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ACM ICMI 2026: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
by Gualtiero Volpe 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

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program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160 We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day. If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to the online program and get in touch with our presenters to find out more about their innovative work in the field. And please contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com to find out more about how NARNiHS can help you develop your work in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kelly Elizabeth Wright NARNiHS Convenor on behalf of the NARNiHS 2026 organizers

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Circle U, NLPL, & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation
by Andrey Kutuzov 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers: - Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl - Max Idahl, ellamind - Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs - other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school web page for updates) The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/). It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium (https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en) and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway. For additional information, please see: https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28, another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Application still open: Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Application for Professorship for Multimodal Communication and Translation at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) is still open until 23.11.2025: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7d827ce2da7b901b5456d2297a87… -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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HumanCLAIM workshop, 16th/17th of March, Goettingen
by Beinborn, Lisa 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

The HumanCLAIM workshop is back for its fourth edition. Join us in Göttingen for a human-centered perspective on language technology. We expect an interdisciplinary audience of researchers from computer science, linguistics, and cognitive science, and hope that many of you join us. Date: 16th/17th of March, 2026 Location: Gauss’ historic observatory, Göttingen, Germany Participation is free of charge, but we have limited capacity. Please register before the 15th of December: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop Keynote Speakers: 1) Tessa Verhoef is the co-founder of the Creative Intelligence Lab at Leiden University. She works towards better understanding language evolution and will talk about her research on emergent linguistic structure in agent communication. 2) Terra Blevins leads the LiLaC lab at Northeastern University in Boston. She studies cross-lingual transfer and works on modeling approaches for low-resource languages to overcome the curse of multilinguality. Poster session: The poster session is the heart of the workshop. Participants get the chance to discuss their work on multilingual and cognitively inspired modeling and receive feedback from interdisciplinary experts including Ece Takmaz (Univ. of Utrecht), Valentin Hofmann (Allen Institute for AI), Lukas Galke (Univ. of South Denmark), Sina Zarrieß (Univ. of Bielefeld), Stefan Frank (Univ. of Nijmegen), Miryam de Lhoneux (Univ. of Leuven), David R. Reich (Univ. of Zurich). Idea pitches: You have an idea but lack expertise? We will make time for focused knowledge exchange in smaller groups. Several ongoing cooperations and grants have started at our workshop. Workshop dinner: Our workshop focuses on personal interaction. We hope you join the group dinner on Monday evening. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. The HumanCLAIM organization committee: Lisa Beinborn, Urja Khurana, Zhuojing Huang, Luise Pohlmann Useful Links: - Workshop info and registration: https://clap-lab.github.io/workshop - Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3zKE9sPnMZKTzhPH8 - Tessa Verhoef: https://sites.google.com/view/tessa-verhoef/home - Terra Blevins: https://blvns.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Lisa Beinborn Human-Centered Data Science https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute for Computer Science University of Göttingen -------------------------------------------------

