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

28 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - NLPAICS 2026
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 27 May '26

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

NLPAICS 2026: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11-12 June 2026. The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accepted-papers/ [1]. Further details about keynote speakers, and submissions are also available on the official conference website https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ [2]. The conference programme will be announced shortly. Researchers and attendees interested in participating are encouraged to register as soon as possible to secure the reduced rates and join the NLPAICS 2026 community. Early registration must be completed before Monday, 25 May 2026 in order to benefit from the discounted registration fees. Special fee rates are also available for participants attending NLPAICS + Summer School: "The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing" (https://summer-school.gplsi.es/ [3]) that will be held from 15-17 June 2026 in Alicante. -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accepted-papers/__… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!S… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://summer-school.gplsi.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA…

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

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

27 May '26

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

26 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

*** Last Call for Industry Track Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. The Industry Track of VARIABILITY 2026 offers a platform for practitioners, researchers, and technology leaders to share practical experiences in industrial settings with reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems. Building on the industrial tracks of SPLC, VaMoS, and ICSR, this track bridges research and practice by showcasing how variability, reuse, and product line strategies are being applied and developed in today’s fast-changing industrial environments. Software systems are becoming increasingly configurable, data-driven, and AI-enabled (e.g., using foundation models), while also integrating advanced technologies such as quantum computing. This growing complexity calls for balancing flexibility, reuse, and quality amid pressures from emerging technologies and sustainability objectives. The Industry Track welcomes submissions that demonstrate how these challenges are addressed in real-world settings, whether through success stories, lessons learned, or reflections on failures that yielded valuable insights. We especially encourage submissions that demonstrate how variability management, reuse, and configuration approaches are being applied or reimagined in industrial settings, including through AI, digital twins, large language (LLMs) and foundation models, quantum computing, and cyber-physical systems. The industry track aims to: • Showcase practical experiences from industrial settings using variability, reuse, or configuration techniques. • Exchange insights between industry practitioners and researchers. • Identify new industrial challenges and opportunities for future research collaboration. • Share tools, processes, or organizational approaches that improve adaptability, scalability, and efficiency. Topics of Interest We welcome experience reports, case studies, and position papers on any of the topics covered by the VARIABILITY conference. The detailed list of topics can be found on the conference website (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…). In addition to these topics, the industry track welcomes papers also on: Industrial Applications • Variability and reuse in AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, automotive, aerospace, quantum computing, etc. • Sustainable technologies for variation and sustainable software reuse approaches • Human, organizational, and social aspects of variable systems and software • Industrial case studies and lessons learned Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Presenting experiences from the application of reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering approaches, preferably in an industrial context. Submissions should provide a clear context for the problem, outline requirements or practical experiences in addressing it, evaluate benefits and drawbacks or other lessons learned, and highlight the innovation or value of the contribution. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Describing early results from new reuse, variability management, configuration, and product line engineering across software and systems applications. • Extended Abstracts (up to 1 page): A proposal for presentation during the conference. The extended abstract will not be published. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the industry track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Single-Blind Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be single- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, rigor, transparency, novelty, and presentation. Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Proceedings which will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 8 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 8 July 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Interest in Generative Grammar and Universal Grammar – Looking for Collaboration
by jrolnav1＠doctor.upv.es 19 May '26

19 May '26

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

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

19 May '26

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

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

19 May '26

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

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

19 May '26

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

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

19 May '26

*** Last Mile for Journal First Papers Submission *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted abstracts will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your abstract for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 22 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026
by Gabriella Lapesa 18 May '26

18 May '26

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

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AIST conference announcement
by Maxim Panov 18 May '26

