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1st CfP: Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
by Piotr Banski 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

* 12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC) 1st Call for Papers The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part of the LREC-2026 conference <https://lrec2026.info/>in Palma, Mallorca. See https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html <https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html>for up-to-date information. Workshop description As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language generation, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably, reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research: apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical (and other) annotation layers. These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes against. Topics of interest This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics: Interoperability and accessibility • How to make corpora as accessible as possible • Interoperable APIs for query and analysis software • Provision of multiple levels of access for different tasks Machine/Deep Learning • Data preparation for machine learning input • Creation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning networks) • Legal issues concerning language model distribution Linguistic content challenges • Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc. • Diversity and inclusion in language resources • Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation • Quality management of annotations • Ensuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication, correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc. • Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video, facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …) Technical challenges • Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data (potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation data • Corpus versioning and release management • Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processing • Dealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing corpora • Environmental impact of big language data computing • Engineering and management of research software Exploitation challenges • Legal and privacy issues • Query languages, data models, and standardisation • Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictions • Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics • Repurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster. Important dates • Deadline for paper submission: 16.02.2026 • Notification of acceptance: 12.03.2026 • Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: 30.03.2026 • Meeting: details TBA Paper submission We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the topics listed below, as PDF created according to LREC-2026 templates <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite poster proposals of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. Submissions are accepted solely through the START system (URL TBA). A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA. 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). Programme Committee Names will be added as Programme Committee members confirm their participation. Organising Committee • Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim) • Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) • Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) • Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim) • Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw) Homepage CMLC series homepage is located at http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html <http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html> * -- Dr. Piotr Bański Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R5 6-13 68-161 Mannheim, Germany

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The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Last Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC. The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to: • present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a supportive, formative, and yet critical environment; • explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback provided by the mentors and other DC students; • network and build collaborations with other members of the community; • discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities. Submission and Participation Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach. The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program. Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website). Submission Instructions If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org! To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required: • Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by December 17, 2025. • In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025. For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . 1. Cover Letter (1 page max): Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional). 2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references): A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. Key points the submission should include: • motivation for your dissertation research • goal and research questions • related work that frames your research • methods/approach to reach the goal • results, if any • next steps for your research 3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max): List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/ participants. 4. Your CV (3 pages max): Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document. How to Format and Submit Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template. All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline. In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively, and press "Go". Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026. Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards. The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> . Important Dates • Paper Submission: December 17, 2025 • Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA • Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel • Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands

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Second Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026 @ EACL)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 [Workshop website - https://loreslm.github.io/home] [CFP - https://loreslm.github.io/cfp] [Submissions - https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResLM] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. Supporting this important shift, LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 LoResLM 2026 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages. We welcome research that explores modalities beyond text and encourage work on low-resource dialects in addition to major language varieties. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Building language models for low-resource languages. • Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. • Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. • Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. • Multimodal language models/large language models for low-resource languages • Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.) 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 We follow the EACL 2026 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2026 invites submissions of long papers up to 8 pages and short papers up to 4 pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the EACL 2026 style files available here: • Latex - https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files • Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… Papers should be submitted through OpenReview using the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResLM 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 • Paper submission: 6th January 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 28th January 2026 • Camera-ready submission: 3rd February 2026 • Workshop: March 28, 2026- March 29, 2026 (TBD) @ EACL 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 LoResLM 2026 will be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 Proceedings of the workshop will appear in the ACL Anthology. For the past proceedings, please refer https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=rvm3HOgAAAAJ&hl=en 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 Prof Barbara Plank - Full professor and chair for AI and Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Head of the Munich AI and NLP (MaiNLP) lab, and co-director of the Centre for Information and Language Processing (CIS) 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 David Ifeoluwa Adelani - McGill School of Computer Science, Canada Idris Abdulmumin - University of Pretoria, South Africa Godfred Agyapong - University of Florida, USA Isuri Anuradha - Lancaster University, UK Laura Bernardy - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ana-Maria Bucur - University of Lugano, Switzerland Eleftheria Briakou - Google Tommaso Caselli - University of Groningen, Netherlands Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Charibeth Ko Cheng - De La Salle University, Philippines Claudiu Creanga - University of Bucharest Sourabh Deoghare - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Bosheng Ding - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Jaroslav Kopčan - Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Slovakia Constantine Lignos - Brandeis University, USA Cedric Lothritz - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Anne-Marie Lutgen - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Sheng Li - Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Vukosi Marivate - University of Pretoria, South Africa Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Simon Münker - Trier University, Germany Abiodun Modupe - University of Pretoria, South Africa Fred Philippy - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Md Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Mariana Romanyshyn - Grammarly Guokan Shang - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, France Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Hristo Tanev - Joint Research Centre, European Commission Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Raúl Vázquez - University of Helsinki, Finland Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan- Zheng Xin Yong - Brown University, USA Alexandra Zbaganu - University of Bucharest, Romania 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 Hansi Hettiarachchi – Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe – Lancaster University, UK Alistair Plum – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Damith Premasiri – Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan – National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage – University of Münster, Germany 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 Paul Rayson – Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov – Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber – Queensland University of Technology, Australia 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 The workshop is supported in part by the Artificial Intelligence Journal, which promotes and disseminates AI research. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘂𝘀 Contact us through loreslm.contact(a)gmail.com. Follow us on social media • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/loreslm/ • X - https://x.com/LoResLM2026 • BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/loreslm.bsky.social Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe, on behalf of the organising committee, LoResLM 2026 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University

