*** Second Call for Participation for MWAHAHA at SemEval 2026 (Task 1) ***
Can computers be funny?
MWAHAHA – Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate at SemEval 2026
(Task 1)
https://pln-fing-udelar.github.io/semeval-2026-humor-gen/
While Humor Understanding has been the focus of many shared tasks, Humor
Generation remains an even more challenging and largely unexplored
frontier. MWAHAHA (Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate) is SemEval
2026's Task 1 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2026/> and is the first
task dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Computational Humor
Generation. We invite participants to develop systems capable of generating
genuinely humorous content under various constraints.
Our goal is to push NLP models beyond memorization and towards true
humorous creativity. By using carefully designed constraints, we aim to
ensure fairness in evaluation and encourage the generation of novel jokes.
This task has significant implications for more engaging conversational AI,
creative writing tools, and a deeper understanding of the complex nature of
humor itself.
The development data for the evaluation trial phase has just been released,
and we are accepting submissions for this phase!
The task is organized into two subtasks:
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Subtask A: Text-based Humor Generation
Systems must generate jokes following constraints (related to a news
headline, or containing certain words). This subtask is in English,
Spanish, and Chinese.
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Subtask B: Image-Based Caption Generation
Systems must generate a caption given a GIF image that enhances its comedic
effect. Subtask B1 uses only an image, while B2 uses an image and a
starting prompt. This subtask is in English only.
The participating systems will be evaluated based on human preferences on
1-on-1 arena-style battles.
To participate in this task, please join our CodaBench competition:
https://www.codabench.org/competitions/9719/
Important Dates:
* Development data release: September 1, 2025
* Evaluation trial phase starts: October 15, 2025
* Evaluation trial phase ends: December 15, 2025
* Evaluation period starts: January 10, 2026
* Evaluation period ends: January 31, 2026
* System description paper submission: February 28, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026
* Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2026
* SemEval 2026 Workshop: July 2026
Apologies for cross-posting
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*The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource
Languages (LoResMT 2026)*
*https://www.loresmt.org/ <https://www.loresmt.org/>*
*@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)*
*Rabat, Morocco*
*SUBMISSION*
ARR submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT
*TIMELINE*
- Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026
- Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD
- EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026
*SCOPE*
Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT)
workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING
2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop
at EACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers
working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented
languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT
for low-resource languages and define the most important directions.
Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial
and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural
language processing (NLP) tools that are used in any language and
especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools
are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools
in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output.
*TOPICS*
We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2)
review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however,
we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.
- Neural machine translation for low-resource languages
- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages
- Pivot MT for low-resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages
- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation
*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and
position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review
and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4)
and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For
system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions
should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates
(Overleaf). Please refer to the EACL submission guidelines for further
information <https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/>. Accepted papers will be
published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings and will be presented at the
conference.
Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided
submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to
other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other
venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be
double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in
person at EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open
Review.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language
that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic
items and their corresponding English translations are provided.
Registration is handled by the main conference (
https://2026.eacl.org/registration).
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Atul Kr. Ojha
Chao-Hong Liu
Ekaterina Vylomova
Flammie Pirinen
Jonathan Washington
Nathaniel Oco
Xiaobing Zhao
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be confirmed)*
Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore
Ali Hatami, University of Galway
Alina Karakanta, Leiden University
Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services
Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology
Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh
Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway
Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh
Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University
Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA
Daan van Esch, Google
Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK
Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS
Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany)
Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit
Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines
Jinliang Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway
Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies
Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK
Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Mathias Müller, University of Zurich
Milind Agarwal, George Mason University
Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines)
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University
Pengwei Li, Meta
Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich
Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University
Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University
Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI
Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre
Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki
Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich
Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen
Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University
Yasmin Moslem, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University
*CONTACT*
Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any
questions/comments/suggestions.
English version below
Bonjour,
Dans le cadre du projet DataLens, nous proposons un stage de M2 en
Machine Learning et Web sémantique visant à améliorer la complétion et
la structuration des métadonnées de jeux de données pour faciliter la
fédération de sources hétérogènes.
Plus d’informations et candidature :
https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456.
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Hello,
As part of the DataLens project, we are offering a Master’s internship
in Machine Learning and the Semantic Web focused on improving the
completion and structuring of dataset metadata to support the federation
of heterogeneous sources.
More information and application:
https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres/2025-09456.
Best regards,
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Anaïs OLLAGNIER
Assistant Professor at Université Côte d'Azur | I3S | INRIA wimmics team
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Templiers 1, Bureau 417, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145
06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/
*Workshop co-located with EACL, 24-29 March 2026, Rabat, Morocco*
LLMs in so many languages? When can such a claim be substantiated, and how should it be evaluated? This workshop brings together the community to answer these questions through three goals:
- Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies;
- Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability;
- Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation.
*Call for Papers*
We invite archival (ACL Anthology) or non-archival submissions, in ACL's short or long format. We accept both direct and ARR-reviewed submissions. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluation resources beyond English or Western-centric perspectives and materials;
- Annotation methodology and procedures;
- Standardised reporting, and scientific comparison of multilingual performance;
- Evaluation protocols: ranking vs direct assessment, rubric-based vs reference-based vs reference-free, prompt variations, etc;
- Metrics, LLM judges, and reward models;
- Complex tasks: multimodality, fairness, long I/O, tool using, code-switching, literary, etc;
- Sociocultural and cognitive variation affecting the use and evaluation across languages;
- Scalable evaluation of cultural and factual knowledge;
- Efficient evaluation of a massive number of languages and tasks;
- AI-assisted evaluation: data, methods, metrics, and standards;
- Other position, application-, or theory-focused contributions.
