will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2026. Requests received by the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office reopens. ________________________________ New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S11> was developed by LDC and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). It contains approximately 447 hours of Cantonese, Mandarin, and English conversational telephone speech, audio from video, and selfie image data for development and test, along with answer keys, enrollment, trial files, and documentation from the NIST-sponsored 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE)<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/nist-2021-speaker-recognition-evaluation-s…>. The SRE task is speaker detection, that is, to determine whether a specified target speaker was speaking during a segment of speech. SRE21 focused on telephone speech and audio from video and included close-up images of participants. The evaluation also featured cross-lingual trials, that is, enrollment and test segments spoken in different languages. The data was drawn from the WeCanTalk corpus collected by LDC in which speakers called friends or relatives who agreed to record their telephone conversations lasting between 8-10 minutes. Subjects contributed multiple conversational telephone speech recordings and audio recordings in which they were talking, plus a single selfie image. Recordings were manually audited to verify speaker, language, and quality. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T17> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 8.1 million words of Sinhala monolingual text, 700,00 words of English monolingual text, 6.4 million words of parallel Sinhala- English text, and 50,000 words annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Sinhala language used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2018 Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt-evaluations>. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity discovery and linking annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Mile for Posters and Demos Submissions
by Announce 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

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

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Call for Participation: SAIL Spring School 2026 at Paderborn University, Germany
by Yasir mahmood 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

** Call for Participation ** We are pleased to open the registration for the SAIL Spring School 2026, which will take place from 17–19 March 2026 at Paderborn University, Germany. Organized by the SAIL Research Network (Sustainable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems), the Spring School offers interdisciplinary perspectives on resilience and artificial intelligence, bringing together technical, theoretical, and socio-technical viewpoints. Over the course of three days, participants will gain insights into current research on knowledge-driven AI methods, explainability, and the role of AI in engineering robust and sustainable systems. A poster session and several social activities will provide further opportunities for exchange and networking. - Participation is free of charge, but due to limited capacity, registration is required. - All details and the registration form can be found here: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/e/SAILspringschool <https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/e/SAILspringschool>- Registration deadline: 5 January 2026. We are happy to announce the following speakers and topics at the summer school: - Knowledge Representation as Political AI (Prof. Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Data-efficient learning of physics systems by exploiting knowledge (Prof. Sebastian Peitz, TU Dortmund) - Symbol emergence in explainable and continual learning (Prof. Natalia Diaz Rodriguez, University of Granada) - Chances and Limits of AI in the Engineering of Resilient Software Systems (Prof. Eric Bodden. Paderborn University) - Engineering Cognitive Sustainability: How to Implement Social XAI (Prof. Kary Främling, Umeå University) - TBD (Prof. Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University) - TBD (Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier, LMU München) - TBD (Prof. Marco Platzner, Paderborn University) Further information about the SAIL Research Network can be found at: https://www.sail.nrw/ <https://www.sail.nrw/>

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job opening: prof. (W1 or W2) in ML / NLP, Düsseldorf, Germany
by Laura Kallmeyer 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is inviting applications for the position of a *****Professorship for Machine Learning***** (open rank: W2 or W1 with tenure track to W2) at the department of Computer Science to be filled as soon as possible. We are seeking an individual with outstanding expertise in the field of Machine Learning, particularly in modern machine learning techniques (e.g. Large Language Models and Deep Learning architectures for Explainable AI, Agentic AI, Neuro-symbolic AI and Reinforcement Learning) with connections to Natural Language Processing, who will represent this expertise in both research and teaching. The candidate should have proven expertise in the development of machine learning methods, and it is expected that he/she will contribute to collaborative projects. Active participation in the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (HeiCAD) is desirable. Experience or --- for an initial appointment on W1 level --- a well-founded potential in acquiring competitive third-party funding and publications at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, and/or leading scientific journals is expected. Furthermore, excellent didactic skills are required. Teaching responsibilities include courses in computer science (Bachelor and Master in Computer Science, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science), including regular participation in basic courses. In addition, active involvement in teaching offerings for other disciplines (e.g., within the framework of „KI für alle“) and participation in university self-administration are expected. For a direct appointment on W2 level a scientific performance equivalent to Habilitation, in particular high-level publications, success in acquiring third-party funding, and suitable experience in teaching in Computer Science or related programs is required. Heinrich Heine University upholds the principle of “excellence through diversity.” It has signed the “Diversity Charter” and successfully participated in the Stifterverband‘s “Shaping Diversity” audit. It is certified as a family-friendly university and has received the European Union‘s HR Excellence in Research Award. Applications from suitably qualified severely disabled persons or disabled persons regarded as being of equal status according to Book IX of the German Social Legal Code (SGB – Soziales Gesetzbuch) are encouraged. At Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, appointments may also be part-time, provided there are no overriding administrative reasons in individual cases for requiring full-time employment. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf offers a Dual Career Support and is a member of the Rhineland Dual Career Network (Dual Career Netzwerk Rheinland). www.dualcareer-rheinland.de provides further information. For questions about the professorship, please contact Prof. Dr. P. Swoboda (paul.swoboda(a)hhu.de). For further assistance, contact berufungsportalmnf(a)hhu.de. Please submit your application in digital form with the usual documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, details of all academic publications, tabular list and proof of competitively acquiredthird-party funding (including scholarships), copies of academic certificates, research concept (max. 2 pages), teaching concept (max. 2 pages), course catalogue) in the HHU appointment portal at https://berufungsportal.hhu.de and complete the requested information as fully as possible. Deadline for applications: 14.01.2026 Conditions for employment are, in addition to general administrative conditions in accordance with § 36 of the North Rhine-Westphalia University Act (Gesetz über die Hochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen), an aptitude for teaching, exceptional competence in research, and additional scientific achievements. Female candidates are encouraged to apply; they will be given preference in cases of equal aptitude, ability, and professional achievements unless there are exceptional reasons for choosing another applicant. -- Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer Institut für Linguistik Heinrich-Heine Universität Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany https://user.phil.hhu.de/kallmeyer/ Phone +49 (0)211 8113899

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1st CfP for CMCL at LREC 2026: 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on May 16, 2026. CMCL 2026: 1st Call for Papers<https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp> Deadline: Feb. 25; Workshop: May 16 (co-located with LREC) We invite submissions to the 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026). CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Analysis of computational models that process linguistic data to yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Presentation and/or analysis of language resources that can yield insights into human language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Aligning computational models with human subject data to understand what computations underlie language comprehension, production, or acquisition. * Modeling conditions and pressures that shape the emergence of human-like communicative systems. * Forward-looking positions about what and how the cognitive science, linguistics, and NLP fields can (or should) contribute to one another. CMCL will only accept direct submissions through the START platform (submission link TBA). We invite three types of submissions, formatted according to the LREC guidelines<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>: 1. Archival, regular workshop submissions that present original, unpublished research that are between 4 to 8 pages in length. 2. Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). 3. Non-archival cross-submissions of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere. Only archival papers will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will be presented at the workshop. Important Dates: * February 25, 2026: Paper submission deadline * March 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance * March 30, 2026: Camera-ready paper due * May 16, 2026: Workshop date * Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. The CMCL workshop is supported by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)<https://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/>. For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com>

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CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation
by Julia Maria Struß 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We invite you to participate in the 2026 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2026. This year, we feature three tasks ---two follow-up and one new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Source Retrieval for Scientific Web Claims: Given a social media post that contains a scientific claim and an implicit reference to a scientific paper (mentions it without a URL), retrieve the mentioned paper from a pool of candidate papers. Available in English, German, and French. Task 2 Fact-Checking Numerical Claims:Given claims, potential evidences, and possible reasoning paths, rank the reasoning paths and provide an output of verdict. Available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Task 3 Generating Full Fact-Checking Articles:Given a claim, its veracity, and a set of evidence documents consulted for fact-checking the claim, generate a full fact-checking article. Register and participate:https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ <https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/> Further information:https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ <https://checkthat.gitlab.io/> Datasets:https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab <https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2026-checkthat-lab> Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV <https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV> Important Dates --------------------- - November 2025: Lab registration opens - December 2025: Release of the sample materials - December - February 2026: Release of training materials - 23 April 2026: Lab registration closes - April 2026: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 7 May 2026 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 28 May 2026: Deadline for the submission of working notes [CEUR-WS] - 30 June 2026: Notification of Acceptance for working notes [CEUR-WS] - 6 July 2026: Camera Ready Copy of working note papers [CEUR-WS] - 10 July 2026: Regular Registration Ends - 31 August 2026: Late Registration Ends - 21-24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany Best regards, The CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers -- ___________________________ Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften/ Department of Information Sciences Kiepenheuerallee 5 14469 Potsdam phone: +49 331 580 4532

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1st CFP-GITT-2026 at EAMT 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2026 15 June 2026, Tilburg, The Netherlands https://sites.google.com/view/gitt2026/ @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 20 April, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: 13 May, 2026 Camera Ready Copy due: 20 May, 2026 Workshop: 15 June, 2026 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2025 and 2026. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2026 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eamt2026) **Workshop organizers** Manuel Lardelli, University of Padova Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eleni Gkovedarou, University of Ghent