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CfP: ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47
by Neumann, Stella 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ *Call for Papers* ICE Corpora in the Age of AI. Pre-conference workshop @ ICAME 47 The International Copus of English (ICE) project, founded in 1990 (Greenbaum 1996, Greenbaum & Nelson 1996), has been a tremendous success: 15 ICE corpora of Englishes around the world have been completed to date and numerous articles on the use and structures of varieties of English have been published on findings generated by these corpora. What role do the ICE corpora play today, 35 years after their conception? On the one hand, 35 years after their conception, ICE corpora are increasingly being criticised as being too small, using an outdated data format and being difficult to handle for automatic analyses. Moreover, those ICE corpora collected 20 years ago may be considered outdated or at least not representing the contemporary use of the respective variety of English anymore (e.g. Botha & Bernaisch 2025). More generally, the original design, to some extent modeled on contexts of use applying to Great Britain, turned out not to match the reality of all varieties of English. On the other hand, ICE corpora have been shown to still constitute excellent sources for research on varieties of English even in comparison with big data (Loureiro-Porto 2017). In particular, coverage of a range of spoken and written registers sets the ICE corpora apart from more recent corpora. By the same token, some ICE corpora have been updated and extended to include modern data formats as well as new annotations (e.g., Conrad et al. 2025, Gut & Fuchs 2017, Schützler et al. 2017, Kallen & Kirk 2012, Wong et al. 2011, Wunder et al. 2010). This workshop addresses the question of what role ICE corpora can play in the age of AI: Do they still constitute a good source for research, especially compared to the mega corpora of online data? How can they be updated for easier processing? How can new ICE cropora be collected using AI methods such as Whisper for the automatic transcription of spoken data? Should they be increased in size? Should new text categories be added and/or the original corpus design be revised? How can we be sure not to include texts generated by AI? The workshop is intended to bring together people involved in the (i) compilation, (ii) computational handling and (iii) use of the International Corpus of English. We invite submissions of abstracts addressing perspectives in compiling, computationally handling and using the International Corpus of English in the age of AI. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references), using the ICAME format <https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/cfp/>, and should be sent to the workshop organisers by December 10 2025. Organisers Ulrike Gut, Universität Münster Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University Gerold Schneider, Universität Zürich Conference website https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/ References Botha, W., & Bernaisch, T. (2025). World Englishes and sociolinguistic variation. World Englishes, 44, 2–11. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12695 Conrad, S., Neumann, S., Frenken, F., & Schneider, G. (2025). Updating the international corpus of English for the 21st century: Towards a standardized XML-compliant markup. Corpus Linguistics 2025 Book of Abstracts, 74. Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora. World Englishes, 36, 387–403. Greenbaum, S. (1996). Comparing English Worldwide. Oxford University Press. Greenbaum, S., & Nelson, G. (1996). The International Corpus of English (ICE) project. World Englishes, 15, 3–15. Kallen, J. & Kirk, J. (2012). SPICE-Ireland: A User’s Guide. https://johnmkirk.etinu.net/johnmkirk/documents/003648.pdf Loureiro-Porto, L. (2017). ICE vs GloWbE: Big data and corpus compilation. World Englishes, 36, 448–70. DOI: 10.1111/weng.12281 Schützler, O., Gut, U., & Fuchs, R. (2017). New perspectives on Scottish Standard English. Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English. In S. Hancil & J. Beal (Eds.), Perspectives on Northern Englishes (pp. 273–301). De Gruyter Mouton. Wong, D., Cassidy, S., & Peters, P. (2011). Updating the ICE annotation system: Tagging, parsing and validation. Corpora, 6(2), 115–144. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2011.0009 Wunder, E.-M., Voormann, H., & Gut, U. (2010). The ICE Nigeria corpus project: Creating an open, rich and accurate corpus. ICAME Journal, 34, 78–88. Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft RWTH Aachen University Institut für Anglistik Zi. 101 Kármánstr. 17/19 D-52062 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 80-96105

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release 2.17 of SUD (Surface syntactic Universal Dependencies)
by Bruno Guillaume 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

As a follow up of the UD released announced a few days ago, we are happy to announce the release of the synchronised Surface syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) release v2.17. You can access to the data from: https://surfacesyntacticud.org/data/ (refer to UD announcement for list of languages and contributors). Related links: - https://universal.grew.fr/: All UD and SUD treebanks for the release 2.17 are available for online requests in Grew-match. - https://tables.grew.fr/: Interactive tables showing features and dependency relations use on all treebanks.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Bocconi University (Deadline Dec 16, 2025)
by Debora Nozza 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) invites applications for the position of Tenure-Track Assistant Professor within the Department of Computing Sciences. Deadline: 16/12/2025 Find out more and apply: https://jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=870 For further information or inquiries, you are welcome to contact me at debora.nozza(a)unibocconi.it<mailto:debora.nozza@unibocconi.it> *************************************************** Description The Department of Computing Sciences is an interdisciplinary department with leading international researchers in various fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, theoretical computer science, machine learning theory, statistical physics modeling, computational neuroscience, as well as biomedical applications. In terms of teaching, the department has recently opened a bachelor's in AI, a master's in AI, and is strongly involved in the PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science. The successful candidates will be expected to develop a strong publication record, broadly contribute to the academic life of the department, and be effective teachers both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Compensation and teaching load will be competitive with other top European Schools. Qualifications Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or closely related areas, and should demonstrate the capacity for exceptional research achievement and the ability to teach effectively in undergraduate, master's, MBA, and PhD programs. Application Instructions Applicants should submit a CV, a research statement, up to five recent publications, and three reference letters. Equal Opportunity Statement Bocconi University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. Applications are particularly welcome from women and members of underrepresented groups in academic posts.

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Second CFP: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA@EACL2026)
by Elena Epure 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

