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

01 Apr '26

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

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CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Amal Haddad 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT'2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 https://nettt-conference.com Extended Deadline Call for Papers *** Extended submission deadline 27 April 2026 *** # The conference The third edition of the International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT'2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT'2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT'2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators' and interpreters' needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators' (including subtitlers') and interpreters' tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT'2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters' professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speakers Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute # Submissions and publication NeTTIT'2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers - for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the ACL format using the templates available on the conference website. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/submissions-and-publication/ The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. The conference organisers will seek the inclusion of the conference proceedings in the ACL anthology. # Important dates - Extended submissions deadline: 27 April 2026 - Reviewing process: 28 April -18 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2026 - Camera-ready due: 5 June 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 19 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 Papers submitted before the submission deadline will be reviewed on a rolling basis so that authors requiring visas can be notified earlier and have sufficient time to obtain them # Pre-conference Tutorials The pre-conference tutorials will include: Post-editing and AI-augmented translation - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) Machine Translation Quality Evaluation - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) # Organising Committee and Programme Committee coordination -- Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) - Xiaojing Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee For a list of the programme committee members visit: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/programme-committee/ # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsor Juremy.com # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website https://nettt-conference.com/ is updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. 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CFP: 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop (22-23 June 2026, Cardiff, Wales, UK)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 01 Apr '26

01 Apr '26

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

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

01 Apr '26

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

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

01 Apr '26

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

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

01 Apr '26

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

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

31 Mar '26

The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing International Summer School Alicante, Spain, 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 https://summer-school.gplsi.es Second Call for Participation Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models--and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)--have taken the world by storm. Deep Learning models are now used almost everywhere, across nearly every discipline, and Natural Language Processing is no exception. DL has proved highly promising so far, delivering improvements for almost every NLP task and application. However, as observed on numerous occasions, the outputs of DL models are not always ideal, with some studies reporting cases in which machine-learning approaches do not necessarily outperform the 'old-fashioned' rule-based ones. The overarching theme of the summer school will be this paradigm shift, with lectures and practical sessions reflecting the latest trends at both theoretical and practical levels. More specifically, the programme will combine lectures focusing on theoretical foundations with hands-on practical sessions. Specific topics will include an Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs), Explainable AI in LLMs, Datasets and bias in LLMs, Building foundational LLMs for low-resource languages, Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages, LLMs and sentiment analysis, Model and hyperparameter optimisation and Eye-tracking and gaze data for NLP and language models, among others. The summer school will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced professionals in NLP, computer science, data science, cybersecurity, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and related disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to deepen expertise and engage with the rapidly evolving world of LLMs. Panel discussion A panel discussion on the future of NLP methods and LLMs is scheduled as part of the summer school. The panel composition is available here: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/panel/ Venue and dates The summer school will take place at the research institute of Informatics of the University of Alicante and will take place on 15, 16 and 17 June 2026. Keynote speaker Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Lecturers The list of summer school lecturers includes: Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) Juan Pablo Consuegra Ayala (University of Alicante) Robiert Sepulveda Torres (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Isuri Anuradha (Lancaster University) Damith Premasiri (Lancaster University) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Summer school Directors Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Lancaster) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Summer School Chair Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Advisory Committee Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz Guillena (University of Alicante) Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (University of Alicante) Organising Committee Raúl García Cerdá (University of Alicante) Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) Ernesto Luis Estevanell (University of Alicante) Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Registration Registration will open in early April 2026. In the meantime, please see the registration fees here: https://summer-school.gplsi.es/registration/ Related events The summer school will follow the second international conference _Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence_ (NLPAICS'2026) which will take place in Alicante on 11 and 12 June 2026 (https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es). Those who register for both events will benefit from a discounted registration fee. Further information Further information will be provided in subsequent calls. Alternatively, interested parties can email summer-school(a)dlsi.ua.es for more information. -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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Postdoc-level researcher position in NLP at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

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

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

31 Mar '26

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

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

31 Mar '26

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

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

31 Mar '26

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

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[RetroEval 2026] Final Call for Papers
by Saad Mahamood 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

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

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TSD 2026 - 2nd Call for Papers
by TSD 2026 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] ********************************************************* TSD 2026 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2026) Brno, Czech Republic, 1-4 September 2026 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: April 10 2026 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2026 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. It is still possible to submit both by the full paper deadline. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Anders Soegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark You may get updates by following new https://www.linkedin.com/company/tsdconference/ TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2026 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2026(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Tomas Arias-Vergara, Germany Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Daniel Hládek, Slovakia Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Spain Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy David Mareček, Czech Republic Jindrich Matousek, Czech Republic Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Daša Munková, Slovakia Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Paula Andrea Perez-toro, Germany Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Ján Staš, Slovakia Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. Proceedings papers do not differentiate the presentation format. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2026 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Publishing on preprint servers is not forbidden, but authors are warned that when doing so this might influence the blind reviewing conditions. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 10 2026 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2026 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2026 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2026 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2026 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2026 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 1-4 2026 ....... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2026 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2026(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2026 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2026 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tsdconference/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400,000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-eastern part of the Czech Republic and is known for its wide range of cultural, natural, and technical attractions. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Milano, and Malaga, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: 1st CFP + Mentorship Programme
by Agostina Calabrese 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: 1st CFP *** First Call for Papers + Call for Mentors/Mentees *** We invite paper submissions to the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on 24-29 October at EMNLP 2026. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Registration deadline for mentorship programme: April 10, 2026 * Notification of mentor/mentee match: April 25, 2026 * Submission due: June 26, 2026 * ARR reviewed submission due: August 3, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop: 24-29 October 2026 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers” In its 10th edition, WOAH highlights the theme “Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers”. Over the past decade, WOAH has become a central interdisciplinary venue for online harms research. As harms and enabling technologies have evolved, the field has moved beyond an early focus on textual hate speech and harassment to address more complex phenomena. Advances in AI and online ecosystems have expanded the scale and diversity of harms. Transformer models, multimodal platforms, and recommendation systems have contributed to the escalation of issues like misinformation, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation, identity-based abuse, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and AI-mediated harms. Methods tackling this have evolved from monolingual lexicon-based approaches to deep learning, multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, and interdisciplinarity. Despite this progress, fundamental challenges remain. There is limited consensus on what constitutes “harm”, how context and thresholds should be defined, or how harms vary across cultures and modalities. These ambiguities affect datasets and models, constrain comparability, and often marginalise affected communities. The past decade also calls for critical self-reflection. Research has frequently prioritised detection, high-resource languages, and narrowly defined phenomena over intervention, global perspectives, and systemic or structural harms, with insufficient attention to user agency, platform incentives, lived experience, and participatory approaches. Finally, ten years of work have underscored that interdisciplinarity is essential for addressing the sociotechnical nature of the phenomenon. Addressing future online harms will require deeper integration across NLP, ML, social sciences, law, policy, and HCI. WOAH 10 seeks to consolidate lessons from the past decade, identify enduring gaps, and connect research, practice, and policy to guide the next generation of work on online harms. [NEW!] Mentorship Programme In light of our theme of reflecting on the past decade, we as organisers have also taken time for self-reflection. While we emphasise the importance of interdisciplinary work, the increasing number of submissions (which we are extremely proud and happy about!) has required us to apply our submission guidelines more strictly. In recent years, these issues have been particularly relevant for submissions coming from outside the NLP community. This signals that, if we do not take action, we risk failing to promote the very diversity we aim to support. After listening to feedback from the community, we have decided to lower this barrier by launching the first-ever WOAH Mentorship Programme. Link to register as mentor: https://forms.gle/XaK8KBFomaWZZwG98 Link to register as mentee: https://forms.gle/AC5akVcdzsCvwqEo7 As a mentee, you will be able to propose your WOAH project idea and outline the type of guidance or supervision you are seeking. As a mentor, you will be expected to support your mentee by meeting at least three times during the project (at the beginning, midway, and towards the end). We encourage mentees to include their mentors as co-authors of their WOAH submission. Timeline: * Register for the mentorship programme by 10th April * Notification of mentor/mentee match by 25th April Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, Cohere Thomas Davidson, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Urja Khurana, Delft University of Technology Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Paloma Piot, Universidade da Coruña Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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CFP [Extended Deadline] - CARI'2026 - Benin
by Mathieu ROCHE 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