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From: AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 14 Dec '25

14 Dec '25

Dear all We’re excited to invite you to take part in AdabEval 2026, a shared task on politeness classification in Arabic social media posts, hosted at OSACT7 and co-located with LREC 2026. The website for the shared task is: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home Description: Participants will develop systems to perform one of the following two subtasks, which investigate politeness in Arabic social media posts: Politeness Classification (Subtask A): This subtask focuses on building and evaluating models that automatically assess the politeness level of Arabic social-media posts. Given a post’s text, participants must classify it into one of three categories: Polite, Neutral, or Impolite. Systems will be compared using accuracy as well as macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score on the test data. Subtask A Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: One of 3 predefined category labels (polite, neutral or impolite) - Metric: Accuracy, macro-averaged precision, recall, and F1-score Category Prediction (Subtask B): In this subtask, the objective is to assess systems’ ability to identify multiple pragmatic functions in Arabic social-media posts. Each text may express one or more categories drawn from nine culturally grounded functions, including criticism, insult, respect, prayer, greeting, and hospitality. The task is formulated as a multi-label classification problem, requiring systems to predict all applicable categories for each instance. The official evaluation metric is the macro-averaged F1 score computed across the nine categories. Subtask B Summary - Input: Arabic post - Output: All applicable categories for each instance. - Metric:Macro-averaged F1-score Dataset Information: The dataset is an annotated corpus of Arabic social‑media posts. Each record contains an identifier, raw text, a primary label (polite, neutral or impolite), and up to three category-keyword pairs. Categories capture pragmatic functions such as Criticism, Insult, Disparagement, Prayers, Greetings, Admiration, Respect, Felicitation and Hospitality & generosity. Keywords highlight words or phrases that motivated the annotation. EXAMPLE 1: --------------- Sentence: مبدعون ومميزين بطرحكم وضيوفكم. جزاكم الله خير الجزاء Source: YouTube Label: Polite Criteria 1: Appreciation & Love (الإعجاب والحب) — Keywords: مبدعون، مميزين Criteria 2: Thanks & Gratitude (الشكر والامتنان) — Keywords: جزاكم الله خير الجزاء EXAMPLE 2: --------------- Sentence: من كان بتخيل دكتور معتز ومقالاته قبل ثوره ٢٥ يناير يتحول لحذاء في أيدي العسكر ويصبح مجرد دلدول ويتبع اُسلوب منحط ووضيع كده Source: Tweet Label: Impolite Criteria 1: Insult (شتيمة) — Keywords: منحط، وضيع How to Participate? 1. Registration is required, please complete the registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezmjuMBJBi6KHxk6hdEF5JQwX8w3TwdXq…>. 2. Join the AdabEval2026 at slack<https://adabeval2026.slack.com/?redir=%2Farchives%2FC09TZFH47FZ%3Fname%3DC0…>. System Description Papers All participating teams are encouraged to submit a short system description paper. Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and do not require high leaderboard ranking. We welcome creative approaches, analysis, and lessons learned. Contact For questions or clarifications, please contact the organising team at adabeval2026(a)gmail.com. We look forward to your participation and contributions! Best regards, The AdabEval 2026 Organizing Team ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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CfP: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026, Prague) – 2nd Call for Papers
by tomas.graf＠ff.cuni.cz 13 Dec '25

13 Dec '25

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

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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Workshops
by Gualtiero Volpe 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

ICMI 2026 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ============================================ 5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy https://icmi.acm.org/2026/ ============================================ The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy, between 5-9 Oct 2026. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshop topics include: * Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents * Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction * Eye Tracking for Multimodal Human-Centric Computing * Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI * Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior * Automated Assessment of Pain * Multimodal e-Coaches * Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data * Insights on Group & Team Dynamics * Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI) We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of half-day or one-day duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. If you are a representative of an institution or company that may be interested in sponsoring a workshop on a particular topic, or sending a speaker to a relevant workshop, please contact the workshop chairs, who can act as a liaison. -> Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). The proposal should include the following: * Workshop title * List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies * Workshop motivation (and history), expected outcomes and impact * Tentative list of keynote speakers * Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.) and anticipated number of talks/posters * Workshop duration (half-day or full-day), including tentative program * Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation * Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) * Paper submission and acceptance deadlines * Special space and equipment requests, if any -> Important Dates and Contact Details * Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: February 13th, 2026 * Workshop Dates: October 5th and 9th, 2026 Proposals should be submitted via PCS at this link https://new.precisionconference.com/icmi26/. ICMI organization will provide the rooms, coffee and lunch for participants, and one free registration for a speaker or organizer to each workshop. Feel free to contact the workshop chairs for any further questions. ============================================ TUTORIALS ============================================ ACM ICMI 2026 will host half-day tutorials on context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction as well as on emerging topics within the scopes of multimodal AI and social interaction. A formal call for tutorial proposals will be issued in March, but for the first time, we invite the community to indicate which tutorial topics they would most like to see. This will help prospective proposers understand what the community considers most relevant. Please complete this short form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQfyR6rHijr25CCBUP5tA4LhgEC4IoBfN… Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs, Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Tsvi Kuflik (icmi2026-tutorials-chairs(a)acm.org), if they have any questions.

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2nd CfP for 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26): submission deadline extended to December 28
by Andrey Kutuzov 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** This is the second Call for Papers for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’26). Most important news: - Direct paper submission deadline extended to December 28, 2025, AoE - Direct submissions should be made via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LChange Note: We have chosen to extended the deadline with the maximum amount of time, while still being able to meet the deadlines set by the EACL. As organizers, we regretfully recognize that this falls into holiday season. We wish you all a relaxing holiday season and do not encourage working holidays. ================== The workshop will be co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online Dates: March 24–29, 2026 📌 Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-eacl-lchange/ 📧 Contact: lchange(a)changeiskey.org == About the Workshop == The LChange workshop brings together researchers interested in computational modeling of language change — both historical and synchronic. Following the success of LChange in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, this sixth edition will be held as a hybrid half-day workshop at EACL 2026 conference in Rabat. We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of computational approaches to language change. Our goal is to foster dialogue on state-of-the-art computational methodologies, resources, and theories that explore the dynamic, time-varying nature of language. In addition to paper presentations and keynotes, we offer a mentorship program for students to engage with experienced researchers, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. == Important Dates == Direct Submission deadline: December 28, 2025 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop itself: March 28, 2026 == Submission Information == URL for submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LChange We accept the following types of submissions: - Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) - Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references). Dataset and model release papers should be submitted as short papers. Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. == Review Process == Papers must be submitted anonymously. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. Call for reviewers: If you have published in the field previously and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please email us at lchange(a)changeiskey.org! == Topics of Interest == We invite original research papers on (but not limited to): - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language == Organizers == Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, UC Berkeley, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Netta Huebscher, University of Gothenburg Elena Spaziani, Sapienza University of Rome Naomi Baes, University of Melbourne -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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1st CfP: OSACT 7 Workshop @ LREC 2026
by Saad Ezzini 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

