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[CFP] CV4Edu EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 16, 2026 (Workshop on Computer Vision × Education (CV4Edu 2026) @ CVPR 2026)
by Janis Pagel 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] CALL FOR PAPERS CV4Edu: Computer Vision × Education: building a cross-community agenda for multimodal vision in classrooms In conjunction with CVPR 2026, June 3 or 4, Denver, CO, US. Website: https://cv4edu.github.io/ Computer vision (CV) plays a central role in multimodal human-centered AI, yet most models are trained on web-scale benchmarks that poorly reflect real classrooms. Educational data are noisy, private, small-scale, and multimodal (e.g., video, audio, text). Students’ cognitive/behavioral states (e.g., engagement, mind-wandering) and learning processes (e.g., self-regulation, collaboration) can be inferred from subtle multimodal cues (e.g., gaze, pose, facial features). Still, today’s models struggle to generalize to classroom data, limiting reliability in deployed human-centered applications (e.g., assistive technology, collaborative AI). CV4Edu brings together computer vision, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and educational researchers to chart a community agenda for efficient, privacy-aware multimodal data-driven models that are more reliable in low-resource, real-world classroom settings — potentially launching shared datasets, metrics, and unified practices. Our goal is to support research that bridges CV, NLP, HCI, cognitive science, and the learning sciences/education communities. We welcome submissions both within and beyond education contexts—such as multimodal modeling, sensing, behavior forecasting, cognitive state inference, robotics, and embodied AI—provided they discuss transferability to classroom settings (e.g., what may break or carry over under noise, occlusions, viewpoints, multi-person dynamics, privacy constraints, limited annotations, distribution shift, hardware variability). *********************************** TOPICS The workshop topics include (but are not limited to): Multimodal classroom perception - Face, gaze, pose, gesture, posture, affect, and prosody - Video, audio, gaze sensors, and wearables (egocentric and exocentric) - Multimodal fusion, representation learning, and cross-view / multi-camera setups Language-centered multimodal learning analytics - Linking speech/text to video events, gaze/attention, and instructional context - Classroom NLP: ASR robustness, diarization, evaluating and mitigating bias, discourse modeling, dialogue/tutoring interactions, simplification, misconception detection - Retrieval-augmented classroom analytics, model adaptation, evaluation for learning-aligned outcomes Robustness & generalization - Domain shift beyond the lab, occlusions, noisy data, and missing modalities - Few-/low-shot learning, continual and on-device adaptation - Generalization across classroom layouts and populations Human behavior modeling for learning - Engagement, attention, affect, confusion, self-regulation, and metacognition - Collaboration, group dynamics, and teacher–student interactions - Gaze-informed models, saliency/scanpath prediction, activity recognition Temporal modeling & intervention - Sequential/temporal models of learning processes - Behavioral forecasting, early-warning systems, and interventions - Real-time inference, feedback, and human-in-the-loop systems Interpretability, reliability & evaluation - Interpretable models, uncertainty estimation, and calibration - OOD detection, fairness, and bias analysis - Evaluation protocols aligned with learning outcomes Privacy-aware, datasets & deployments - Privacy-preserving data collection, anonymization, de-identification, and governance - Annotation strategies, construct-aligned labeling, active learning, synthetic data, and dataset curation - Classroom-ready systems, scalable multimodal data-collection frameworks, edge/on-device inference, and real-world deployments **We encourage general computer-vision, visually grounded NLP, and human-centered, collaborative AI submissions (e.g., behavioral modeling, pose/activity recognition, gaze estimation, attention modeling, multimodal learning, methods “in the wild”, cognitive state inference and forecasting) that make a clear connection to educational/learning environments (even if primarily in the discussion).