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[CFP] EACL 2026 First Call for Main Conference Papers
by ACL Announcements 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

First Call for Main Conference Papers EACL 2026: 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 24-29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025 Details: https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [1] *Overview* The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2026 will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24 to 29, 2026. *Submission information* Paper submission and commitment will be handled via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). ARR works on a two-monthly review cycle. The "paper submission deadline" is the latest date that new papers can be submitted to ARR and be reviewed in time to be considered by EACL 2026. Papers submitted in previous ARR rounds can also be considered. The "paper commitment deadline" is the date by which authors must choose, based on the reviews so far, whether to "commit" their ARR papers to be considered by EACL 2026. The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review process at editors(a)aclrollingreview.org. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. *Important Dates* * ARR submission deadline: 6 October 2025 * Author response & reviewer discussion: 18 - 24 November 2025 * Meta-reviews released: 11 December 2025 * EACL commitment deadline: 14 December 2025 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). *Topics of Interest* EACL 2026 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP * Ethics and NLP * Generation * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Information Extraction * Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical * Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and other areas * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis and Argument Mining * Speech and Multimodality * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Short Papers* Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. *Findings of the ACL* Papers submitted to EACL 2026, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Acceptance notifications for the main track and Findings will come out simultaneously. *Presentation Mode* Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and as posters. Papers accepted to the Findings of the ACL may present a poster. *Presentation Requirements* All accepted papers must be presented at the conference--either online or in-person--in order to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL 2026 must notify the program chairs by the withdrawal deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2026 by the early registration deadline. *Paper Submission and Anonymity* Following standard ACL and ARR policy, submitted papers must be prepared for two-way anonymized review, and no deanonymized preprint may be posted in the month prior to submission. Please see the ARR CfP for more detail (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Policies on Authorship, Citation and Ethics* EACL 2026 follows the ARR policies on authorship, citation and comparison and ethics - please see the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Multiple Submission Policy* EACL 2026 follows the ARR policy on multiple submission: we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. See the ARR CfP for more detail (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [2]). *Mandatory Discussion of Limitations* We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. Following recent EACL conferences, EACL 2026 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled "Limitations". This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitations section will be automatically rejected without review. Papers resubmitted from previous ARR review rounds that did not include a limitations section must ensure that such a section is included in the EACL 2026 version. While we are open to different types of limitations, just mentioning that a set of results have been shown for English only probably does not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the method works mostly for languages with limited morphology, like English, is a much better alternative. In addition, limitations such as low scalability to long text, the requirement of large GPU resources, or other things that inspire further investigation are welcome. *Contact Information* General Chair: * Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter Program Chairs: * Vera Demberg, Saarland University * Kentaro Inui, MBZUAI, Tohoku University, RIKEN * Lluís Marquez Villodre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Links: ------ [1] https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ [2] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp

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[CfP] Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at IJCNLP-AACL 2025
by Tirthankar Ghosal 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*** The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 *** **** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2025/shared_task *** The Telescope Reference and Astronomy Categorization Shared task (TRACS) at WASP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025 addresses the challenge of automatically linking astronomical publications to observational facilities. Telescope bibliographies are crucial for measuring scientific impact, enabling data discovery, and supporting reproducibility, but remain largely curated by hand. TRACS provides a dataset of annotated scientific papers and invites participants to build systems that detect telescope references, group papers by facility, and classify data usage into science, instrumentation, mention, or false positives. A key focus is generalization to new telescopes, ensuring broad applicability to the rapidly evolving astronomical landscape. **** Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tracs-wasp-aacl2025 <https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_tracs-2Dwasp-2Daacl202…> *** *** Important Dates *** CfP + Registration starts August 27, 2025 Train and Validation Data Release August 31, 2025 Test Set Release August 31, 2025 Registration Ends October 10, 2025 System Run and Output Submission October 13, 2025 System Paper Submission October 20, 2025 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification November 3, 2025 Camera Ready Submission November 11, 2025 ***Organizers*** - Felix Grezes <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/fgrezes.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal>, National Center for Computational Sciences | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Kelly Lockhart <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/klockhart.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/aaccomazzi.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Tirthankar Ghosal <https://www.tirthankarghosal.com/> Scientist (NLP/AI and HPC) <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal> National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States & Affiliate Faculty (NLP/AI) <https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/faculty/tirthankar-ghosal/> University of Tennessee Knoxville United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Final call for EACL and ACL 2026 workshops
by z＠zeerak.org 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