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

17 May '26

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

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

17 May '26

International Conference 'LAnguage TEchnologies for Low-resource Languages' (LaTeLL '2026) Fes, Morocco 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 www.latell.org/2026/ [1] Call for Papers ***Extended submission deadline 15 June 2026*** *** Note the slightly revised conference dates: 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 *** The conference Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world's linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities, have not yet reaped the full benefits of contemporary NLP technologies. This imbalance can be attributed to several interrelated factors, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited computational and financial resources, and insufficient community engagement in data collection and model development. Developing NLP applications for low-resource languages poses major challenges, particularly the need for large, well-annotated datasets, standardised tools, and robust linguistic resources. Although several workshops have previously addressed NLP for low-resource languages, LaTeLL is the first international conference dedicated specifically to the automatic processing of such languages. The event aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their latest work in NLP in general, and particularly in the development and evaluation of language models for low-resource languages. Conference topics We invite submissions on a broad range of themes concerning linguistic and computational studies focusing on low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following topics: Language resources for low-resource languages * Dataset creation and annotation * Evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for low-resource settings * Lexical resources, corpora, and linguistic databases * Crowdsourcing and community-driven data collection * Tools and frameworks for low-resource language processing Core language technologies for low-resource languages * Language modelling and pre-training for low-resource languages * Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding * Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenisation * Syntax: tagging, chunking, and parsing * Semantics: lexical and sentence-level representation NLP Applications for low-resource languages * Information extraction and named entity recognition * Question answering systems * Dialogue and interactive systems * Summarisation * Machine translation * Sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, and argument mining * Content moderation * Information retrieval and text mining Multimodality and Grounding for low-resource languages * Vision and language for low-resource contexts * Speech and text multimodal systems * Low-resource sign language processing Ethics, Equity, and Social Impact for low-resource languages * Bias and fairness in low-resource language technologies * Sociolinguistic considerations in technology development * Cultural appropriateness and sensitivity Human-Centred Approaches in low-resource languages * Usability and accessibility of low-resource language technologies * Educational applications and language learning * Community needs assessment and technology adoption * User experience research in low-resource contexts Multilinguality and Cross-Lingual Methods for low-resource languages * Multilingual language models and their adaptation * Code-switching and code-mixing * Cross-lingual transfer learning in low-resource languages. Special Theme Track 1 -- Building Applications Based on Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages _LaTeLL'2026_ will feature a Special Theme Track dedicated to the development of applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. This track aims to explore innovative methodologies, architectures, and tools that leverage the power of LLMs to enhance linguistic processing, accessibility, and inclusivity for underrepresented languages. Contributions are encouraged on topics such as model adaptation and fine-tuning, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer, ethical and fairness considerations, and the creation of datasets and benchmarks that facilitate the integration of LLM-based solutions in low-resource settings. Special Theme Track 2 -- Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic Dialects This special track addresses the unique challenges and opportunities in processing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the rich landscape of Arabic dialects. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where the formal MSA coexists with numerous, widely used spoken dialects, presents a significant hurdle for NLP. While MSA is relatively well-resourced, Arabic dialects are quintessential examples of low-resource languages, often lacking standardised orthographies, annotated corpora, and dedicated processing tools. This track invites submissions on novel research and resources aimed at bridging this gap and advancing the state of the art in Arabic language technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dialect identification and classification * Creation of corpora and lexical resources for Arabic dialects * Machine translation between MSA and dialects, and across different dialects * Speech recognition and synthesis for dialectal Arabic * Computational modelling of morphology, syntax, and semantics for dialects * NLP applications (e.g., sentiment analysis, NER) for dialectal user-generated content * Code-switching between Arabic dialects, MSA, and other languages Submissions and Publication _LaTeLL'2026_ welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which may take one of the following two forms: * Regular papers:Up to eight (8) pages in length, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished research. * Short/poster papers:Up to four (4) pages in length, suitable for concise or focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, and similar work. Short papers will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The conference will not consider submissions consisting of abstracts only. All accepted papers (both long and short) will be published as electronic proceedings (with ISBN) and made available on the conference website at the time of the event. The organisers will submit the proceedings for inclusion in the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the LaTeLL'2026 style files available here: LaTeX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RceWyUqjFLEbv_oNto-x2Quop7qT4-wf/view?usp=… Word: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6VeC9jtMpe-Ku2QREgrPlE2-NTDvJvZ/edit?u… [2] Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/ttzzfcnjrgvw#e82bef [3] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/latell2026 Authors of papers receiving exceptionally positive reviews will be invited to prepare extended and substantially revised versions for submission to a leading journal in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will also feature a Student Workshop, and awards will be presented to the authors of outstanding papers. Important dates Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline has been extended to 15 June 2026. In addition, note the revised conference dates below. * Submissions due: 15 June 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2026 * Camera-ready due: 31 July 2026 * Conference: 28, 29 and 30 September 2026 Keynote speaker Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi) Organisation Conference Chair Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Organising Committee Maram Alharbi (Lancaster University) Salmane Chafik (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Milica Ikonić Nešić (University of Belgrade) Shahin Yousefi (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan) Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will provide more details on the conference venue and registration. 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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Project Showcases
by Announce 16 May '26