*Dates* (tentative, all dates are 23:59 AoE)
- Direct submission deadline: 19 Dec 2025
- Pre-reviewed ARR submission deadline: 02 Jan 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 23 Jan 2026
- Camera-ready version due: 03 Feb 2026
- Workshop date: 28 or 29 Mar 2026
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Website: https://multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io/
Email: mme-workshop(a)googlegroups.com
Submission: OpenReview, link TBD
Best regards,
Pinzhen Chen
on behalf of MME organizers
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium 2025
AI and EAP: New Directions
Monday 15th December 2025, Coventry University (in-person event)
Generative AI is still a recent development, yet it is having a significant impact in the fields of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Corpus Linguistics. A general consensus is emerging that researchers and practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of the uses of Gen AI, but it can be hard to keep track of developments in such a fast-moving field. The aim of this one-day event is to discuss current and future developments concerning AI in EAP with a specific focus on corpus linguistics and corpus approaches.
Abstract submission
We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions). These will offer short, thought-provoking talks on what speakers feel are essential corpus linguistic elements for EAP teacher training. We encourage early-stage work that focuses on innovation, as well as more advanced research.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Hilary Nesi (h.nesi(a)coventry.ac.uk<mailto:h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk>) with 'BAALSIG COV2025' in the subject line by 23 October 2025. Notification of successful abstract submissions will be on 31 October 2025.
Attendance
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School of Social Sciences & Humanities
Coventry University
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Dear Colleagues,
This is the final announcement for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25). Hosted by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, this virtual event takes place from October 22–24, 2025.
While LCRGrad25 offers a diverse program for the whole community, it is specifically programmed to support graduate students and early-career researchers with a strong focus on practical development:
• Distinguished Keynotes: Featuring talks from Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen, Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, and Dr. Dana Gablasova.
• Coffee Chats with Keynotes: Informal, direct engagement with our distinguished keynote speakers immediately after their sessions.
• Promising Research & Posters: A full schedule of emerging research papers presented live, plus asynchronous viewing of great emerging research posters on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LCRgradconf/videos
• Workshops: Focused training designed to enhance essential academic and soft skills, providing practical takeaways that are applicable to research and career journey.
• Research Clinics & AMA Panels: Expert advice on critical topics like building and analyzing corpora, legal/ethical issues, and low-resource languages.
We also warmly invite seasoned researchers to attend. Your insights and support are invaluable for mentoring the next generation of scholars during the interactive sessions.
Registration is free of charge, but mandatory for all attendees to receive the secure Zoom links. The registration window CLOSES on Monday, October 20th. Please ensure you register soon if you plan to attend.
• View the full program: https://shorturl.at/KsAPj
• Book of Abstracts: https://shorturl.at/G2oyX
• MANDATORY FREE Registration: https://shorturl.at/CPUUU
• Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/duSqy8Xy
We look forward to a productive and engaging conference and hope you will join us!
Best regards,
Cansu Akan
Dear All,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the special issue of Natural
Language Engineering, now called *Natural Language Processing* (Cambridge
University Press), on the theme: "*Revolutionising Natural Language
Processing with Quantum Computing*"
*Cambridge NLE - Special Issue*
*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum Computing*
*The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.*
*Call for Papers*
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Quantum computing Platforms for Algorithm execution
- Quantum-enhanced NLP models and embeddings
- Quantum Algorithms towards Natural Language Processing
- Design and Development of Quantum Machine Learning Hybrid
quantum-classical Models
- Applications of Quantum Machine Learning for Natural Language
Processing
- Future Direction of Quantum Machine Learning in Natural Language
Processing
- Quantum Large Language Models - Architectures and Mechanisms and
Challenges
- Quantum Machine Learning for Low-Resource Language Modeling
- Hybrid Quantum-Classical LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
- Quantum transformers and compression of large language models
- Quantum cognitive NLP for contextual and semantic understanding
- Quantum dialogue systems and conversational AI
- Quantum knowledge graphs for reasoning and inference
- Quantum semantic search and information retrieval
- Quantum adversarial learning and robustness in NLP
- *any other, which is related to Quantum Computing*
*Important Dates:*
- *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2025
- *First-round author notification*: Between April 30, 2026 and May 30,
2026
- *Submission of revised versions*: Between July 30, 2026 and August 30,
2026
- *Second-round author notification*: Between Nov 30, 2026 and Dec 30,
2026
- *Submission of revised second versions*: Between Dec 31, 2026 and Feb
28, 2027
- *Final Version*: Between April 30, 2027 and May 30, 2027
*Submissions:*
Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural
Language Engineering* are available
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…>
here
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…>
.
Please submit your article through the NLE
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript,
please select "*Revolutionising Natural Language Processing with Quantum
Computing"* in the field *Special Issue Section.*
*Any questions: *Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology
Silchar, India Email: partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in *[Guest Editor]*
Thanks & Regards,
Thanks & Regards,
*Dr. Partha Pakray*
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
National Institute of Technology Silchar
Silchar, Assam, India
partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in
[Posting again with the correct time - apologies]
The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools
Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA)
Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org
The abstract and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next
Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November.
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 2:00-4:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools
Speaker: Mark Davies<https://www.mark-davies.org/> (English-Corpora.org<https://www.english-corpora.org/>, USA)
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Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th
International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026)
<https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/> has been extended:
*Important Dates (Extended):*
* Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → *Extended to October 22, 2025*
* Paper Update Deadline: October 18 →*Extended to October 28, 2025*
* Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025
*Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026*
We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers,
industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics
related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and
Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems.
Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology.
This year’s theme is:
🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models”
Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the
Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social
(s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D.
IWSDS'26 Program Chair
Assistant Professor (RTD-A), University of Trento
https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/