[Apologies for cross-posting] Please not that the deadline for submitting workshops proposals for ACL and EACL 2026 is this coming Friday (the 5th of September)! Submission link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2026/ Joint Call for Workshops Proposals (EACL/ACL) 2026 The Association for Computational Linguistics, the European Language Resource Association and International Committee on Computational Linguistics invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with EACL 2026 or ACL 2026. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: * EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24-29, 2026 * ACL 2026 (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which will be held as a hybrid conference, and physically held in San Diego, California, from July 2-7, 2026 The workshop and tutorial co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. A second call will be made in the fall for workshops colocated with conferences later in the year (e.g., EMNLP and AACL). This call thus exclusively centres EACL and ACL 2026. Important Dates EACL/ACL 2026 shared dates: * Proposal submission deadline: September 5, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Information Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. Please use the LaTeX template for your submission. The two pages for the main proposal must include: * A title, short name / acronym, and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. * Some conferences might take place only or partially virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion on measures planned to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a hybrid or virtual-only attendance. * A description of special requirements and technical needs. * A description of any limitations that would restrict the workshop to a specific venue (EACL or ACL). For example: if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise, or if the workshop cannot be held at a venue for logistical reasons. * Diversity and Inclusion Efforts (see more details below) * If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying: how many prior editions occurred, where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received in the last iteration and how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and an estimate of how many in-person posters the workshop attracted. * (Optional/If Known) A list of invited speakers, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers. * (Optional) A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Having a shared task is optional. The submission form will request information that does not factor into the decision process, but are necessary for logistical reasons: * An estimate of the maximum number of attendees at one given time * Number of estimated in-person posters * Preferred Venue (first and second preference). Providing a second preferred venue is optional, and we assume that providing a second preference indicates its compatibility for the workshop. While we will do our best to adhere to these preferences, we cannot guarantee that they will be satisfied. * Duration of the workshop (1-day / 2-day workshop) Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently, including registration for more than one invited speaker. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: * The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events. * A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. * An indication whether the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); or whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. * References Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/p/acl-workshops2026/ Diversity and Inclusion The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: * Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. * Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. * Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. Organizer Responsibilities The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. However, it is worth noting that workshops may also accept non-archival submissions, such as findings papers, for presentation, which are allowed in this case. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers are free to deviate from the proposed schedule for all dates that are not marked as inflexible, though changes should be made in consultation with the relevant workshop chairs. In submitting a proposal, workshop chairs will be asked to agree to the workshop non-compliance policy<https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1hhocb0fXBBJhqJHoOfZtx1V1kcTATpA4IMU…>. All workshops must agree to this policy, which states that egregious cases of not living up to the responsibilities of running a workshop will be penalized by a 1-year ban on the organizers from submitting another workshop proposal. Workshop proposals for which all authors do not agree to this policy will be desk-rejected. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops in the Conference Handbook<http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook>. Review Process Workshop proposals will be holistically reviewed by a committee of workshop chairs and the ACL workshop officers based on: their originality and impact, the experience of the Organizing and Program Committees, and the ethical considerations presented and adherence of the workshop proposal to ACL’s code of ethics. This committee will also allocate workshops to the conferences included in the call, taking into account location preferences and technical constraints given in the workshop proposal. However, the aim of the review process is to accept as many high-quality workshops as possible. Given space limitations at conference venues and the increasing number of workshop proposals, the review committee can not guarantee that a proposal will be co-located with their preferred venue in lieu of extenuating circumstances. The review process will have three possible outcomes: accept, in which case the workshop will be co-located with either EACL or ACL; revise and resubmit, where the organizing committee is encouraged to incorporate reviewer feedback and resubmit to the next call for workshops for AACL and EMNLP; or reject, in which the workshop proposal should not be submitted the next call, and will be desk rejected if submitted. Tentative Workshop Timelines EACL * First call for workshop papers: October 15, 2025 * Second call for workshop papers: November 12, 2025 * Third call for papers: December 5, 2025 * Direct Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 * Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 27, 2026 * Workshop dates: March 24-29, 2026 ACL * First call for workshop papers: December 10, 2025 * Second call for workshop papers: January 15, 2026 * Third call for workshop papers: February 20, 2026 * Direct paper submission deadline: March 5, 2026 * Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: March 24, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2026 * Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 * Proceedings due (hard deadline): June 1, 2026 * Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): June 4, 2026 * Workshop dates: July 2-3, 2026 Workshop Chairs EACL * Adriana Pagano * Emmanuele Chersoni * Julia Ive ACL * Loic Barrault, Meta FAIR * Yang Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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English-Corpora.org: new AI/LLM features for corpus analysis
by Mark Davies 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

