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.
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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>.
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*** 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
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)
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.
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.
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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
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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:
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[1] https://summer-school.gplsi.es/
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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)
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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).
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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
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!
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