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

02 Feb '26

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

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

02 Feb '26

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

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

02 Feb '26

Dear all, We are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD studentship starting in October 2026, open to UK and international applicants. We welcome applications from outstanding candidates with experience in corpus linguistics, language testing, or quantitative applied linguistics, including skills in e.g. corpus design, statistical analysis, and tools such as R, Python or #LancsBox X. Delivered in collaboration with Trinity College London, the PhD will explore communicative competence in English language tests, with implications for fairness, accessibility and social mobility. The successful candidate will be based in Lancaster and work regularly on campus as part of the CASS team. Further details and application information are available here: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-at-the-cass-research-… Please feel free to share this opportunity. Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room B46 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina

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[CfP] TGDK Special Issue: Neuro-Symbolic Modeling for Human-Centric AI
by Marco Antonio Stranisci 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

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

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

02 Feb '26

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

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

01 Feb '26

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

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

31 Jan '26

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

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

31 Jan '26

*** First Call for Replication and Negative Results *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track has been introduced in the software engineering community for a while and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. This year, we establish this track at ISSRE and invite researchers to (1) replicate results from previous papers and (2) publish studies with important and relevant negative or null results (results that fail to show an effect, yet demonstrate the research paths that did not pay off). We also encourage the publication of the negative results or replicable aspects of previously published work. For example, authors of a published paper reporting a working solution for a given problem can document in a “negative results paper” other (failed) attempts they made before defining the working solution they published. • Replication studies. The papers in this category must go beyond simply re- implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper. Such submissions should at least apply the approach to new data sets (open-source or proprietary). A replication study should clearly report on results that the authors were able to replicate, as well as on the aspects of the work that were not replicable. • Negative results papers. We seek papers that report on negative results. We seek negative results for all types of program comprehension research in any empirical area (qualitative, quantitative, case study, experiment, etc.). For example, did your controlled experiment not show an improvement over the baseline? Even if negative, results obtained are still valuable when they are either not obvious or disprove widely accepted wisdom. Evaluation Criteria Both Replication Studies and Negative Results submissions will be evaluated according to the following standards: • Depth and breadth of the empirical studies • Clarity of writing • Appropriateness of conclusions • Amount of useful, actionable insights • Availability of artifacts • Underlying methodological rigor. A negative result due primarily to misaligned expectations or due to lack of statistical power (small samples) is not a good submission. The negative result should be a result of a lack of effect, not a lack of methodological rigor. Most importantly, we expect replication studies to clearly point out the artifacts upon which the study is built, and to provide the links to all the artifacts in the submission (the only exception will be given to those papers that replicate the results on proprietary datasets that can not be publicly released). Submission Instructions Submissions must be original, in the sense that the findings and writing have not been previously published or under consideration elsewhere. However, as either replication studies or negative results, some overlap with previous work is expected. Please make clear in the paper the overlap with and difference from previous work. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines: (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates). Authors are strongly encouraged to print the PDF and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submission, as defective printing can undermine a paper’s chance of success. By submitting to the ISSRE RENE Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to the RENE track must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ISSRE 2026. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the IEEE, to detect violations of these policies. Submissions to the RENE Track can be made via the ISSRE RENE track submission site： https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submission Length: The ISSRE RENE Track accepts submissions of two lengths: (1) New replication studies and new descriptions of negative results should have a length of up to 10 pages, plus 2 pages which may only contain references. (2) Negative results documented during the preparation of previously published work by the authors should be described in up to 5 pages, plus 1 page, which may only contain references (e.g., as previously mentioned, authors of a published paper can document negative results they obtained while working on it, such as methodologically sound solutions that did not work). Important note 1: Both types of papers (replication and negative results) will be included as part of the main conference proceedings. Important note 2: The RENE track does not follow a double-anonymous review process. Publication and Presentation Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to have a full registration for ISSRE 2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (e.g., related to health or visa). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the IEEE Digital Libraries. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 5, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: August12 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: August 19, 2026 • Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Call for Papers: PoliticalNLP 2026 (LREC 2026 Workshop)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

