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GUM Corpus V12 - new documents and annotations
by Amir.Zeldes＠georgetown.edu 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

(Apologies for cross-postings) � *** The GUM Corpus - Release 12.0.0 *** *** Georgetown University Multilayer corpus *** � The Corpling Lab <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> at Georgetown University is happy to announce the first release of series 12 of the Georgetown University Multilayer corpus (GUM V12.0.0): � https://gucorpling.org/gum/ � New in this version: � * New documents – the corpus now contains 291,056 tokens * Completely reworked GUMBridge annotation scheme for bridging anaphora (work led by Lauren Levine): * Manual re-annotation effort of the entire corpus * Much more densely and consistently annotated using new guidelines * 11 subtypes of bridging anaphora * Multiple concurrent bridging subtypes are now possible � GUM is an open source corpus of richly annotated English texts from 24 genres: � * Main genres: (available in train/dev/test) * academic writing * biographies * courtroom transcripts * essays * fiction * how-to guides * interviews * letters * news * online forum discussions * podcasts * political speeches * spontaneous face to face conversations * textbooks * travel guides * vlogs � * Out-of-domain test genres: (test2, aka GENTLE partition): * dictionary entries * live esports commentary * legal documents * medical notes * poetry * mathematical proofs * course syllabuses * threat letters � The corpus is created by students as part of the Computational Linguistics curriculum at Georgetown University and is available under Creative Commons licenses. � This is the first version of GUM series 12, containing 301 documents annotated for: � * Multiple POS tags (100% manual gold PTB, extended PTB, converted CLAWS5 and UPOS) and UD morphological features * Manually corrected lemmatization and morphological segmentation * Sentence segmentation and rough speech act (manual) * Document structure using TEI tags (paragraphs, headings, figures, captions etc., all manual) * Constituent and dependency syntax (manually corrected Universal Dependencies, and PTB parses from gold tags with function labels and enhanced dependencies) * Construction Grammar annotations following UCxn * Information status (given-active/inactive, accessible-inferable/common ground/aggregate, and new) * Entity type, graded salience (0-5) and coreference annotation (including non-named entities, singletons, appositions, cataphora and discourse deixis), as well as Centering Theory annotations * Bridging anaphora classified into 11 subtypes (multiple concurrent types are possible) * Entity linking (Wikification) of all named entities with Wikipedia articles and Wikidata, including their non-named and pronominal mentions * Discourse parses in enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST) and discourse dependencies, including multiple concurrent and non-projective relations * Discourse signal annotations classified into 9 major and 46 minor types indicating how the presence of a relation is marked (based on the Signaling Corpus scheme) * Shallow discourse relations following the PDTB v3 scheme * Five abstractive summaries for each document following strict, comparable guidelines across genres � Note on Reddit data: token text is not contained in the release but can be downloaded with an included script. � For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see the corpus website <https://gucorpling.org/gum/> . � Best wishes, The GUM team � PS – if you like GUM, also check out our automatically annotated AMALGUM <https://github.com/gucorpling/amalgum/> corpus! �

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Call for papers 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning
by Musi, Elena 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

Call for Papers: ArgMining 2026 – Workshop on Argument Mining The Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining) provides a regular forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a. argumentation mining) for academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of twelve successful previous workshops, the 2026 edition welcomes submissions of long papers, short papers, extended abstracts, and PhD proposals. Workshop Theme The 2026 edition of ArgMining places a special focus on understanding and evaluating arguments in both human and machine reasoning. With this theme, we broaden the workshop’s scope to include reasoning—a long-standing area of AI research that has recently gained renewed interest within the ACL community, driven by the latest generation of large language models (LLMs). Reasoning is tightly connected to argumentation, as it represents, analyzes, and evaluates the process of reaching conclusions based on available information. Viewing argumentation as a paradigm for capturing reasoning enables the evaluation of machines (particularly LLMs) based on their ability to address argument mining tasks. Topics of Interest Topics include, but are not limited to: * Automatic extraction of textual patterns describing argument components in human and machine argumentation * Cross-lingual, cross-cultural, and multi-perspective argument mining and reasoning * Argument mining and generation from multimodal and/or multilingual data * Explainability in argument mining through reasoning * Modeling, assessing, and critically reflecting on the argumentation capabilities of LLMs * Novel benchmarks in argument mining addressing recent developments in LLM reasoning * Guidelines for assessing and documenting reasoning processes reflected in benchmarks * Annotation guidelines, linguistic analysis, and argumentation corpora * Real-world applications (e.g., social sciences, education, law, scientific writing; misinformation detection) * Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models * Combining information retrieval with argument mining (e.g., argumentative search engines) * Ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining and LLM reasoning Submissions from all application areas are welcome. Submission Types The workshop accepts the following submission types: * Long Papers (archival) * Short Papers (archival) * Extended Abstracts (non-archival) * PhD Proposals (non-archival) Accepted contributions will be presented as oral or poster presentations. Archival Submissions * Long papers: * Substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work * Up to 8 pages (excluding references) * Unlimited references * Up to 2 appendix pages * 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments * Short papers: * Original, unpublished work with a focused contribution * Not shortened versions of long papers * Up to 4 pages (excluding references) * Unlimited references * Up to 1 appendix page * 1 additional page in the final version for reviewer comments Non-Archival Submissions * Extended abstracts: * Up to 2 pages including references * 1 additional appendix page for tables/figures * Selection based on workshop fit and the special theme * Priority given to abstracts with doctoral students as first authors unable to present at *CL conferences due to visa restrictions * PhD proposals: * Up to 4 pages * Description of PhD project, research challenges, contributions, and future directions * Presented in a dedicated poster session for feedback and discussion Multiple Submissions Policy ArgMining 2026 will not consider papers simultaneously under review elsewhere. Submissions overlapping significantly (>25%) with active ARR submissions will not be accepted. ARR-reviewed papers are allowed if reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline. Submission Format * Two-column ACL 2026 format * LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates * PDF submissions only * Submissions via OpenReview Important Dates * Direct paper submission deadline (archival): March 5, 2026 * ARR commitment deadline (archival): March 24, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline (non-archival): April 7, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline: May 12, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 2–3, 2026 Review Policy Long and short papers will follow ACL double-blind review policies. Submissions must be anonymized, including self-references and links. Papers violating anonymity requirements will be rejected without review. Demo descriptions are exempt from anonymization. Best Paper Award ArgMining 2026 will present a Best Paper Award to recognize significant contributions to argument mining research. All accepted papers are eligible. Contact and Information Website: https://argminingorg.github.io/2026/ Email: argmining.org [at] gmail.com Workshop Organizers Mohamed Elaraby (University of Pittsburgh) Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau) John Lawrence (University of Dundee) Elena Musi (University of Liverpool) Julia Romberg (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Federico Ruggeri (University of Bologna)

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CFP: The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Amal Haddad 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT'2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 Fifth Call for Papers # The conference The third edition of the International Conference 'New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology' (NeTTIT'2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT'2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT'2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators' and interpreters' needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators' (including subtitlers') and interpreters' tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT'2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters' professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speakers Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute # Submissions and publication NeTTIT'2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers - for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the ACL format using the templates available on the conference website. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/submissions-and-publication/ The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. The conference organisers will seek the inclusion of the conference proceedings in the ACL anthology. # Important dates - Submissions due: 23 March 2026 - Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 - Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 # Pre-conference Tutorials The pre-conference tutorials will include: Post-editing and AI-augmented translation - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) Machine Translation Quality Evaluation - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) # Organising Committee and Programme Committee coordination * Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia) * Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante) * Xiaojing Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) * # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee For a list of the programme committee members visit: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/programme-committee/ # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsor Juremy.com # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website https://nettt-conference.com/ is updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. 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New Book: Understanding Conversational AI: Language, Ethics, and Society
by Thierry Poibeau 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to my recent book, Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models (Ubiquity Press, 270 pages). The book is fully open access and can be downloaded either as a complete volume or chapter by chapter. A paperback edition is also available on demand. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of large language models, focusing on how they reshape our understanding of language, cognition, and social practices. Engaging with philosophy of language, linguistics, cognitive science, and AI ethics, it analyzes how these systems generate meaning, simulate reasoning, and increasingly participate in activities such as translation, writing, and evaluation. It also addresses broader epistemic and political issues, including bias, misinformation, automation, and the transformation of professional and educational contexts. The book is available here: https://www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5334/bde Please feel free to read and share it. Best regards, Thierry Poibeau

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Second Call for Papers (Industry Track)
by Announce 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

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

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Call for Participation - HIPE-OCRepair 2026 - ICDAR Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction
by Maud Ehrmann 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