At English-Corpora.org, we’ve added new AI/LLM-based tools directly into the corpus interface, while still keeping the corpus data at the center of analysis. An overview of the features is available at *https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/ <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/>*. Using nine different LLMs (like GPT, Gemini, and Claude), users can now do things such as: -- semantically cluster and categorize collocates and phrases, such as the collocates of *identity *or the highly polysemous *bow*, or results for the phrase *soft *NOUN -- compare words via collocates, such as *quandary*/*predicament*, *provoke* /*incite*, or *completely*/*entirely* -- analyze differences in frequency or collocates across corpus sections, such as genres, historical periods, or dialects -- analyze KWIC lines, including semantic prosody, collocates, grammatical patterns, text types, and pragmatic functions -- generate words and phrases by topic, translation, or rephrasing -- and then see their frequency in different sections of the corpus Users can also: -- switch easily between LLMs to compare analyses across nine different models *-- view results in 30 different languages*-- select one of 14 "user profiles" (e.g. linguist, translator, teacher, or learner), for customized results -- save, retrieve, and annotate AI results (categorizations, analyses, and generated words/phrases) The goal is not to replace careful corpus analysis, but to complement it. The LLMs can suggest patterns, categories, and comparisons -- but the underlying corpus data is always visible, so users can verify, adapt, or challenge the AI output. We hope these tools will be useful for learners, teachers, researchers, translators, and anyone interested in richer ways of exploring corpus data. ============================================ Mark Davies english-corpora.org mark-davies.org ============================================