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

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

30 Jan '26

Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ Third Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape to ensure robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) continues the tradition from NLPAICS'2024 to be a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security, including but not limited to: _Societal and Human Security and Safety_ * Content Legitimacy and Quality * Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language * Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * Trust and credibility of online information * User Security and Safety * Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders * Monitoring extremist fora * Suicide prevention * Clickbait and scam detection * Fake profile detection in online social networks * Technical Measures and Solutions * Social engineering identification, phishing detection * NLP for risk assessment * Controlled languages for safe messages * Prevention of malicious use of ai models * Forensic linguistics * Human Factors in Cyber Security _Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security_ * Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats * Detection of machine-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * NLP and biometrics in multimodal context _Data and Software Security_ * Cryptography * Digital forensics * Malware detection, obfuscation * Models for documentation * NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) * Addressing dataset "poisoning" attacks _Human-Centric Security and Support_ * Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting * User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour * Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security _Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence_ * Text-Based Anomaly Detection * Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data * Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic * Threat Intelligence Analysis * Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats * Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text _Systems and Infrastructure Security_ * Systems Security * Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity * Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks * Authentication and access control * Enterprise-level mitigation * NLP for software vulnerability detection * Malware Detection through Code Analysis * Analysing code and scripts for malware * Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code _Financial Cyber Security_ * Financial fraud detection * Financial risk detection * Algorithmic trading security * Secure online banking * Risk management in finance * Financial text analytics _Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security_ * Ethical and Legal Issues * Digital privacy and identity management * The ethics of NLP and speech technology * Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools * Legislation against malicious use of AI * Regulatory issues * Bias and Security * Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) * Bias in security related datasets and annotations _Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications_ _Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics_ * Intelligence applications * Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security _Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI_ NLPAICS 2026 will feature a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * LLMs for forensic linguistics * Bias in LLMs * Safety benchmarks for LLMs * Legislation against malicious use of LLMs * Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs * Methods to enhance the robustness of language models Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: * Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short (poster) papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will be available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here: LaTeX: NLPAICS_2026_LaTeX.zip [1] Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 Word: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ The conference will feature a student workshop, and awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates * Submissions due: 16 March 2026 * Reviewing process: 1 April - 30 April 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2026 * Camera-ready due: 19 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 1 June 2026 * Conference: 11-12 June 2026 Organisation Conference Chairs Ruslan Mitkov (University of Alicante) Rafael Muñoz (University of Alicante) Programme Committee Chairs Elena Lloret (University of Alicante) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Publication Chair Ernesto Estevanell (University of Alicante) Sponsorship Chair Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante) Student Workshop Chair Salima Lamsiyah (University of Luxembourg) Best Paper Award Chair Saad Ezzini (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Publicity Chair Beatriz Botella (University of Alicante) Social Programme Chair Alba Bonet (University of Alicante) Venue The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) will take place at the University of Alicante and is organised by the University of Alicante GPLSI research group. Further information and contact details The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open in March 2026. Links: ------ [1] http://summer-school.gplsi.es/NLPAICS_2026_LaTeX.zip

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

30 Jan '26

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

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

30 Jan '26

*** Call for Participation *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/ (*** Early Registration Deadline: February 13, 2026 ***) The 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. This year we had a record number of submissions, so we have a record number of accepted papers (114), a record number of posters and demos (53) and we hope for a record number of participants. Furthermore, we have 8 workshops and 5 tutorials. Finally, the technical program will feature two keynotes, by Antonio Kruger on the role of HCI in trusted A.I. and Pattie Maes on designing A.I. interaction for human flourishing. The detailed program of IUI 2026 can be found on the conference website: https://iui.acm.org/2026/program/ . The early registration deadline is on February 13th and the registration page is: https://iui.acm.org/2026/registration/ We are looking forward to meeting everybody in Paphos. Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China • Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland • Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

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Postdoc in "Authority Presuppositions in Human—AI Communication" project (University of Stuttgart)
by Agnieszka Faleńska 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

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

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

30 Jan '26

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

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

29 Jan '26

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

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

29 Jan '26

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

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

29 Jan '26

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

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

28 Jan '26

Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026) To be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 May 2026. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nle2026/home Overview Non-Literal Expressions (NLEs) in natural language are a reflection of fundamental cognitive processes such as analogical reasoning and categorisation, and are deeply rooted in everyday communication. NLEs understanding is therefore an essential task for language modeling. This task is especially challenging because it cannot be tackled by falling back on individual word meanings, but requires taking into account larger chunks of surrounding text or even contextual information. At the same time, it is important because the reliable processing of NLEs is relevant for optimizing downstream tasks like translation and summarization. This workshop focuses on understanding of Non-Literal Expressions. While most of the earlier work on NLEs had been devoted to metaphor and metonymy, recent activities target other forms of NLEs as well, e.g., hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration), litotes (understatement), rhetorical questions, and irony. Humanly annotated corpora for NLEs have very recently started becoming available to the research community and may serve as the basis for data-driven approaches to NLEs processing, with the interrelated goals of first identifying and then interpreting such expressions. Such data is mostly of high linguistic quality, but still very limited in size. Thus, the workshop’s focus is on adaptation of Language Models (LMs) and Deep Learning (DL) for processing of Non-Literal Expressions with limited high-quality data, since such constructs still pose big identification and processing challenges in natural language analysis tasks. Topics of Interest We are interested in contributions which focus on the use of techniques like self-training for leveraging unlabelled data, as well as in work that focuses on the incorporation of external linguistic resources and knowledge injection to enrich features, and also in research that describes work on utilisation of multitask learning with the aim to benefit from related tasks. The workshop also wants to discuss alternative approaches which may elaborate on the use of pre-trained Language Models (LMs) as a foundation and the application of techniques like contrastive learning and clustering to identify challenging examples within the data, the ultimate aim of the workshop being to highlight the necessity of high-quality data, as well as cross-lingual datasets. Invited Speakers - Barbara Plank, LMU Munich - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA Further details and info on the invited talks will be announced shortly. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically through Softconf, using the following link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLE2026/ Submissions should: • Be 4–8 pages, excluding references and optional Ethics Statements • Follow the LREC 2026 style guidelines, available on the conference website: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ • Use templates provided here: https://lrec2026.info/calls/second-call-for-papers/ Authors will be asked to supply information on any language resources (broadly defined — data, tools, standards, evaluation sets, etc.) used in or resulting from their work. ELRA strongly encourages sharing such resources to support reproducibility and reuse. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Presentation format (oral/poster) will be based solely on how best to communicate the work. Important Dates • 20 February 2026 — Submission Deadline • 11 March 2026 — Notification of Acceptance • 28 March 2026 — Camera-ready Papers Due Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by: Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" funded by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Programme Committee - Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS, USA - Maria Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Yuri Bizzoni, Aarhus University, Denmark - Kenneth Church, VecML Inc., USA - Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Markus Egg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA - Debanjan Ghosh, Princeton, USA - Valia Kordoni, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany - Emmy Liu, CMU, USA - Petya Osenova, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Bulgaria - Sebastian Padó, IMS Stuttgart, Germany - Gudrun Reijnierse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Sebastian Reimann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Adam Roussel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany - Vered Shwartz, The University of British Columbia, Canada - Caroline Sporleder, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - Egon Stemle, EURAC, Italy Organizers • Markus Egg — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Contact: kordonie at rz.hu-berlin.de