(apologies for cross-postings) ==== HIPE-OCRepair 2026 - Historical OCR Post-Correction Shared Task Website: https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-OCRepair-2026/ Task: LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Multilingual Historical Documents Venue: ICDAR 2026<https://icdar2026.org/> (31 Aug - 4th Sep 2026) ==== Data: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-OCRepair-2026-data How-to: Participation Guidelines<https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-OCRepair-2026-data/blob/main/README-Parti…> Scorer: https://github.com/hipe-eval/HIPE-OCRepair-scorer/ ==== We invite participation in HIPE-OCRepair 2026, the ICDAR 2026 Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Historical Documents. Large-scale digitized historical collections still contain substantial OCR errors. Re-processing millions of pages with improved engines is rarely feasible, making post-correction the most viable strategy for addressing the OCR debt accumulated in digital heritage collections. Recent progress in large language models opens promising new directions, but their effectiveness varies across languages and error types, and they may introduce hallucinations. To what extent can large language models address the OCR debt accumulated in large-scale digitized historical collections? HIPE-OCRepair 2026 addresses this question through HIPE-OCRepair-Bench, a unified multilingual benchmark comprising curated datasets, a standardised evaluation protocol, baseline systems, and an open leaderboard. Task Participants correct noisy OCR transcripts of historical documents without access to the original images. For each text chunk (typically a paragraph or article), the dataset provides: * one OCR hypothesis * document metadata (language, date, publication title) * OCR quality indicators (CER, WER, lexicon-based quality score) Systems must produce improved corrected text. Both generative (LLM-based) and discriminative or hybrid approaches are welcome. Data The benchmark consists of parallel OCR and ground truth data drawn from multiple curated historical collections, covering English, French, and German materials from the 17th to the 20th century, including newspapers and printed works. It consolidates existing resources alongside newly curated materials. Important dates * 10 Dec 2025: Sample data release * 02 Mar 2026: Training and development data release; scorer * 23 Mar 2026: Hugging Face leader board release * 06-08 Apr 2026: Evaluation phase (test release and submission) * 10 Apr 2026: Results publication * 31 Aug-4 Sep 2026: Presentation at ICDAR 2026 HIPE-OCRepair addresses a central challenge for the document analysis, NLP, and digital humanities communities: improving the usability of large historical text collections at scale. It offers a reproducible evaluation framework, openly available data and tools, and a leaderboard for benchmarking beyond the competition itself. We look forward to your participation! Best regards, HIPE-OCRepair 2026 Organizers https://hipe-eval.github.io/HIPE-OCRepair-2026/

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CLASSLA-web 2.0 Web Corpora for South Slavic languages
by Taja Kuzman Pungeršek 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

*Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that we have released the second version of the South Slavic CLASSLA-web corpora. **The corpus collection contains approximately 38 million texts and 17 billion words, collected from the web in 2024, and covers the full South Slavic language group: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian. Compared to CLASSLA-web 1.0, the new web corpora are significantly expanded and largely consist of new texts. The corpora are linguistically annotated, automatically classified by genre and enriched with topic labels.**The web corpus collection is intended for a wide range of uses, including corpus linguistics, lexicography, and other linguistic research, as well as for natural language processing tasks such as training and evaluating language models, and creating genre- or topic-specific datasets.*** ***A detailed description of the resource can be found in the accompanying paper (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.11170). **Further information on both CLASSLA-web 1.0 and 2.0 versions, including details on corpus construction, additional resources, a video describing the workflow, and citation guidelines, is available on the CLASSLA-web website: https://clarinsi.github.io/classla-web/ **If you are interested in language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages, we invite you to browse the CLASSLA-web corpora via the CLARIN.SI concordancers (**https://www.clarin.si/ske/#open**) or download them **under a CC0 license **from the CLARIN.SI repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2079* *Best wishes, CLASSLA-web authors: Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Vít Suchomel and Nikola Ljubešić, supported by CLARIN.SI <https://www.clarin.si/info/about/> and CLASSLA <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/>*

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Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 4
by Andrea Farina 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

The fourth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 9 March 2026 at 5pm GMT. Ilia Afanasev (University of Vienna, Austria) will be presenting on "A study of the diatopic variation in Old East Slavic charters by means of a small unannotated corpus-based language comparison”. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 6 March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/WXumpbms2BFMkFtu9 Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk can be found at this page<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/monday-9-march…>. The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2026-programme/ This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina (King’s College London) and Dr Mathilde Bru and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field. Join our mailing list<https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/>!

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Call for participation: ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp (06 - 10/07/2026)
by Magali Paquot 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) will be hosting Stefan Gries’s next bootcamp on statistics for linguistics with R from 06 to 10 July 2026. The ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp is a hands-on introduction to statistical methods for both graduate students and seasoned researchers and is loosely based on the third edition (2021) of Gries’s textbook Statistics for linguistics with R. The course is intended for linguists who already have a basic knowledge in statistics and some experience using R and who wish to improve their proficiency in statistical modeling of linguistic data. Using the open source software and programming language R, we will deal with: • fundamental aspects of fixed effects regression modeling for both numeric and binary response variables; these include exploration of data and their preparation for modeling, model formulation and selection; numerical and visual interpretation and evaluation of models; • more advanced aspects of fixed-effects regression modeling such as contrasts for ordinal predictors, orthogonal contrasts, curvature of numeric predictors, and maybe general linear hypothesis tests; • the theoretical foundations of mixed-effects regression modeling; • applications of mixed-effects modeling for both numeric and binary response variables; • tree-based methods and random forests: 'fitting' and interpreting them with importance scores, partial dependence scores, and detecting (not just capturing) interactions. Online registration will start on 2 March 2026, 1 pm CET (today!). The number of participants is limited. https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/rling2026 Contact email : magali.paquot(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:magali.paquot@uclouvain.be> Magali Paquot Convenor

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GRACE@IberLEF2026: Clinical Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Registration open!! ######################################################## GRACE@IberLEF2026: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/ ######################################################## ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** GRACE@IberLEF2026 announces the first edition of a novel task on Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine across clinical trials and medical licensing examinations. ⚗️ Argument Mining Argument Mining automatically extracts claims and evidence from clinical text and reveals how they support or challenge each other, enabling transparent, traceable clinical reasoning. 🌍 Spanish, First GRACE is the first Argument Mining task in Spanish for the clinical domain, filling a key gap in multilingual biomedical NLP with fine-grained, entity-level annotations. Track 01 🔬 Clinical Trial Evidence & Argumentation This track focuses on abstracts of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). Their standardized design, contrasting an intervention with a control group, provides a transparent path from data to conclusions, making argumentative components more accessible to automated systems. Goal: Identify argumentative components (claims and premises) and detect support/attack relations at the sentence level. Track 02 🩺 Clinical Case Reasoning (MIR) This track uses cases from the MIR (Médico Interno Residente) exam, Spain's national medical specialization test. Each instance pairs a dense clinical narrative with five competing diagnostic or treatment options, only one of which is correct. Goal: Extract fine-grained evidence spans that justify the correct option while refuting the incorrect alternatives. 📅 Important Dates 📂 Release of Training & Dev Sets March 18 🚀 Official Test Set Release April 22 ⏰ Deadline for Result Submission May 3 📊 Publication of Results May 8 📄 System Paper Submission May 24 ✅ Notification of Acceptance June 17 🎤 IberLEF Workshop (at SEPLN) September 22

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HPSG 2026 -- Second CfP
by Antonio Machicao y Priemer 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

SECOND CfP: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Norway) Short Title: HPSG 2026 Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026 Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway) Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer Email: hpsg2026(a)easychair.org Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/ Conference fee: 68€ (faculty) / 43€ (student) Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science; Meeting Description: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (03-04 August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July). Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Presentations are in-person by default, although exceptions can be negotiated. All abstracts should be submitted by 10 April 2026, via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2026 Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2026 Reviews due: 10 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026 Conference: 03-04 August 2026 Keynote speakers: * Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) * Nurit Melnik (Open University, Israel) Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2026 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings will undergo a separate (final) round of reviews (accept/reject), to enable indexing of the proceedings. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ Programme Committee: - Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université de Paris) - Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (Universität Zürich) - Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) - Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) - Felix Bildhauer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) - Olivier Bonami (Universite Paris Diderot) - Francis Bond (Palacký University) - Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, Université de Paris) - Petter Haugereid (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) - Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) - Anke Holler (University of Göttingen) - Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) - Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) - Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Jakob Maché (Universidade de Lisboa) - Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) - Luis Morgado Da Costa (Palacký University Olomouc) - Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Tsuneko Nakazawa (The University of Tokyo) - Joanna Nykiel (UC Davis) - David Oshima (Nagoya University) - Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) - Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Manfred Sailer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Frank Van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Elodie Winckel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Shûichi Yatabe (The University of Tokyo) - Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University) - Olga Zamaraeva (Universidade da Coruña) -- Dr. Antonio Machicao y Priemer Department of German Studies and Linguistics - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Homepage: https://hu.berlin/aMyP Project: Building register into the architecture of language – an HPSG account (CRC 1412, Project A04) Series: Textbooks in Language Science (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tbls)

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2nd Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS [only three weeks left to submit] *** 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator *** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics *** 8th edition *** 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! ==> Abstract Submission Deadline ==> 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields in our global scholarly community to join us online for our Research Incubator this spring. Abstract submission deadline: 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) Abstract submission online: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/2026_Incubator/ The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator. The 8th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring work that is in-progress, exploratory, proof-of-concept, prototyping. The Incubator's audience actively participates in workshopping these new ideas, brainstorming along with the presenters to forge scholarly paths and develop research solutions. We see the NARNiHS Research Incubator as a place for testing and pushing boundaries; developing new theories, methods, models, and tools in historical sociolinguistics; seeking feedback from peers; and engaging in productive assessment of fledgling ideas and nascent projects. NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Successful abstracts for this research incubator environment will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Abstracts should not exceed one page (not including examples and references, see below). Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection. We are soliciting abstracts for 25-minute presentations. Presenters will have the entire 25 minutes for their presentations, with discussion happening in the "incubation session" at the end of each panel. Presentations will be grouped into thematic panels of three presentations, each panel followed by an hour-long discussion with the audience led by specialists, creating a brainstorming/workshopping environment that encourages maximum exchange of ideas. Discussion will encompass specific feedback on the individual papers as well as consideration of overarching questions of theory, methods, and models emerging from the papers. To facilitate such discussion, authors will be required to submit a draft of their presentation materials for distribution to the panel discussants and to the other presenters a few days prior to the start of the conference. Abstracts will be accepted until Monday, 23 March 2026 -- late abstracts will not be considered. *** Abstract Content Requirements: 1) Abstracts should be explicit about which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued. 2) Data sources and examples should be sufficiently (if briefly) presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. 3) The connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be explicitly outlined. *** Abstract Format Guidelines: 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch / 2.5 cm and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12-point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts exceeding these limits will be rejected without review. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving the file before submission). Do not use your name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names will not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review. *** General Conference Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/2026_Incubator/ 2) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 3) Authors are expected to virtually attend the conference and present their own papers. 4) Presentations will be delivered via Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform will be sent to authors in due time. Please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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CfP: RiCL Journal special issue - Learner Corpus Research meets the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume
by María Belén Díez Bedmar 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