=========================================== CARI'2026 – Last Call For Papers [Extended Deadline] The 18th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CARI'2026) October 21-24, 2026 University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou – Benin https://cari-conf.bj/ ============================================ OVERVIEW ============================================ CARI, the African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, is the flagship event of ASDS - African Society in Digital Science (https://asds.africa/). It brings together researchers and practitioners from Africa and beyond to present and discuss advances in computer science and applied mathematics, aiming to strengthen collaboration, international cooperation, and the visibility of African research while fostering innovation to address the continent's challenges. CARI'2026 will be held on October 21-24, 2026. The program will feature keynote talks, technical sessions, poster presentations, and panel discussions, preceded by workshops and tutorials on October 22, 2026. ============================================ SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST ============================================ CARI 2026 invites submissions in English of full papers presenting original research results and short papers reporting work in progress or position papers. The conference is structured around two main tracks: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track: Computer Science - Algorithms and optimisation - Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science - Distributed systems and cloud computing - Networking and the Internet of Things - Security, privacy, and dependable systems - Digital sovereignty and computing for Africa Track: Applied Mathematics - Analysis of dynamical Systems - Partial differential equations and their applications - High-performance scientific computing - Mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence - Mathematical Modelling - Stochastic Systems CARI'2026 especially welcomes applied research addressing African contexts and challenges, with application domains including agriculture, healthcare, education, environmental systems, transportation, and logistics. ============================================ IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are at 23:59 GMT) ============================================ - Paper submission: 30 March, 2026 -> EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10 April, 2026 - Notification to authors: 22 June, 2026 - Camera-ready deadline: 6 July, 2026 ============================================ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ============================================ CARI'2026 accepts submissions (in English) in three categories: - Full papers describing original research (up to 14 pages excluding references). - Work-in-progress papers on early results (up to 7 pages in length excluding references). - Position papers proposing novel or unconventional ideas - preferably supported by empirical data and measurements - that differ from prior published work (up to 7 pages excluding references). All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed based on relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. The use of AI systems to generate text (e.g. LLM) for inclusion in a CARI submission is only allowed for improving language and readability and if its role is properly documented in the paper (in the acknowledgements section). Papers should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (Springer) and be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cari2026) CARI 2026 employs a single-blind review process, with authors' names included in submissions. As CARI'2024, all accepted papers should be published in Springer's book series Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) or Trends in Mathematics and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library (indexed in Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar). Selected papers from CARI'2026 will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in ARIMA. ============================================ FOR MORE INFORMATION ============================================ Web: https://cari-conf.bj/ E-mail: Cari2026bj(a)gmail.com ============================================

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Appel : Journée d'étude « IA et découvrabilité scientifique : enjeux pour la francophonie »
by Laperrière, Gaëlle 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

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

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Deadline Extension (April 7): MedGenVidQA at BioNLP-ACL 2026
by deepak.gupta＠nih.gov 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Due to multiple participant requests, we have extended the submission deadline for all MedGenVidQA tasks to April 7. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Key Links: Starter kit https://github.com/medgenvidqa/starter-kit/ Task A: Multimodal Retrieval (MMR) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13989/ Task B: Multimodal Answer Generation (MAG) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14014/ Task C: Visual Answer Localization (VAL) https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14015/ Shared task webpage: https://medgenvidqa.github.io/ Thanks

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Final reminder: Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026)
by Amal Haddad 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ [1] Final Reminder *** Extended Submission Deadline 13 April 2026 *** Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS'2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security, including but not limited to: _Societal and Human Security and Safety_ * Content Legitimacy and Quality * Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language * Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * Trust and credibility of online information * User Security and Safety * Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders * Monitoring extremist fora * Suicide prevention * Clickbait and scam detection * Fake profile detection in online social networks * Technical Measures and Solutions * Social engineering identification, phishing detection * NLP for risk assessment * Controlled languages for safe messages * Prevention of malicious use of ai models * Forensic linguistics * Human Factors in Cyber Security _Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security_ * Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * NLP and biometrics in multimodal context _Data and Software Security_ * Cryptography * Digital forensics * Malware detection, obfuscation * Models for documentation * NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) * Addressing dataset "poisoning" attacks _Human-Centric Security and Support_ * Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting * User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour * Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security _Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence_ * Text-Based Anomaly Detection * Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data * Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic * Threat Intelligence Analysis * Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats * Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text _Systems and Infrastructure Security_ * Systems Security * Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity * Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks * Authentication and access control * Enterprise-level mitigation * NLP for software vulnerability detection * Malware Detection through Code Analysis * Analysing code and scripts for malware * Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code _Financial Cyber Security_ * Financial fraud detection * Financial risk detection * Algorithmic trading security * Secure online banking * Risk management in finance * Financial text analytics _Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security_ * Ethical and Legal Issues * Digital privacy and identity management * The ethics of NLP and speech technology * Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools * Legislation against malicious use of AI * Regulatory issues * Bias and Security * Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) * Bias in security related datasets and annotations _Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications_ _Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics_ * Intelligence applications * Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security _Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI_ NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * LLMs for forensic linguistics * Bias in LLMs * Safety benchmarks for LLMs * Legislation against malicious use of LLMs * Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs * Methods to enhance the robustness of language models Keynote Speaker We are delighted to announce that Preslav Nakov from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Abu Dhabi) (https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/ [2]) will be keynote speaker at NLPAICS 2026. Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: * Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short (poster) papers: These c in an be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here: LaTeX in Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 [3] Word: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… [4] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ [5] The conference will feature a student workshop. Submissions to the student workshop can be in the form of both regular and short papers but will be evaluated separately and will be presented as a separate session at the conference. Awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates * Submission deadline (extended): 13 April 2026 * Reviewing process: 14 April 2026 - 11 May 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026 * Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 5 June 2026 * Conference: 11-12 June 2026 Organisation Conference Chairs Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Publication Chair Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Sponsorship Chair Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) Student Workshop Chair Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Best Paper Award Chair Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Publicity Chair Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) Social Programme Chair Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) Programme Committee * Vivek Kumar, University of Bundeswehr München, Germany. * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK. * Rui Sousa Silva, University of Porto, Portugal. * Cengiz Acartürk, Jagiellonian University, Poland * Lena Podoletz, Lancaster University, UK * Nasredine Semmar, CEA/University of Paris-Saclay, France * Sevil Sen, Hacettepe University, Turkey * Wajdi Zaghouani, Northwest University, Qatar * Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA * Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK * Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland * Matthew Bradbury, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Daniel Prince, Lancaster University, UK * Basil Germond, Lancaster University, UK * Hongmei He, University of Salford, UK * Rafael Valencia García, University of Murcia, Spain, * Angela Almela Sanchez-Lafuente, University of Murcia, Spain * Eugenio Martínez Cámara, University of Jaén, Spain * Alfonso Ureña López, University of Jaén, Spain * Dan Fretwell, Lancaster University, UK * Sedat Akleylek, University of Tartu, Estonia * Ozkan Kilic, Cisco Systems Inc., USA * Ilker Ozcelik, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey * Ozgur Ural, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Venue The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. 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Call for Abstracts - 4TH WORKSHOP ON EYE MOVEMENTS AND THE ASSESSMENT OF READING COMPREHENSION
by JProf. Dr. Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