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Postdoctoral and PhD Opportunities (University of Vienna)
by Benjamin Roth 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

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

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

28 Jan '26

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

28 Jan '26

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

28 Jan '26

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

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by Demian Inostroza Améstica 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

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

27 Jan '26

Second Call for Papers: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX), co-located with ACL 2026, San Diego Website: �https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XX-2026/ � Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. LAW-XX will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. LAW XX will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. � Special Theme: Errors in Annotation The special theme of LAW XX is �Errors in Annotation. In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the matter of addressing annotations which are in some sense objectively incorrect in their substance or omissions (c.f. �Klie et al., CL 2023)—distinct from annotator disagreement (Weber-Genzel et al., ACL 2024)—and the role of error analysis in improving data quality for both human-annotated and LLM-generated datasets. As data quality becomes increasingly important (human-annotated or LLM-generated), it is essential to develop techniques or tools to quantify data quality (Swayamdipta et al., EMNLP 2020). � � Potential topics covered include but are not limited to: * Annotation error detection * Annotation error correction * Error type classification * Error detection and correction in crowd-sourced annotations * Errors in LLM-generated annotations � Important Dates All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). � * Submission deadline: March 5, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: May 12, 2026 * Workshop Date: TBD � LAW XX will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. � Submission Information We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: � * Annotation procedures o Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation o Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation o Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data * Annotation evaluation o Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies o Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations o Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality * Annotation access and use o Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations* at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena * Annotation schemes, guidelines, and standards o New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes o Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development o Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes o Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages * Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation o Annotation software and frameworks o Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks � Direct submission �link: �https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW Pre-reviewed ARR commitment �link: �https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commitment � Note on OpenReview's moderation policy for �newly created profiles: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that �can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. � Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop (either in-person or virtually) and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. � A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use �the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Limitation and ethical consideration sections are optional and do not count against these limits as well. � Note: The appendix also does not count against the page limit but should not include essential details needed to understand/review the paper (appendices can contain details such as hyperparameters, formulas, proofs, and tables that are informative but not critical to the understanding of the paper). All submissions must be in PDF format. � Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. � � Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop program chairs ( <mailto:law2026workshop@googlegroups.com> law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. � Following �the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement. �

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

27 Jan '26

CoNLL 2026: 2nd Call for Papers San Diego, California, United States, July 3-4, 2026 (co-located with ACL) https://www.conll.org/ NEW: CoNLL 2026 will include online presentations for authors who will not be able to attend the conference in person due to visa related issues. NEW: Two new topic areas, Computational Usage-Based Grammars, and Language and the Brain. SIGNLL invites submissions to the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2026). The focus of CoNLL is on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics and NLP. We welcome work targeting any aspect of language and its computational modeling, including: Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognition and Linguistics Computational Usage-Based Grammars (e.g., Construction Grammars) Computational Social Science and Sociolinguistics Interaction and Dialogue Language Acquisition, Learning, Emergence, and Evolution Multimodality and Grounding Typology and Multilinguality Speech and Phonology Syntax and Morphology Lexical, Compositional and Discourse Semantics Theoretical Analysis and Interpretation of ML Models for NLP Resources and Tools for Scientifically Motivated Research Language and the Brain We do not restrict the topic of submissions to fall into this list. However, the submissions’ relevance to the conference’s focus on theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches will play an important role in the review process (submissions may be rejected prior to review if they fail to meet this relevance criteria). Submissions CoNLL will accept only direct submissions this year. Submission will be via OpenReview. An OpenReview profile is required for all authors. We accept two types of submission: archival, and non-archival. Archival submissions must be anonymous and use the same template as the ACL 2026. Submitted papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus unlimited space for references. Authors of accepted papers will have an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the camera-ready version (9 pages of content in total, excluding references). Optional anonymized supplementary materials and a PDF appendix are allowed. Please refer to the ACL website for more details on the submission format. Note that, unlike ACL, we do not mandate that papers have a discussion section of the limitations of the work. However, we strongly encourage authors to have such a section in the appendix. Non-archival submissions are not anonymous. We will accept submissions that fit into CoNLL’s scope (see above for a description) and have been published in 2024, 2025, and 2026 in relevant conferences (*ACL, COLING, NeurIPS, ICLR, CogSci, …) and journals (TACL, Computational Linguistics, other journals in the areas of interest for CoNLL). Multiple submission policy: CoNLL 2026 follows the ACL 2026 policy, which follows the ARR policy: CoNLL “precludes multiple submissions […] will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the […] review period. This policy covers all journals and refereed and archival conferences and workshops […] In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.” Authors submitting more than one paper to CoNLL 2026 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Submission of pre-prints to arXiv and other platforms: we again follow the same policy as ARR: “[archival] submissions will remain anonymous during peer review, but authors are free to post and discuss non-anonymous preprints at any time.” Also please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles —we advise you to create a profile well in advance: New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Timeline (All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12h, AoE) Submission deadline (archival and non-archival): February 19 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 21 2026 Camera-ready papers due: May 12 2026 Conference: July 3-4, 2026 Further information Further information will be announced in the 3rd Call for Papers. CoNLL 2026 Co-Chairs Claire Bonial, Georgetown University Yevgeni Berzak, Technion Contact Questions? E-mail conll.chairs(a)gmail.com

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

27 Jan '26

We are pleased to announce the ClinSkill QA shared task, co-located with the BioNLP workshop at ACL 2026. TASK HOMEPAGE: https://whunextgen.github.io/ClinicalskillQA/ INTRODUCTION Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have the potential to support clinical training and assessment by assisting medical experts in interpreting procedural videos and verifying adherence to standardized workflows. Reliable deployment in these settings requires evidence that models can continuously interpret students’ actions during clinical skill assessments, which underpins MLLMs’ understanding of clinical skills. Systematically evaluating and improving MLLMs’ understanding of clinical skills and their continuous perception in clinical skill assessment scenarios is therefore essential for building reliable and high-impact AI systems for medical education. To address this need, the shared task on medical question answering targets clinical skill assessment scenarios. IMPORTANT DATES Release of task data : Jan 30, 2026 Paper submission deadline: Apr 17, 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 BioNLP Workshop Date: July 3 or 4, 2026 Note that all deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12). TASK DEFINITION ClinSkill QA formulates clinical skill understanding and continuous perception for clinical skill assessment as an ordering task: the MLLM is required to arrange shuffled key frames into a coherent sequence of clinical actions and to provide explanations for the resulting order. The dataset is constructed from video clips of medical student clinical procedures, collected from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and cofun (http://www.curefun.com/). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and all data collection and processing followed relevant ethical guidelines. DATASET ClinSkill QA is built on 200 sets of shuffled key frames extracted from three types of clinical skill videos. Each set of key frames represents a sequence of continuous actions and is accompanied by expert-annotated ground-truth ordering and order rationales. EVALUATION For evaluation, we use Task Accuracy (exact ordering) and Pairwise Accuracy (the fraction of adjacent pairs correctly ordered) for the ordering results, and BertScore as well as an LLM-as-judge(G-Eval) for assessing the quality of the ordering explanations. For the i-th sample (a set of shuffled keyframes): Ordering evaluation - Task Accuracy - Pairwise Accuracy Rationale evaluation - BertScore -LLM-as-Judge（G-Eval） REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION Registration and Submission will be done via CodaBench (Link will be available soon on the task home page) Each team is allowed up to ten successful submissions on CodaBench. All shared task participants are invited to submit a paper describing their systems to the Proceedings of BioNLP 2026 (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop) at ACL 2026 (https://2026.aclweb.org/). Papers must follow the submission instructions of the BioNLP 2026 workshop (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop). ORGANIZERS Xiyang Huang, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Yihuai Xu, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Zhiyuan Chen, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Keying Wu, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Jiayi Xiang, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Buzhou Tang, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Renxiong Wei, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Yanqing Ye, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Jinyu Chen, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Cheng Zeng, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Min Peng, School of Artifical Intelligence, Wuhan University Qianqian Xie, School of Artifical Intelligence,Wuhan University Sophia Ananiadou, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Second CFP *SEM2026: The 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, San Diego, CA. (Co-located with ACL)
by Nedjma Ousidhoum 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am writing in my capacity as the newly appointed Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics at_ Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies_: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/en. _Miscelanea_, with 72 volumes published to date, is one of the longest-running international journals on English Studies in Spain. It is published and produced at the University of Zaragoza, and more specifically, by the Department of English and German Philology. _Miscelanea _is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (in December and June), and publishes articles on English language and linguistics, on literatures written in English, on thought, cinema and cultural studies from the English-speaking world. We welcome submissions all year round. As Section Editor for English Language and Linguistics, I will welcome any submission that draws upon any of the following areas and/or methodological approaches (to name but a few): * Descriptive linguistics; * Applied linguistics; * Discourse analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; * Sociolinguistics; * Systemic-Functional Linguistics; * Translation Studies; Etc. I hope you will consider our publication as a potential outlet for your research. Looking forward to receiving and reading your work. With all my best wishes, Miguel-Angel -- Dr. Miguel-Angel Benitez-Castro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) C/ Atarazanas, 4, 44003, Teruel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-5943 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Angel-Benitez-Castro https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [1] Member of: _IUI Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) [2]_ Universidad de Zaragoza Language and Linguistics Editor _- Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies [3]_ Links: ------ [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wx8VaDcAAAAJ&hl=es [2] https://bifi.es/ [3] https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/index