*CFPs special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL)* *‘Learner Corpus Research meets the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume’* Due to the importance of the *Common European Framework of Reference for Languages* (CEFR) and the *Companion Volume* (CV) (Council of Europe, 2001, 2020) for the learning, teaching and assessment of languages, most learner corpora nowadays employ the learner’s CEFR level to specify the student’s communicative language competence level or proficiency level. Most learner corpora compiled in CEFR-aligned high-stakes foreign language accreditation/certification exams - for instance, the *Cambridge Learner Corpus* (O’Keeffe & Mark, 2017), the *FineDesc Learner Corpus *(Díez-Bedmar, 2025) - are composed of learners of English production in successful certification/accreditation exams at different CEFR levels. Other target languages are compiled in similar foreign language accreditation/certification exam conditions, such as the CELI corpus for Italian (Spina et al., 2023) or the Merlin corpus for Italian, German and Czech (Wisniewski, 2020). Other learner corpora composed of accreditation/certification exams that are not aligned to the CEFR or learner corpora compiled in other contexts have also been partially or fully aligned to the CEFR levels, as reported by Gablasova et al., (2019) regarding the *Trinity Lancaster* *Corpus*, Thewissen (2013) concerning *ICLE* or Tono (2018) as to the *JEFLL corpus*. The use of LCR results from CEFR-aligned learner corpora to inform or facilitate the implementation of the CEFR/CV is, however, still limited. Among the most important LCR contributions in this respect are those by the *English Profile Project* (Salamoura, 2008) and the CEFR-J Project (Tono, 2019). The former used the *Cambridge Learner Corpus* to provide linguistic information on the language produced at each CEFR level (UCLES/CUP, 2011) and freely available online resources (eg., the English Grammar Profile and the English Vocabulary Profile). The latter employed learner corpora, among other corpora types, to adapt the CEFR for the L1 Japanese EFL context (12 sublevels), create the Vocabulary Profile and the Grammar Profile. Despite these efforts, CEFR/CV end-users and stake-holders find difficulties in the implementation of the CEFR/CV in their L1-contexts, on most occasions due to the language neutral nature of the CEFR/CV descriptors (see Díez-Bedmar & Byram, 2019; Díez-Bedmar & Luque-Agulló, 2023; Luque-Agulló & Díez-Bedmar, 2025). It is for this reason that they demand fine-tuned descriptors, i.e., CEFR/CV descriptors informed by CEFR-aligned L1-specific learner corpus results (Díez-Bedmar, 2018). In the Spanish context, the *FineDesc Project* (Grant PID2020-117041GA-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) has provided L1 Spanish CEFR/CV end-users and stake-holders’ with fine-tuned descriptors thanks to the analysis of the 1.3-million-word *FineDesc Learner* *Corpus* (Díez-Bedmar, 2025), a freely available L1-specific learner corpus by L1 Spanish monolingual students (or bilingual L1 Spanish/a co-official language in Spain). The learner corpus results have informed fine-tuned descriptors not only for the linguistic competence, but also for the sociolinguistic and pragmatic ones, when students engage in different communicative language activities at B1, B2 and C1 levels (see Díez-Bedmar et al., 2026). These fine-tuned descriptors aim at paving the way for the implementation of the CEFR/CV in the L1 Spanish context. These are just some examples which show how LCR may inform the CEFR/CV and facilitate its implementation in different contexts. Other efforts are being made by the LCR community by using either general CEFR-aligned learner corpora or L1-specific ones, as shown in some papers presented at the International Online Conference ‘Bringing together research on the CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors’ which was organized by the FineDesc Project (https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php). It is the objective of this special issue to bring together research on the different ways how LCR may meet the CEFR/CV. Contributions which employ any reliably CEFR-aligned learner corpus with this objective in mind are welcome, whether they were presented at the conference or not. Researchers who do not have access to any CEFR-aligned learner corpus are encouraged to use the *FineDesc Learner Corpus*, freely available at www.finedesc.com. *Potential topics for this special issue are (but are not limited to):* -The fine-tuning of CEFR/CV descriptors for L1-specific contexts thanks to LCR. -The integration of CAF results in fine-tuned descriptors. -The (cross-sectional) analysis of CEFR-aligned learner corpora considering the linguistic, sociolinguistic or pragmatic competences to inform CEFR-aligned pedagogical resources/language assessment. -The exploitation of CEFR-aligned learner corpora to design tools/software which may help analyse learner corpora at different CEFR levels. -The overcoming of any difficulties in CEFR/CV implementation with the help of LCR. *Important dates* Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2026 Outcome of proposal review: May 21, 2026 Deadline for manuscript first drafts: December 1,2026 Notification of reviewer outcome: March 5, 2027 Deadline for manuscript final drafts: May 28th, 2027 Special issue publication: Autumn 2027 *Proposal format and submission* Potential contributors should prepare an extended 800-word abstract of the proposed paper following RiCL’s submission guidelines, which can be found at https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions The abstract should include a tentative title, motivate the study, state the research questions, provide methodological information (learner corpus or learner corpora analysed and the procedure employed to align it/them to CEFR/CV levels as well as the statistical tests employed), tentative results and clear information on the way how the results inform the CEFR/CV and its implementation. Please submit your proposal to the special issue editor, María Belén Díez-Bedmar (belendb(a)ujaen.es), before the deadline (April 30, 2026) including in your proposal your name(s), email(s) and affiliation(s). *Peer review* All accepted manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review. *References* Council of Europe (2001). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment. Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe (2020). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment – Companion Volume. Council of Europe Publishing. Díez-Bedmar, M. B. (2018). Fine-tuning descriptors for CEFR B1 level: insights from learner corpora. *ELT Journal*, 72(2), 199-209. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccx052 Díez-Bedmar, M. B. (2025). FineDesc Learner Corpus 2.0 (España, 2510243469857). SafeCreative. https://www.safecreative.org/validity Díez-Bedmar, M. B., & Byram, M. (2019). The current influence of the CEFR in secondary education: teachers’ perceptions. *Language, Culture and Curriculum*,* 32*(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2018.1493492 Díez-Bedmar, M. B., Laso-Martín, N. J., Maíz-Arévalo, C., & Carrió-Pastor, M. L. (2026). Supplement to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Companion Volume: L1 Spanish users (Spain, 2601214327051). SafeCreative. https://www.safecreative.org/validity Díez-Bedmar, M. B. & Luque-Agulló, G. (2023). Analysing the CEFR/CV in University Language Centres in Spain: The Raters' Perspective. In M. Fernández Álvarez & A. L. Gordenstein Montes (Eds.), *Global Perspectives on Effective Assessment in English Language Teaching* (pp. 1-33). IGI Global. Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., & McEnery, T. (2019). The Trinity Lancaster Corpus. Development, description and application. *International Journal of Learner Corpus Research*, *5*(2), 126-158. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.19001.gab Luque-Agulló, G. & Díez-Bedmar, M.B. (2025). Listening to the teachers: CEFR implementation in University language Centres in Spain. *Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas* (RLyLA),*20*, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2025.21285 O’Keeffe, A., and Mark, G. 2017. The English Grammar Profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings. *International Journal of Corpus Linguistics,* *22*(4), 457-489. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14086.oke Salamoura, A. (2008). Aligning English Profile research data to the CEFR. Cambridge ESOL: *Research Notes*, *33*, 5–7. Spina, S., Fioravanti, I., Forti, L., & Zanda, F. (2023). The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus. *Second Language Research*, 40(2), 457-477. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231176370 Thewissen, J. (2013). Capturing L2 accuracy developmental patterns: Insights from an error-tagged EFL learner corpus. *The Modern Language Journal*, *97*(S1), 77-101. Tono, Y. (2018). Corpus approaches to L2 Learner Profiling Research. In Y. N. Leung, J. Katchen, S. Y. Hwang & Y. Chen (Eds.), Reconceptualizing English language teaching and learning in the 21st century: A special monograph in memory of Professor Kai-Chong Cheung (pp. 390-402). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company. Tono, Y. (2019). Coming full circle – from CEFR to CEFR-J and back. CEFR Journal. *Research and Practice*, *1*, 5-17. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTSIG.CEFR1-1 UCLES/CUP (2011). *English Profile. Introducing the CEFR for English Version 1.1*. Cambridge University Press. Wisniewski, K. (2020). SLA developmental stages in the CEFR-related learner corpus MERLIN: Inversion and verb-end structures in German A2 and B1 learner texts. *International Journal of* *Learner Corpus Research*, *6*(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.18008.wis

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IberLef 2026 - Shared Task: Multilingual Easy to Read Translation - MER-TRANS-2026 - Registration Open
by Horacio Saggion 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