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: 2nd call – Full Papers (Abstract Sep 25)
by Yifei Yuan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Call for Full Papers The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval. The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest ECIR 2026 invites the submission of high-quality and original papers in the broad field of Information Retrieval. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Search and ranking, including retrieval models and ranking, query and content analysis, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and theoretical aspects of Information Retrieval; 2. Recommender systems, including recommendation algorithms, and advanced recommender systems, covering rich content representations, content analysis, and diverse recommendation techniques such as content-based and collaborative filtering, cross-domain and context-aware methods, and multi-stakeholder approaches; 3. User aspects in IR, including information interaction, human-AI collaboration, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours; System aspects, including retrieval and recommendation architectures, efficiency and scalability; 4. Conversational search and recommender systems, focusing on natural language understanding and generation, dialogue management, multimodal interaction, and user engagement in search processes; 5. Explainability methods, addressing the transparency, interpretability, and accountability of AI-driven systems, particularly for information retrieval, recommendation, and personalisation; 6. Machine Learning and Large Language Models for information retrieval and recommendation, IR in agentic workflows; 7. Applications, such as web search, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, multimodal search and conversational agents; 8. Evaluation research, including new metrics, benchmarks and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of retrieval and/or recommendation systems, users, and/or applications; 9. Societally-motivated IR research, including on algorithmic bias and fairness, misinformation, hate speech, interpretability and explainability, privacy-aware IR, trustworthy IR, and ethics; Please note: This year, we are revamping the dedicated IR-for-Good track to be a core conference track that will run alongside the main conference (not on workshop day). We want this special track to be a platform that highlights top societally-motivated IR research at ECIR. We strongly encourage authors to submit societally-motivated papers to this special track. The call for papers for that track will be released in August. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track The Full Paper Track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their state-of-the-art research in Information Retrieval, which makes, or has the potential to make, a significant contribution to the field. Full papers are up to 12 pages in length plus unlimited additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the page limit. Please put appendices before the references for paper submission. Papers over the page limit will be desk rejected. Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review, with an initial first-stage review followed by a second stage of discussion led by a meta-reviewer. Some high-quality submissions not accepted as main papers may be invited to be published as findings papers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid). All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system. The EasyChair URL will be announced later. In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference by one of the authors in person – and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual Submission Policy Papers submitted to ECIR 2026 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv). Please do not cite your technical report and make effort to avoid any issues that may harm the double-blindness of your submission. Reviewers will receive guidance that asks them to refrain from trying to break blindness, but be aware that the availability of an available technical report for an ECIR submission might cause some issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: 1. The ACM’s Policy on Authorship, 2. The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, 3. The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy, 4. The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, 5. The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track Dates Full paper abstract submission: September 25, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper submission: October 2, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Full paper notification: December 16, 2025 Main conference: March 30 - April 1, 2026 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Paper Track Chairs Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Ricardo Campos (University of Beira Interior / INESC TEC, Portugal) Yanyan Lan (Tsinghua University, China) Contact: see the website, https://ecir2026.eu/

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[CfP] ECIR 2026: Final reminder – Workshop Proposals Sep 12
by Yifei Yuan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Call for Workshop Proposals ECIR 2026 (https://ecir2026.eu/) workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a focused and interactive way. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.5 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks). The organizers of approved workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop, disseminate the call for papers and the call for participation, gather and review submissions, and prepare the final program. A camera-ready summary of the workshop, written by the organizers, will be included in the ECIR conference proceedings. Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of workshop proceedings. Organizers are also encouraged to write a summary article for the June edition of the ACM SIGIR Forum, highlighting the main results of the workshop. Workshops are on site, and at least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on any topic relevant to the general field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026. Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals should contain the following information: Title and abstract of the workshop; Motivation and relevance to ECIR; Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes; Format and Structure, in particular, duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc); Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited; List of organizers with a brief bio highlighting the relevance of their expertise to the workshop topics Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers, etc Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed; Any other relevant information to support your proposal. Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates available on the Springer webpage, with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals must be in English and will be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2026 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR, and likelihood of attracting participants. The ECIR workshop co-chairs will make final decisions. Springer webpage: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Submission page: EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026 Ethics and Professional Conduct ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely: The ACM’s Policy on Authorship, The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy, The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification, The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment Workshop Proposals Track Dates Workshop proposals submission: September 12, 2025, 11:59pm (AoE) Workshop proposals notification: October 17, 2025 Workshop day: April 02, 2026 Workshop Proposals Track Chairs Negar Arabzadeh (UC Berkeley) Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Contact: ecir2026-workshops(a)easychair.org