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Third and last Call for Papers - deadline extension 7 February 2026 - NooJ 2026 International Conference
by petra.giommarelli＠phd.unipi.it 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

Wearable movement and physiology sensors offer lightweight, non-invasive, and ecologically valid means to monitor human activity, affective state, and social behavior. With the rise of commercially deployed devices and new wearable foundation models, opportunities for scalable human behavior analysis continue to grow. However, challenges such as personalized modeling, on-device integration, or multimodal fusion prevail, limiting in-the-wild deployment of wearable devices. The 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT) aims to foster collaboration between researchers from various backgrounds (ML, HCI, biomedical engineering) around the topic of wearable devices for human behavioral analysis. The workshop will be held in Kyoto as part of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2026), taking place on May 25–29, 2026. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Machine Learning and computational models for movement and physiological wearables * Resource efficient and lightweight models * Multimodal fusion and synchronization strategies * Methods for irregularly sampled or missing data * Individual differences, personalization, and context-awareness * Ethical and privacy-preserving AI in wearable systems * Novel wearables and applications * Experimental methods for validation of wearable systems * Lab-controlled experiments and In-the-wild deployment * Datasets and Benchmarks * Responsible data management and user consent * Applications in Affective Computing / Mobile Health / Action Recognition / Social Interaction / HRI Submission Details: (1) Main Track (Original Research): 4 up to 8-pages work (2) Non-Archival Track (Published Work): 1-page summary Important Dates: Main track: * Paper registration deadline: March 30, 2026 * Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 * Camera-ready paper deadline: April 20, 2026 Non-archival track: * Summary submission deadline: April 3, 2026 * Notification to authors: April 15, 2026 For more details, please visit our website: https://beat-workshop.github.io/ For further questions, contact us via beat-workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:beat-workshop@googlegroups.com> General Chairs: Louis Simon, Arianna de Vecchi, Cristina Palmero, Felix Dollack, Ting Dang, Mohamed Chetouani (modificato) beat-workshop.github.io Behavior and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT)<https://beat-workshop.github.io/> Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2026, Kyoto, Japan

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FoIKS-2026 Call for Participation
by Yasir mahmood 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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

26 Jan '26

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

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Call for Participation
by Announce 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

*** Call for Participation *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 *** Early Registration Deadline: 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) is the premier event on the theory and practice of recovering information from existing software and systems. The event explores innovative methods to extract the many kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and examines innovative ways of using this information in system renewal and program understanding. INVITED SPEAKERS Nicole Novielli and Alexander Serebrenik are the keynote speakers of SANER 2026. More details: https://conf.researchr.org/info/saner-2026/keynotes REGISTRATION Registration is open. Please visit: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/saner-2026/registration+ *** Early registration till 13th February, 2026 (extended) *** If you have not yet registered, there is still time to register at the reduced rate. Special rates for IEEE members and for students. The conference organisation is able to provide visa support letters to attendees that require visa. VENUE SANER 2026 is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. St. Raphael Resort is located on one of the most renowned beaches in Limassol, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away. PROGRAM OVERVIEW SANER 2026 workshops take place on 17th March and the main conference between 18th and 20th of March. SANER 2026 features many tracks with talks in different areas of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. • Research Track (47 papers) • Industrial Track (19 papers) • Early Research Achievement Track (15 papers) • Short Papers and Posters Track (19 papers) • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results Track (4 papers) • Tool Demo Track (13 papers) • Journal First Papers (18 papers) • Registered Report Track (5 papers) • Workshops (7 workshops) • Tutorials (1 tutorial) WORKSHOPS - SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence Workshop https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io/ - Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io/ - Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io/ - F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/ - IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/ - VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/ - MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io/ ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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Second CFP: Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages @LREC 2026
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