** *********************************** SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites submissions presenting original research, emerging ideas, datasets and benchmarks, systems, applications, and position papers advancing methods for real-world educational settings. We welcome both archival and non-archival contributions. All submissions must follow the CVPR 2026 paper template and official style guidelines (https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines). Archival Track (Full Papers) Papers submitted to the Archival Track must present original, unpublished work and will be considered for inclusion in the official CVPR 2026 workshop proceedings. The main text must be 6–8 pages in length and formatted according to the CVPR 2026 submission guidelines (https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/CallForPapers). References and appendices are not subject to a page limit. Non-Archival Track (Extended Abstracts + Short / Position Papers) We invite non-archival submissions describing ongoing/early-stage work (e.g., preliminary results, datasets or benchmarks in progress, negative results, lessons learned), position papers, and work previously published elsewhere (including papers on arXiv or at other venues). Our goal is to foster discussion and community building. These submissions will not be included in the official proceedings. Extended abstracts may be up to 2 pages and short/position papers up to 4 pages (excluding references), formatted according to the CVPR 2026 submission guidelines (https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/CallForPapers). Review Process - All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review. - Submissions will receive 3 reviews — two reviews, followed by a meta-review. - Submissions must comply with CVPR policies. - An ethics/IRB checklist is required where applicable, and an optional ethics and broader impact statement may be included. Important Dates (AoE) - Archival Paper Submission Deadline: **March 16, 2026** (NEW) - Archival Notification of Decision: **March 24, 2026** (NEW) - Archival Camera-Ready Deadline: April 10, 2026 - Non-Archival Submission Deadline: May 10, 2026 - Non-Archival Notification: May 15, 2026 **Note: The archival notification date is earlier this year due to updated IEE metadata submission requirements.** Submission Site Archival papers can be submitted through the OpenReview Submission Site (https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/CV4Edu). Non-proceedings papers and abstracts can be submitted through the OpenReview Submission Site (link to be posted). *********************************** ORGANIZERS Ekta Sood: University of Colorado Boulder Joyce Horn Fonteles: Vanderbilt University Mariah Bradford: Colorado State University Paul Gavrikov: Independent researcher Prajit Dhar: University of Marburg Janis Pagel: University of Cologne Trisha Mital: Dolby Laboratories Gautam Biswas: Vanderbilt University Sidney D'Mello: University of Colorado Boulder Contact: cv4edu.cvpr(a)gmail.com

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Upcoming Edge Hill Linguistics Research Group Webinar
by marcusi＠edgehill.ac.uk 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

The next webinar in the Edge Hill University Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series will take place on Thursday 26th March, 2-3pm (online via Teams). Title: Media Representations of Blindness in UK Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Study Speakers: Dr Costas Gabrielatos (English and Creative Arts), Dr Valeria Occelli (Psychology) Abstract: In this talk, we present a study investigating how UK newspapers portray blindness and blind people and how media discourse may influence public representations of visual impairment. We compiled the Blindness UK Press Corpus, consisting of articles published between 2014 and 2023 across ten national UK newspapers. Using collocation analysis of the lemmas blind and blindness, semantic preference analysis, and discourse prosody analysis based on manual annotation, we examined references to individuals and to the condition. Results show that blind individuals are rarely granted agency or voice. References to blindness are largely metaphorical and predominantly negative, and discussions of the condition focus mainly on pathology and limitation. Click here to register: https://forms.gle/s9Um9RR5xGzqeqca6. Registration will close at 5pm on Wednesday 25th March. The teams link will be sent out on the morning of the 26th March. If you have any questions, please email Dr Imogen Marcus: marcusi(a)edgehill.ac.uk.