*MER-TRANS-2026: https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>IBERLEF 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026>Apologies for cross-postingWe are pleased to announce the launching of the Shared Task: Multilingual Easy to Read Translation (MER-TRANS) in the context of the IberLef 2026 Evaluation Forum. - Context* *Linguistic access to information is increasingly recognised as a fundamental citizens’ right. For example, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) includes accessibility as one key enabler for a more inclusive society, while the European Union adopted the European Accessibility Act (EAA) in 2019, which requires that many everyday products and services, including digital information services, comply with accessibility standards. The UNCRPD and the EAA stress that information has to be provided in accessible language, such as plain language or easy-to-read language in order to allow the different population segments with language comprehension difficulties to exercise their recognized right to participate in society and public life. Providing information in easy language in a real-world setting is challenging. High-quality, easy-to-read content must typically be written or translated by human experts following specialized guidelines, and then often validated by target readers. This manual process requires considerable effort, time, and expertise, which limits how much content can be produced or translated into easy formats. Therefore, this MER-TRANS shared task aims at advancing the state of the art in the field of automatic easy-to-read translation with specific emphasis on Romance languages, more concretely, in Catalan, Italian, and Spanish. * * - Task OverviewIn this shared task, we invite participating teams to automatically produce easy to read versions of texts and/or sentences. The texts will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, a multilingual corpus in the domain of democratic participation, which has been simplified by human experts following easy-to-read recommendations and high-quality validation procedures. There will also be a surprise language task to be revealed closer to the release of the test data. Up to three submissions per language will be allowed per participant team. - Data and EvaluationUnlike previous challenges where the data remained of restricted use, the iDEM corpus, with original and adapted versions, will be made fully available to the community, the documents for participants to produce adaptations will be provided during the test phase, and the full dataset during the IberLef workshop in September 2026. A small trial dataset will be released; it will be sampled from the iDEM corpus, considering the occurrence of different difficulties addressed by the easy-to-read adaptations. The examples will contain both the original text excerpts and easy-to-read versions. The test datawill consist of only the original complex text excerpts. Evaluation will be carried out with automatic metrics borrowed from current text simplification evaluation research, such as SARI and/or BLEUE and semantic similarity scores when appropriate. - System Description Papers and ProceedingsAll participating teams will be invited to submit a system description paper describing their methods, models, and experimental findings: further information about formatting and length will be given in due time. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers.Papers will be required to describe fully Reproducible solutions which contribute to Open Science. Accepted system description papers will be published at no cost in the Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2026), hosted by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the IberLEF 2026 workshop. Presentation at the workshop is encouraged but not mandatory for publication in the proceedings. - Who Should Participate?Participation is open to all. - Important DatesRegistration opens: Open nowRegistration closes: 5 March 2026Trial data release: 06 Mar 2026Test data release: 06 Apr 2026System outputs submission deadline : 13 Apr 2026Evaluation results published: 27 Apr 2026System Description Papers: 01 Jun 2026Papers acceptance: 14 Jun 2026Camera-ready papers due: 21 Jun 2026IberLEF 2026 Workshop: 22 Sept 2026 - How to ParticipateIn order to participate, teams must register using the registration form available at the task website https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/ <https://lastus-taln-upf.github.io/mertrans-iberlef-2026/>Note that registration is mandatory in order to access the data and submit system outputs. - Task OrganizersHoracio Saggion — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainNelson Pérez Rojas — Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa RicaStefan Bott — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Nouran Khallaf — University of Leeds, UKMehrzad Tareh — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainDaniel Adanza — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainAlmudena Rascon — Plena Inclusion Madrid, SpainSandra Szasz — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain* -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916 -- Horacio Saggion Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Head of the Natural Language Processing Group - TALN Project Coordinator iDEM Project (HE) Co-PI of the AI-BOOST project (HE) PI of the IDEAL project (HE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://twitter.com/h_saggion https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916

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CfP - Journal of Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural and SEPLN 2026
by Martínez Cámara 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

*Call for papers for issue 77 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural and 42nd SEPLN Conference* http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines SEPLN 2026 Conference website: https://sepln2026.org Introduction The journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural aims to provide an international forum for the dissemination of high-quality scientific and technical contributions in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It welcomes original, unpublished work that has not been submitted simultaneously to other journals or conference proceedings. The journal promotes the advancement of research in NLP, fosters the exchange of innovative ideas, supports the identification of emerging research directions, and showcases real-world applications and technological developments in this rapidly evolving discipline. Each year, the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) publishes two issues of the journal, including original research articles, project descriptions, book reviews, and summaries of doctoral theses. The scientific quality of the journal is supported by its indexing in major international databases, including the 2024 JCR index (JIF: 1.3, JCI: 0.48, Q2-Linguistics – Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2024 SJR: 0.570, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2024 CiteScore: 7.3), and the SNIP index with 1.61 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics - NLP for low-resource languages - Efficient and sustainable NLP methods - Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP - Trustworthy and explainability in NLP - Security and privacy in NLP - Text and Multimodal Generation - Language Modeling - Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision - Knowledge and common sense - Computational lexicography and terminology - Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Morphological and Syntactic analysis - Corpus linguistics - Development of linguistic resources and tools - Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse - Machine translation - Speech synthesis and recognition - Audio indexing and retrieval - Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants - Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval - Question answering systems - Automatic textual content analysis - Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining - Plagiarism detection - Negation and speculation processing - Text summarization - Text simplification - Image retrieval - NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education…) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by March 23rd, 2026, and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions will be accepted for publication in the Journal of Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Research projects & system demonstration papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings Information for Authors The proposals of regular papers with original contributions can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. The papers must include the following sections: - The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). - An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). - A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). - The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be doubled-blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines SEPLN Workshops Proceedings. The high quality papers will be published in the issue 77 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Those papers that the reviewers assess as quality papers, but without the consideration of high quality papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings. These works will be presented as posters in the 42nd SEPLN Conference. Research project & System Demonstration Session. This session will be focused on ongoing NLP research projects and system demonstration papers. The summaries of ongoing research projects must include the following information: - Project title. - Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. - Funding institutions. - Research Groups participating in the project. - Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. - An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. - Minimum length: 5 A4-size pages. - Maximum length: 6 A4-size pages (including references). The System demonstration papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included. The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published in the SEPLN Workshop Proceedings. Accordingly, the paper format must be in accordance with the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2026 and you can download it here (LaTeX, Word). Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates - Submission deadline: March 23rd, 2026 - Notification of acceptance: May 16th, 2026 - Camera ready: May 30th, 2026 - Publication: September 2026 - Congress: September 22-25, 2026 For all general enquiries, please contact: sepln2026(a)unileon.es All information related to the congress can be found at: https://sepln2026.org/ Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural

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Last deadline extension: Language Driven Deliberation Technology Workshop (DELITE 2026) @LREC 2026 - Deadline (archival/non archival): March 9th
by Gabriella Lapesa 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

---------------------------------------------------------- Third Call for Papers: DELITE 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) *** Last deadline extension: March 9th (archival and non-archival)** *** Important info: LREC has extended the early bird registration fee for workshop authors to March 31st (acceptance notification: March 25th) ----------------------------------------------------------- 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: *** March 9th (last extension) *** * Non-archival paper submission: *** March 9th (last extension) *** * Notification of acceptance: 25 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.uk <mailto:lucas.anastasiou@open.ac.ukwebsite> website: https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-2nd-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberatio…

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LxGr2026: Call for Papers – Extended Deadline
by Costas Gabrielatos 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026) CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended deadline for abstract submission: 20 March 2026 The symposium will take place online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2026 Invited Speakers Stefan Gries<https://www.stgries.info/> (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Martin Hilpert<http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert> (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Serge Sharoff<https://ssharoff.github.io/> (University of Leeds, UK) Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos<https://ehu.ac.uk/gabrielatos> (Edge Hill University) LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues, as well as descriptions or demonstrations of tools or resources are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. * Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. * Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. * Abstracts for tools or resources should provide a clear description of the main functions, and specify the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Fast Abstracts and Project Highlights
by Announce 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

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

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Upcoming deadline for SCiL 2026 (co-located with ACL)
by robvoigt＠ucdavis.edu 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We are writing to remind of the upcoming deadline for the ninth meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, co-located as a workshop with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 annual meeting in San Diego this coming July. We seek high-quality research on computational and mathematical approaches in any area of linguistics. Submissions to SCiL should involve a substantial computational and/or mathematical modeling component, make direct contact with linguistics, and be written for an interdisciplinary audience. The deadline has been extended to March 12th; more information on the submission process is available on the website for this iteration: https://sites.google.com/view/scil2026 We see this as an exciting opportunity to bridge the ACL and SCiL communities and sincerely look forward to your participation. Events will include keynote speakers Jennifer Hu and Noah Smith, a crossover panel hosted by SCiL during the main conference, and a crossover poster session to invite main conference authors to share their work during SCiL. Funding from the National Science Foundation means we also expect to be able to subsidize at least $500 of the ACL registration costs for the authors of each SCiL paper. Please feel free to contact Rob Voigt (robvoigt(a)ucdavis.edu) with any questions. Thanks and see you in San Diego! SCiL 2026 Organizers (Rob, Alex, Naomi, and Tal)

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Last CfP and Deadline Extension: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XX) @ ACL 2026
by Gessler, Luke David 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 19, 2026 (AoE) Last 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<https://aclanthology.org/2023.cl-1.4/>)—distinct from annotator disagreement (Weber-Genzel et al., ACL 2024<https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.123/>)—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<https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.746/>). 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 March 19, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: May 12, 2026 * Workshop Date: July 3, 2026 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 * Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation * Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation * Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data * Annotation evaluation * Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies * Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations * Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality * Annotation access and use * Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations* at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them * Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena * Annotation schemes, guidelines, and standards * New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes * Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development * Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes * Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages * Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation * Annotation software and frameworks * Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW Pre-reviewed ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commit…<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/LAW_ARR_Commit…> Note on OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles: * New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks. * New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop (either in-person or virtually) and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. 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 (law2026workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:law2026workshop@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<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy>, there is no anonymity period requirement.