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

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Research Papers
by Announce 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

*** Last Call for Research Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 (*** Submission Deadline extended to 10 April 2026, AoE ***) 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: 10 April 2026 (extended) • Notification of Acceptance: 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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Second CfP - HISEMOTIONS 2026
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear all, We are excited to announce that the Evaluation Campaign for the HISEMOTIONS at IberLEF 2026 is officially underway. All dataset subsets—including training, development, and the newly released test sets—are now available for download. You can find the data and the information about our shared task below: Task Overview HISEMOTIONS 2026 focuses on emotion detection in Early Modern Spanish epistolary texts (16th–17th centuries). Unlike most existing emotion detection tasks that target modern languages or contemporary genres (e.g., social media, reviews), this challenge explores historical linguistic variation and semantic shift, raising a new challenge for NLP systems. Participants are tasked with developing systems that automatically identify emotional content in fragments of historical Spanish letters, addressing issues such as diachronic language variation, historical semantic shifting, and domain adaptation. The shared task aims to foster methodological progress at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Humanities. 🔗 Task pages / resources: https://github.com/albinasarymsakova/HISEMOTIONS_2026 https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14140/?secret_key=c6ae8bdb-dd2f-4908… ------------------------------ Why Participate? - Advance emotion detection methods in low-resource and historical domains. - Explore semantic change effects on automatic classification. - Benchmark systems on a novel historical dataset with expert human annotation. - Cutting-edge research into the computational study of cultural heritage. ------------------------------ Shared Task Details Task: Multi-label emotion detection Each text fragment should be labelled with one or more of the following emotions: • joy • sadness • fear • anger • surprise • hope Participants will predict binary labels for each emotion per fragment. Systems will be evaluated against hidden gold labels using standard metrics such as precision, recall, and macro-F1 score. ------------------------------ Important Dates Task announcement February 9, 2026 Development data release February 12, 2026 Training data release March 11, 2026 Test data release & evaluation start March 26, 2026 Deadline for system submissions April 30, 2026 Official results published May 4, 2026 System description papers due May 20, 2026 Review notification June 19, 2026 Camera-ready papers due July 1, 2026 IberLEF Workshop (presentations) September 22, 2026 ------------------------------ Contact & Submission For updates, questions, or discussions about the task, please open issues in the task GitHub repository or contact the organisers. Detailed submission guidelines will be published alongside the data releases. ------------------------------ We look forward to your participation and contribution to this exciting challenge! — HISEMOTIONS 2026 Organising Committee Dra. Albina Sarymsakova, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa Dra. Patricia Martín Rodilla, CSIC-IEGPS-XuGa Dr. Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Universidad de Jaén Dr. Alfonso Ureña López, Universidad de Jaén -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. [image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/> Eugenio Martínez Cámara Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. 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Call for Participation: LxMLS 2026 - 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School
by Fernando Batista 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

============================================================== Call for Participation LxMLS 2026 - 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School ============================================================== We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS 2026). Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: April 29th * Notification of Admission: May 15th * Early registration: June 28th * Late registration: July 13th * Summer School: July 20–25, 2026 Topics and Intended Audience --------------- The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data. Our target audience is: * Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a deeper understanding of these subjects. Features of LxMLS: * No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on mathematics and programming; * Days are divided into morning lectures and afternoon lab sessions and practical talks (see schedule); * The Labs guide will be provided one month in advance. Last year's guide is available on the website. * The first day is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises * Both basic (e.g linear classifiers) and advanced topics (e.g. deep learning and transformers) will be covered * Welcome reception, Banquet, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing List of Confirmed Speakers --------------- ADÈLE H. RIBEIRO – Philipps-Universität Marburg | Germany ANDRÉ MARTINS – University of Lisbon & Unbabel | Portugal BHIKSHA RAJ – Carnegie Mellon University | USA DESMOND ELLIOTT – University of Copenhagen | Denmark ERIC XING – Carnegie Mellon University & Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI | USA LEON BOTTOU – Flatiron Institute | USA MÁRIO FIGUEIREDO – University of Lisbon | Portugal NOAH SMITH – University of Washington & Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | USA ZITA MARINHO – University of Lisbon | Portugal Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: http://lxmls.it.pt/2026/ Apply here: http://tiny.cc/apply-lxmls2026 Any questions should be directed to: lxmls-2026(a)googlegroups.com We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organizers of LxMLS 2026.

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Workshop/Training Event Eyetracking Gaze Analysis
by Lars-Eric Christer Johansson 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Bergen University is arranging a workshop/training event aimed at Eyetracking and Gaze Analysis. Registration is open. https://www.uib.no/en/lle/181518/workshop-tracking-eyes-and-mind May 4 to May 6. Invited lecturers: Andrew Duchowsk<http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/>i<https://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/> Mauro Manassi<https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/mauro.manassi> Agnieszka Konopka<https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/agnieszka.konopka> Andrey Chetverikov<https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/andrey.chetverikov>

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CFP: The 4th Workshop Towards Knowledgable Foundation Models (KnowFM @ ACL 2026)
by Sara Vera Marjanovic 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Hi colleagues, We invite submissions to the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM), virtually co-located with ACL 2026. Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in storing and utilizing knowledge acquired during pre-training. Yet as these models scale and are deployed in increasingly complex settings, critical challenges remain: How can we reliably assess what a model knows? How do we reconcile conflicting knowledge from parametric memory and retrieved context? How can we keep model knowledge up-to-date without compromising reasoning abilities? And how do we extend these capabilities beyond text to multimodal and agentic settings? This workshop brings together researchers working on different stages and aspects of the knowledge lifecycle, from structured and unstructured knowledge sources to knowledge acquired and synthesized by models themselves, to discuss how knowledge should be represented, acquired, verified, and applied in the era of foundation models. This includes knowledge emergence through pre-training, external knowledge injection, knowledge updating and editing, as well as probing and generation of knowledge. We welcome work on knowledge analysis in LMs, knowledge-enhanced training/inference, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model editing, truthfulness and faithfulness evaluation, hallucination mitigation and factual error correction. Location: San Diego, California Workshop date: July 3, 2026 Submission deadline: April 1, 2026 (AoE) We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Only regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Review process will be double-blind. All submissions should be in PDF format following the ACL template (8 pages for main text) and made through OpenReview submission portal Tentative speakers include Yoav Artzi, Sewon Min, Eunsol Choi, Mohit Iyyer, Danqi Chen, Yulia Tsvetkov, and Xin Luna Dong. More information is available at our website: https://knowledgeable-lm.github.io/

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CfP Tagung „Sprache & KI“
by Krieg-Holz, Ulrike 29 Mar '26