OSACT 2026 Workshop, First Call for Papers 11 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://osact-lrec.github.io Hosted by LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ Workshop Description The Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) workshop series provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and students in computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), and information retrieval (IR) to share and discuss ongoing work on Arabic language resources and technologies. While Arabic remains comparatively resource-poor in relation to English, recent years have seen the emergence of large, freely available classical and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpora, as well as dialectical corpora and processing tools. Now in its seventh edition, OSACT7 takes an important step forward by celebrating this milestone with seven shared tasks, each addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP and reflecting broader themes relevant to NLP research in general. OSACT7 builds on its long-standing commitment to open-source contributions that advance accessibility, reproducibility, and fairness, and this year it places inclusivity at the heart of its mission. A key focus is to recognize and support minority dialects and underrepresented varieties of Arabic, ensuring that diverse linguistic voices and resources are not only acknowledged but actively valued within the community. The workshop will cover general topics in CL, NLP, and IR, with special emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, including pre-trained Arabic language models, corpus design and evaluation, and annotated corpora for tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text classification. Additional areas of focus include crowdsourcing for data annotation, tools for language education, tokenization, normalisation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, dialect identification and translation, fake news detection, and web and social media analytics. Methodologies for resource creation and annotation, knowledge extraction, ontologies, terminology, knowledge representation, and integration with the Semantic Web (e.g. Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs) will also be explored. Workshop Topics The workshop welcomes (including but not limited to) topics in the following areas: A) Language Resources: · Pre-trained Arabic language models. · Surveys and evaluations of existing Arabic corpora and their associated processing tools. · Development and release of new annotated corpora for NLP and IR tasks such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text classification, and language learning. · Assessing the effectiveness of crowdsourcing platforms for Arabic data annotation. · Arabic text and speech processing toolkits. B) Tools and Technologies: · Language education, including first (L1) and second (L2) language learning applications. · Pre-training & fine-tuning approaches for Arabic. · Tokenization, normalisation, segmentation, morphology, and POS tagging. · Sentiment analysis, dialect ID, \& classification. · Web and social media analytics. · Arabic LRs for text, speech, sign, gesture, image, & multimodal data. · Best practices for LR interoperability. · Construction and annotation of LRs. · Knowledge extraction, acquisition, and representation. · Ontologies, terminology, and frameworks. · LRs and the Semantic Web (Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs). · Data contamination, synthetic data, and quality issues. Important Dates · February 18, 2026: Paper submission deadline · March 12, 2026 Notification of acceptance · March 30, 2026: Camera-ready deadline · May 11, 2026: Workshop Date Submission Instructions We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata for the resource. 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Third Call for Papers, Participation and Demo - IWSLT 2025
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – **Third** Call for Participation* *31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria* http://iwslt.org 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 organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/> of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/> and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event, co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1 August 2025. *Important Dates* *January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data *March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline *Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period *April 21, 2025*: System description paper and demo submission deadline *May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance *June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper) *July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference *Evaluation* The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track, Model compression track - Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks - Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR, Summarization, and QA Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organisers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. *Conference* IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review. Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected. *Demo Session* We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to participate in an engaging demo session highlighting innovative systems, tools, and component technologies that advance the field of speech translation. The session will include live and interactive system demonstrations to foster discussion and knowledge exchange among participants across the field. For more information, please see our Call for Demos <https://iwslt.org/2025/call-for-demos>. *Contact* Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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IVACS 2026 (MALTA) - CfP
by Christopher.Fitzgerald 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers<https://www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs2026/callforpapers/> for the Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference in Malta (13 July 2026) is open. The IVACS Association is pleased to announce that the 12th Biennial IVACS Conference will be hosted by the University of Malta, Valletta Campus, from 1–3 July 2026. The IVACS Conference series is a leading international forum for corpus-based research into linguistic varieties and applications of corpus linguistics in professional, pedagogical, and social contexts. Following the successful series of conferences, IVACS 2026 will continue to build on this tradition of collaboration and innovation. We welcome proposals related to (but not limited to): * Corpus Design & Methodology: compilation, annotation, and representativeness * Applied Contexts: workplace and professional discourse, minority and endangered languages, translation, interpreting, multilingual communication, stylistics * Innovations & Emerging Directions: GenAI tools and platforms, multimodal corpora * Teaching & Learning: corpus applications in pedagogy, data-driven learning, assessment, teacher education, learner corpora, genre-based approaches * Corpus-Informed Materials: pedagogic grammars, textbooks, syllabi design * Theoretical Perspectives: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication * Corpus Linguistics and Ethical Practice: Ethical, transparent, and inclusive methods in corpus-based research Submission Details * Individual Papers: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion * Colloquia: 90 minutes, consisting of 3 thematically linked papers * Posters: especially suitable for work-in-progress or early-stage projects * Paper, colloquia and poster abstracts should be submitted to ivacs2026(a)um.edu.mt<mailto:ivacs2026@um.edu.mt>. The language of the conference is English. We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers. Abstract specifications for Individual Papers and Posters: * 250 – 350 words in length (including references, if any) * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Title; Presenter(s); Affiliation(s); Email address(es), plus abstract * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Title and abstract only Abstract specifications for Colloquia: * A maximum of 1,000 words in length (not including list of references) * A single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure * Written in Times New Roman font and saved as a docs file * Page 1 will include: Theme for the panel; Title of each contribution; Presenters; Affiliations; Email addresses, plus abstracts * Page 2 will be anonymised and will include: Titles and abstracts only Important Dates * Abstract submission opens: 1 October 2025 * Abstract submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: Early March 2026 * Early-bird registration deadline: April 2026 * Conference dates: 1–3 July 2026 Séanadh Ríomhphoist / Email Disclaimer https://www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/college-services/ict-services?index=5

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Call for Participation: Conference “Historical Languages & AI”
by daidalos-projekt＠hu-berlin.de 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, the Daidalos team warmly invites you to take part in the two-day conference “Historical Languages and AI” in Berlin. When: 5 - 6 March, 2026 Where: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin We look forward to an interdisciplinary exchange with researchers who bring a deep interest in digital methods for text analysis. Contributions from several disciplines, including computational literary studies, Digital Classics, and computational linguistics, will address topics such as the application of Natural Language Processing methods, the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs), their evaluation for historical languages, and additional tasks such as LLM-based translation. While the Daidalos project primarily focuses on Classics, we are excited to welcome contributions that reach beyond Latin and Ancient Greek as part of this enriching exchange, for example on Old and Middle French or Old Church Slavonic. The formats are not only aimed at advanced researchers: The hands-on workshops are particularly suitable for those looking to get started with scholarly work using AI. For more information and the program, please visit our website: https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/ We look forward to receiving your registration via the form soon. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested. Kind regards, Konstantin Schulz and the Daidalos team

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Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science
by Thorsten Trippel 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science Palma de Mallorca Call for Papers The workshop Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science will be held at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). Derived Text Formats (DTF), also known as extracted features, offer a promising solution for enabling research on textual data that cannot be shared in its original form due to copyright or privacy restrictions. This workshop brings together researchers, legal experts, and infrastructure providers to explore the creation, standardization, legal framing, and scientific use of derived data in linguistics, digital humanities, and language technology. We invite contributions from the community that address practical experiences, challenges, and solutions related to: * The creation and processing of DTF * Legal and ethical considerations in publishing derived data * Use cases from digital humanities, linguistic research, corpus linguistics, or NLP * Infrastructure and tools supporting DTF flows * Standardization efforts (e.g., TEI, SynAF, MAF, ISO standards) The workshop will be held as a hybrid event. The exact workshop date will be communicated in due time. Submission Format Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references and potential Ethics Statements). Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on theAuthor’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and the programme committee. Important Dates * Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026 * Reviewing period: 21 February 2026 – 10 March 2026 * Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026 * Camera Ready paper submission Deadline: 30 March 2026 * Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026 Submission Submissions will be handled via the conference Softconf/START system. The link will be provided here when it becomes available. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Workshop Organisers * Florian Barth, Göttingen State and University Library * Keli Du, University of Trier * José Calvo Tello, Göttingen State and University Library * Philippe Genêt, German National Library * Piroska Lendvai, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities * Christof Schöch University of Trier * Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen and Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Programme Committee tba Contact For questions, please contact:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com <mailto:dtf-at-lrec2026@googlegroups.com> Updates For updates, see https://text-plus.org/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-11/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ///////// Dr. Thorsten Trippelthorsten.trippel(a)uni-tuebingen.de // Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft // // Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen // // Keplerstr. 2 #162 // Phone: +49 7071-29-77352 ///////// Federal Republic of Germany -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026
by Yifei Yuan 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

🎖️ Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026 The KvR Award honours outstanding researchers who have advanced the theoretical foundations of Information Retrieval — those whose work has shaped new models, paradigms, or metrics that deepen our understanding of IR. The award was first presented at ECIR 2024 to Prof. Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam). The second KvR Award will be awarded at ECIR 2026 in Delft! 🔹 Eligibility: active IR researchers with ≥10 years since PhD 🔹 Deadline for nominations: 15 January 2026 🔹 Submit nominations via the form provided below Read more about the award, nomination process, and find the form to submit your nominations here: https://lnkd.in/emecdsXm, https://ecir2026.eu/calls/keith-van-rijsbergen-award

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Last CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Elena Epure 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

[image: 🎵]Last Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 11, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 11, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 30, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM -- Elena Epure Senior Research Scientist 22-26, rue de Calais - 75009 PARIS

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Call for workshop papers and Shared Task participation: the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) (formerly CASE) @ ACL 2026
by Ali Hurriyetoglu 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

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

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Cfp: The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE 2026)
by Neele Falk 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

----------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: DELITE 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ----------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW -------- Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology. While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models. We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Deliberation theory in NLP models * In-domain versus across domain resources * Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces * Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale * Argument mining for deliberation scenarios * Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking * Empirical foundations for evaluation * Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios * Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale * Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making * Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias APPLICATION AREAS ----------------- We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse. SUBMISSION ---------- DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers. * Extended Abstracts: A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication. * Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building. Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative ------------------------------------------------------ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)". IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- * Archival paper submission: 19 February 2026 * Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- * Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK * Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany * Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK * Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany * Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany * Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany CONTACT --------------------- e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/ ---------------------

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CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

Joint Call for Papers Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) SoCon and NLPSI will be co-located with the 15th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2026), held in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11–16 May 2026. Workshop day: May 12, 2026 Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026 Website:https://socon-nlpsi.github.io<https://socon-nlpsi.github.io/> Contact:socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc@uni-bamberg.de Overview Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while addressing distinct challenges. The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use, seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional crowdsourcing. The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale studies. This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors should choose the track that best matches their contribution. SoCon Track "Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts." Topics include, but are not limited to: * Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with pragmatics and social sciences * Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of practice and speech communities * Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory design involving relevant communities * Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events Contact for SoCon track:social-context-workshop@googlegroups.com NLPSI Track "Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a deeper understanding of social interactions." Topics include, but are not limited to: * Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality) * Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction * Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution * The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation Contact for NLPSI track:nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc@uni-bamberg.de Submission Types * Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from preliminary to established contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage research Submission Guidelines Submissions will be double-blind reviewed. Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf). Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics, acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count. Submission via Softconf. Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools, technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement. Workshop Format The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy. It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations (oral and lightning talks). Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026 Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026 Workshop day: May 12, 2026 Organizers SoCon Marco Antonio Stranisci, Turin University Soda Marem Lo, Turin University Sabine Weber, Bamberg University Rossana Damiano, Turin University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Viviana Patti, Turin University Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg NLPSI Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg Sofie Labat, Ghent University Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg Véronique Hoste, Ghent University Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg University