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Free webinar: Studying Translation in the Age of AI – Why and How?
by Constantin Orasan 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

As part of the events organised by the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the MA Translation, we are pleased to announce the following free webinar. Studying Translation in the Age of AI – Why and How? Free webinar on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT, online Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6fc06c38-5ca1-468f-b93e-59b527c7c9… The translation industry has long been an early adopter of technology. From electronic dictionaries and language corpora to integrating CAT tools and machine translation into professional practice, translators have worked at the forefront of innovation for decades. Today, however, the conversation about translation and technology feels more polarised than ever. Some predict AI will replace translators altogether. Others argue there has never been a more exciting time to enter the field. So, which is it? The human element in the digital age Despite the hype surrounding AI, critical language tasks continue to depend on expert human judgement. Professional communication in medical care, law, diplomacy and international policy leaves no margin for error. Creative content demands cultural nuance that machines cannot normally achieve. Global product marketing requires sophisticated localisation strategies. And the development of AI language models, too, depends on specialists who understand how language works across contexts and cultures. Translation has never been simply about converting words from one language to another; today it increasingly involves managing digital workflows, overseeing quality assurance and collaborating effectively with AI systems. Preparing for a hybrid reality A recent landmark report by the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the Association of Translation Companies, The strategic case for languages in UK higher education<https://www.iti.org.uk/resource/making-the-case.html>, highlights a growing demand for graduates who understand how language AI works, know where it fails, can use it effectively and ethically, and are prepared for a professional future combining linguistic, technological and management expertise. As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of our MA in Translation, we invite you to an exclusive webinar to explore the skills that will define the next generation of language professionals. We will examine * Why translation matters more than ever – socially, culturally, economically * The role of AI – how AI is reshaping (but not replacing) the profession * Employer expectations – what skills and profiles industry leaders are looking for * The postgraduate edge – how a Master’s degree equips you for careers in multilingual, communication, localisation, language technology and beyond University of Surrey hosts * Professor Sabine Braun, Director, Centre for Translation Studies, Co-Director, Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence * Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas, Deputy Director, Centre for Translation Studies, Postgraduate Programme Director Translation & Interpreting Speakers * Lucio Bagnulo, Head of Translation and Language Strategy, Amnesty International * Professor Lynne Bowker, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translation, Technologies and Society at Université Laval * Dr Félix do Carmo, Senior Lecturer in Translation and Natural Language Processing, Lead of Professional Development, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Dr Kevin Lin OBE, Managing Director (Founder), KL Communications Ltd; Visiting Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Raisa McNab, Chief Executive, Association of Translation Companies * Dr Joss Moorkens, Associate Professor of Translation Studies, Dublin City University * Dr JC Penet, Reader in Translation Industry Studies and Leading Edge Curriculum Design Fellow, Newcastle University * Sara Robertson, Chief Executive, Institute of Translation and Interpreting * Professor Margaret Rogers, Professor Emerita, Founding Director, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey * Giulia Tarditi, Head of Function, Localisation at Revolut * John Worne, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Linguists * Xiaojie Zhang, Director of Conference Division, International Maritime Organisation Join the conversation Whether you are an undergraduate considering your next step, a recent graduate, or a professional curious about the future of the industry, we look forward to seeing you there. --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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4th CFP - Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing ,and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security,(NLPAICS'2026)
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '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/ Fourth 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 Keynote Speaker We are delighted to announce that Preslav Nakov from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Abu Dhabi) (https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/) will be keynote speaker at NLPAICS 2026. Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: * Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short (poster) papers: These c in an be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Short papers will be presented as part of a poster session. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as e-proceedings with ISBN will available online on the conference website at the time of the conference and are expected to be uploaded into the ACL Anthology. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the NLPAICS 2026 style files available here: LaTeX in Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgwmrzbmjfhc#aeea77 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. Related events The conference school will precede the summer school _The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural _Language 15, 16 and 17 June 2026 (_https://summer-school.gplsi.es [1]_). 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] https://summer-school.gplsi.es/

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Webinar by: José Andrés González-López (Universidad de Granada)
by HiTZ Zentroa 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '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: José Andrés González-López (Universidad de Granada) Title: From Neural Signals to Fluent Speech: Recent Advances in Neural Speech Interfaces Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 15:00 Summary: Neural speech interfaces aim to restore natural communication in individuals who have lost the ability to speak while preserving cognitive function. Over the past decade, this field has undergone a remarkable transformation, moving from slow and cognitively demanding spelling-based brain–computer interfaces to systems capable of decoding continuous speech directly from neural activity. These advances have been driven by the convergence of high-resolution invasive neural recording technologies, improved experimental paradigms for speech production and perception, and powerful deep learning models inspired by modern automatic speech recognition systems. In this talk, I will review the state of the art in neural speech prostheses, with a particular focus on next-generation BCIs that translate cortical activity into text or synthetic speech. I will discuss key design choices, including neural recording techniques (such as ECoG, sEEG, and intracortical microelectrodes), target brain areas, decoding architectures, and evaluation metrics. I will also highlight recent clinical results demonstrating unprecedented levels of accuracy, fluency, and long-term stability in continuous speech decoding. Finally, I will outline current challenges and future directions, including scalability across users, real-time bidirectional feedback, and the path towards clinical and real-world deployment, illustrated with ongoing work from our research group. Bio: Jose A. Gonzalez-Lopez is an Associate Professor at the University of Granada whose research sits at the frontier of artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and neural speech prostheses. His work addresses the core challenge of how to translate high-dimensional neural activity into fluent, natural speech, bridging invasive neural recordings with modern deep learning and speech–language models. He leads multiple competitive R&D projects on AI-driven speech restoration for individuals with severe neurological and phonatory impairments, with a strong emphasis on long-term robustness, scalability across users, and real-world clinical deployment. He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences. His contributions have been recognized with several awards for scientific excellence and technological innovation, and his research is embedded in a strong international collaboration network built through extended research visits to institutions such as the University of Sheffield, the University of Bremen, and Maastricht University. Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea Upcoming webinars: 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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FINAL Call for Participation: Shared Task in Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction at BEA Workshop, ACL 2026.
by Skidmore, Lucy (Exams) 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

We invite participation in our Shared Task on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners, which will be hosted at The<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications<https://sig-edu.org/bea/2026> (co-located with ACL 2026) both online and in person in San Diego, CA, United States. This shared task focuses on predicting the difficulty of English vocabulary for learners with different L1 backgrounds. Evaluation will use the British Council’s Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL), which provide psychometrically calibrated difficulty scores for English learners with Spanish, German, and Mandarin L1s. The task includes a Closed Track, limited to the provided data and standard NLP resources, and an Open Track, which allows external data and use of LLMs, to explore the full potential of current AI approaches. Important Dates 26 January: Release of training data and baseline models<https://github.com/britishcouncil/bea2026st> 20 March: Test data release 27 March: System submissions from teams due 3 April: Announcement of evaluation results by the organisers 24 April: System papers due 1 May: Paper reviews returned 12 May: Final camera-ready submissions 2-3 July: BEA 2026 workshop at ACL Further details can be found at our shared task website<https://www.britishcouncil.org/data-science-and-insights/bea2026st>. Please send any questions to vocabularychallenge(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:vocabularychallenge@britishcouncil.org> or post a new topic in our forum<https://groups.google.com/g/bea-2026-shared-task/>. We look forward to your participation! Organisers: Mariano Felice (British Council) and Lucy Skidmore (British Council). The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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Joint CODI CRAC 2026 Workshop: last call for papers
by Chloé Braud 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

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

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Final call for papers: The Fifth Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM@ACL'26)
by Simon Mille 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Conference: GEM at ACL 2026, special Comic-Con edition! *Submission deadline: *March 19th (via Open Review <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/GEM#tab-your-c…> ) Date: July 3nd or July 4rd, 2026 Location: San Diego, California, USA Website: https://gem-workshop.com/ 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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Cross-Cultural Misogynistic Meme Detection Grand Challenge (CC-MMD) 2026-ICMI 2026-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

*Cross-Cultural Misogynistic Meme Detection Grand Challenge (CC-MMD) 2026* *Held in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) Napoli, Italy | October 5–9, 2026* *Website link : https://sites.google.com/view/cc-mmd2026/overview <https://sites.google.com/view/cc-mmd2026/overview>* *Codabench link: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/ <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/>* ------------------------------ Online misogyny is increasingly evolving into complex multimodal formats. Memes—the fusion of text and imagery—often leverage humor, irony, and cultural shorthand to mask harmful ideologies. However, what is perceived as misogynistic is rarely universal; it is deeply rooted in local norms, language nuances, and social symbolism. The *CC-MMD Grand Challenge* benchmarks the next generation of culturally robust multimodal systems. We focus on binary misogyny classification across three distinct regions: *Indian*, *Chinese*, and *Western (English)* contexts. This challenge moves beyond single-pool testing to evaluate how well AI generalizes across specific cultural partitions, ensuring that moderation systems are inclusive and reliable for a global digital population. Participants are invited to develop multimodal models that can navigate: - *Implicit Meaning:* Detecting harm when neither the text nor the image is explicitly toxic in isolation. - *Cultural Grounding:* Interpreting symbols and slang unique to Indian, Chinese, and Western contexts. *Task & Data* - *Task:* Binary classification (Misogynistic vs. Non-Misogynistic) of multimodal memes. - *Dataset:* A systematic, cross-culturally annotated dataset featuring multilingual text and diverse imagery. - *Platform:* Competition hosting and data release will be managed via CodaBench *https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/ <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/14187/>*. ------------------------------ *Important Dates* *Task Announcement* February 27, 2026 *Release of Training Data* February 27, 2026 *Release of Test Data* April 1, 2026 *Run Submission Deadline* April 20, 2026 *Results Declared* May 5, 2026 *Paper Submission Deadline* June 10, 2026 *Peer Review Notification* July 8, 2026 *Camera-ready Paper Due* July 23, 2026 <https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/persons/bharathi-raja-asoka-chakr…>