29 Mar '26

CfP Tagung „Sprache & KI“ 1.-3. Oktober 2026, Universität Klagenfurt Die rasante Entwicklung generativer KI-Systeme, insbesondere Large Language Models, hat die Produktion, Rezeption und Bewertung von Texten grundlegend verändert. KI-generierte Texte sind inzwischen fester Bestandteil alltäglicher, wissenschaftlicher, medialer, literarischer und institutioneller Kommunikationspraktiken. Daraus ergeben sich für die Linguistik sowie zunehmend auch die Literaturwissenschaft vielfältige neue Fragestellungen. Die Tagung „Sprache & KI“ widmet sich linguistischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven auf KI-generierte Texte und deren Analyse. Ziel ist es, aktuelle theoretische, methodische und empirische Ansätze zusammenzuführen und zur Diskussion zu stellen. Willkommen sind insbesondere Beiträge zu folgenden Themenfeldern: * Stil, Register und Variation in KI-Texten (z.B. Formalitätsgrade, Höflichkeit, Text-Stil-Transfer, Prompt Tuning, Stilkontrolle durch Parameter oder Instruktionen, multilingualer Stiltransfer, Kreativität) * Merkmale und Analyse KI-generierter Texte (z.B. textlinguistische, grammatische und pragmatische Eigenschaften, Fehlerprofile, Evaluationsverfahren: automatisierte Metriken vs. menschliche Beurteilung, methodologische Herausforderungen, korpuslinguistische Zugänge) * Produktion von KI-Texten: Prompting und LLMs (z.B. Verhältnis von menschlichem und maschinellem Schreiben, Literarizität von Prompts, Fragen von Autor- und Urheberschaft) * Literarizität und Ästhetik KI-generierter Texte (z.B. Stil, Kreativität und Wiederholung, Stochastik vs. Intentionalität, Potentiale einer „materialen Ästhetik“) * Einsatz von KI in linguistischer Forschung und Analyse (z.B. methodische Innovationen, KI-basierte Tools für Korpusanalyse und Annotation, Stilometrie, Sprachvergleich und Übersetzung, Perspektiven auf Anwendungsfelder wie literarische Genres und Storytelling, Marketing und Corporate Language oder Forensische Linguistik) Format * Vorträge (ca. 20 Minuten plus Diskussion) Einreichung & Kontakt Erbeten wird die Einreichung eines Abstracts im Umfang von 200–300 Wörtern (ohne Literaturangaben) und einer kurzen biobibliographischen Notiz. Das Abstract soll die Fragestellung, den theoretischen Rahmen bzw. die Methodik klar benennen und zentrale Thesen sowie gegebenenfalls Ergebnisse skizzieren. Willkommen sind sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle als auch empirische Beiträge. Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract als PDF an: sprache.ki(a)aau.at Termine * Abgabefrist für die Abstracts: 26. April 2026 * Benachrichtigung über Annahme: 16. Mai 2026 * Tagungstermin: 1.-3. Oktober 2026, Universität Klagenfurt * Abgabefrist für die Publikation: 1. Dezember 2026

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[CfP] 6th Workshop on Humanities-Centred AI and 3rd International Workshop on AI in Society, Education and Educational Research (CHAI+AISSER 2026), Joint Workshop
by Jens Dörpinghaus 29 Mar '26

29 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a joint workshop at the 49th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 11 - 14 August 2026: Bremen, Germany. See https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/ki2026-chai for details. CHAI: Aim & scope Inferring ancient cultural traditions from written artifacts, AI offers many opportunities to assist humanities scholars in their work. Both editorial projects and computer-aided evaluations such as text and data mining or linguistic analyses require the collection, storage, and linking of data in order to quickly identify core information of the written artefacts. Time-consuming procedures, such as the creation of dictionaries or the use of bibliographies through the automatic linking of data, enables the creation of extensive data sets and generation of additional information. Thus, AI supports humanities scholars to focus them more on their core task. To ensure that the use of AI methods among humanities scholars is not merely theoretic, the applicability of algorithms in the environment of humanities scholars needs to be specifically examined or also intentionally developed humanities-centred. AISSER: Aim & scope This workshop has two distinct focuses, aiming to the field of AI in society and education more broadly. The first focuses on the technical aspects of applying AI methods in society and education. The second takes a more interdisciplinary approach, considering social and educational aspects of using AI in education. Technical Perspective: The use of AI-based systems to support teaching and learning has been developing for more than 4 decades, but its rise has increased markedly in recent years, due to the increased use of e-learning tools during the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent explosion of generative AI. We are at a key moment in the development of this field. Experts in AI and experts in education must collaborate to optimize the use of generative AI in teaching and learning processes. This workshop aims to provide a platform for presentating new proposals and reflecting on the current state in this field of such social relevance. In this first part, we are particularly interested in the technical aspects of generate AI applications. We will focus on specific techniques used for content creation (generative AI), student profiling (machine learning), learning analytics, and explainable AI methods for teachers’ dashboards. The aim is to provide a clear picture of the approaches used in education, and their particularities. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: the workshop is also dedicated to AI methods in and for education and educational research. This includes the study of educational and teaching generative AI applications, as well as the social sciences, economics, and humanities, including all subjects such as education and teaching in action, labor market research with a focus on educational needs, history of education and related cultural heritage of education. Other topics include informative predictions for decision-making and behavioral science perspectives. On the one hand, we focus on the connections between AI, education, and society. This includes quantitative and qualitative research, data science methods for analyzing educational and labor market data, AI approaches for recommender systems, and digital learning. On the other hand, we focus on how AI can be used to push the boundaries of the field. This includes developing new methods (including methods using AI), finding and making accessible new data sources, enriching data, and more. In both cases, it is essential that the different perspectives communicate and understand each other, which is also one of the goals of this workshop. More broadly, we are interested in the ways in which AI methods affect education, businesses, and labor markets. This includes examining how all sectors of education, from primary to tertiary, are affected by and respond to these methods. The design of digital futures with AI raises several questions for education: At the broadest level are legislative and normative questions; at the level of companies are questions about investment decisions and maintaining productivity and workforces; at the level of individuals are questions about qualifications and which skills need to be applied and possibly learned anew. Thus, skills and qualifications are at the heart of AI in education and educational research. Although digital methods and AI are emerging topics in thesefields, the scope of this workshop is not limited to these areas. It is also dedicated to reflecting on methods and results in the field of AI. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on AI methods. Call for Papers The workshop gathers AI researchers and interested humanities scholars. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: AI for the interdisciplinary work of humanities scholars, AI for linking data from the humanities scholars, Digitized written artefact representation and description formats, AI methods for written artefact analysis, OCR for the humanities scholars, Human-aware agents supporting tasks of humanities scholars, AI techniques applied to education, Explainable AI, Application of generative AI in education, Multimodal learning analytics, AI techniques and models in analyzing the educational data, Intelligent tutoring systems, Intelligent learning/e-learning systems, Student profiling for personalized learning, AI-based apps and simulations, AI to support learners with disabilities, Automatic formative assessment, Dialogue-based tutoring systems, Exploratory learning environments, Classroom monitoring tools, Teacher focused apps, Automatic assessment systems. Submission: Submitted abstracts/papers must be 1 - 3 'standard' pages in length (abstract); be 5 - 9 'standard' pages in length (short papers); be 10 - 15 'standard' pages in length (regular papers); contain your research question(s), the methodological approach and your findings; be written in English; contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; be formatted according to the CEUR-WS-Template (use the 1-column style): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip be submitted in PDF and the source file. Submission should be made through the EasyChair conference management system. The submission link is: https://openreview.net/group?id=KI/2026/Workshop/CHAI_AISSER_202