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

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Second CfP: The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE) at LREC 2026
by Neele Falk 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

----------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers: DELITE 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) ----------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW -------- Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. The topic is particularly timely in the age of LLMs and collective intelligence, which has heightened the awareness of the public to the potentials and drawbacks of language technology. While LLMs are transforming the way that much AI research is carried out, it is becoming clear that handling natural argumentation, particularly the sort of discussion found in deliberative settings, presents deep challenges for LLMs that are not likely to be overcome soon. The complex pragmatic structure of such discussions, the subjectivity of the phenomena involved (emotions, storytelling), nuanced presentation, framing and reframing of ideas, and resolution of differences of opinion all lay many orders of magnitude beyond the current parameterization spaces of such models. We view deliberation as an exercise in Collective Intelligence—the enhanced capacity of groups to make decisions due to collaboration and structured interaction. AI systems should augment and never replace human deliberation, by supporting facilitators, providing discussion summaries, and amplify/enact diversity in group decision making processes. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We welcome submissions that address the gaps facing this nascent field, including the scarcity of data on large-scale deliberation, the need for stakeholder requirements, and the need for technology that fosters trust. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Deliberation theory in NLP models * In-domain versus across domain resources * Integrating language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces * Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale * Argument mining for deliberation scenarios * Visualizing language systems results for human sensemaking * Empirical foundations for evaluation * Integrating and reflecting on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios * Collective Intelligence frameworks for deliberation at scale * Human-AI collaboration in group decision-making * Explainability, ethical questions, and addressing bias APPLICATION AREAS ----------------- We welcome submissions from all areas of application, including public policy making, democratic innovations, deliberative democracy, political decision making, citizen engagement and co-creation, intelligence services and military, conflict resolution/mitigation, case analysis in healthcare, legal decision making, and scholarly discourse. SUBMISSION ---------- DELITE 2026 introduces new submission formats to foster diversity and inclusion, specifically opening the venue to junior researchers and fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * Standard Papers: Oral and poster presentations of long and short papers. * Extended Abstracts (non-archival): A new format designed to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). * PhD Project Proposals: A non-archival submission option allowing doctoral students to collect feedback on their research plans without the pressure of a full-fledged publication. * Non-Archival Reports: Poster presentations of non-archival reports of ongoing projects to serve community building. Standard papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. These papers can be long (8 pages, excluding references) or short (4 pages, excluding references) and must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Standard papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Extended abstracts and non-archival papers must be at most 2 pages, excluding references and an additional page as an appendix for tables/figures. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Papers must follow the LREC 2026 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Submission link:https://softconf.com/lrec2026/DELITE2026/ The LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative ------------------------------------------------------ When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones)". IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- * Archival paper submission: 19 February 2026 * Non-archival paper submission: 2 March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 * Workshop day: 16 May 2026 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- * Lucas Anastasiou, The Open University, UK * Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany * Anna De Liddo, The Open University, UK * Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau, Germany * Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany & Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany * Julia Romberg, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany CONTACT --------------------- e-mail:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite:https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberation-technology/ ---------------------

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2nd CfP: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
by Abercrombie, Gavin 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

2nd Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> Important Dates * February 27: Paper submission * March 20: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready papers due * May 12, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at LREC NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024). Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025). In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios. In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Please make submissions at https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLPerspectives Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Perspectivism in multimodal AI * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Participatory approaches and human label variation * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP * Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference. Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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Second CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
by Neele Falk 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

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

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2nd Call for Papers: LREC Workshop: Leveraging Derived Text Formats to Unlock Copyrighted Collections for Open Science
by Thorsten Trippel 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

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

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NLDB 2026 Call for papers
by elena_cabrio 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