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[EACL WASSA Workshop] 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 3rd and final Call for Papers
by Roman Klinger 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

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

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CFP: 3rd Int. Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) 2026
by Georg Rehm 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

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

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[CFP] The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
by ACL Announcements 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 20TH LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION WORKSHOP (LAW-XX) Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. LAW-XX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised "human in the loop" methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. LAW-XX will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. SPECIAL THEME: ERRORS IN ANNOTATION The special theme of LAW XX is Errors in Annotation. In addition to LAW's general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the matter of addressing annotations which are in some sense objectively incorrect in their substance or omissions (c.f. Klie et al., CL 2023)--distinct from annotator disagreement (Weber-Genzel et al., ACL 2024)--and the role of error analysis in improving data quality for both human-annotated and LLM-generated datasets. As data quality becomes increasingly important (human-annotated or LLM-generated), it is essential to develop techniques or tools to quantify data quality (Swayamdipta et al., EMNLP 2020). Potential topics covered include but are not limited to: * Annotation error detection * Annotation error correction * Error type classification * Error detection and correction in crowd-sourced annotations * Errors in LLM-generated annotations IMPORTANT DATES All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Submission deadline: March 5, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: May 12, 2026 * Workshop Date: TBD LAW XX will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. SUBMISSION We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: * Annotation procedures * Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation * Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation * Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data * Annotation evaluation * Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies * Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations * Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality * Annotation access and use * Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations* at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena * Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards * New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes * Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development * Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes * Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages * Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation * Annotation software and frameworks * Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW Pre-reviewed ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commit… Note on OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop (either in-person or virtually) and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates [1]. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Limitation and ethical consideration sections are optional and do not count against these limits as well. Note: The appendix also does not count against the page limit but should not include essential details needed to understand/review the paper (appendices can contain details such as hyperparameters, formulas, proofs, and tables that are informative but not critical to the understanding of the paper). All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors' identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Chen et al., 2024) …" should be replaced with citations such as "Chen et al. (2024) previously showed …". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop program chairs (law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. Following the ACL and ARR policies [2], there is no anonymity period requirement. PREPARING THE CAMERA-READY VERSION For the final version of your paper, make sure that you remove the "review" option from the latex source file (\usepackage[review]{acl} → \usepackage{acl}). Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address the reviewers' comments. Please make sure to upload your final paper by May 12, 2026. Submissions uploaded after that date will not be included in the proceedings. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program chairs at law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com. Links: ------ [1] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [2] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy

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READIxTSAR @ LREC 2026 - 1st CFP
by Rémi Cardon 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

READIxTSAR 2026 Workshop, First Call for Papers May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://readixtsar.github.io/ Hosted by LREC 2026 https://lrec2026.info/ READIxTSAR is a joint initiative between two previous workshops of mutual interest: Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI, hosted at LREC 2020,22,24) and Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR, EMNLP 2022,24,25, RANLP 2023). This year at LREC, the committees of the two events have merged to deliver a joint event, uniting accessibility research communities under a common umbrella. We aim for READIxTSAR to be a focal point for communities of researchers working on reading difficulties, accessibility and simplification to network, share best practice and form new collaborations. *Motivation and Context* The growth of educational and assistive technologies for reading, aimed at enhancing the performance of individuals with disabilities, provides an important setting for Text Simplification research. The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). This workshop aims to present state-of-the-art applications and approaches in technology-enhanced reading and innovations in text accessibility. The workshop will address specialized technology, tools, and resources, their impact on learning to read and comprehension, and innovative works spanning research to fieldwork, particularly in light of recent AI advances. Research in automatic text simplification has evolved from deep learning methods (Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021) to leveraging foundational large language models (Kew et al. 2023; Cripwell et al. 2023; Farajidizaji et al. 2024) through fine-tuning and prompt-engineering. Despite these advancements, the Text Accessibility and Text Simplification communities must address critical areas, including: designing better evaluation metrics, developing context-aware simplification solutions, creating appropriate language resources, deploying simplification in real-world environments, studying discourse factors, and identifying factors affecting readability. Addressing these issues requires collaboration across CL/NLP, machine learning, UI/UX, accessibility professionals, and public organizations, whom we invite to participate through publication and attendance. *Topics of Interest* The joint event will accept submissions at the intersection of the research areas of the two workshops, as well as submissions that are targeted to the specific research interests of either workshop. An indicative list of topics of interest are listed below. - Lexical, syntactic and discourse adaptations or simplifications; - ATS for sentences, paragraphs, or documents; - Controllable text simplification and text generation of adapted contents; - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity; - LLMs and agentic LLMs for text simplification, text adaptation and readability - The role of LLMs in supporting reading - Complex word identification (CWI) and lexical complexity prediction (LCP); - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation and text assessment; - Evaluation of text adaptation or ATS systems; - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation; - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for supporting reading and learning; - Domain specific applications of the above topics (e.g. health, legal). *Important Dates* Submission Deadline: 16th February 2026 Notification of Results: 16th March 2026 Camera Ready: 30th March 2026 READIxTSAR Workshop: 11th, 12th or 16th May 2026 *Submission Instructions* We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted or make excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to desk-rejection. At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share related language resources with the community. All repository entries are linked to the LRE Map (https://lremap.elra.info/), which provides metadata for the resource. As in previous editions for Camera Ready a Plain Summary will be requested. *“Share your LRs!” Initiative* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). *Organizing Committee* - Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Thomas François, UCLouvain, Belgium - Raquel Amaro, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal - Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Eugénio Ribeiro, Iscte-IUL & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal - Regina Stodden, University Bielefeld, Germany - Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK - Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain - Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France Contact: readixtsar(a)googlegroups.com

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First Call for Papers: Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
by Petya Osenova 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

[apologies for cross-postings] Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) A full-day workshop at <https://lrec2026.info/> LREC 2026<https://lrec2026.info/>, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) In the last ten years, significant advances in deep learning models and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the fields of computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). In turn, this has led to a complete re-assessment of the language resources and evaluation practices necessary for training LLMs and analyzing their outputs. In particular, the availability of very large amounts of unstructured data for training foundational models has come into focus, while the value of high-quality structured linguistic data with rich annotations at various levels of linguistic analysis has been downplayed by comparison. However, as CL and NLP practitioners engage further with LLMs and debate their strengths and weaknesses, the importance of high-quality, structured linguistic data has been re-emphasized. The proposed workshop can be seen as related to the Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) conference series and the more recent SyntaxFest venue. Over the years, these venues have provided a central forum for high-quality research on treebanks, syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, structured meaning representations, and annotated linguistic resources. With record participation in recent years, they demonstrate the vitality and relevance of this line of work. The Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data is conceived as both a continuation of this tradition and an adaptation to the new realities of an LLM-dominated research landscape. The workshop will bring together researchers from these overlapping traditions to advance methods, resources, and practices for integrating structured linguistic data into the LLM era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Linguistic Data Analyses, Language Resources, and Evaluation * Grammar processing with NLP and LLM-based tools * Phonological and morphological analysis and LLM tokenization * Annotation strategies with LLM-empowered methodologies and tools * Design principles and annotation schemes for structured linguistic data * Multi-lingual and cross-lingual settings * Mapping of structured linguistic data to Linked Open Data resources * Evaluation informed by language typology * Language resources for under-resourced and endangered languages * The use of structured linguistic data for NLP applications * The use of structured linguistic data in acquiring linguistic knowledge * (Semi-)automatic methods for creating structured linguistic data Spoken language Data * Speech-to-text applications * Speech Generation techniques * Speech data preparation, curation and evaluation Multimodality and Situated Dialogue * Structured multimodal resources: gesture AMR (GAMR), gaze and posture annotation, multimodal dialogue corpora. * Multimodal grounding: linking language with visual, gestural, and action representations * Structured representations for co-attention and alignment in multiparty dialogue * Multimodal evaluation resources for LLMs Pragmatics and Discourse * Structured data for discourse and dialogue: discourse relation annotation, coherence structures, dialogue acts * Pragmatic annotation (speech acts, presupposition, implicature, politeness, stance) * Structured approaches to common ground tracking and Theory of Mind in LLMs Semantics and Lexical Meaning * Dependency analysis and semantic parsing * Annotation beyond syntax: semantics, pragmatics and discourse * Structured data for lexical semantics: sense inventories, semantic frames, qualia structure, and type-theoretic resources * Computational semantics resources: Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Universal Meaning Representation (UMR), Discourse, Representation Structures, Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), Type Theory with Records (TTR) * Distributional and neural-symbolic representations of lexical meaning: (e.g., Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR), hyperdimensional computing) for structured LLM grounding * Aligning vector-based meaning representations with symbolic/typed structures We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate – 6 to 8 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces – 4 to 6 pages excluding references and potential ethics statements. Invited speakers Naiara Perez (University of the Basque Country) Shira Wein (Amherst College) Paper Submission and Templates * Submission follows the LREC 2026 conference instructions, using the START conference management system. The submission link will be provided as soon as it becomes available. * Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, available on the conference website on the <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Important Dates February 22, 2026: Paper submission deadline March 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance March 25, 2026: Camera-ready papers May 2026: Workshop at LREC 2026 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). Workshop Organizers Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic) Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen University, Germany) Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petya Osenova (Sofia University and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