16 May '26

*** Last Call for Project Showcases *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. As part of this mission, VARIABILITY 2026 invites submissions to its Project Showcase Track, a forum dedicated to presenting ongoing or recently completed research projects. The track offers a stage for research teams to share their vision, goals, early outcomes, intermediate results, final achievements, and lessons learned from funded projects of all scales, including collaborative research centers, EU projects, and nationally or regionally funded initiatives. The goal is to encourage interaction, foster collaboration opportunities, and help disseminate project insights to the broader community. Objectives and Scope We welcome submissions on research projects that address reuse, product lines, and variable/configurable software systems. A list of research topics that are relevant for this track is available from the call for the papers for the VARIABILITY 2026 Research Track, at: https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C… Submissions are expected to describe ongoing or recently completed research projects within this scope. This track is not intended for publishing mature research results. Instead, it focuses on project summaries and overviews, highlighting goals, structure, challenges, insights, and project level impact. Examples of suitable submissions include: • Ongoing projects focusing on goals, challenges, methodology, or early findings • Recently completed projects summarizing outcomes, evidence, and impact • Large scale, collaborative, or multi partner efforts, where visibility and networking are beneficial • Smaller or emerging projects that would benefit from early feedback and exposure PhD thesis projects are not in scope for this track. We warmly encourage PhD candidates to submit their work to the VARIABILITY 2026 Doctoral Symposium. Submission Format • Length: 7 to 10 pages, excluding references • Format: LNCS (Springer), single blind submissions Each submission will receive feedback from three reviewers. All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=variability2026 (Select “Projects Showcase Track”). Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. Accepted submissions will receive a presentation slot. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event Evaluation Criteria Submissions will be evaluated on: • Relevance to the conference scope • Clarity of project goals, context, and contributions • Potential for impact, collaboration, reuse, or technology transfer • Value for discussion and interaction at the conference The focus is on clarity, relevance, and value to the community rather than scientific novelty. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Universal Dependencies, release 2.18
by Dan Zeman 16 May '26