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by Imogen Marcus 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Hi I am posting for the first time and wondering : how do I insert a hyperlink? Thanks! Imogen Dr Imogen Marcus, Senior Lecturer in English Language Edge Hill University Edge Hill Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series 2025-2026: <https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/forthcoming-events/> Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lrg/speaker-series/> ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[CFP] LM Playschool Workshop (LMP 2026) at EMNLP 2026
by s.mccallum-exner＠ed.ac.uk 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Call for Papers: LM Playschool (LMP 2026) Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Interaction Co-located with EMNLP 2026 — 24-29 October 2026, Budapest Website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ The LM Playschool Workshop (LMP 2026) invites submissions exploring the frontier of language agents that learn, adapt, and improve through situated interaction. We focus on conversational, collaborative, goal-oriented, and multi-turn environments—moving beyond static training and evaluation datasets to explore whether interactive learning can yield more data-efficient, robust, and adaptable language agents. 💡 WORKSHOP VISION LMP 2026 aims to bridge the gap between three ongoing research trends: 1. Game-based Benchmarking (functional linguistic competence). 2. Machine Language Acquisition (social interaction vs. massive text observation). 3. Interactive Learning Signals (communicative success vs. token-level rewards). 🎯 TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome original research and work-in-progress on: * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents. * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals (RL from game-state success). * Benchmarking via dialogue games. * Data efficiency and social interaction. * Social cognition and Theory of Mind in interactive systems. * Human-agent collaboration and coordination. * Embodied interactive agents. * Communicative and perceptual grounding. 🏆 THE LM PLAYSCHOOL CHALLENGE (SHARED TASK) LMP 2026 will feature a new shared task: post-training LLMs to master communicative skills in unseen dialogue games while retaining original language capabilities. Rules and settings will be announced soon on our website! 📝 SUBMISSION TRACKS We welcome either long or short submissions for the following tracks: 1. Challenge track: Technical reports for the LM-Playschool challenge (archival). 2. Paper-only track: Work-in-progress (archival or non-archival) or recently published papers (non-archival). 📅 IMPORTANT DATES * Starter pack release: Late March 2026 * ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026 * Challenge submission deadline: July 10, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline (challenge track and paper-only track): July 17, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2026 * Camera ready due: September 20, 2026 * Workshop at EMNLP’26 in Budapest: October 24-29, 2026 (Budapest) For more information, visit our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ We look forward to your submissions! The LMP 2026 Organizing Committee: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia.

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2nd Call for Papers: CMC-Corpora 2026
by Steven Coats 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

2nd Call for Papers 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026) 📍 University of Oulu, Finland 📅 27–28 August 2026 🌐 https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> We invite submissions for CMC-Corpora 2026, the 13th edition of the conference series focusing on corpora and computational approaches to computer-mediated communication and social media. The conference welcomes research on the development, analysis, and computational processing of CMC and social media corpora, including multimodal and large-scale datasets from contemporary platforms such as messaging apps, social networks, and video-sharing environments. Submission types • Short papers (3–5 pages) – oral presentations • Poster abstracts (max. 300 words) – work-in-progress and demos Topics include (but are not limited to) • Development and annotation of CMC and social media corpora • Sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of online communication • Multimodal communication and social media data • Multilingualism and code-switching in digital contexts • NLP and AI methods for CMC analysis • Large language models and computational approaches to social media data Important dates Submission deadline: 15 April 2026 Notification: 1 June 2026 Conference: 27–28 August 2026 Submission portal https://www.conftool.net/cmc2026 Full call for papers, templates, and guidelines https://cmc2026.org<https://cmc2026.org/> We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Oulu. The organizing committee Steven Coats Maarit Siromaa Jarkko Toikkanen Hanne Juntunen University Lecturer, Docent English, Faculty of Humanities University of Oulu P.O. Box 8000, FI-90014 University of Oulu Finland https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats

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Call for Contributions: HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation: Linguistic, Social and Relational Perspectives on Conversational AI