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Call for Track proposals - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2026 - fire.irsi.org.in
by Thomas Mandl 28 Mar '26

28 Mar '26

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

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CFP: ESSLLI 2026 WS on Human Label Variation in Discourse and Pragmatic Phenomena
by stede＠uni-potsdam.de 28 Mar '26

28 Mar '26

ESSLI 2026 Workshop: Human Label Variation in Discourse and Pragmatic Phenomena Prague, August 10-14, 2026 Call for Papers Workshop description: Over the past 20 years, the NLP community has given steadily-increasing attention to the idea of regarding human annotation disagreement not as a nuisance but as a potential asset that can be exploited for understanding the respective task better. In practice, this means that multiple annotations are not just adjudicated or averaged (and the individual annotations then thrown away) but taken as a spectrum that constitutes a "complex ground truth", for instance in the form of probability distributions over labels attached to items. While some of the pioneering work on appreciating human label variation (HLV) came from research in discourse tasks such as anaphoric reference and discourse structure, the great majority of the recent work in the HLV community has concentrated on tasks in which variation arises from subjective differences, such as humour or offensive language detection, whereas the study of variation in pragmatics and discourse has seen relatively little progress. This is on the one hand surprising - pragmatics and discourse are highly prone to interesting variation in human judgement - but may well be an effect of the relative complexity of the annotation tasks, which make treatments of HLV difficult. In this workshop, we aim to bring together experts on HLV and on discourse phenomena, and to identify ways forward. We welcome contributions on the following topics, for example (the list is not meant to be exhaustive): • Discourse phenomena that can benefit from incorporating HLV • Technical approaches to handling HLV (ideally with an eye on discourse): ◦ Soft-label vs. perspectivist approaches ◦ Implementation of machine learning regimes that handle HLV ◦ Evaluation of both automatic and manual annotation in the face of HLV ◦ Underspecification in representation formalism • Case studies Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be at most two pages in 12pt font (plus up to two pages for references and appendix material). We primarily aim to promote participation and active discussion, and no proceedings will be published. Therefore, workshop submissions are not limited to unpublished work. We welcome proposals for both long (30 min. + discussion) and short (15 min. + discussion) presentations as well as poster presentations. Be sure to indicate your target type on the abstract. Subject to discussion at the end of the workshop, we envisage the possibility of a follow-up publication in the form of a journal special issue (with a new call for papers and reviewing process). Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Submission is via email (see below) Workshop organizers: Massimo Poesio (Utrecht Univ. and Queen Mary University), Manfred Stede (Univ. of Potsdam) Workshop website: https://hlv-dp.github.io Contact (and submission) email: hlvdp(a)proton.me Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: April 24, 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2026 Workshop dates: August 10-14, 2026 (one 90min slot per day)

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Third call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 28 Mar '26

28 Mar '26

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

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6th Call for Papers – LaTeLL 2026 (Low-Resource Languages)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 30 September, 1 and 2 October 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] 6th Call for Papers The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities, have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, _LaTeLL_ represents the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages in particular. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages * Dataset creation and annotation * Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings * Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases * Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection * Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages * Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages * Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding * Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation * Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing * Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages * Information extraction and named entity recognition * Question answering systems * Dialogue and interactive systems * Summarisation * Machine translation * Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining * Content moderation * Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages * Vision and language for low-resource contexts * Speech and text multimodal systems * Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages * Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies * Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development * Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages * Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies * Educational applications and language learning * Community needs assessment and technology adoption * User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages * Multilingual language models and their adaptation * Code-switching and code-mixing * Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages _LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dialect identification and classification * Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects * Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects * Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic * Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects * NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content * Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages Submissions and Publication _LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: * Regular (long) papers:Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. * Short (poster) papers:Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers (both long and short) will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers intend to submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [2] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 1 May 2026 * Reviewing process: 20 May - 20 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2026 * Camera-ready due: 10 July 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 10 July 2026 * Conference: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration.The conference website is www.latell.org/2026/ [1] and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2026(a)latell.org Registration will open in April 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://www.latell.org/2026/ [2] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/latell-26-template/kfcvbgxmccvb

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Researcher position (Full-Time) in the area of AI in Education
by Antje Schweitzer 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the position announced below. We are searching someone with a degree in natural language processing, computational linguistics, digital humanities, data science, software development, or a related field. The position is funded until the end of 2027. The position requires at least good German language skills, ideally better. We are looking forward to applications! Best regards, Antje Schweitzer -- Dr. Antje Schweitzer IMS Uni Stuttgart 0711-685 81376 https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~schweitz Researcher position (Full-Time) in the area of AI in Education Researcher (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%) Project MEKI, Topic: AI in Education from now until Dec 31, 2027 University of Stuttgart Institute of Natural Language Processing Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Thang Vu, https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Vu-00002/, and Dr. Antje Schweitzer, https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schweitzer/ According to current projections, Germany will face a shortage of 7 million workers by 2035. This dramatic shortage of skilled workers is aggravated by the fact that an increasing number of young adults do not have a vocational qualification. In addition, up to 28% of apprentices drop out of their training programs early. We want to change this! The MEKI project (“Mehr erreichen mit KI”), is developing an AI-powered (open-source) educational software designed primarily to help struggling students in vocational schools to successfully complete their training. The project focuses on industrial and commercial fields, but is developing concepts that can be applied to other areas. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth within the InnoVET PLUS program. To realise this goal, we are working with four partners (two Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IHKs) as well as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU)). The IHKs and LMU are primarily responsible for identifying the requirements and for scientific evaluation; the software is being developed jointly by TUM and our group, with our main focus being on the AI features. The project currently has an opening for a full-time position (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%) through to the end of the project term at the end of December 2027. Part-time employment (for the same duration) can also be negotiated. We are looking for a motivated colleague who is interested in getting involved in vocational education and tackling a social issue using AI methods. The use of AI in education opens up innovative possibilities such as personalized and multimodal learning, or gamification to boost motivation. Desired Profile: • Very good knowledge of written and spoken German • Excellent communication skills and teamwork • Diligence and analytical thinking • A degree in natural language processing, computational linguistics, digital humanities, data science, software development, or a related field • Extensive experience using LLM agents • Strong programming skills, particularly in Python • Experience in multimodal generation • Experience with deep learning is a plus, but not required • Experience with Git • Experience in front-end development, e.g., React/TypeScript is a plus Responsibilities: • Design and implementation of new AI-based software features, particularly in the area of multimodal learning • Participation in the ongoing evaluation of the software’s AI features • Joint testing of the software as part of user studies with project partners • Documentation and publication of project results • Active collaboration with network partners and active participation in internal network meetings What we offer: • A diverse, dedicated team and a pleasant work environment with excellent research facilities in an international and interdisciplinary setting • Cutting-edge topics with societal relevance in the field of education • Opportunities for collaboration and contact with other interdisciplinary projects in the fields of deep learning and setting at the Institute of Natural Language Processing • Support from student assistants Application Process Please submit a PDF file containing: • a brief motivation letter outlining your fit to the project, • your resume, • your degree certificate including grades Applications should be sent to: Antje Schweitzer, antje.schweitzer(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:antje.schweitzer@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Applications received before 11th April 2026 will be given full consideration. The position will remain open until filled, so do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening later. The University of Stuttgart stands for diversity and equal opportunities, as well as for the compatibility of work and family life. Women applicants with the same qualifications, skills, and professional achievements will be given preference in areas where women are underrepresented. Applicants with disabilities with the same qualifications will be given priority. We expressly welcome applications from people of other nationalities or with a migration background. Further information The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly, both nationally and internationally. As part of this department, IMS aims at bridging the gap between foundational research into language and the development of technologies for society. With 6 professors, over 50 scientists and 200 students in the study programs B.Sc. and M.Sc. Computational Linguistics, IMS is one of the largest hubs of computational linguistics in Germany and Europe. The city of Stuttgart is known for its strong economy and diverse cultural scene, all within a manageable size. Its location amidst numerous hills and vineyards is also worth seeing. Stuttgart is a lively city with a vibrant bar and club scene and an extensive public transportation network. By train, Stuttgart is well connected to many other interesting destinations, such as Munich and Cologne (about 2 hours), Paris (about 3.5 hours), Berlin (about 5.5 hours), Strasbourg (1 hour), and Lake Constance (2 hours). InnoVET PLUS program https://www.inno-vet.de/innovet/de/innovet_plus/innovet-plus_node.html MEKI project description from website of project partner IHK Reutlingen https://www.reutlingen.ihk.de/ausbildung/azubis-hier-lang/digitale-lernange… Institute of Natural Language processing https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de <https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/> Digital Phonetics group https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/arbeitsgruppen/dp/