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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2026
by Tristan Miller 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Panel ======================================= 36th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2026) Niterói, Brazil, July 6 to 10, 2026 https://ishs2026.org/ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2026 Call for papers --------------- As in previous years, the Humor and AI Special Interest Group <https://humorstudies.org/Forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9> of the International Society for Humor Studies will hold a panel at the 36th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2026). ISHS is a multidisciplinary conference organized and attended by humor researchers in diverse fields, including linguistics, psychology, sociology, computer science, folklore, literary studies, and many others. We invite paper presentations on AI-based technology for generating, processing, or analyzing humor. Contributions should be grounded in humor theory or other relevant theoretical frameworks, demonstrating how theory informs the design, analysis, or application of AI methods. (Submissions that focus solely on AI tools without clear theoretical motivation or connection to humor research are outside the scope of this call.) Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Submission instructions ----------------------- Per ISHS 2026 policy, each (co-)author of the submission must separately register beforehand for the conference using the form at <https://www.ishs2026.eventos.dype.com.br/>. Because the submission is for a pre-organized panel, co-authors should answer "No" to the question "Do you wish to send a proposal/work in your registration?" Payment of the conference fee is not required at submission time, but will be required of _all_ co-authors of submissions accepted for presentation. The corresponding (co-)author should then e-mail the following information to the panel organizers at ishs-ai(a)groups.io: 1. Title 2. 250-word abstract 3. 3 keywords 4. Name, short biography, and conference registration code for each (co-)author Conveners --------- * Kiki Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba * Julia M. Rayz, Purdue University -- 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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New Paper Submission Deadline - 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora at LREC 2026
by Reinhard Rapp 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

Call for Papers New Submission Deadline: March 5, 2026 ************************************************************** 19th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca (in-person & online) May 11, 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 05 Mar 2026: Paper submission deadline (extended) 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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Public talk (5 March 2026) - Privacy-Preserving Generation of Synthetic Clinical Narratives (by Prof Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester) - Exeter NLPV seminar
by h.dong2＠exeter.ac.uk 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

We welcome you to the next Natural Language Processing and Vision (NLPV) seminar at the University of Exeter. Zoom scheduled: Thursday 5 March 2026 at 15:00 to 16:00, GMT Location: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/98687933020?pwd=si6Sb2yasZU2s8zw0hMI4n… (Meeting ID: 986 8793 3020 Password: 667296) Title: Privacy-Preserving Generation of Synthetic Clinical Narratives Abstract: Training data is fundamental to the success of modern machine learning models, yet in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the use of real-world training data is severely constrained by concerns over privacy leakage. A potential solution to this challenge is the use of differentially private (DP) synthetic data, which offers formal privacy guarantees while maintaining data utility. However, striking the right balance between privacy protection and utility remains challenging in clinical note synthesis, given its domain specificity and the complexity of long-form text generation. I will discuss the key issues in synthetic clinical text generation and a methodology to synthesise full-length clinical notes under strong DP constraints. The method structurally separates content and form, and generates section-wise note content conditioned on clinical profile of patients, with terms and notes privatised under separate DP constraints. To ensure quality, a DP quality maximiser enhances synthetic notes by selecting high-quality outputs. I will also introduce a validation framework, and demonstrate how the corpus generated by the proposed method aligns with real clinical notes (MIMIC). Speaker's bio: Goran Nenadic is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on making sense of large-scale free-text data by combining rule-based and data-intensive approaches. He mainly works in the healthcare domain, exploring clinical coding, temporal clinical information extraction and anonymisation of clinical free-text data. He currently leads a DARE UK project on federated generation of synthetic textual healthcare records. The project explores how synthetic clinical text can be generated and validated for safe use. Combining differential privacy with strong public and regulatory engagement, the project will test whether synthetic free-text data can meaningfully support research and federated learning while reducing privacy risks. Goran also leads the UK healthcare text analytics network (Healtex) and a DARE UK working group (Safetext) to develop national protocols for the responsible use of healthcare free-text data in AI development. We will update future talks on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/neurocognit-lang-viz-group/seminars Joining our *Google group* for future seminars and research information: https://groups.google.com/g/neurocognition-language-and-vision-processing-g…

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Deadline extension CMCL @ LREC 2026
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 26 Feb '26

26 Feb '26

Dear all, We have extended the deadline to February 28, 11:59 pm AOE! ----- The 15th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2026) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain. Workshop: May 16, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp<https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp?authuser=0> For questions, please contact cmclworkshop.organizers(a)gmail.com<mailto:cmclworkshop.organizers@gmail.com>

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[JOBS] E13, 75%, 3.5 years, Computational Linguistics, Bochum
by Tatjana Scheffler 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, conditional on a funding commitment, we are offering a 75% position leading to a PhD in computational linguistics on the topic of developing computational methods for the analysis of (multimodal) metaphors in contemporary, colloquial communication in online forums. The position is funded (E13, 75%) from July 1 2026 to Dec. 31 2029. Application deadline: March 30, 2026. More details can be found in the job ad: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9… Please feel free to forward this opportunity to suitable candidates! best regards 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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[CfP + DEADLINE EXTENSION] NLP4Ecology 2026 @ LREC 2026 (4 March 2026)
by fr.grasso＠unito.it 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Exciting news! Due to several requests, we are happy to announce a deadline extension for the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology 2026) to be held at LREC 2026 on 12 May 2026 (afternoon). New Submission Deadline: 4 March 2026 (23:59 AoE) All other dates remain unchanged: Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026 Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 March 2026 Workshop Date: 12 May 2026 Submissions are handled via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLP4Ecology2026/ Scope: The workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and ecological/environmental studies, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the ecological crisis. Topics include (but are not limited to): Sentiment, argument, and stance analysis of environmental topics Automated linguistic, discourse, frame analysis and topic modeling in ecological communication Detection of anthropocentric and speciesist biases (including in LLMs) Environmental text classification, entity recognition, and monitoring Fact-checking and greenwashing detection Ecofeminism, environmental justice, and language Corpora creation and annotation for ecological discourse Environmental communication in low-resource languages Multimodal approaches to environmental narratives Fairness, ethics, and accountability in environmental NLP NLP for climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, and environmental policy Submission Categories: >> Regular papers (4–8 pages) – research papers or position papers, archival, included in the proceedings (must follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit) >> Non-archival contributions (up to 4 pages) – research communications, work in progress, manifestos, etc. (presented at the workshop but not included in the proceedings) More information: https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/ Contact: nlp4ecology.workshop(a)gmail.com We warmly encourage submissions and look forward to advancing research at the intersection of language, AI, and ecological transformation. Best regards, NLP4Ecology 2026 Organizers

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CfP - Studying the Language of Young Learners: Methodological Advances and Challenges
by Robert Fuchs 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

*Studying the Language of Young Learners: Methodological Advances and Challenges* 16–17 July 2026 Workshop at the University of Bonn, Germany, organized by Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) & Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg) as part of the project /Young German Learner English /(funded by the German Research Foundation). https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/uploads/yglew2_cfp.pdf Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from young learners are of exceptional theoretical and applied importance, they also raise distinct methodological challenges at every stage of the research process, from study design and data elicitation to annotation, analysis, and interpretation (Granger, 2015; Myles, 2015, 2021; Tracy-Ventura & Paquot, 2021). This workshop, organized by the YGLE team (https://www.ygle.de), focuses explicitly on these methodological issues. It is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working with young learner populations, typically situated in institutional (primary or secondary school) contexts, to exchange insights, innovations, and best practices that advance the methodological foundations of our field (Gilquin, 2015, 2021; Paquot & Plonsky, 2017). The workshop will feature keynotes by - Emma Marsden, University of York - Detmar Meurers, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen The workshop will take place jointly with the15th /Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference/ (BAELc15; https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/news-and-events/all-news-and-events/ba…), which will focus on corpus-based research but is open to other fields of applied linguistics as well. While the working language of the event is English, we welcome contributions on all learner and target languages. The conference is planned as an in-person event in Bonn. It will start after 12 pm on Thursday and end (at the latest) at 4 pm on Saturday, leaving room for travel. Please submit your abstracts (in the range of 400–500 words + potentially a data table or figure for illustration + references; please use APA style) before April 15th, 2026 via easyabs (see link below). You will receive feedback on acceptance in early May 2026. We will be able to accommodate a limited number of online presentations. Please indicate your availability in your submission. Submit via easyabs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/YGLEw2/ Please send any inquiries to bael(a)uni-bonn.de Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies | University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany | https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs | https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ *Recent publications:* Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/ Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*. /Lingua/. Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India <https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*. In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey & K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/. Cambridge: CUP. Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide* <https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>. In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156. Cambridge: CUP.