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

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Call for registration: Social Media Access Days, March 17-19
by Tatjana Scheffler 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, The Social Media Access Days are concerned with sustainable archiving, indexing and access to social media data for research and infrastructure. Registration for the Social Media Access Days is now open: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-access-days-tickets-1973758115656… The conference, entitled ‘Social Media Data between Research and Infrastructure – Sustainable Archiving, Indexing and Provision’, will take place from 17 to 19 March 2026 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Keynote: Prof Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) “Nearly a decade after the APIcalypse: Where are we now on social media access?" All information and the full program are available here: https://www.dnb.de/EN/smad We look forward to your participation. Warm regards on behalf of the programme committee Tatjana Scheffler --- Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistisches Institut Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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Job: Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, University of Manitoba, Canada
by Tristan Miller 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Dear all, The University of Manitoba's Department of Computer Science invites international applications for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, to be appointed to the rank of Full Professor or Associate Professor. Chairholders will awarded up to $8 million over eight years ($1 million per year), with the potential for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value per year. The focus of this position is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, specifically systems and methods that are designed, evaluated, and deployed with a focus on human values, needs, behaviours, and social contexts. Applications from those in natural language processing, provided their research aligns with this focus, are welcome. The full posting is reproduced below, and is also available on the UM Careers Portal at <https://viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX?REQ_ID=43775>. For more information, please contact Kellee Strom: Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca Sincerely, Tristan Miller Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Full Time, Tenured Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba Position #: 37369 and 37370 Expected start date of appointment: Within 12 months of the award date (September 2026). The Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba invites applications for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. A Canada Impact+ Research Chair is one of the most prestigious international awards globally, providing Chairholders and their research teams with an award of up to $8 million over eight years ($1 million per year). In addition, there is potential for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value per year. This extension will be determined by an external review in Year 7 of the award. Successful nominees will be expected to start their position at the University of Manitoba within 12 months of accepting the award. The successful candidate will be appointed to a full-time tenured position at the rank of Full Professor, or at the rank of Associate Professor with an opportunity to apply for promotion to Full Professor within two years of starting their appointment. Salary and tenure status will be based on the candidate's qualifications and experience, in accordance with the University of Manitoba Faculty Association collective agreement. The position will be provided with a start-up package and opportunities to compete for additional equipment funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The Canada Impact+ Research Chair Program The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is a new initiative funded by the Government of Canada to attract world-leading researchers to Canadian universities whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Impact+ chairholders must advance ambitious and transformative projects in one or more of Canada's strategic priority areas, build and maintain exceptional research teams, and collaborate with partners across sectors and borders. Canada's strategic priority areas are: Advanced digital technologies (including artificial intelligence, quantum and cybersecurity); Health, including biotechnology; Clean technology and resource value chains; Environment, climate resilience and the Arctic; Food and water security; Democratic and community resilience; Manufacturing and advanced materials; and Defence and dual-use technologies. Impact+ chairholders are expected to drive the translation of discoveries into applications, commercialization and social and economic benefits for Canada and the world, while also developing the next generation of highly qualified personnel. Please consult the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs website <https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs/program-details/competition/202…> for full program information, including further details on eligibility criteria and application requirements. Applicants must have a recent track record of research accomplishments and significant interest in making new contributions to Canada. Only candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing outside of Canada) at the time of the first intake application deadline (March 24, 2026) are eligible to apply. The focus of this position is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, specifically systems and methods that are designed, evaluated, and deployed with a focus on human values, needs, behaviours, and social contexts. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: explainability, accountability, trust, and transparency; health, education, and civic engagement; embodied, robotic, and social intelligence; human-robot interaction, human-AI collaboration, and decision support systems; AI for science and scientific discovery. While this is a research-intensive position, the successful candidate will also contribute to educating undergraduate and graduate students through teaching and mentorship in the Department of Computer Science, and participate in academic service activities to the Department, Faculty, or University. Teaching experience in Machine Learning, Language Models, Digital Systems, and related areas is an asset. The successful applicant will have access to core resources within the faculty, including Grex, the University of Manitoba high-performance computing system, as well as collaboration opportunities with research institutes including the Institute for Global Public Health and the Manitoba Institute for Materials. Within the department, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with established research clusters including the CORE AI group; the GADA lab, HCI and HRI, Digital Agriculture, Security, Software Engineering, and others. Interdisciplinary collaborators across Engineering, Medicine, Law, Ethics, and Arts provide the potential for broad-reaching investigations. The appointment is dependent on a successful Canada Impact+ Research Chair Award, and the two-stage process of this appointment is: 1. Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement for review and endorsement, and 2. The successful candidate will then prepare the required nomination package, with the support of the Office of the Vice President (Research & International) at the University of Manitoba. Completed nomination packages will be submitted to the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) as part of the national Impact+ Program's application process. An academic appointment at UM is dependent on a successful review by the multidisciplinary selection committee and approval by the TIPS Steering Committee. Computer Science and the University of Manitoba The Department of Computer Science currently has 26 full-time tenured and tenure track research faculty and 10 full-time instructors. We offer a full range of both undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science, including Joint Honours programs with Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Statistics, and Data Science. Further information about the Department is available at umanitoba.ca/science/computer-science Join us in advancing the fight against cancer, rare diseases, and infectious diseases, leading global public health efforts at scale in Asia and Africa, connecting to the Arctic, opening a new maritime trade route, working alongside Indigenous partners, enhancing defence and security in the North, developing materials for green energy and the digital economy, and making Canadian agriculture more globally competitive and sustainable. UM's Strategic Research Themes <https://umanitoba.ca/research/strategic-research-plan> are: * Foundations * Social Justice and Human Rights * Research by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples * Water and Food Security * Health and Well-being * Climate Action and Sustainability * Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Arctic, and the World Please consult the Change Trough Research University of Manitoba Strategic Research Plan 2024-2024 <https://umanitoba.ca/research/sites/research/files/2024-07/university-of-ma…> for further information about these Research Themes. The Application Process Applicants must apply to this University of Manitoba advertisement through the UM Careers portal <https://umanitoba.ca/careers/> for review and endorsement and clearly state the application position number in the cover letter. Applicants should upload their cover letter separately, their curriculum vitae separately, and then combine their research plan, teaching statement, personal statement and a list of three referees into a single PDF file and upload it under ‘Additional Documentation' when applying in UM Careers. If you experience any difficulties accessing UM Careers, please contact Kellee Strom Kellee.Strom(a)umanitoba.ca, for assistance. Further details on the application materials are: * a concise cover letter describing suitability for the position * a curriculum vitae (including examples of significant research contributions) * a research plan (3 page maximum) outlining an independent, innovative research program, and its potential to attract funding and contribute to student training * a teaching statement (1/2 page) that documents the applicant's experience in and/or approach to training and mentoring diverse students and the candidate's teaching philosophy * a personal statement reflecting on the applicant's positionality, demonstrated commitment, and approach to issues pertaining to anti-racism and social justice (including principles of equity, access, and participation) in the following areas: teaching, research, and service * the names and contact information of three referees A review of applications will begin Feb 20 2026, and will continue until the position is filled. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the protection of privacy provision of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitae may be provided to participating members of the search process. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Considerations Equity, diversity and inclusion are embedded as foundational principles in Impact+ objectives, expected outcomes and reporting requirements of the competition. The three agencies expect that institutions and chairholders will demonstrate and implement the highest EDI standards for the duration of their award. UM is committed to these principles and to promoting opportunities in hiring, promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically marginalized groups who have been excluded from full participation at UM and the larger community including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized persons, persons with disabilities and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex, asexual and other diverse sexual identities). The Canada Impact+ Research Chair nomination selection committee will receive equity training that includes instruction on how to recognize and combat unconscious, implicit, overt, prejudicial and other kinds of bias. The University acknowledges the potential impact that Career Interruptions and Personal Circumstances can have on an applicant's record of research achievement. We encourage applicants to explain the impact of any such interruption(s) in their submission. Measures will be taken to ensure that these leaves will be taken into careful consideration during the evaluation process. Live and Work where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers Meet The City of Winnipeg <http://www.tourismwinnipeg.com/>, located where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet, is recognized for its vibrant, multicultural community and diverse culture. The city, with a growing population of more than 766,000, is home to internationally renowned festivals, galleries and museums, the historic Exchange District and The Forks, and ever-expanding research, education, and business sectors. From the Hudson Bay waters, across the farmland fields, to the pulse of the cities and towns, The Province of Manitoba's <http://www.travelmanitoba.com/> people and places – its 100,000 lakes, 92 provincial parks, winding river valleys and storied prairie skies – inspire. Additional information: The University of Manitoba is a driving force of innovation, discovery and advancement. Our momentum is propelled by our campus community – UM faculty, staff and students whose determination and curiosity shape our world for the better. Our teaching, learning and work environment is uniquely strengthened and enriched by Indigenous perspectives. With two main campuses in Winnipeg, satellite campuses throughout Manitoba, and world-wide research, UM's impact is global. Discover outstanding employee benefits, experience world-class facilities and join a dynamic community that values reconciliation, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion. We are one of Manitoba's Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. At the University of Manitoba, what inspires you can change everything. The University of Manitoba is committed to the principles of equity, diversity & inclusion and to promoting opportunities in hiring, promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically marginalized groups who have been excluded from full participation at the University and the larger community including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized persons, persons with disabilities and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex, asexual and other diverse sexual identities). If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process, please contact UM.Accommodation(a)umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7195. Please note this contact information is for accommodation reasons only. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the protection of privacy provisions of "The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act" (Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitae will be provided to participating members of the search process. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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The Fifth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM@ACL'26): 2nd call for papers
by Simon Mille 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