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

27 Mar '26

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

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ESU in Digital Humanities 2026 – Applications Now Open
by Elisabeth Burr 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

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

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1st CfP for EMNLP Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT)
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

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

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[CFP] QUECHUA to SPANISH Speech Translation at ACL 2026
by John Ortega 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Help preserve South American indigenous languages through speech technology! *== QUECHUA-SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION SHARED TASK — IWSLT 2026 ==* We are excited to announce the 2026 edition of the Quechua-to-Spanish (QUE-SPA) speech translation shared task, part of the Low-Resource Speech Translation track at IWSLT 2026. The conference will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA on July 3–4, 2026. Quechua is spoken by more than 8 million people across Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, yet remains one of the most underrepresented languages in speech technology. Building on the success of previous workshops (LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and prior IWSLT editions), we continue our effort to push the state of the art in low-resource speech translation. We welcome all approaches: neural, statistical, rule-based, end-to-end, cascaded, and more! *★ IMPORTANT LINKS ★* - Task webpage: https://iwslt.org/2026/low-resource <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iwslt.org_2026_low-2Dr…> - Dataset: https://github.com/johneortega/IWSLT2026_Quechua_data <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_johneortega…> - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_g_iw…> - IWSLT 2026 conference: https://iwslt.org/2026 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iwslt.org_2026&d=DwMFa…> *★ HOW TO PARTICIPATE ★* 1. Join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_g_iw…> 2. Download the QUE-SPA dataset: https://github.com/johneortega/IWSLT2026_Quechua_data <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_johneortega…> 3. Build your system and submit results during the evaluation period 4. Submit your system description paper Submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly to the organizers. *★ IMPORTANT DATES ★* - Apr 1–15, 2026 – Evaluation period - Apr 24, 2026 – System paper submission deadline - May 15, 2026 – Notification of acceptance - Jun 1, 2026 – Camera-ready deadline - Jul 3–4, 2026 – IWSLT conference (San Diego, CA, USA) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00. *★ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (QUE-SPA & Catalan) ★* - John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) — j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu - Rodolfo Zevallos (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) — rodolfojoel.zevallos(a)upf.edu <rodolfo.zevallos(a)bsc.es> - Fabrício Carraro (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) — fabricio.carraro(a)bsc.es - Stephanny Sánchez (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería) — stephanny.sanchez.b(a)uni.pe For questions about datasets or the task, please contact the organizers above or the general IWSLT discussion list: iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The QUE-SPA Organizing Team

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

26 Mar '26

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

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3rd CFP-GITT-2026 at EAMT 2026
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

3rd 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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Open positions: Research Fellow/Postdoc and Research Assistant at the National University of Singapore
by dcsnght＠nus.edu.sg 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

The Natural Language Processing Group at the National University of Singapore invites applications for research fellow/postdoc and research assistant in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing (SoC), in the research area of propaganda detection, which concerns automated detection of targeted and coordinated disinformation campaigns. The appointment is for a period of one year. The candidate for the research fellow/postdoc position should possess a PhD degree in computer science or a related discipline, and a strong publication record in large language models, deep learning, or related areas. Strong programming skills (Python and PyTorch) and good command of English (both spoken and written) are also required. The candidate for the research assistant position should possess a Bachelor or Master’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, with outstanding academic record. Strong programming skills (Python and PyTorch) and good command of English (both spoken and written) are also required. Candidates interested in pursuing a PhD degree in computer science are especially welcome to apply. Interested candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, degree certificates, academic transcripts, names and email addresses of 3 referees. Application materials should be sent to Professor Hwee Tou Ng (dcsnght(a)nus.edu.sg).