16 May '26

We are very happy to announce the twenty-fourth release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.18, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *353* treebanks in v2.18 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *193* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bokota, Bororo, Brahui, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Kurdish, Chinese, Chintang, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gorontalo, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ika, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kadiweu, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khoekhoe, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle Armenian, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naga, Naija, Neapolitan, Nenets, Nepali, Nheengatu, North Sami, Northern Kurdish, Northwest Gbaya, Norwegian, Occitan, Odia, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old English, Old French, Old Georgian, Old Irish, Old Occitan, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Pashto, Paumari, Persian, Pesh, Phrygian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Ruuli, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, South Levantine Arabic, Southern Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish English, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik, Zaar and Zazaki. The 193 languages belong to *36* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chibchan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Constructed, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Guaicuruan, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Na-Dene, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in November 2026. The size of the following 41 treebanks changed significantly since the last release: Abkhaz AbNC : 10585 → 13054 Assamese AiW : 0 → 871 Brahui Kholum : 0 → 819 Cappadocian AMGiC : 451 → 820 Egyptian PC : 0 → 34234 Egyptian UJaen : 24375 → 0 Gorontalo BungoLoLombi : 0 → 205 Greek GLCII : 0 → 9868 Greek Lesbian : 5926 → 6840 Hausa EasternAutogramm : 0 → 9485 Hausa NorthernAutogramm : 4158 → 15424 Hebrew PostRab : 0 → 8029 Italian KIParlaForest : 9348 → 18680 Kadiweu Unicamp : 0 → 318 Khunsari AHA : 74 → 0 Korean KSL : 137122 → 155104 Latin CIRCSE : 24899 → 29055 Marathi CMUPAN : 0 → 118198 Mbya Guarani Dooley : 11771 → 0 Middle Armenian ArmTDP : 0 → 1093 Middle French PROFITEROLE : 89809 → 119001 Nayini AHA : 78 → 0 Nepali BK : 0 → 801 Odia ODTB : 1029 → 5818 Old Georgian GLC : 0 → 6884 Old Occitan CorAG : 45389 → 52539 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 17125 → 22027 Ottoman Turkish TueCL : 0 → 929 Pashto Prince : 0 → 1180 Pashto Sikaram : 4067 → 5467 Phrygian KUL : 1687 → 1921 Punjabi CS : 0 → 1903 Punjabi Rang : 0 → 1907 Ruuli RDT : 0 → 6301 Sinhala Appuwa : 0 → 669 Soi AHA : 55 → 0 Swedish SweLL : 8644 → 10895 Turkish English BUTR : 393 → 441 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl ITML : 9461 → 0 Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl MesoTree: 0 → 19535 Zazaki ZSD : 0 → 1441 In total, the new release contains *2,337,062* sentences, 37,424,698 surface tokens and *38,181,322* syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Rimsha Abid, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Jephtey Adolphe, Noëmi Aepli, Muhammad Afzal, Željko Agić, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Arofat Akhundjanova, Furkan Akkurt, Orly Albek, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Dominick Maia Alexandre, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Erik Andersen, Kirk Andrews, Matthew Andrews, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Hiwa Asadpour, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Salwan Aziz, Elena Badmaeva, Jana Bajorat, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Bryan Khelven da Silva Barbosa, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Zarina Begum, Shabnam Behzad, Nathanaël Beiner, Juan Belieni, Alevtina Bémová, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Marie Benzerrak, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Delphine Bernhard, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Helin Binici, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Samuel BK, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Nina Böbel, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Stavros Bompolas, Morgane Bona, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Lars Borin, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Myriam Bras, Elisheva Brauner, Théo Brillet, Kristina Brokaitė, Lanni Bu, Eva Buráňová, Aljoscha Burchardt, Carmen Cabeza, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Olesea Caftanatov, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Caterina Maria Cappello, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Anila Çepani, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Claudine Chamoreau, Aditi Chaudhary, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Esther Cocco, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Netanel Dahan, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Sabrina D'Alì, Philemon Daniel, Anna S. Danielyan, Khensa Daoudi, Bijayalaxmi Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ahmet Demir, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Ariani Di Felippo, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Mahîr Dogan, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Andrew Dyer, Andrew Thomas Dyer, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Louise Esher, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Ján Faryad, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Barbara Francioni, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Shlomit Fuchs, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Charlotte Chambelland Galves, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, José María García-Miguel, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Gili Goldin, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Mathieu Goux, Caroline Grand-Clement, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Mario Guglielmetti, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Vladimir Gurevich, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Michael Hahn, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Eva Hajičová, Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Jiří Havelka, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Barbara Hoff, Petter Hohle, Nick Howell, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Jessica K. Ivani, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee, Katharine Jiang, Sylvanus Job, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Zhuoxuan Ju, María Ximena Juarez Huerta, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Jiří Kárník, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Ali Haider Khan, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Christina Klironomou, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Veronika Kolářová, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Nelda Kote, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Emmanuelle Kowner, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Lucie Kučová, Adrian Kuqi, Elmurod Kuriyozov, Pranav Kushare, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Israel Landau, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Pierre Larrivée, Kusum Lata, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Wei Qi Leong, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Lori Levin, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Yang Janet Liu, Zoey Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Markéta Lopatková, Lucelene Lopes, Edita Luftiu, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Punyanuch Maitreenukul, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Ángeles Márquez Hernández, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Arianna Masciolini, Jan Mašek, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Caterina Mauri, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Ephraim Meiri, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Hilla Merhav, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Marie Mikulová, Emilia Milano, Aleksandra Miletić, Aaron Miller, Junghyun Min, Yael Minerbi, Jiří Mírovský, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, Biswakalpita Mohapatra, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Katerina Mouzou, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Nikolett Mus, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Minoo Nassajian, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Michal Novák, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Colleen Alena O'Brien, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Masanori Oya, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Petr Pajas, Thomas Palakapilly, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Jarmila Panevová, Ludovica Pannitto, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Shantipriya Parida, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Thelka Pasparaki, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Oggi Peeters, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Eva Pettersson, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Charin Polpanumas, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Clamença Poujade, Rangga Prangwedana Prangwedana, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Ella Rabinovich, Alexandre Rademaker, Mutee-u Rahman, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Norton Trevisan Roman, Mykhailo Romanenko, Natalia Romanova, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Paulette Roulon, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Rozana Rushiti, Attapol T. Rutherford, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Saraswati Sahoo, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Warangana Sammani, Konstantinos Sampanis, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Filomena Spatti Sandalo, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Robert Schikowski, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Kaushik Sengupta, Mojgan Seraji, Magda Ševčíková, Petr Sgall, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Gyu-Ho Shin, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Avi Shmidman, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Jean Sibille, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Dolores Sollberger, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Nina Speransky, Rachele Sprugnoli, Panyut Sriwirote, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Omer Strass, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Sara Stymne, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Jack Sun, Hakyung Sung, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Maria Irena Szawerna, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Rachel Tal, Luigi Talamo, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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Undergraduate summer position (minimum wage, Ireland)
by Carl Vogel 15 May '26