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #20
by Costas Gabrielatos 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 6 March 2026, 10:00-11:30 am (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>). Topics: LLMs, Corpus Linguistics, Language Learning Speaker: Peter Crosthwaite<https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/profile/2845/peter-crosthwaite> (University of Queensland, Australia) Title: Corpora, Prompts, and Pedagogy: Human-AI Text Comparison in Applied Linguistics The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 4 March. 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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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): First Call for Demos and Tools
by Announce 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

*** First Call for Demos and Tools *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been merged of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions, ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). The Demos and Tools Track at VARIABILITY 2026 invites compelling live presentations and submissions of innovative tools, practical demonstrations, and curated datasets that support research and practice in software and systems product line engineering, reuse, and configuration. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase academic or commercial tools, demonstrations of novel techniques, and datasets that contribute to the advancement of software and systems reuse, software product lines and configurable systems. Accepted contributions will be featured both during the main conference (via oral presentations) and in interactive exhibition spaces (e.g., demo booths or poster/demo sessions during breaks). This track provides an opportunity to illustrate the practical impact of new ideas and to foster interaction between researchers and practitioners that address real-world variability challenges. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on all topics related to tool support and datasets for product lines and variable/configurable software systems, including (but not limited to): Core Product Line Engineering Techniques • Feature modeling • Variability management • Product Line Architecture • Validation and verification • Product derivation and generation, including build systems and CI • Product-line testing and further analyses • Optimization and measurement of non-functional properties • Language product lines Application Domains and Contexts • Software-intensive and cyber-physical systems • Web and cloud-based systems, including microservices • Internet of Things • Automotive and industrial automation • Consumer electronics • Software ecosystems and multi-product lines Submission Guidelines Submissions must describe either (1) a new tool or prototype; (2) a novel extension to an existing tool; (3) a practical demonstration of an approach; (4) a new or curated dataset relevant to variability and reuse; (5) a significant update to a previously published tool or dataset (include a clear description of new contributions). Each submission must include: • A paper of up to 4 pages, including references and figures. • An optional appendix of up to 2 pages (not included in the proceedings), describing the planned live demonstration or dataset usage scenario. • A link to a short video (max. 5 minutes) illustrating the tool, demonstration, or dataset in action. Papers should briefly describe the theoretical foundation, with a focus on practical aspects such as software architecture, implementation decisions, usage methodology, and validation through case studies or benchmarks. Public availability of tools and datasets (preferably under open-source/open-data licenses) is strongly encouraged. Where availability is not possible, submissions should explain the reasons. All submissions must adhere to the LNCS (Springer) format. Please refer to the official LNCS template at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (select “Demonstrations and Tools Track”). Evaluation Criteria Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Reviewers will evaluate: • Relevance to the VARIABILITY community • Technical soundness and artifact maturity • Novelty of the contribution • Quality of the written description and video demonstration • Clarity in the presentation of implementation details, usage, or dataset structure • Positioning with respect to existing tools/datasets/practices This track follows a single-blind review process. Presentation and Publication Accepted papers will appear in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings, published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must: • Register for the full conference, and • Present the contribution at the event. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Demos and Posters: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 21 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CLARIN ERIC : Newsflash February 2026
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, The February 2026 edition of the CLARIN Newsflash is out. Highlights include: * Two vacancies at the CLARIN central Hub * Software developer<https://www.clarin.eu/news/job-opening-software-engineer> * EU Project Finance Officer<https://www.clarin.eu/news/job-opening-eu-project-finance-officer> * A new deadline for the JOHD special collection on language data reuse * A new textbook on ParlaMint * Several call for papers with upcoming deadlines, including: * LREC workshops * CLARIN2026 * SwissText * CMC Corpora 2026 * The Oral Archive Journal Read the newsletter: https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-february-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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CFP: International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan
by Ahmad Mustafa 25 Feb '26

25 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your papers to the 17th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2026) in Irbid, Jordan, May 18th - 21st, 2026 Important Dates: * Full paper submission: March 10th, 2026 * Notification of Decision: March 31st, 2026 * Camera-Ready and Registration: April 10th, 2026 The proceedings of ICICS2026 will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The topics that will be covered in ICICS 2026 include, but are not limited to: 1. AI and Machine Learning 2. Networking and Internet of Things (IoT) 3. Data Science and Big Data 4. Natural Language Processing and Applications 5. Software & web Engineering, and Information Systems 6. Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics 7. Cloud and Fog/Mobile Edge Computing 8. E-Learning Technologies 9. Communication Systems, Electronics, and Signal Processing Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed (check the review process on the conference website). Authors are expected to present their papers at the conference (or virtually). The accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The Conference Program includes free trips to Jarash and Umm Qais Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2026> Conference website: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics Please send any inquiry to: icics(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:icics@just.edu.jo>

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LREC 2026 Online Registration now open
by info＠elda.org 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

[Apologies for multiple postings] The online registration for LREC 2026 Main conference, Workshops and Tutorials is now open @ https://cvent.me/XakVZG Early-Bird Deadline: March 6, 2026 (23:59 AoE) Fees: https://lrec2026.info/registration-fees/ Registration Policy: https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/ LREC 2026 Contacts * Invitation and visa letters: german.rigau(a)ehu.es * ELRA membership, payment, invoices: elrasecretariat(a)lrec2026.info * Scientific programme and Main conference papers: lrec2026-pcs(a)googlegroups.com * Workshops: lrec2026-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com * Tutorials: lrec2026-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com General contact: info(a)lrec2026.info https://lrec2026.info Follow ELRA on LinkedIn

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Second Call For Participation - CLEF Shared Task on Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts (HIPE 2026)
by Juri Opitz 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

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

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Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Final Call for Papers and deadline extension! 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). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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[CfP + DEADLINE extension] Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026) @ LREC 2026
by Gilles Sérasset 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

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

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[Call for Papers] NLPercep: The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing
by Aswathy Velutharambath 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

# CfP: NLPercep: The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing (NLPercep’26) will be co-located with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26) and will take place on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in *Los Angeles, California, USA. **Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2026** Social perception plays a central role in how language is interpreted: readers form impressions about intent, politeness, credibility, identity, and more from subtle linguistic cues. However, most NLP systems model these phenomena using surface-level proxies (e.g., fixed labels for “toxicity,” “politeness,” or “demographic information”), often treating socially grounded judgments as fixed properties of text. As a result, they can blur the distinction between what a text is intended to convey and how it is perceived in context, limiting our ability to build systems that reflect how people interpret language across contexts and communities. NLPercep’26 aims to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers from NLP, computational social science, sociolinguistics, psychology, and related fields to study how language is perceived and not just what it encodes. The workshop places particular emphasis on the role of social perception in the era of large language models (LLMs) and evolving communication norms. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that advance theoretical grounding, computational modeling, and empirical understanding of social perception in language. We welcome submissions on topics including, but not restricted to, the following: - self-perception, identity, and self-expression in language; - social group perception, stereotypes, and bias; - sociolinguistic perception and language attitude; - social norms, moral values, and evaluative judgments; - computational and NLP approaches to social perception; - large language models (LLMs) and social perception. **Submission types** We invite the following types of submissions: Archival: - Long papers (5 to 8 pages) that present original research, from preliminary findings to established contributions, including theory, experiments, or applications. - Short papers (up to 4 pages) that introduce emerging ideas, work in progress, or early-stage research with clear significance. Non-archival: - Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)that present ongoing work, position papers, previously published work, or research projects. Abstracts can be submitted either for inclusion in the proceedings (archival) or as non-archival contributions. All papers must follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper (available templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word and LaTeX]). The review process will be double-blind. Please anonymize your papers by removing identifying information such as author names, affiliations, and funding details. **Important Dates** Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026 Camera ready: May 15, 2026 NLPercep Workshop day: May 26, 2026 Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth). **Organizers** Hongyu Chen, University of Stuttgart Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Stuttgart Amelie Wührl, IT University of Copenhagen Sofie Labat, Ghent University, Harvard University Lindsay Goolsby, University of Denver Aidan Combs, The Ohio State University Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg **Website and Contact** For further information and updates, visit the NLPercep website: https://nlpercep.github.io/workshop/ If you have any questions, please contact: nlpercep-workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de

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Charles (Chuck) F. Meyer, RIP
by jk＠etinu.com 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Dear friends, I've only just discovered this morning that Chuck had died, actually last October, others who knew him - especially from ICAME conferences and for his work in Corpus Linguistics – might not be aware of his passing either, and hence I thought I would post this wholesome obituary which I found online. https://blogs.umb.edu/umasslinguistics/2025/11/06/obituary-professor-charle… His mentor was Sid Greenbaum, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He compiled the written component of ICE-USA and collaborated with Jack DuBois on the spoken component, which uses material from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The first edition of his book _English Corpus Linguistics_ (CUP, 2008) is an excellent introduction to ICE-corpora. As the obituary stresses, he was a kind and warm-hearted guy and great good company. We enjoyed many beers and laughs together at ICAME conferences. I had visited him in Boston and he me in Belfast. May he rest in peace. -- Dr John Kirk Email: jk(a)etinu.com

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Funded PhD Position to work on Community-led Development of Technology for Under-Resourced Languages
by Ekaterina Vylomova 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

The PhD position is funded by ARC DECRA titled "Harnessing AI to Protect Endangered Languages" for 3 years, with Katerina Vylomova as a primary supervisor. The PhD student's research is expected to focus on technology for languages of Oceania, with a particular emphasis on collaboration (co-design) with local communities. The candidate is expected to have technical competence, ability to develop & improve contemporary NLP models, propose novel research ideas and innovative approaches. An ideal candidate would have existing connections to communities in Oceania, strong motivation to work on language technology, and increased interest in languages in general. Before you apply, please send me your CV, research proposal, and transcripts on vylomovae AT unimelb edu au. More information about the application process: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/doctor-of-philosophy-eng…

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CFP: READIxTSAR 2026 - deadline extended to 2nd of March
by Rémi Cardon 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