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ParaConc, MonoConc and Collocate
by Michael Barlow 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

I am simplifying my life (and taxes). The above Windows software can be downloaded from my website -- michaelbarlow.com Michael --- Michael Barlow. www.michaelbarlow.com<http://www.michaelbarlow.com/> Assoc. Prof. Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland Recent publications M. Barlow. 2023. Writing with an AI Assistant.<https://writingwithanaiassistant.com/> Athelstan. M. Barlow 2023. Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics<https://brill.com/display/title/61682>. Brill Le, Pham & Barlow 2023. The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering<https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.107>. Benjamins

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Gaze4NLP - The Second International Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing
by cagri coltekin 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

**First Call for Papers** Gaze4NLP - The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP), co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers conducting research on eyes on eyes on text and NLP; and establishing bridges between them for identifying future venues of research. Workshop webpage: https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2026/ Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 9 February 2026 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 16 March 2026 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 March 2026 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: May 2026 Conference: 11-16 May 2026 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth) Topics for the workshop will include, but are not limited to: - Investigating the pillars for bridging the gap between the research on eyes on text and NLP. Study how to expand research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identify challenges, issues to resolve. - Exploring new areas so that both fields benefit from each other better than the past, identifying novel domains of exploration for further research. - Discussing how to develop cognitively inspired models that align human reading data with LLMs. Submissions We solicit regular workshop papers, which will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. All categories of papers may be long (maximum 8 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references) or short (maximum 4 pages of content + up to one page for limitations (required) + unlimited references). Accepted papers will be presented in the form of either oral or poster presentations. Please note that camera-ready papers are allowed an additional page. The workshop proceedings will be part of the ACL anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an opportunity with an extended version to be published as part of an edited book. Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager. The submission link will be provided on the workshop website as soon as it becomes available. All submissions should follow the LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for LREC: <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020)”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed”. LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Organization Committee: Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland Jamal Nasir, University of Galway, Ireland Burcu Can, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Cagri Coltekin, University of Tubingen, Germany

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CoNLL 2026: 1st Call for Papers
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

CoNLL 2026: 1st Call for Papers San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including: Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars) Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics Interaction and Dialogue Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution Multimodality and Grounding Typology and Multilinguality Speech and Phonology Syntax and Morphology Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However, the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process. Submissions CoNLL will accept only direct submissions this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2026. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. Timeline (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026 Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026 Conference: July 3-4, 2026 Further information Further information will be announced in the 2nd Call for Papers. CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs Claire Bonial, DEVCOM U.S. Army Research Laboratory Yevgeni Berzak, Technion Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com

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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: First Call for Papers
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

*apologies for cross-postings* Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: call for papers � July 2026 - ACL 2026 - San Diego, USA � We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the second joint CODI-CRAC workshop which will be held during ACL 2026! More information at: � <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/home> https://sites.google.com/view/codi-crac2026/ � � CODI-CRAC is officially endorsed by SIGDial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. � Deadline for CODI CRAC papers: March 20 2026 � The workshop will also host the CRAC shared task. More information at: � - CRAC shared task: <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26> https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac26 Aims and scope � Recent breakthroughs in NLP and Large Language Models have dramatically expanded our systems’ abilities to interpret and generate not just sentences, but whole documents and conversations. This shift has renewed interest in discourse-level challenges, driving new work on inter-sentential phenomena, coherence modeling, long-form summarization, discourse-aware representation learning, and large-scale resources for discourse understanding and parsing. � Discourse sits at the intersection of many NLP subfields, as it is where context, structure, and meaning come together beyond single sentences. Discourse shapes how we capture coherence, cohesion, and inference across long texts, and brings together researchers tackling the shared challenges of document structure, long-range dependencies, and the requirements of extended context. � In 2025, we organized the first joint CODI-CRAC workshop. The CODI workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse has been a forum for a broad range of work at the discourse level. The CRAC workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference has been a primary venue for researchers interested in the computational modeling of reference phenomena. Together, these workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse-level problems and have served as a forum for discussing suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � This joint edition corresponds to the 7th CODI workshop and the 9th CRAC workshop. It will welcome contributions from all the areas below, including state-of-the-art textual NLU and NLG work using LLMs, as well as classic structured work on automatic discourse analysis -- corresponding to challenging tasks such as coreference resolution or discourse parsing -- to encourage interaction between communities. The workshop is set to host the 5th edition of the CRAC shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. � The workshop is planned as a 1-day event that brings together different subcommunities. It will feature regular papers and invited talks by Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) and Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research). We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. � Topics of interest � We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing - discourse pretraining tasks - long-text modeling and generation � Submissions Double submission of papers is allowed, but this information will need to be disclosed at submission time. � We solicit three categories of papers: � * (1) Regular workshop papers � * (2) Demos * (3) Extended abstracts Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Extended abstracts are non-archival and will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. 1- Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. � * Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. * Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 2- Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. 3- Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. They may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices, but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences � We also invite presentations of papers accepted at another main conference. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We also fast-track ARR papers with existing reviews. Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2026 formatting instructions described here: <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp � � Submission website: * CODI-CRAC: <https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/> https://softconf.com/acl2026/codi-crac2026/ � Schedule Important dates for the workshop are listed below: * CODI-CRAC papers due: March 20 * Pre-reviewed ARR fast-track (with reviews, can be accepted or rejected): April 5 � * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Grant application: May 5, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due: June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 3 or 4, 2026 � �All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers � - Ruihong Huang, Texas University - Philippe Laban, Microsoft Research Organizers � - Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT - Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen - Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia - Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin - Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg - Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas - Michal Novák, Charles University, Prague - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences - Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University of London and University of Utrecht - Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies - Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, Washington DC � To contact the organizers, please send an email to: <mailto:codi-crac-workshop@googlegroups.com> codi-crac-workshop(a)googlegroups.com � �

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CFP: CHiPSAL – Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages @LREC 2026
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

*Call for Papers* *CHiPSAL 2026* *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages @LREC 2026* *16 May 2026* We are pleased to announce the *Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)*, to be held in *hybrid mode on 16 May 2026*, co-located with *LREC 2026*. CHiPSAL 2026 invites *substantial, original, and unpublished research* on all areas of natural language processing, language resources, and evaluation—covering spoken, signed, and multimodal language—as well as system demonstrations. We welcome long and short papers addressing challenges, resources, tools, and innovations for *South Asian languages*. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Encoding and Unicode issues - Orthographic complexities - Morphology and generation - Dialectal variation and standardisation - Code-mixing and multilingualism - Building linguistic resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Technology for linguistic heritage preservation - Benchmarking models - Large language models for South Asian languages ------------------------------ *Important Dates (AoE)* - Submission Deadline: *20 February 2026* - Notification of Acceptance: *20 March 2026* - Camera-ready Papers:* 30 March 2026* - Workshop (Hybrid): *16 May 2026* ------------------------------ *Submission Guidelines* CHiPSAL 2026 accepts *oral*, *poster*, and *poster+demo* papers. - Short papers: 4 pages - Long papers: 8 pages (Excluding ethics/limitations, references, acknowledgements, and data/code availability statements) All submissions must: - Follow the *LREC 2026 stylesheet*: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ - Be *fully anonymised* for double-blind review - Include required ethics/limitations and data/code availability statements - Be self-contained (no appendices or supplementary files at submission) - Be relevant to South Asian language processing Papers must report *original, unpublished work*. Concurrent submissions must be declared. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Authors are encouraged to submit related resources to the *LRE Map*: https://lremap.elra.info/ ------------------------------ *Shared Tasks* CHiPSAL 2026 also hosts two shared tasks: 1. *Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-1 *Multilingual ASR for South Asian Languages* https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/shared-tasks_1/shared-task-2 We warmly encourage participation in these shared tasks. ------------------------------ *More Information* Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal/ *Organising Committee* - Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. - Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. - Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal. - Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, USA. - Tafseer Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan. Do not miss the opportunity to submit your work, strengthen the South Asian NLP community, and support the development of language technology in one of the world’s most populous and linguistically diverse regions. We look forward to your contributions. Best regards, *The CHiPSAL 2026 Organising Committee* -- *Dr Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Senior Lecturer (Grade-I) in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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2nd CFP: ‘LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages’ (LaTeLL ’2026)
by Amal Haddad 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