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Advance notice: ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp (08 – 12/07/2024)
by Magali Paquot 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

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 08 to 12 July 2024. 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. The website of the bootcamp will be online in early 2024 and online registration will start on 1 March 2024, 11 am CEST. The number of participants is limited. If you would like to participate, mark the date in your diary! Contact email: magali.paquot(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:magali.paquot@uclouvain.be> Magali Paquot Convenor

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PhD and Postdoc positions in NLP @ Uni Potsdam, Germany
by David Schlangen 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

There will be several openings in 2026 in my lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany: - For a start in early 2026, there will be one position for a PhD student in a project, and another position (that comes with a teaching load) for a PhD student or a postdoc. - For a start in autumn 2026, there will be a position for a Postdoc (again, with teaching load). Some keywords: language learning in interaction / learning to interact; simulating situated use / building "agents"; evaluating LLM(-agents) in interaction; pragmatics of human/AI interaction. Positions are open until filled; reviewing of applications has started. For more information about the positions and on how to apply, see: https://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de/positions/ . -David Schlangen --- David Schlangen Chair "Foundations of Computational Linguistics" Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25 14476 Potsdam, Germany Campus Golm, Building 14, Room 2.18 Tel. +49 331 977 2692 Tel. Secretary +49 331 977 2016 http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de

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CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Nakba-NLP 2026 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the LREC-2026 Conference Palma de Mallorca, Spain May 11-16, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: - Digitisation of oral and written narratives - Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets - Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up - Annotation tools and annotation guidelines - Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval - Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events - Entity linking and relationship extraction - Event detection and event argument extraction - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data - Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies - Data visualization - Knowledge representation - Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing - Natural Language Generation - Large Language Models - Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction - Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). * 15 Jan 2026 - Shared-task training set release * 15 Feb 2026 - Shared-task blind test release * 1 Mar 2026 - Shared-task system submissions * 10 Mar 2026 - Shared-task results * 20 Mar 2026 - Paper submission deadline * 15 Apr 2026 - Acceptance notifications * 30 Apr 2026 - Camera-ready deadline * 11-16 May 2026 - LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC) Organizing Committee: ===================== * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University * Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity * Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University * Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University * Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University * Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals * Amal Haddad, University of Granada Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.palestine-studies.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/palmuseum.org/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3Oo… [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nakba-archive.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R… [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/__;!!D9dNQwwGX… [6] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.alhaq.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA… [7] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ichr.ps/en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rvgn3OoSA…

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2nd CFP: The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2026)
by Amal Haddad 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Call for Papers - AbjadNLP 2026 The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script Rabat, Morocco (in-person) Co-located with EACL 2026 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/eacl2026/AbjadNLP2026/ AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP -- covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties -- while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight). We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods. Submission Deadlines: Direct submissions: 8 January 2026 ARR submissions: 10 January 2026 Notification: 24 January 2026 Camera-ready: 3 February 2026 Workshop: 24-29 March 2026 (TBC) AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [1]. General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University) More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [2] -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and protected by professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copy or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If this message has been received in error, please immediately notify us via e-mail and delete it" =============== Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files__;!!D… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Xa…