READIxTSAR 2026 Last Call for Papers **Deadline Extended to March 2nd (AoE / UTC-12:00)** Website: https://readixtsar.github.io/ Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/user/ READIxTSAR is a joint initiative between two previous workshops of mutual interest: Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI, hosted at LREC 2020,22,24) and Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR, EMNLP 2022,24,25, RANLP 2023). This year at LREC, the committees of the two events have merged to deliver a joint event, uniting accessibility research communities under a common umbrella. We aim for READIxTSAR to be a focal point for communities of researchers working on reading difficulties, accessibility and simplification to network, share best practice and form new collaborations. *Motivation and Context* The growth of educational and assistive technologies for reading, aimed at enhancing the performance of individuals with disabilities, provides an important setting for Text Simplification research. The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). This workshop aims to present state-of-the-art applications and approaches in technology-enhanced reading and innovations in text accessibility. The workshop will address specialized technology, tools, and resources, their impact on learning to read and comprehension, and innovative works spanning research to fieldwork, particularly in light of recent AI advances. Research in automatic text simplification has evolved from deep learning methods (Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021) to leveraging foundational large language models (Kew et al. 2023; Cripwell et al. 2023; Farajidizaji et al. 2024) through fine-tuning and prompt-engineering. Despite these advancements, the Text Accessibility and Text Simplification communities must address critical areas, including: designing better evaluation metrics, developing context-aware simplification solutions, creating appropriate language resources, deploying simplification in real-world environments, studying discourse factors, and identifying factors affecting readability. Addressing these issues requires collaboration across CL/NLP, machine learning, UI/UX, accessibility professionals, and public organizations, whom we invite to participate through publication and attendance. *Topics of Interest* The event will accept submissions at the intersection of the research areas of the two workshops, as well as submissions that are targeted to the specific research interests of either workshop. An indicative list of topics of interest are listed below. - Lexical, syntactic and discourse adaptations or simplifications; - ATS for sentences, paragraphs, or documents; - Controllable text simplification and text generation of adapted contents; - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity; - LLMs and agentic LLMs for text simplification, text adaptation and readability - The role of LLMs in supporting reading - Complex word identification (CWI) and lexical complexity prediction (LCP); - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation and text assessment; - Evaluation of text adaptation or ATS systems; - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation; - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for supporting reading and learning; - Domain specific applications of the above topics (e.g. health, legal). *Important Dates (All deadlines AoE/UTC-12).* - Submission Deadline: 2nd March 2026 - Notification of Results: 16th March 2026 - Camera Ready: 30th March 2026 - READIxTSAR Workshop: 11th May 2026 *Submission Instructions* We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements, references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must follow the LREC stylesheet, available at https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. All submissions must be made via START (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/). All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted, out-of-scope 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, which provides metadata for the resource. *“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). As in previous editions for Camera Ready a Plain Summary will be requested. *Organisers* Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Thomas François, UCLouvain, Belgium Raquel Amaro, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Eugénio Ribeiro, Iscte-IUL & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Regina Stodden, University Bielefeld, Germany Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France *Programme Committee* Akio Hayakawa, Pompeu Fabra University Anna Dmitrieva, University of East Anglia Arne Jonsson, Linköping University Christina Niklaus, University of St.Gallen Daniele Schicchi, CNR-ITD David Kauchak, Pomona College Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jan Bakker, University of Amsterdam Jasper Degraeuwe, University of Ghent Kai North, Cambium Assessment Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Lourdes Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University Martina Miliani, Università di Pisa Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University Michael Gille, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Mounica Maddela, Bloomberg Natalia Grabar, CNRS, University of Lille Nouran Khallaf, University of Leeds Raquel Hervas, University Complutense of Madrid Regina Stodden, University of Bielefeld Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Reno Kriz, Johns Hopkins Sandaru Seneviratne, The Australian National University Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature Tannon Kew, University of Zurich Thomas François, UCLouvain Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Ehime University Yannick Parmentier, LORIA Yingqiang Gao, University of Zurich Zihao LI, University of Manchester

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AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility Summer School 2026
by Constantin Orasan 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility Summer School 2026 15-17 June 2026 | University of Surrey, UK https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… The inaugural ADA Summer School on AI-enabled Digital Accessibility will take place from 15 to 17 June 2026 at the University of Surrey, hosted by the Centre for Translation Studies with support from the ADA Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Network. The summer school precedes the Convergence 2026 conference<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026>: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. About the Summer School AI-enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA) is an exciting field that brings together expertise from artificial intelligence, computer science, translation studies, accessible communication, cognitive and social sciences, and inclusive design. ADA explores how advances in AI can work alongside human expertise to improve digital media access for a wide range of users. The specific focus of ADA is on enhancing accessible communication and creating high-quality accessible content at scale. Current ADA projects focus on the use of AI in accessibility practices such as subtitling, captioning and audio description, as well as on approaches to improve cognitive access, text simplification and multilingual accessibility. This emerging field represents a paradigm shift from purely engineering-led, AI-driven methods towards an AI-enabled approach where user needs guide the development of responsible, nuanced solutions for accessible digital content. At ADA's core is the principle that only human-in-control approaches can effectively mitigate AI risks, such as bias, errors, and privacy concerns. ADA therefore aims to establish a new interdisciplinary research paradigm leading to truly responsible research designs and solutions. This intensive 2.5-day Summer School will equip participants with critical knowledge, research insights, and methodological skills essential to kickstart and/or refine cutting-edge research in this area. You'll explore interdisciplinary approaches based on the latest projects in this field and develop collaborative research skills that prioritise human-centred integration of AI technologies in digital accessible communication. Application process will open on the 15th Feb 2026. More details can be found at https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2026/summer… --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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2nd CfA: Conference "How does artificial intelligence challenge our traditional understanding of legal reasoning?" August 27-28, 2026, University of St.Gallen
by reto.gubelmann＠uzh.ch 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

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

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Call for Papers - StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content in conjunction with EAMT 2026
by resenden＠tcd.ie 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content We are excited to announce the StyGenAI workshop, which will take place in conjunction with EAMT 2026 (European Association for Machine Translation) from 15–18 June 2026 at the Schaumburg Concertzaal in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The workshop will be part of a vibrant international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners at the forefront of machine translation and language technologies. More information about the main conference is available at https://eamt2026.org/ Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshopstygenai?usp=sharing About the workshop: The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence has profoundly reshaped the landscape of translation. Moving beyond traditional machine translation paradigms, large language models (LLMs) now operate as translation agents capable of producing linguistically fluent and stylistically complex texts. As a result, translation is no longer only a matter of accuracy or adequacy, but increasingly one of style. As LLMs are adopted for translation tasks, their outputs reveal distinctive linguistic and stylistic patterns. These patterns differ in subtle but consequential ways from those found in both human translation and conventional MT systems. While such differences are often perceived intuitively by readers and practitioners, they remain underexplored from a systematic, research-driven perspective. This evolving scenario raises a set of pressing questions: What are the stylistic features of GenAI-produced translations? How do they differ from those generated by traditional MT systems? And how do they compare to human translations across genres, languages, and contexts? StyGenAI is the first workshop dedicated specifically to the study of style in GenAI-translated content. The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in AI translation stylistics, including recurrent stylistic patterns, departures from human translation style, and the linguistic, technical, and contextual factors that modulate AI-generated output. Particular attention is given to the role of text genre, language pair, and prompt design or prompting strategies in shaping the stylistic profile of GenAI translations. The workshop provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and AI evaluation. Contributions are welcomed from both empirical and conceptual perspectives, as well as from research that bridges academic inquiry and professional practice.The workshop welcomes empirical, methodological, and conceptual contributions from translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and related fields. We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: Stylistic fingerprints of LLM-based translation in comparison with conventional MT systems and professional human translation The influence of prompting strategies (for example, role prompting, constraints, zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot approaches) on stylistic outcomes Cross-genre analyses of AI translation style in literary, academic, journalistic, technical, and social media texts Authorial voice and style preservation across languages in GenAI-mediated translation Language-specific manifestations of machine-like or synthetic stylistic patterns Methodologies for evaluating stylistic adequacy and stylistic variation in AI-generated translations Cognitive effort and decision-making in post-editing LLM output for stylistic quality as opposed to content accuracy Cultural, pragmatic, or discourse-level mismatches introduced by AI translation choices The handling of irony, humour, voice, and other stylistically marked devices in GenAI translation Human–AI hybrid workflows for style-sensitive translation tasks Pedagogical approaches to training translators to identify, assess, and correct AI-generated stylistic patterns Diachronic or longitudinal analyses of stylistic change as LLMs and prompting practices evolve Submission Information The workshop invites research papers reporting original work. Papers should be 4–10 pages in length, excluding references. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and made available online via the ACL Anthology. Submissions must follow the EAMT 2026 formatting guidelines and templates and be submitted via the EasyChair system. Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: 27 April 2026 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026 Camera-ready papers due: 20 May 2026

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PhD Position in project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds" at University of Bamberg
by Sean Papay 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear all, A reminder about our open position: We are looking to hire a PhD student for a term of three years at the Chair for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/nlproc/) at the University of Bamberg in Germany, starting either May 1 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position will be for 100% time, according to the TV-L 13 payscale (see https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/allg/). The application deadline is *February 28.* The position will be part of the project "Relating Probabilities of Words to Probabilities of Worlds (PoWPoW)", to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Programme LaSTing (https://www.lasting-spp.org/). The project’s goal is to investigate how LLMs represent and reason about probabilistic world knowledge. Within this scope, the project will explore methods for eliciting probability judgments from LLMs, test how well such judgments agree with empirical probabilities, investigate the internal consistency of related probability judgments, and compare LLMs’ probabilistic reasoning to that of humans. The full details can be found here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_St… Applicants should have: * M.Sc. or comparable degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related area. * Experience working with NLP methods and LLMs. * Strong grasp of probability theory – experience with graphical models or formal logic a bonus. * Good knowledge and practical experience with deep learning. * Very good command of English; German knowledge is not essential. * Ability to work in a team, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm, and intrinsic motivation. If you would like to apply, please send your application to Sean Papay <sean.papay(a)uni-bamberg.de>. Your application should be a single .pdf file, comprising a brief motivation letter, your CV, the contact details of two references, and an academic writing sample -- for example, your Master's Thesis or an academic paper previously written by you. Please send your application by *February 28*. Best regards, --Sean Papay

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