by Constantin Orasan 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation: Linguistic, Social and Relational Perspectives on Conversational AI https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/humic-humans-and-machines-in-conversatio… University of Surrey | In-person Workshop 16th June 2026 As generative AI and large language models reshape how we interact with chatbots, voice assistants and conversational agents, HUMIC focuses on the linguistic, social and relational dimensions of these technologies—areas often overlooked in technical development. HUMIC<https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/humic-humans-and-machines-in-conversatio…>, led by Dr. Doris Dippold and supported by the Surrey Institute for Advanced Studies, the BAAL Special Interest Group ‘Humans, Machines, Languages’ and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and connect academic insights with industry practice. Such insights are vital for developing conversational technologies that are context-aware, socially responsive, and cater for their users’ rapport needs. We invite contributions that explore the complex interplay between humans and machines with reference to these factors. We welcome submissions from researchers working across the disciplines, for example but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, natural language processing, UX research, and conversation design. Submissions may focus on any domain. We particularly welcome submissions from industry, focusing for example on common challenges and practices in designing conversational systems with linguistic, social and relational perspectives in focus. During the workshop, participants will be invited to participate in a collaborative session. The session will encourage the generation of new research ideas and explore how research can respond to industry challenges. Selected works resulting from this workshop will be considered for a potential special issue. Keynote Speakers: * Maaike Groonewege (ConvoCat, Netherlands)<https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaikegroenewege/?originalSubdomain=nl> – Linguist and Conversation Designer * Bettina Migge (University College Dublin, Ireland)<https://people.ucd.ie/bettinamigge> – Language and AI Technology * Christian Hildebrand (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)<https://www.ibt.unisg.ch/team/christian-hildebrand/> – AI and Language in Consumer Behaviour We invite 300-word proposal on topics related to the workshop. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to: * Linguistic and pragmatic dimensions of human-machine dialogue * Social and relational dynamics in conversational AI, including rapport-building, empathy and trust * Designing inclusive and accessible conversational systems that account for the needs of diverse users (linguistic, cultural, neurodiverse) * Linguistic choices and their role in shaping user expectations, satisfaction, engagement and decision-making * Evaluation methods and metrics for linguistic, social and relational outcomes in human–machine interaction (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods) * Model training and fine-tuning strategies for enhancing linguistic, social and relational outcomes in human–machine interaction. * Interdisciplinary and academic-industry collaboration in the development of linguistically, socially and relationally aware conversational technologies Accepted submissions will be assigned to oral or poster presentation formats according to the mode of presentation best suited to their content. Submission Details: * Abstract length: 300 words (excluding title, authors and references) * Deadline: 16th March 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 27th April 2025 * Submission: HUMIC – Humans and Machines in Conversation<https://forms.office.com/e/gyLXEs9QFi> ORGANISERS Dr Doris Dippold<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/doris-dippold>, Literature and Languages, University of Surrey Dr Fabio Fasoli<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/fabio-fasoli>, School of Psyschology, University of Surrey Dr Di Fu<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/di-fu>, School of Psychology, University of Surrey Dr Richard Green<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/richard-green>, School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey Assistant Professor Amal Haddad<https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad>, University of Granada Prof Constantin Orasan<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan>, Literature and Languages, University of Surrey Dr Valentina Pitardi<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/valentina-pitardi>, Strategy, Marketing and International Business, University of Surrey --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies> Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Call for Papers: 8th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP’26) at ICDAR 2026
by Maud Ehrmann 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