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NLPerspectives 5: 1st Call for Papers
by Abercrombie, Gavin 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> Important Dates * February 27: Paper submission * May 11-16, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see Frenda et al., 2024). Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity (Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025). In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in real-world scenarios. In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning pipeline. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers; * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages of content. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks * Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm * Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning * Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models * Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation * Fairness and inclusive modelling * Perspectivist approaches for social good * Applications of multi-perspective modelling * Computing with (dis)agreement * Perspectivist Natural Language Generation * Perspectivism in multimodal AI * Foundational aspects of perspectivism * Participatory approaches and human label variation * Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP * Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance The workshop will follow the attendance policy<https://lrec2026.info/registration-policy/> of the main conference. Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/ ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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Job Opening: Open-Rank Position in Humanistic & Critical Approaches to AI (Northwestern University in Qatar)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) invites applications for a full-time, open-rank faculty position in Humanistic and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in the Communication Program. We seek scholars whose research centers humanistic perspectives on AI. Areas of interest include: * Critical, historical, or theoretical approaches to AI * AI ethics and algorithmic accountability * Cultural manipulation and AI * Humanistic, interpretive, comparative, or transnational AI methodologies * Critical studies of AI in media industries * AI’s intersections with sound, robotics, digital labor, and computation Candidates should demonstrate a strong research record (commensurate with rank) or strong potential for early-career scholars, as well as a commitment to inclusive teaching, mentoring, and service. The teaching load is two courses per semester, including core courses and electives aligned with the candidate’s expertise. Faculty may also contribute to interdisciplinary minors such as AI and Media, Media and Politics, Strategic Communication, Film and Design, Middle East Studies, and Africana Studies. NU-Q offers opportunities for collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study of the Global South, the Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab, and the Media Majlis Museum. Located in Education City, NU-Q is a diverse, globally connected institution with students from more than 60 countries. Applications received by January 4, 2026, will receive priority; the position remains open until filled. Apply here: https://facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQ2NA== Please prepare all materials in PDF format before submission; the system does not allow post-submission edits. References will be contacted directly. Best regards, Wajdi -- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Residence, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City

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CFP: Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2026)
by Yoshinobu Kano 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2026) associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2026 (IsAI-2026) June 7th and 8th, 2026 G MESSE GUNMA (GUNMA Convention Center), Gunma, Japan (Hybrid Format) https://www.g-messe-gunma.jp/en/ Aims and Scope Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and applications on juris-informatics. Important Dates Workshop: June 7th and 8th, 2026 Submission Deadline: 25 Jan, 2026 Notification: 28 Feb, 2026 Camera-ready due: 25 March, 2026 Registration Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Model of legal reasoning Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent Legal term ontology Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base Computer-aided legal education Use of informatics and AI in law Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law AI and intellectual property Legal/Ethical Compliance check of AI Systems Natural language processing for legal knowledge Translating law into formal representation Legal data mining Legal document analysis Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems Online dispute resolution Evidential reasoning AI application to forensics AI application to smart contracts and blockchain Legislation support by AI/IT techniques Generative AI and Law Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain Submissions We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=jurisin2026 If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop through this page. Without fulfilling this condition, the paper will not be in the proceedings. Proceedings We will publish accepted papers which have LNAI quality in IsAI2026 proceedings in LNAI series. We will also publish another online proceedings other than LNAI proceedings for papers which are not qualified for LNAI publication, but are selected to be presented at the workshop. Workshop Chairs Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-informatics, Japan Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Program Committee Members (To be confirmed) Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna Marina De Vos, University of Bath Huimin Dong, TU Wien Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics Randy Goebel, University of Alberta Guido Governatori, Central Queensland University Shigeru Kagayama, Meiji Gakuin University Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University Mi-Young Kim, U. of Alberta Yuntao Kong, Center for Juris-Informatics Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology Maria Navas-Loro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Ha-Thanh Nguyen, National Institute of Informatics Le-Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Katsumi Nitta, Center for Juris-Informatics Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, ALMA-AI Livio Robaldo, University of Swansea Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-Informatics Cor Steging, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Satoshi Tojo, Asia University Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University Vu Tran, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan Bart Verheij, University of Groningen Mayu Watanabe, Institute of Science Tokyo Sabine Wehnert, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media \ Georg Eckert Institute Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University Adam Wyner, Univesity of Swansea Hiroaki Yamada, Institute of Science Tokyo Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University May Myo Zin, Center for Juris-Informatics Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen jurisin 2026 homepage: https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/jurisin2026/ -- Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D. Professor, Research Fellow Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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