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

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2nd CFP: 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

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

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #19
by Costas Gabrielatos 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

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

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Lancaster Open research group - starts today
by Brezina, Vaclav 21 Jan '26

21 Jan '26

Dear all, Just a reminder that The Open research group (online and in person) starts today at 12pm UK time. The Open Advanced Methods in Corpus Linguistics research group, offered by CASS - the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, will resume this term. The group is open to anyone with an interest in corpus linguistics or quantitative approaches to language, and sessions will be held in a hybrid format (in person and online). This term, we will focus on one of the most fundamental concepts in corpus linguistics, frequency, a concept that underpins the field as a whole. When: Wednesdays, fortnightly, 12:00-12:50 pm (UK time) Starting: Wednesday 21 January Running topic: Measuring and reporting frequency in corpus linguistics Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjkac All are very welcome. Best wishes, Vaclav Readings: Brezina, V., & Gablasova, D. (2024). A frequency dictionary of British English: core vocabulary and exercises for learners. Routledge. Divjak, D. (2019). Frequency in language: Memory, attention and learning. Cambridge University Press. Gries, S.T. (2024). Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Platt, W. C. (2025). Review of Gries (2024): Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures. Tissari, H. (2023). Divjak, Dagmar: Frequency in language: memory, attention and learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.[Book review]. Linguist list, 34.

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