***Apologies for cross-posting*** Website: https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2026/ Submission deadline: 22 May 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HIP2026 Workshop: 3 September 2026 Venue: Vienna, Austria > Description The HIP workshop brings together researchers working with historical documents and intends to be complementary and synergistic to the work in analysis and recognition featured in the main sessions of ICDAR, the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community. It is the eighth workshop dedicated to this topic, following HIP’11 in Beijing, HIP’13 in Washington, HIP’15 in Nancy, HIP’17 in Kyoto and HIP’19 in Sydney, HIP’21 in Lausanne and HIP’23 in San José. The workshop is planned for 1½-days with oral presentations on September 3rd, and an excursion (to be confirmed) on September 4th. Each submission will undergo peer-review and distinguished submissions will be presented orally and included for publication in the official ICDAR proceedings with LNCS. Recent advances in generative AI, including foundation models for vision and language, open new opportunities for restoration, transcription, and content extraction from historical documents, while raising important questions about reliability and efficiency. The workshop welcomes contributions using all methodological approaches, from classical techniques to machine learning and generative models. Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): Imaging and Image Acquisition * Imaging for fragile material * Multispectral imaging * Camera-based/non-invasive acquisition * Case studies/applications Digital Archiving Considerations * Compression issues * Measuring essential resolution (colour, spatial) and metadata * Modelling of document image degradation * Historical Collections * Military records, personal journals, church records, medieval manuscripts, etc. * Scientific, technical and educational documents * Government archives, documents from the world cultural heritage, multi-language Document Restoration/Improving readability * Removing or minimizing damages, defects, ink-bleed * Completing and filling in missing pieces based on context, prior knowledge * Machine-learning algorithms for enhancement based on example images * Interactive tools from a user viewpoint * Learning from user-directed image enhancement Document Content Acquisition and Information Extraction (within the context of historical documents) * Automated or semi-automated transcription (OCR, OLR) * Machine-learning algorithms for content extraction, including recurrent neural networks, auto-encoders, transformers, and unsupervised feature learning * Content recognition based on surrounding and supporting context * Annotation * Evaluation metrics and methods * Ontologies for modelling historical document content * Content-based retrieval Family History Documents and Genealogies * Personal, Family, National and Historical Collections of Family Genealogy and Histories * Extracting and linking names, dates, places, etc. * Extracting, linking and piecing together personal and family histories and narratives * Discovering historical social networks Automated Classification, Grouping and Hyperlinking of Historical Documents * Style identification (of printed text/handwriting, dating or author identification) * Searching for Documents over the Internet * Web-based navigation within/among document images * Search/query, retrieval, summarization or condensation of document images * Document collecting, clustering, linking and analysis technologies * Parallel tagging of images, transcripts, and other document layers Digital Humanities applications of document analysis and recognition * Computer Vision for Computational History * Digital methods and tools for the study of historical documents * Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for historical documents * VLMs and LLMs for analysis and recognition of historical source materials * Training, fine-tuning and evaluation of specialized AI models * Prompt strategies for historical data and contexts Visit <https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2026/> HIP past editions’ program<https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2026/> for more information. For work focusing on handwriting/paleography, we recommend you have a look at IWCP: 4th International Workshop on Computational Paleography<https://icdar2026.org/index.php/workshops/>. > Submission instructions: Submissions are received until 22 May 2026 (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) via CMT<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HIP2026> and undergo review by the members of the Program Committee. Submissions must follow the ICDAR submission guidelines and template<https://icdar2026.org/index.php/paper-submission-instruction/> provided. Acceptance notifications will be sent out 22 June 2026. > Important dates: * Submission Deadline: 22 May 2026 * Acceptance Notification: 22 June 2026 * Camera Ready: 29 June 2026 * Workshop: 3 September 2026 With best regards, HIP'26 Organisers --- Clemens Neudecker (General Chair) Apostolos Antonacopoulos (HIP Series Chair) Christian Clausner (Program Chair) Maud Ehrmann (Program Chair) Kai Labusch (Publication Chair)

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Postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Postdoctoral position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Salary: EUR 3.546 - EUR 5.538 gross per month Closing date: 15 March 2026 We have an open postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). The focus of the project is on the development of methodologies for multilingual NLP and alignment of large language models. We welcome applications from candidates with a PhD in NLP or Machine Learning and an interest in AI alignment. The position is for three years. The expected start date is September 2026, but there is some flexibility. For further information and to apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-natural-la… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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*** NLPAICS’2026 - Extended Submission Deadline 12 April 2026 ***