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

10 Dec '25

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

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[CFP] 1st International Workshop on Quality in Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs @EDBT/ICDT 2026
by Farah Benamara 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for submissions 1st International Workshop on Quality in Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs In conjunction with EDBT/ICDT 2026 QuaLLM-KG @ EDBT/ICDT 2026 24 March 2026, Tampere, Finland Website: https://quallmkg2026.github.io/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Goal **** QuaLLM-KG aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on quality issues at the intersection of large language models and knowledge graphs. The workshop focuses on theories, methods, and applications for assessing, improving, and monitoring the quality of LLMs and KGs. **** Important Dates **** - Submission deadline: January 15th, 2026 - Notification: February 8th, 2026 - Camera-ready: February 20th, 2026 **** Topics **** * Quality in Knowledge Graphs - Accuracy, consistency, completeness, freshness - Schema validation, constraint checking, error detection - Entity resolution, link prediction, ontology alignment - Provenance, explainability, trust in KG data - KG quality in dynamic and large-scale settings * Quality in Large Language Models - Hallucination reduction & factual grounding - Bias detection and mitigation - Metrics & benchmarks for quality assessment - Uncertainty estimation, calibration, interpretability * Synergies Between KGs and LLMs - KG-based grounding and fact-checking for LLMs - LLM-based KG enrichment, extraction, entity linking - Quality-driven prompting and fine-tuning - Hybrid KG–LLM architectures for quality assurance - Evaluation frameworks for integration and consistency * Benchmarks and Evaluation Frameworks - Datasets and metrics for KG & LLM quality - Tools for monitoring, validation, maintenance - Reproducibility, transparency, responsible AI * Applications and Case Studies - Scientific, industrial, enterprise use cases - Quality at scale - Human-in-the-loop quality control **** Submissions **** We invite submissions of full papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references) and short papers describing work in progress, systems, demos/systems/applications, or vision/innovative ideas (up to 4 pages, excluding references). Submissions should be in the CEUR-WS proceedings template. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). **** Workshop Organizers **** - Soror Sahri, Université Paris Cité, France - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany - Farah Benamara, University of Toulouse, France & IPAL-CNRS, Singapore -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université de Toulouse IRIT and IPAL-CNRS Singapore 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ==================================

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #18
by Costas Gabrielatos 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

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

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CFP: LT4HALA 2026 at LREC 2026
by Sprugnoli Rachele (rachele.sprugnoli) 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

CFP: LT4HALA 2026 - The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/ Date: Monday, May 11 2026 Place: co-located with LREC 2026, May 11-16, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) Submission page: TBA DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2026 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2026 follows LT4HALA 2020, 2022, 2024 that were organized in the context of LREC 2020, LREC 2022 and LREC-COLING 2024, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * creation and annotation of linguistic resources (both lexical and textual); * role of digital infrastructures, such as CLARIN, in supporting research based on language resources for historical and ancient languages; * handling spelling variation; * detection and correction of OCR errors; * deciphering; * morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data; * adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts; * teaching ancient languages with LTs; * NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics; * NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts; * evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages; * LLMs for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. SHARED TASKS LT4HALA 2026 will also host: * the 4th edition of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin>, a campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. This new edition will focus on two tasks: dependency parsing and Named Entity Recognition. Dependency parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework. * the 5th edition of EvaHan<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaHan>, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2026 will focus on Ancient Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Evaluation. * the 2nd edition of EvaCun<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaCun>, the campaign for the evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages, with shared tasks on transliteration normalization, morphological analysis and lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition of Akkadian and/or Sumerian. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet (see below). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. As for the shared tasks, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop. Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES 17 February 2026: submissions due 13 March 2026: reviews due 16 March 2026: notifications to authors 27 March 2026: camera-ready due Shared tasks deadlines are available in the specific web pages: EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin>, EvaHan<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaHan>, EvaCun<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaCun>. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). 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CFP: Collaborate on Annotation Schemas for Scientific Processes
by D'Souza, Jennifer 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We are writing to invite your collaboration in a community-driven initiative to develop annotation schemas for scientific process descriptions in research articles. The effort is inspired by the spirit of schema.org <https://schema.org/> , but focuses specifically on capturing experimental and simulation workflows across scientific domains. The resulting schemas will be openly published as templates in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG, <https://orkg.org/> https://orkg.org/) and will form the basis of a paper planned for Nature Scientific Data <https://www.nature.com/sdata/> . Motivation Scientific papers describe complex processes-e.g., ALD and CVD in materials science, PCR and CRISPR in molecular biology, tensile and fatigue testing in engineering, leaching experiments in environmental science, RCTs and cognitive tasks in psychology-using highly variable narrative text. This variability makes it difficult to: * design consistent, interoperable annotation guidelines, * build cross-domain corpora of scientific methods, * compare and align experimental setups across papers, and * create FAIR, reusable metadata about how studies are actually carried out. Our goal is to define annotation schemas for these processes (inputs, conditions, outputs, roles, and relations) and to populate them from full-text articles. These schemas and resulting corpora are intended as shared resources for corpus linguistics, NLP, scientific text mining, and downstream applications. Why Collaborate We are seeking contributors who can: * provide collections of full-text articles (~50+) describing a specific experimental or simulation process in their field, * offer expert feedback on automatically mined process schemas, or * run the schema-miner workflow themselves (with our support) and help refine the resulting schema. Individual or small-team participation is welcome, and co-authorship opportunities are available depending on involvement. A wide variety of processes can be included-thin-film deposition, synthetic chemistry reactions, gene editing workflows, fatigue testing, soil leaching experiments, drug dissolution assays, fMRI tasks, cognitive experiments, and many more. A broader (non-exhaustive) list is here: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iyL1l9vCXhnQ0To7j79vlr-pW4JvPlQC95svygq RDfg/edit> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iyL1l9vCXhnQ0To7j79vlr-pW4JvPlQC95svygqR Dfg/edit How to Participate Please register your interest using this short form: <https://forms.gle/9WEdouw4yMyNHcn19> https://forms.gle/9WEdouw4yMyNHcn19 We will notify selected contributors by January 31, 2026. Data collection and schema mining will conclude by April 30, 2026, followed by manuscript preparation. We hope members of this community will consider contributing to this effort to develop shared annotation schemas and corpora of scientific process descriptions-a step toward more comparable, analyzable, and reusable scientific text resources. Also please help us spread the word! Best regards, Jennifer D'Souza TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (on behalf of the schema-miner coordination team)

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CfP DeTermIt! Workshop @ LREC 2026 - Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context
by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

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

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Substitute Senior Lecturer position in Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University
by Joakim Nivre 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Uppsala University is hiring a Substitute Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, half-time for one year starting in January 2026: https://www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/jobbannons?query=883187 Duties include supervision of master’s theses and teaching within the international master’s program in Language Technology, as well as research. Application deadline: December 23, 2025. Joakim Nivre Professor of Computational Linguistics Uppsala University När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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New book series: Corpus Linguistics and Technology-Mediated Language Education in the AI Era
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

New Book Series: Corpus Linguistics and Technology-Mediated Language Education in the AI Era, Applied Linguistics Press Corpus linguistics and technology-mediated language education in the AI era invites proposals for authored or edited volumes that advance trustworthy, reproducible work at the intersection of corpora, digital learning environments and AI-supported language pedagogy. The series encourages submissions that combine corpus design, annotation, analytics and AI-based learning ecosystems to improve educational decision-making with traceable, verifiable data. Topics of interest include corpus pedagogy and AI interfaces in education, multilingual and multimodal learning, accessibility, Datadriven learning (DDL), corpora and technology-mediated language education, Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy (CBLP), corpus-literacy, AI literacy, language data and AI, low-resource languages and corpus education, open datasets in corpus-based pedagogy, shareable code, AI risk evaluation, learner metacognition in corpus education and teacher/learner agency in CBLP and DDL. Corpus linguistics and technology-mediated language education in the AI era is open access and encourages global authorship. Proposals submitted to the series will undergo initial evaluation by the ALP General Editor and the series Co-Editors and will then be sent out for external peer review. Please send your proposals outlining aim(s), topics addressed, and how the volume fulfils the ALP mission to contribute to open science. To submit a proposal for this book series, download the proposal template HERE<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KK57vC0-hwqHfd7ilaJC7zngLigXTFGO/edit?r…> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KK57vC0-hwqHfd7ilaJC7zngLigXTFGO/edit?r…> and return when completed to the series Editors via email (pascualf(a)um.es. and maqing(a)eduhk.hk) We welcome proposals for monographs and edited volumes. Series Editors: Pascual Pérez-Paredes (Universidad de Murcia) & Qing (Angel) Ma (The Education University of Hong Kong) Applied Linguistics Press<https://www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home> is a scholar-led digital publisher promoting open science, fair practice, and wider access, offering monographs and collections with multimedia features, founded in 2023 by Prof Luke Plonsky and run by volunteers. Feel free to contact us if you’d like to discuss your idea. Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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Call for Papers: Ninth Universal Dependencies Workshop
by cagri coltekin 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/ Universal Dependencies (UD, https://universaldependencies.org) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 180 languages. The framework aims to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but also to facilitate multilingual natural language processing, enable comparative linguistic studies, and provide resources for language model understanding and evaluation. The Universal Dependencies Workshop series was started to create a forum for discussion of the theory and practice of UD, its use in research and development, and its future goals and challenges. Some of the previous workshops have been co-located with COLING, EMNLP, and SyntaxFest. We invite papers on all topics relevant to UD, including but not limited to: - Theoretical foundations and universal guidelines - Linguistic analysis of specific languages and/or constructions - Language typology and linguistic universals - Treebank annotation, conversion, and validation - Word segmentation, morphological tagging and syntactic parsing - Use of UD data for evaluating or understanding language models - Linguistic studies based on the UD data Priority will be given to papers that adopt a cross-lingual perspective. ## Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2026 - Camera-ready version due: March 30, 2026 - Conference dates: May 11-16, 2026 We invite submissions in two formats: - Regular (long) papers up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Regular papers should present substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results where appropriate. - Short papers up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may offer smaller, focused contributions, such as work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. We also welcome non-archival papers, defined as work that has already been published or accepted for publication at another computational linguistics venue. These papers may be presented at the workshop but will not appear in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings. Accepted papers will be given one additional page to address reviewer comments. ## Paper Submission, Review Process and Selection Criteria Submissions will be handled via the START Conference Manager. The submission link will be provided on the workshop website as soon as it becomes available. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for LREC: <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Unlike LREC main conference submissions, UDW submissions are allowed to include appendices, and the UDW makes a distinction between short (up to four pages) and long papers (up to eight pages). All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. ## LRE-Map and Sharing Language Resources When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). ## Presentation Format Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. Accepted papers will be published in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings. ## Organizing committee Çağrı Çöltekin, Tübingen University Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana & Jozef Stefan Institute Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University