15 May '26

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

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

15 May '26

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> ________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T05> contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openhart> 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical coordinates of each line and token, digital transcripts, and English translations with content and annotation layers integrated in a single MADCAT XML output. This release includes 1,643 images and corresponding annotation files. Source documents were web text and newswire collected by LDC. Arabic-speaking scribes copied documents by hand, following specific instructions as to the writing style, writing implement, and paper. Each page was scanned and the images annotated. The goal of the MADCAT program was to automatically convert foreign language text images into English transcripts for use by humans and downstream processes, including summarization and information extraction. The core evaluation task in MADCAT was the translation of handwritten Arabic documents. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S06> was developed by LDC and contains 48 hours of speech from 100 unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME German collection, combining CALLHOME German Speech (LDC97S43)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S43> and CALLHOME German Transcripts (LDC97T15)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T15>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 100 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME German Speech which represented training data (80 calls) and development data (20 calls). Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and region. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification, and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L04> was developed by LDC and contains 318,809 German words with morphological, phonological, stress, and frequency information. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure, and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME German Lexicon (LDC97L18)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97L18>. The words in the lexicon were derived from the CELEX German lexicon (CELEX2 (LDC96L14)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L14>) and from 100 training and development transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native German speakers contained in CALLHOME German Second Edition, LDC2026S04. The lexicon has seven tab-separated information fields: (1) headword: orthographic form; (2) morph: morphological analysis of the headword; (3) pron: pronunciation of the headword; (4) stress: primary stress information of the word; (5) celex: whether the headword appears in the CELEX German lexicon; (6) train_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME training transcripts; and (7) dev_freq: frequency of the headword in the CALLHOME development transcripts. This release also includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CFP: CLEF 2026 – Submission Deadline Extended to 25 May 2026 (AoE)
by Philipp Schaer 14 May '26

14 May '26

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

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

13 May '26

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

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