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Call for Papers: Corpora and Discourse 2026
by Brookes, Gavin 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Dear all, Please find below the first call for papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference, 2026. Best wishes, Gavin Brookes Call for Papers We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 8th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (#CADS 2026). This conference will be hosted by Lancaster University, UK from Tuesday 23rd June to Thursday 25th June 2026. The Corpora and Discourse International Conference showcases research that combines corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in all forms and under all names. Our key objective is to bring together researchers who are interested in how discourse(s) are structured, patterned, and received, and who use corpus linguistics as part of this work. Keynote speakers: We are delighted to announce our confirmed keynote speakers: * Matteo Fuoli<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/fuoli-matteo> (University of Birmingham, UK) * Brian King<https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King> (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Michaela Mahlberg<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-michaela-mahlberg/> (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) * Elena Semino<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino> (Lancaster University, UK) The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025 and closes on 16 November 2025. We welcome abstracts for both oral presentations and poster presentations reporting on work at the intersections of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, broadly conceived. Contributions might address, but certainly do not need to be limited to, the following areas: * academic, scientific, technological and medical discourse(s); * comparative studies; * discourse(s) and identities; * discourse(s) in language acquisition, language learning and teaching; * discursive and/or language change over time (including historical analyses); * discourse(s) and social issues (e.g., health, the environment, gender and sexuality, technology, politics and polycrises); * figurative language in discourse (e.g. metaphor, metonymy, irony); * institutional discourse(s); * intercultural discourses; * language ideology and policy; * media, social media, new media and hybrid text types; * methodological innovations in corpus and discourse analysis approaches; * multimodality and corpora; * reflective contributions on the assumptions, practices, ethical dilemmas and implications of corpus and discourse analysis research; * corpus stylistics and literary discourse; * translation studies and discourse(s). Submission information: As this is an in-person only conference, all presenting participants must attend the conference in person. Oral presentations should present research that is either completed or that is ongoing with some substantial results. Research that is a work in progress and that is yet to yield substantial results is welcome in the form of a poster presentation. Oral presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. For oral/poster presentations, please submit an unstructured abstract of up to 4000 characters (including references). Abstracts should be submitted in the form on this page: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/call-for-papers/ (the form is also accessible directly here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qkm2sqPKA1) Please format your in-text references and bibliography in Chicago Citation Style. Key dates: * The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025. * The deadline for abstract submission is 16 November 2025. * Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent out mid January 2026. * Registration opens on 2 February 2026. * Registration closes on 1 June 2026. * The conference will take place from 23 to 25 June 2026.

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AAMAS 2026 Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st)
by Announce 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*** Main Track: Abstract Submission in 4 Weeks (October 1st) *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ We invite you to submit your best work in agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS 2026, the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to be held in Paphos, Cyprus in May 2026. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art. The papers will be published under CC BY license. Important Dates (for the main technical track) • Abstract submission: October 1, 2025 • Paper submission: October 8, 2025 • Rebuttal period: November 21-25, 2025 • Author notification: December 22, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2026 • Conference: May 25-29, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). For submission instructions, please see here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/ Areas of Interest We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: • Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) • Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) • Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) • Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) • Representation, and Reasoning (RR) • Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) • Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM) • Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) • Robotics and Control (ROBOT) • Innovative Applications (IA) More information on these areas and the topics covered can be found here: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-main-track/ . Workshop Outreach Pipeline AAMAS 2026 will include a pilot designed to encourage submission of high-quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences. All submissions will go through the standard AAMAS review process, but PCs from participating workshops will be able to easily bid on papers from "their" workshop. As with all AAMAS submissions, only papers that have not been published in any archival proceedings can be submitted. You can see the full list of workshops in the interest form for authors: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UjJbNykWK_fsKWbEHDyMEA02cGheIyPeWxCPcUskwk… [docs.google.com] It is recommended to verify with your workshop chair that they are aware of the pipeline and have promoted it to the workshop's authors and PC. Other Tracks In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2026 will feature four special tracks (AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track), as well as a Doctoral Consortium. The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above). Submission DL: November 17, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-aaai-track/ The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. Submission DL (abstract): December 03, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/ The JAAMAS Track offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026. Submission DL: January 06, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-papers-jaamas-track/ The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. Submission DL: January 09, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-demonstrations/ Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Submission DL (abstract): January 19, 2026 https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ Proposals for workshops, competitions and tutorials are also welcome: Workshop proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-workshops/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Competition proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-competitions/ (DL: November 10, 2025) Tutorial proposals: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/call-for-tutorials/ (DL: January 16, 2026) Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair) If you have additional questions on the main track, please contact the Program Chairs using aamas2026pcs(a)gmail.com . Contacts for the other calls can be found on the AAMAS 2026 website.