[image: 🎵]Second Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Co-located with EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco & Online | March 24–29, 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/home Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshops/NLP4MusA Shared Task: Conversational Music Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS) - Challenge information: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2026/shared-task - Baselines: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-baselines - Evaluations: https://github.com/nlp4musa/music-crs-evaluator Contact: nlp4musa2026(a)gmail.com == About the Workshop == Building on a tradition of cross-disciplinary impact, the intersection of NLP with music and audio-based creative media presents a frontier full of unique challenges and exciting opportunities. The Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA) aims to explore the multimodal synergies between language, music, and sound. As NLP increasingly enables domains where language and interaction converge, the entertainment industry offers a particularly compelling case: most audio content - such as songs or podcasts - contains an inherent linguistic dimension, while user engagement often occurs through language, from search queries to social media conversations. We welcome submissions on topics such as: NLP for Music and Audio Understanding - Music Tagging and Auto-tagging, Knowledge Graph Construction, Semantic Ontologies - Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, and Entity Linking - Multimodal Representation Learning, Lyrics and Symbolic Representation Analysis - Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Culture-specific Music Understanding, Corpora Bias - Music Captioning and Description Generation NLP for Music Retrieval or Recommendation - Conversational Interfaces, Query understanding and Intent Prediction - Multimodal, Cross-modal Music Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems - Natural Language User Modeling - Music Question Answering - Fairness and Transparency NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics Generation, Audio/Symbolic Query-driven Music Generation - Synthetic Music Content Detection == Submission Instructions == We invite short papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (ACL Anthology) and presented orally or as posters. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here (no Word templates is provided): https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Shared tasks papers should be submitted as a 2-page report describing the solution, using the same LaTeX template above (see specific instructions on the website). The best works will be selected for oral or poster presentations. == Key Dates (tentative, AoE) == Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 Shared Task: Important Dates Shared task release: October 15, 2025 Submission site opens: December 1, 2025 Blind evaluation dataset release: December 1, 2025 Final submission deadline: December 19, 2025 Results notification: January 23, 2026 == Organizers == Elena V. Epure, Deezer Sergio Oramas, SiriusXM SeungHeon Doh, KAIST Anna Kruspe, Munich University of Applied Sciences Mohamed Sordo, SiriusXM -- Elena Epure Senior Research Scientist 22-26, rue de Calais - 75009 PARIS

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Call for contributions to SIG Writing Conference 2026
by cerstin.mahlow＠zhaw.ch 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing (https://www.earli.org/sig/sig-12-writing) and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics (https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics), invite proposals to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference (https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026 ) to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from *June 2nd to 4, 2026*. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme *Writing Research for Writing Practice*, we aim to highlight how empirical findings, theoretical advances, and methodological innovations can inform and transform writing instruction, assessment, and professional development. We welcome contributions that bridge the gap between research and real-world writing contexts—whether in schools, universities, or workplaces. While the conference traditionally hosts a diversity of topics and approaches, proposals within the theme *Writing Research for Writing Practice* are particularly welcome. We will make this SIG Writing Conference a Swiss experience by involving Swiss SIG Writing members from the University of Basel, the PH Zurich, the PH Luzern, and the FHNW in the organization and orientation of the conference and research school. ## Submission Guidelines for the Conference Presentation formats are Paper, Symposium, Poster, Roundtable, and Demonstration. *Paper* The abstract of 250-350 words (including any references) should include: - Research topic / aim - Theoretical framework / area of investigation - Methodological design - (Expected) conclusions / findings - Relevance to domain of writing and other forms of text production No extended summary is needed. Paper presentations will be scheduled in 90-minute sessions of three papers. *Symposium* Symposia consist of one 90-minute session organized by the submitters. Symposia include 3 papers, a named chair and a named discussant, who will offer a critique of the symposium and its papers. At least 3 countries need to be represented in a symposium in the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant. A symposium is submitted as a single submission that includes a description of the symposium (250-350 words) and the abstracts for all the papers to be presented as part of the symposium (250-350-word abstract per paper). No extended summary is needed. Two weeks prior to the conference, the organizer needs to provide the discussant with the presentations included in the symposium. It is possible to link two or more symposia together. Indicate in the title of each of the linked symposia the order in which they should be presented. When possible, the parts will be allocated in non-parallel time slots in the order suggested by the proposers. *Roundtable* Roundtables are organized for researchers who wish to focus on a specific topic, theoretical or methodological issue, and discuss and debate the topic for 90 minutes. The organizer of a roundtable submits a proposal with a plan for the roundtable that includes the title for the roundtable and an abstract of 250-350 words (including any references), in which the topic and objective of the roundtable is stated. *Poster* The research poster is a popular method of presenting research findings succinctly through a combination of text and graphics. All poster authors will present in a poster session where they should be prepared to explain and answer questions about their research to those attending the Poster Exhibition. The abstract should be 250-350 words (including any references). No extended summary is needed. *Demonstration* Authors will present a live demonstration using their own laptop and other necessary equipment and/or devices. Software simulations or videos can also be used during the demonstration session. The proposal consists of an abstract of 250-350 words (including references) presenting a tool or method, its novelty and applicability. ## Submission System All proposals must be written in English and submitted using the online submission system: https://www.earli-eapril.org. The system is open until December 17, 2026, 24:00 AOE (anywhere on earth). Note that this is a firm deadline! ## Contact For any questions, please contact us at sigwriting26(a)zhaw.ch. More detailed information can be found on the conference website: https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026 Best regards, The SIG Writing 2026 organizing team Conference Chairs: Cerstin Mahlow, Liana Konstantinidou, Daniel Perrin (all ZHAW) Organizing Support: Sibylle Lichtsteiner Hurschler (PH Luzern), Stefan Daniel Keller (PH Zurich), Afra Sturm (FHNW), Mirjam Weder (University of Basel),

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