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CfP: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026)
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

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

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CfP Submission Deadline Extended to Dec 17 (AoE) - 18th ACM WebSci’26 --> Final Call for Papers!
by Kaiser, Sierra Ann 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

TL;DR: The submission deadline for the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026<https://websci26.org/> (WebSci’26) has been extended by one week. --> New deadline: December 17 (Anywhere on Earth) --> Please visit the Call for Papers<https://websci26.org/?page_id=77> for submission details. --> Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2026 | https://websci26.org/ We look forward to your submissions! ------------------- Sierra Kaiser (she/her) Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Scientific Coordinator Stuttgart Research Focus – Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Universität Stuttgart Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D | 3.352 | 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte Universitätsstr. 32 | 00.121 | 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 685 84 371 Email: sierra.kaiser(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:sierra.kaiser@iris.uni-stuttgart.de> Mastodon<https://bawü.social/@Stuttgart_IRIS> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-forum-for-reflecting-on-intell…> | IRIS Newsletter<https://t63605f96.emailsys1a.net/91/8138/3f626b8c5a/subscribe/form.html?_g=…> www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/<http://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/>

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First Call for Papers: LREC 2026 Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data
by Valia Kordoni 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 May 2026. Overview Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and summarization. This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g., hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement), rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have very recently started becoming available to the research community and may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing, with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop’s focus is on adaptation of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in natural language analysis tasks. Topics of Interest We are interested in contributions which focus on the use of techniques like self-training for leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work that focuses on the incorporation of external linguistic resources and knowledge injection to enrich features, and also in research that describes work on utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to benefit from related tasks. The workshop also wants to discuss alternative approaches which may elaborate on the use of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) as a foundation and the application of techniques like contrastive learning and clustering to identify challenging examples within the data, the ultimate aim of the workshop being to highlight the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speakers - Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/) - Dr. Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Details will be announced on the workshop website (tba). Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf: [link to come]. Submissions should: • Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements • Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference website: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ • Use templates provided here: https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/ Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources (broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such resources to support reproducibility and reuse. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the work. Important Dates • 20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline • 11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance • 28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Organizers • Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de

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First Call for Papers — Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026)
by Maria Irena Szawerna 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

First Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026) Website: https://legal2026.mobileds.de/ We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be held at LREC 2026 on the 12th of May 2026. Important Dates * 20th of February 2026: paper submission deadline * 30th March 2026: camera ready deadline (strict) * 12th May 2026: workshop date Introduction Access to text and speech data is essential for research, yet personal and sensitive information often prevents open sharing. Techniques such as pseudonymization and anonymization offer potential solutions, but their effectiveness, limitations, and impact on data utility require deeper investigation. Balancing privacy protection with meaningful scientific use remains a key challenge. At the same time, legal and ethical requirements increasingly shape how language resources can be created, processed, and distributed. Regulatory frameworks, such as the GDPR, the Data Act, and the Artificial Intelligence Act, affect access, reuse, and documentation duties for both text and speech data, creating a complex environment that demands interdisciplinary insight. The workshop brings these two perspectives together by addressing both the technical and practical aspects of de-identification as well as the legal and ethical obligations governing data handling. Topics include anonymization and pseudonymization methods, compliance in practical workflows, provenance and rights tracking, and emerging approaches to legal metadata. The goal is to foster responsible, legally sound, and technically robust innovation in human language technologies. Topics of Interest We invite contributions from all disciplines involved in the creation, processing, governance, and de-identification of text and speech data. Submissions may address theoretical, empirical, methodological, legal, or technical questions, including cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage research on less-represented languages and on data from under-represented communities. 1. Legal Aspects of Language Data (LEGAL2026) * Regulatory frameworks and global governance * Intellectual property, data protection, and LLM governance * Ethics, fairness, trust, and transparency * Compliance in practice * Ethics, fairness, and trust * Operationalizing compliance * Emerging and grey areas * Interdisciplinary and cross-border coordination 2. Pseudonymization, Anonymization, and De-identification: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Aspects (CALD-pseudo 2026) * Detection and classification of personal information (PI) * Replacement and transformation of PI * Utility and bias after de-identification * Approaches to evaluation and adversarial testing * Dataset creation for de-identification research * Low-resource scenarios * Speech-specific challenges * Cross-disciplinary applications and challenges We invite submissions from fields where de-identification of data plays an important role, including but not limited to Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Medical Science etc., from the perspectives of researchers, public organizations, and industry. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Long papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for: * Small, focused contributions or ongoing or preliminary work * Extended abstracts for non-technical submissions only, such as conceptual, theoretical, legal, ethical, policy-oriented, or position papers. Extended abstract submissions are expected to be developed into regular papers by the camera-ready submission deadline. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference. They should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the conference website on the Author’s kit<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/> page. Submission deadline: 20th of February 2026 The submission link will be provided in due time on the workshop website. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Keynote Talks We are delighted to announce the workshop will host keynote talks from two speakers: * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Ivan Habernal, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Workshop Organizers LEGAL 2026: * Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany * Paweł Kamocki, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany * Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA, France * Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France CALD-pseudo 2026 * Maria Irena Szawerna, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center & University of Oslo, Norway * Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway * Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Lisa Södergård, University of Helsinki, Finland * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Lund University & DeepTensor AB, Sweden Program Committee A list of program committee members is available on the workshop webpage. Contact For general inquiries, please contact mail(a)legal2026.mobiles.de Best regards, Maria Irena Szawerna ____________________ PhD student Språkbanken Text<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi<https://www.gu.se/svenska-spraket> UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG<https://www.gu.se/> https://spraakbanken.gu.se/om/personal/maria-szawerna

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Call for Participation - Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance) as Track B in SemEval-2026 Task 3
by Lung-Hao Lee 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce SemEval-2026 Task 3 Track B: Dimensional Stance Analysis *Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However, current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained, real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA) representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications. Given an utterance or post and a target entity, stance detection involves determining whether the speaker is in favor or against the target. *This track reformulates stance detection as a Stance-as-DimABSA task with the following transformations:* *1. The stance target is treated as an aspect.2. Discrete stance labels are replaced with continuous VA scores.* Building on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer reviews to public-issue discourse (i.e., politics and environmental protection) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to continuous VA scores. Given a text and one or more aspects (targets), predict a real-valued valence-arousal (VA) score for each aspect, reflecting the stance expressed by the speaker toward it. ——————— *Languages* ——————— *We provide data in 5 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng), Hausa (hau), Swahili (swa), and Chinese (zho) ——————— *Evaluation* ——————— RMSE is used. ——————— *Participation* ——————— *Website* (checkout details): https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026 *Codabench* (register and submit results) - Track B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11139/ *Discord* (community and discussion) https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu *Google Group* (official updates): https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants ——————— *Important Dates * ——————— - Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025 - Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025 - Evaluation Start: 12 January 2026 - Evaluation End: 30 January 2026 - System Description Paper Due: February 2026 - Notification to Authors: March 2026 - Camera Ready Due: April 2026 - SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA) We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task and contribute to advancing NLP research. Best regards, SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers

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1st Call for Papers: RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai @ LREC-2026
by Dimitrios Kokkinakis 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