by ernesto.estevanell＠ua.es 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS'2026) University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain 11 and 12 June 2026 https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/ [1] Last Call for Papers *** Extended Submission Deadline 12 April 2026 *** 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/ [2]) 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 [3] Word: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NLPAICS2026_Proceed… [4] Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nlpaics2026/user/ [5] The conference will feature a student workshop. Submissions to the student workshop can be in the form of both regular and short papers but will be evaluated separately and will be presented as a separate session at the conference. Awards will be offered to the authors of best papers. Important dates * Submission deadline (extended): 12 April 2026 * Reviewing process: 13 April 2026 - 10 May 2026 * Notification of acceptance: 11 May 2026 * Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 * Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 5 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) Programme Committee * Vivek Kumar, University of Bundeswehr München, Germany. * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK. * Rui Sousa Silva, University of Porto, Portugal. * Cengiz Acartürk, Jagiellonian University, Poland * Lena Podoletz, Lancaster University, UK * Nasredine Semmar, CEA/University of Paris-Saclay, France * Sevil Sen, Hacettepe University, Turkey * Wajdi Zaghouani, Northwest University, Qatar * Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, USA * Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK * Cengiz Acarturk, Jagiellonian University, Poland * Matthew Bradbury, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Daniel Prince, Lancaster University, UK * Basil Germond, Lancaster University, UK * Hongmei He, University of Salford, UK * Rafael Valencia García, University of Murcia, Spain, * Angela Almela Sanchez-Lafuente, University of Murcia, Spain * Eugenio Martínez Cámara, University of Jaén, Spain * Alfonso Ureña López, University of Jaén, Spain * Dan Fretwell, Lancaster University, UK * Sedat Akleylek, University of Tartu, Estonia * Ozkan Kilic, Cisco Systems Inc., USA * Ilker Ozcelik, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey * Ozgur Ural, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA 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_ [6]). 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/ [7] and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nlpaics2026(a)dlsi.ua.es Registration will open at the end of March 2026. 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[Jobs] 2 PhD Positions (75% TV-L E13, 3.5 years) in Corpus-/Computational Linguistics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
by Ronja Laarmann-Quante 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, we are offering 2 PhD positions at Ruhr University Bochum which require proficiency in German, therefore the following description is posted in German only: Im SFB 1475 „Metaphern der Religion“ sind vorbehaltlich der Finanzierung durch die DFG vom 01.07.2026 bis 31.12.2029 zwei Doktorandenstellen (TV-L E13, 75%) in der Korpus- bzw. Computerlinguistik an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum zu besetzen, 1. Das Teilprojekt C06 „Frauen und Männer, Aristokraten und Bürger: Eine soziobiografische Perspektive auf Metaphern“ untersucht schwerpunktmäßig den Einfluss soziobiografischer Faktoren der Autor:innen oder Adressat:innen auf die Metaphorik, z.B. welche Quelldomänen bei weiblichen vs. männlichen Adressaten in frühneuhochdeutschen Leichenpredigten besonders häufig vorkommen. Das Projekt verfolgt einen Mixed-Methods-Ansatz, der manuelle Annotationen und eine tiefe qualitative Analyse mit einer korpusbasierten statistischen Analyse kombiniert. Projektleiterin ist Prof. Stefanie Dipper (stefanie.dipper(a)rub.de). 2. Im Teilprojekt C07 „Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit: Formbasierte Eigenschaften von Metaphern in Gesangbuchliedern und anderen religiösen Texten“ geht es um formbasierte, d.h. syntaktische und distributionale, Aspekte von Metaphern im Deutschen, die in der bisherigen Forschung unterrepräsentiert sind. Auf Basis manueller und (halb-)automatischer Annotationen von protestantischen und katholischen Kirchenliedern werden z.B. syntaktische Relationen innerhalb von Metaphern sowie deren Beitrag zum metaphorischen Mapping zwischen Quell- und Zielebene untersucht. Projektleiterinnen sind Prof. Stefanie Dipper (stefanie.dipper(a)rub.de) und Dr. Ronja Laarmann-Quante (ronja.laarmann-quante(a)rub.de). Weitere Informationen zu den Aufgaben und dem gewünschten Profil sowie zur Bewerbung hier: C06: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c79337c04d7f9c72b0a63f6ebf83f871… C07: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/a2542d134f0e602595f35509f3167dd8…

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