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CFP: Promoting machine translation and GenAI translation literacy: an approach towards professional translation and interpreting labour market
by Amal Haddad 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Promoting machine translation and GenAI translation literacy: an approach towards professional translation and interpreting labour market University of Granada, Spain 2-3 June 2026 Deadline: 31 March 2026 The labour market associated with most careers has evolved rapidly in the recent years, requiring a workforce with extensive digital skills. The same applies to the current landscape of the translation profession, which is also being reshaped by the forces of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digitisation and the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Furthermore, recently, the most frequent discussion among academics and industry revolves around the danger of AI encroaching on the profession of translators, terminologists and interpreters, putting their job positions at risk, or even causing the eventual disappearance of translation careers. Some universities warn of the risk of terminating translation career paths due to the sharp decline in the number of students or the demise of translation careers as an independent field of study. Additionally, the hypothesis that technology is more efficient than humans in performing translation and interpreting tasks is becoming a threat itself, leading to a sharp decline in the number of students enrolled in translation and foreign languages careers worldwide. In most universities, this panorama is the case in most translation careers, and Spanish universities are no exception. One of the solutions to this problem is machine translation literacy, GenAI literacy and reducing the gap between technological developments and the technological competencies of translation and interpreting teachers. This event aims at offering solutions and training translation and interpreting teachers in this direction, in a way that they know how to follow the pace of technology and acquire basic technological notions, so that they keep up with the high quality teaching, required to keep a good ranking for their universities, provide excellent teaching to their students, and be part of the solution to protect translation careers from a humanistic point of view. Rationale and objectives The current landscape of translation education faces a critical juncture. While the profession is being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, the velocity of technological advancement has outpaced the capacity of educators to integrate these tools effectively into their teaching. This gap manifests in three interconnected problems. First: Digital literacy deficit Research on university students' perceptions of GenAI-assisted translation reveals concerns about declining translation creativity, independent thinking, and a notable deficiency in digital literacy among both educators and learners. Many translation educators lack training in how these tools function, their limitations, and appropriate pedagogical approaches for teaching with them. The European Association for Machine Translation's 2024 Translation Education Week emphasized that transversal skills, particularly AI literacy, data quality assessment, and communication abilities, are now more crucial than ever in translator education. Second: Disconnection between academic training and labour market realities While general content translation is increasingly automated, specialized domains requiring nuanced language skills, cultural adaptation, and subject-matter expertise remain essential human territories. The translation industry has transitioned to a hybrid model where Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) offers 30-50% cost reductions while maintaining accuracy, yet many graduates lack training in these workflows. Studies demonstrate that solid grammatical proficiency combined with MT literacy produces significantly higher quality translations than either factor alone, highlighting the need for integrated training approaches. Third: Insufficient understanding of quality distinctions and ethical responsibilities The widespread adoption of tools like Google Translate and DeepL by professionals and students often occurs with relatively little reflection, leading to potential risks in high-stakes contexts such as legal documents, medical translations, or patient forms where errors can have severe consequences. Educators must develop "MT literacy consultant" capabilities, the ability to assess when and how MT can be appropriately deployed, and to advise others on its responsible use. Objectives This event addresses these challenges through three core objectives: 1. Bridging the Technological Gap We will provide practical training in basic MT and GenAI literacies, equipping educators with foundational understanding of how neural machine translation, large language models, and generative AI tools function. This includes hands-on experience with current technologies, understanding their capabilities and limitations, and learning pedagogical strategies for integrating them into curricula. 2. Aligning Education with Labour Market Demands We will present current industry trends and expectations, helping educators understand the evolution from traditional translation to AI-augmented workflows. This includes exploring post-editing skills, quality assessment frameworks, and specialized domain knowledge that differentiate human expertise from automated output. By understanding what employers seek, professionals who can work effectively alongside AI while maintaining quality standards, educators can better prepare graduates for meaningful careers. 3. Promoting Ethical and Quality-Conscious Practice We will emphasize the critical importance of understanding translation quality gradations and the responsibilities associated with different contexts. This includes teaching students to assess risk levels (high-stakes vs. low-stakes scenarios), recognize when human expertise is non-negotiable, and communicate the value of professional translation to clients and the public. We will also address environmental and social implications of translation choices, fostering responsible professional citizenship. Added Value The added value of this event lies in its practical, forward-looking approach. Rather than resisting technological change or uncritically embracing it, we advocate for informed integration, recognizing AI as a powerful tool that augments rather than replaces human expertise. By equipping educators with confidence and competence in these areas, we strengthen the entire educational ecosystem: better-prepared teachers lead to better-trained students, who in turn become the skilled professionals needed in today's translation market. Furthermore, this initiative contributes to the broader mission of protecting and promoting translation studies as a vital humanistic discipline. By demonstrating how translation professionals can thrive in an AI-enhanced landscape, we empower educators to attract and retain students with realistic, compelling visions of rewarding careers. We welcome any contributions related to this timely topic. Presentation format: Talk (20 mins), non-archival. Selection for places will be made by the conference scientific committee (blind peer review). SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xrgG09Xnu95cAPQlXTLrSGDste08qKhETQ8vLYN-gY… [1] Important dates: Deadline for Abstracts: 31 March 2026 Notification of Outcome: 15 April 2026 Conference award: Conference award granted by AIETI, the Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies. 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CLARIN ERIC : Newsflash March 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, The March 2026 edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * B-centre certification for CLARIN-CH * Launch of the PhD Edition of Tour de CLARIN * Two upcoming hackathons * DHH2026<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-h…> * From Archive to Insight: Activating Cultural Data<https://www.etkad.ee/humal/hum-hackathon/> Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-march-2026 Subscribe to the newsletter here<http://eepurl.com/bOt3Qn>. Kind regards, --- Elisa Gorgaini Communication Officer - CLARIN ERIC Utrecht University | Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands e.gorgaini(a)uu.nl<mailto:e.gorgaini@uu.nl> | elisa(a)clarin.eu<mailto:elisa@clarin.eu> www.clarin.eu<https://www.clarin.eu>

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Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 6
by Andrea Farina 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 13th April 2026 at 5pm BST. Roksana Goworek (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) will be presenting on "An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Semantic Change Analysis via Definition-Aligned Embedding Spaces” in an interactive session. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 10th April and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/mBmDUufrgskRtHPB6 Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found at this page<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/monday-13-apri…>. The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2026-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina (King’s College London) and Dr Mathilde Bru and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Join our mailing list<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/>!

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First Call for Papers: 13th International Conference on Multimodality, 2027 in Helsinki, Finland
by 13th International Conference on Multimodality 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

Dear all, we are happy to announce that the 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027. The phenomenon of multimodality – or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression – is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is essential for moving towards a shared understanding. This is the main theme of the 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM), which celebrates the 25th anniversary of organising the first conference in the series in Salzburg, Austria in 2002. For 13ICOM, we want to specifically emphasise the role of early-career researchers working on diverse aspects of multimodality by organising a doctoral consortium on June 1, 2027 ahead of the main conference on June 2–4, 2027. The doctoral consortium features 5-minute pitch talks from participants and master classes in theories and methods from experts, with plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow early-career researchers. The main conference will feature four plenary sessions and multiple parallel sessions with 20-minute presentations. The confirmed plenarists for 13ICOM include (in alphabetical order) Pentti Haddington (University of Oulu, Finland), Maria Grazia Sindoni (University of Messina, Italy), Beate Schirrmacher (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University, Sweden). For the full call for papers, please see the conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim… Best, the 13ICOM organising team

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Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
by Michael Barlow 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the 2nd CFP for APCLC 2016. The 6th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2026) will be held in Toyama, Japan, from September 8–11, 2026. The main conference runs September 9–10, with pre-conference workshops on September 8 and an excursion on September 11. Conference Theme: Emerging Paradigms of Corpus Linguistics in the Age of AI Venue: Toyama International Conference Centre (Toyama, JAPAN) TOYAMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER Plenary speakers: Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-eric-friginal/ Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira Others to be confirmed Call for Papers: We welcome submissions for oral & poster presentations. Oral presentations: Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references). Abstracts should report on the background, research questions, data, methods, results, and implications of the research, as appropriate to the nature of the paper. Posters: Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references). Abstracts may report on the background, research questions, data, methods, (provisional) results, and (potential) contributions of the research, as appropriate. Pre-conference workshops: Proposals are welcome for short workshops (1.5 hours) and half-day workshops (3 hours). For those who are interested in offering a workshop, please contact the organizer directly. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to AI & CORPUS LINGUISTICS Applications of AI in corpus design and construction Applications of AI in corpus analysis Ethics of using AI in corpus research Corpus-based evaluation of AI-generated language CORPUS METHODS New tools and analytical techniques Innovations in corpus design, construction, and annotation New analytical techniques New theoretical frameworks Critical evaluation of existing tools, techniques, and frameworks Replication studies APPLICATIONS OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS Corpus developments in the Asia-Pacific region Forensic linguistics Stylistics Discourse analysis Sociolinguistics and language change Lexicography Grammar analysis Translation Contrastive analysis Genre, register, and textual variation Intercultural communication Multilingualism and translanguaging Underrepresented languages and language varieties Digital communication and social media Multimodal communication Language for specific/academic purposes Learner corpora Pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics Language learning, teaching, and assessment Teaching corpus linguistics as a discipline Important dates: March, 2026: 2nd circular (with CFP) May 31, 2026: Deadline for abstract submission; Early bird registration open June 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance of abstracts July 31, 2026: End of early bird registration (Details provided later) August 10, 2026: Submission deadline for online proceedings August 31, 2026: Deadline for full registration September 8, 2026: Pre-conference workshops & Registration September 9-10, 2026: Main conference September 11, 2026: Excursion Please save the dates and visit our APCLC2026 official site (to appear) for future updates. Organising committee: Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association (APCLA) steering committee Michael Barlow (University of Auckland) Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney) Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University) Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Naixing Wei (Beihang University) Raksangob Wijitsopon (Chulalongkorn University) Jiajin Xu (Beijing Foreign Studies University) Program committee Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University) Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Yasutake Ishii (Seijo University) Kyoko Kanzaki (Gunman Women’s University) Naho Kawamoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Yoshiyuki Notohara (Doshisha University) Sachiko Hachino (Tezukayama Gakuin University) Satoshi Yamazaki (Chiba University of Commerce) Emi Izumi (Kyoto University) Contact: apclc2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:apclc2026@gmail.com> --- Michael Barlow. www.michaelbarlow.com<http://www.michaelbarlow.com/> Assoc. Prof. Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland Recent publications M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Social Science Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753367/ref=sr_1_1_so_ABIS_BOOK?crid=25EQBROGY…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Humanities Research Article.<https://www.amazon.com/s?k=writing+the+humanities+research+article&i=stripb…> Athelstan. M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Business Research Article<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753405/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…>.<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753405/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…> Athelstan M. Barlow. 2026. Writing the Economics Research Article<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0940753383/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XO1YCSNL8ZT&dib=eyJ2I…>. Athelstan M. Barlow 2023. Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics<https://brill.com/display/title/61682>. Brill Le, Pham & Barlow 2023. The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering<https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.107>. Benjamins