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

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mental health support conversations in Hebrew and Arabic
by Kobi Gal 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

We have released a public anonymized dataset and LLM models of mental health support conversations in Hebrew and Arabic. Thanks to Israeli Innovation Authority for their support! https://lnkd.in/eYbPhN2y Sincerely Kobi Gal https://ailab.ise.bgu.ac.il/

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First Call for Papers — Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (at LREC 2026)
by s.bompolas＠athenarc.gr 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. Website: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/ Overview DialRes-LREC26 addresses the growing need for high-quality resources supporting dialect-focused NLP. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, and adjacent fields to exchange insights on the creation, documentation, evaluation, and use of dialectal resources. Topics of Interest We invite submissions relating to any aspect of developing or using resources for dialectal NLP. Topics include — but are not limited to — the following: • Creation and evaluation of spoken and written dialect resources • Orthographic normalization and standardization • Treatment of dialect–standard distinctions in annotation frameworks for speech and text • Cross-dialect and cross-lingual transfer; model adaptation methods • Scalability issues and resource-efficient techniques • Use of LLMs in resource creation, augmentation, annotation, or processing • Resources supporting dialect preservation, revitalization, and community engagement • Pedagogical, sociolinguistic, and linguistic applications viewed through a resource lens • Practical considerations when working with dialect resources (legal, financial, academic, societal) • Empowering dialect communities in developing their own resources Invited Speaker Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich (https://bplank.github.io/) Details will be announced on the workshop website. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf: [link to come]. Submissions should: • Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements • Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference website: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ • Use templates provided here: https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/ Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources (broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such resources to support reproducibility and reuse. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the work. For inquiries: dialres-lrec26(a)googlegroups.com Important Dates • 20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline • 11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance • 28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by: • UniDive COST Action CA21167, which supports work on language diversity and resource development • Archimedes/Athena RC, a major AI research hub in Greece with strong academic and industrial collaborations Organizing Committee • Antonios Anastasopoulos — George Mason University / Archimedes–Athena RC • Stella Markantonatou — ILSP / Archimedes–Athena RC • Angela Ralli — University of Patras / Archimedes–Athena RC • Marcos Zampieri — George Mason University • Stavros Bompolas — Archimedes–Athena RC • Vivian Stamou — Archimedes–Athena RC

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3rd CfP SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 Workshop at EACL 2026
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

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

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

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

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The 2nd Call for Participation – SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets.
by Lung-Hao Lee 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce *SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets*. *Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However, current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained, real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA) representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications. To bridge this gap, we propose *Dimensional ABSA (DimABSA)*, a shared task that integrates dimensional sentiment analysis into the traditional ABSA framework. Furthermore, there is a conceptual similarity between stance detection and ABSA when the stance target is treated as an aspect. Building on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer reviews to public-issue discourse (e.g., social, political, energy, climate) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to continuous VA scores. ——————— *Languages* ——————— *We provide data in 9 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng), Hausa (hau), Japan (jpn), Russian (rus), Swahili (swa), Tatar (tat), Ukrainian (ukr), and Chinese (zho) ——————— *Domains* ——————— *A total of 6 application domains*, including: Restaurant, Laptop, Hotel, Finance, Environmental Protection, and Politics ——————— *Subtasks* ——————— *Track A – Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)*: Predict real-valued valence–arousal (VA) scores for aspects and extract their associated information from text. Its subtasks include: - *Subtask 1: DimASR *– Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression - *Subtask 2: DimASTE* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction - *Subtask 3: DimASQP* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction *Track B – Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*: A Stance-as-DimABSA task, where the target in stance detection is treated as an aspect. Its subtasks include: - Subtask 1: DimASR for stance analysis ——————— *Evaluation* ——————— For both tracks, RMSE is used for Subtask 1, and a new metric (continuous F1) for Subtasks 2 & 3. ——————— *Participation* ——————— *Website* (checkout details): https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026 *Codabench* (register and submit results) - Track A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10918/ - Track B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11139/ *Discord* (community and discussion) https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu *Google Group* (official updates): https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants ——————— *Important Dates * ——————— - Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025 - Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025 - Evaluation Start: 12 January 2026 - Evaluation End: 30 January 2026 - System Description Paper Due: February 2026 - Notification to Authors: March 2026 - Camera Ready Due: April 2026 - SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA) We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task and contribute to advancing NLP research. Best regards, SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers

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Industrial Internship on Multilingual IR and LLMs
by Tirthankar Ghosal 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Hello all, If you are looking for an industrial internship on Multilingual IR, LLMs, and love to work in a fast-paced environment, please reach out: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tirthankar-ghosal-ai_were-hiring-2-interns-f… Best, Tirthankar +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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

07 Dec '25

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

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

06 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

05 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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Call For Participation HIPE 2026 – CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
by Juri Alexander Opitz 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Call For Participation HIPE 2026 – CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts *(apologies for cross-postings)* ------------------------------ *HIPE:* Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities. *Website:* https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ *Tasks:* Person-Location Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts. *Registration:* https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/ (until 23 April 2026) *Training data releases:* 19 Dec 2025 (partial); 19 Jan 2026 (full) *Evaluation period:* 5–7 May 2026 *Workshop venue:* during CLEF conference, 21–24 September 2026, Jena, Germany. *LinkedIn:* @ImpressoProject / #HIPE2026 / @clef_initiative / #clef2026 ------------------------------ "Who was where when?" We invite participation in the third edition of the HIPE shared task, dedicated to the extraction of person–place relations in multilingual historical documents. Building on the success of HIPE-2020 and HIPE-2022, which focused on entity recognition and linking, HIPE-2026 aims to enable finer-grained analysis of entities and support the accurate reconstruction of individuals’ geographical and temporal trajectories. The objective of HIPE-2026 is to *build systems capable of determining whether a relation holds between a person and a location (place) mentioned in a document*, and classify its temporal scope. Participants are asked to develop systems that determine, for each (person, location) pair associated with a historical document, whether the text implies that the person is at that location within the document’s temporal horizon (isAt relation), or that the person was there at some earlier moment in their life (a more general At relation), or that no such link can be established. Can large language models take up the challenges? Simple co-occurrences of entity mentions in a text are not sufficient to uncover the implicit and explicit, temporally anchored relations between person and locations. Addressing this challenge requires temporal reasoning, geographical inference, and the interpretation of noisy historical texts (often with only fragmentary contextual cues) to classify person–location relations with varying degrees of certainty. The task is designed to be tackled by generative AI systems/LLMs as well as by more traditional classification approaches. HIPE-2026 features two evaluation profiles - *Accuracy Profile*: Focusing on system performance in relation classification. - *Efficiency Profile*: Rewarding scalable, lightweight approaches considering model size and compute cost. - *Generalization Profile*: An unseen dataset from a different domain will be included to evaluate systems’ ability to generalise beyond the newspaper domain data. For the accuracy and efficiency profile, training and test data originate from historical newspapers in English, German, French and Luxembourgish. Entity pairs will be provided. For further information on data, tasks, and evaluation settings - HIPE-2026 website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/ - Participation Guidelines: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17800136 - HIPE-2026-data GitHub repository: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-2026-data On HIPE shared tasks HIPE evaluation lab series is part of the ongoing efforts of the natural language processing and digital humanities communities to adapt and develop technologies to efficiently retrieving and exploring information from historical texts. Important dates - 17 Nov 2025: Lab registration opens. - 03 Dec 2025: Release of example data. - 19 Dec 2025: Release of partial training data. - 19 Jan 2026: Release of final training data. - 23 Apr 2026: Lab registration closes. - 05 May 2026: Test data release (10:00 CEST). - 07 May 2026: Participant run submission deadline. - 13 May 2026: Publication of results and release of test data. - 28 May 2026: Submission of participant notebook paper. - 10 Jul 2026 / 31 Aug 2026: CLEF conference regular/late registration DL. - 21 Sep 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference. Best regards, *HIPE-2026 Shared Task Organizers* https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-2026/

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

04 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

03 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

02 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> Important Dates * February 27: Paper submission * May 11-16, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024). Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025). In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios. In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Perspectivism in multimodal AI * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Participatory approaches and human label variation * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP * Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference. Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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Job Opening: Open-Rank Position in Humanistic & Critical Approaches to AI (Northwestern University in Qatar)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

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

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

01 Dec '25

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

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

29 Nov '25

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

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

28 Nov '25

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

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

28 Nov '25

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

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

28 Nov '25

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

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

27 Nov '25

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

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

27 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

26 Nov '25

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

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

25 Nov '25

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

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

25 Nov '25

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

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

25 Nov '25

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

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

24 Nov '25

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

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

24 Nov '25

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

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

22 Nov '25

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

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

22 Nov '25

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

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

21 Nov '25

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

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

21 Nov '25

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

20 Nov '25

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

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

19 Nov '25

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

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

19 Nov '25

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

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

19 Nov '25

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

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

19 Nov '25

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

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

19 Nov '25

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

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

18 Nov '25

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

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

18 Nov '25

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

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