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PhD position on Explainable NLU at the University of Copenhagen
by Isabelle Augenstein 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

A fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship on explainable natural language understanding for a start in Spring 2026 is available in the Natural Language Understanding group<https://www.copenlu.com/> at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen as part of the ExplainYourself project<https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-starting-grants-results> on Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking. The position requires a Master’s degree. The successful candidate will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein<http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. Read more about the position and apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…> by 31 October 2025. The project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant, a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council<https://erc.europa.eu/homepage>, which supports the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups. In addition to the principal investigator, PhD students and postdocs, the project team includes collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. Three PhD students as well as two postdocs have already been recruited as a result of earlier calls, and the project officially kicked off in September 2023<https://www.copenlu.com/news/2023_09_explainyourself/>. Candidates interested in a start in Autumn 2026 instead can express their interest by applying to the ELLIS PhD programme<https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2025> by 31 October 2025, naming Isabelle Augenstein as a supervisor. More information about PhD opportunities in the CopeNLU research group can be found here<https://www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fellowships-for-start-in-spring-or-autumn-…>. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk?subject=PhD%20position%20on%20Explainable%20Natural%20Language%20Understanding>. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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CFP KNLP@ACM-SAC 2026
by Patrizio Bellan 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

*Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track @ ACM-SAC* Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, focusing in particular on approaches combining them. This is an extremely interdisciplinary emerging research area, at the core of Artificial Intelligence, combining and complementing the scientific results from Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing - NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction - NLP for Ontology Population and Learning - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications - Interplay between Language and Ontologies - NLP for Explainable Knowledge - Machine Translation techniques for Multilingual Knowledge - NLP for the Web - Bias detection and mitigation in small/large LM - (Small/Large) LM and Knowledge - Knowledge - Knowledge to improve NLP tasks - Knowledge for Information Retrieval - Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP - Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation - Knowledge for Persuasion - Knowledge-based Machine Translation - Knowledge for the Web - Linked Data for NLP - Knowledge-based NL Explainability - LM-enhanced ontology and knowledge engineering methodologies and tools - LM-based agent for knowledge extraction, reasoning, and management - Ontology evaluation via small/large LMs - (Ontological) knowledge memorization in LMs - Knowledge-based techniques for LMs (Retrieval Augmented Generation based approaches, fact-checking, and bias mitigation) - Question answering over knowledge graphs via small/large LMs - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP - Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios - Knowledge and NLP technology for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society - Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: - Digital Humanities and Social Sciences - eGovernment and public administration - Life sciences, health, and medicine - News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/authorkit.php>. Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in *a DOUBLE-BLIND *process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2026 SRC page for details <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/src_program.php>). Initial Submission Policy - All submissions must initially be submitted as regular papers. There is no separate submission track for poster papers. - Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. - Based on the outcome of the review process, some submissions—although technically sound—may not be accepted as regular papers due to overall acceptance rate constraints, and could be accepted as posters Minimum Length for Review Consideration - While there is no formal minimum page requirement, submissions of fewer than four (4) full pages that do not demonstrate substantial contributions may be subject to desk rejection without external review. Camera-ready Page Limits - Regular Papers (accepted for publication): - Up to eight (8) pages are included with standard registration. Poster Papers (recommended for acceptance): - Up to two (2) pages are included with standard registration. *Important Dates (check SAC website <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/#important-dates> for up-to-date dates)* *September 26, 2025: Regular Paper & SRC Abstract Submission* For further information, please visit the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track <https://knlp.fbk.eu/> and ACM-SAC 2026 <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/> conference websites or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs <knlp(a)fbk.eu>. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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