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Call for Participation for HAHA at IberLEF 2026
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

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

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PsyDefDetect shared task (co-located with BioNLP @ ACL 2026) - Call for Participation
by hongbin.na＠student.uts.edu.au 22 Mar '26

22 Mar '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

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Journal First Papers
by Announce 21 Mar '26

21 Mar '26

*** Last Call for Journal First Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your paper for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 2 April 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

*Registration open!!* ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and 2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently, performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and evaluation metrics. For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: *1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist Response Selection* Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026. <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026> MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Feb 9th Registration open* Mar 27th Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Apr 6th Registration closed Apr 13th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 20th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 27th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 11th Deadline for paper submission June 1st Acceptance notification Jun 15th Camera-ready submission deadline Sep TBD Publication of proceedings Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026. The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee. Mª Dolores Molina González PCD del Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación mdmolina(a)ujaen.es Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 328 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Universidad de Jaén Edificio Departamental, Despacho D-122 Campus Científico Tecnológico de Linares, Avda. de la Universidad s/n 23700 (+34) 953 64 86 51 <+34%20953%2064%2086%2017> - Escuela Politécnica Superior de Linares ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] IEEE FedCSIS 2026: "Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)"
by Jens Dörpinghaus 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a thematic track at FedCSIS 2026 (IEEE #61123) called "AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)". FedCSIS 2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia, 23-26 August, 2026. See https://2026.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso for details. --> Paper submission: 15.04.2026 This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems. Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered, we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning, discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field with human and context-aware agents. The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how research questions from other domains challenge current computer science. In particular, we are interested in communications between researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences, economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields. Topics ====== The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - AI and computational approaches for linking data from different digital resources, including online social networks, web and data mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies. - AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines, OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences. - Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis. - Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society, education and humanties research In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not limited to: - Labour market research and qualification, including behavioral-science perspectives. - Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult education, etc. - Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history, and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis, analytical and visualization, databases, etc. - In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social sciences within computer science. - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection. Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org Submission rules ================ - Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files. - The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here. - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area. - Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online. - Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. - Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. - Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here. - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Sessions.

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[CfP] 4th Workshop on Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’26)
by Jens Dörpinghaus 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Dear all, I would like to inform you about a call for papers for a workshop at INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2026 in Dresden, 22.09. – 25.09.2026: 4th Workshop on Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’26) Submission Deadline: 07.05.2026 See https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/cssbibb/4th-workshop-on-digitalization-and-ai-for… for details. Aims & Scope ============ Societies today have to deal with multifaceted risks such as pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and virtual security risks. At the nexus of these risks computational social sciences, computing education and digital literacy are emerging as a critical political and societal lever for designing digitalized futures. In pursuit of an open society, open science and open source, this workshop addresses the transformative power of computational methods, including AI, not only in education, but also in society and labor markets by exploring interdisciplinary insights to questions of digital and open sovereignity, societal structures, and the evolving demands of labor markets. Call for Papers =============== This workshop aims to comprehensively explore the intersection of computer science, computational methods, education research, sociological research, their respective methods and societal implications, with a special focus on digitalization and AI for and in society, education and educational research. It focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives on the design of an open society, open science and open source, examining aspects such as society, general education, labor markets, qualifications, vocational education and training, or adult education. In addition, the workshop encourages submissions that critically reflect on the application of digital methods in these research areas. The overarching goal is to understand how computational methods, especially AI, can be sensibly applied in the development of open, digital and sustainable societies and economies. Emphasis is placed on theoretical as well as empirical research, including data science methods and AI approaches applicable to recommender systems, digitized learning, and effective linking of digital resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational Social Sciences, in particular AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - Quantitative and qualitative research - Data science methods to analyse (vocational) education and labour market data - Digital methods and systems in education (e-learning, adult education, general, VET and academic education, etc.) - AI approaches for recommender systems and digitized learning - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection. AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Network analysis, including social and educational network analysis. - We also welcome submissions focusing on a critical reflection of digital methods in labour market research, education and other research areas. Submission ========== The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Selected papers will be published in “GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics” (LNI). Submissions (6-16 pages for full paper, 3-6 pages plus references for poster presentation) must be written in English and follow the guidelines published at https://informatik2026.converve.io/ and https://gi.de/service/publikationen/lni. Please submit your papers to https://www.conftool.org/informatik2026/index.php?page=login Submissions are reviewed using a single-blind review process, which means you do not have to hide authors’ names and affiliations. Important Dates: 07.05.2026 – Submission Deadline 01.06.2026 – Notification 01.07.2026 – Deadline Proceedings/Full Paper Submission – Submission of camera-ready papers. 31.07.2026 – Publication of agenda.

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Postdoctoral position: Autonomous Agents in Distributed Ledger Technologies
by Damir Korenčić 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Institution: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Closing date: April 10th 2026 We recently opened a position of potential interest for NLP researchers. We are looking for a motivated candidate with relevant technical expertise and compatible scientific interest. The successful candidate will work in a group consisting of two senior researchers and a PhD student. The focus of the project is twofold: 1) researching how autonomous agents operate on DLT platforms, and 2) developing and deploying a long-running agents to interact with DLT platforms and social networks. The first part encompasses collection and analysis of relevant DLT data, while the second part will focus on development and deployment of an LLM-based agentic system, and on studying its behavior and patterns of interaction. Initially, we plan to focus on Farcaster as the target platform. The candidate will be welcome (and expected) to actively participate in the design of the research. How to apply: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/418300 (basically you need to send a cover letter, plus the other information described as required). If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at: matija.piskorec(a)irb.hr damir.korencic(a)irb.hr

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