Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce *SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based
Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets*.
*Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for
analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However,
current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical
sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This
approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and
affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained,
real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and
arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA)
representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as
an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in
emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications.
To bridge this gap, we propose *Dimensional ABSA (DimABSA)*, a shared task
that integrates dimensional sentiment analysis into the traditional ABSA
framework. Furthermore, there is a conceptual similarity between stance
detection and ABSA when the stance target is treated as an aspect. Building
on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a
Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA
schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer
reviews to public-issue discourse (e.g., social, political, energy,
climate) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to
continuous VA scores.
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*Languages*
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*We provide data in 9 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng),
Hausa (hau), Japan (jpn), Russian (rus), Swahili (swa), Tatar (tat),
Ukrainian (ukr), and Chinese (zho)
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*Domains*
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*A total of 6 application domains*, including: Restaurant, Laptop, Hotel,
Finance, Environmental Protection, and Politics
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*Subtasks*
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*Track A – Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)*: Predict
real-valued valence–arousal (VA) scores for aspects and extract their
associated information from text. Its subtasks include:
- *Subtask 1: DimASR *– Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression
- *Subtask 2: DimASTE* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
- *Subtask 3: DimASQP* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
*Track B – Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*: A Stance-as-DimABSA
task, where the target in stance detection is treated as an aspect. Its
subtasks include:
- Subtask 1: DimASR for stance analysis
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*Evaluation*
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For both tracks, RMSE is used for Subtask 1, and a new metric (continuous
F1) for Subtasks 2 & 3.
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*Participation*
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*Website* (checkout details):
https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026
*Codabench* (register and submit results)
- Track A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10918/
- Track B: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11139/
*Discord* (community and discussion)
https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu
*Google Group* (official updates):
https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants
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*Important Dates *
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- Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025
- Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025
- Evaluation Start: 12 January 2026
- Evaluation End: 30 January 2026
- System Description Paper Due: February 2026
- Notification to Authors: March 2026
- Camera Ready Due: April 2026
- SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA)
We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task
and contribute to advancing NLP research.
Best regards,
SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers
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PROPOR 2026: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of
Portuguese
Salvador - BA, Brazil
April 13th to 16th 2026
https://propor2026.ufba.br/
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline extension: January 9)
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The International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese
(PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is
focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken
Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a rich forum for the exchange
of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities
dedicated to automated language processing, promoting the development of
methodologies, resources, and projects.
We invite submissions describing work on any topic related to the
computational processing of Portuguese and Galician by researchers in
industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Natural language processing tasks (e.g., parsing, word sense
disambiguation, coreference resolution)
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Natural language processing applications (e.g., question answering,
subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
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Natural language generation
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Information extraction and information retrieval
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Speech technologies (e.g., spoken language generation, speech and
speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
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Speech applications (e.g., spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems,
speech-to-speech translation)
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Resources, standardization, and evaluation (e.g., corpora, ontologies,
lexicons, grammars)
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NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
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Distributional semantics and language modeling
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Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the
language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia,
Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe)
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Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources, Portuguese
and/or Galician
PROPOR 2026 will take place from April 13-16th in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil),
a city that stands as a historical meeting point between the Portuguese
language, the Indigenous languages of Brazil, and the African languages
brought by enslaved peoples.These long-standing linguistic and cultural
interactions have been instrumental in shaping the evolution of Brazilian
Portuguese and Brazilian culture.
PROPOR 2026 will be the 17th edition of the biannual PROPOR conference,
hosted alternately in Brazil and Portugal, and more recently also in
Galiza. Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR
(1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000);
Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR
(2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014); Tomar, PT (2016);
Canela, BR (2018); Évora, PT (2020); Fortaleza, BR (2022); and Santiago de
Compostela, GZ (2026).
*Important dates*
- Full and short paper submission deadline: *09/01/2026 *
- Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 11/02/2026
- Camera-ready papers due: 15/03/2026
- Conference: 13-16/04/2026
Submissions
Submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Authors are
invited to submit two types of papers:
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Full papers reporting substantial and completed research, particularly
work that contributes significantly to the advancement of the field. Where
appropriate, submissions should include concrete evaluation results. Full
papers may be up to 8 pages of content + 2 additional pages for
references.
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Short papers reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing
research, position papers, promising ideas for discussion, negative
results, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to
4 content pages + 1 page for references.
Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. As the review
process is double-blind, submitted papers must be fully anonymized.
Submissions must not include authors’ names, affiliations, or any other
information that could be used to identify them. Authors must avoid
self-references that reveal identity, like “We previously showed (Freitas,
1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Freitas (1991)
previously showed …”. Author information will be collected separately
during the submission process.
While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year
we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our
commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language.
At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the camera-ready
version, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 additional content page
to address the reviews’ suggestions. Authors of accepted papers will be
requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings.
All submitted papers must adhere to the ACL style guidelines and use the
LaTeX template below:
- LaTeX stylesheet
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/archive/refs/heads/master.zip>
- Overleaf Template
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling…>
- Paper Formatting Guidelines
<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>
Papers should be submitted via the following URL
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026 by selecting the track
PROPOR2026 Long and short papers.
Multiple-submission policy
For work that has been or will be submitted to other venues, this
information must be clearly indicated at submission time. If a paper is
accepted, the authors must inform the Program Chairs of their final
decision regarding the venue at which the work will be presented. Papers
that are published (or scheduled for publication) elsewhere cannot be
accepted for publication or presentation at PROPOR 2026.
*Mandatory Reviewing Workload *As the pace of research in the field
continues to accelerate, it is essential to reinforce our collective
commitment to the review process. Accordingly, during submission, authors
will be required to indicate which co-authors commit to serving as
reviewers for the conference.
Publication
The proceedings of PROPOR 2026 will be published in the ACL Anthology. They
will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of
each accepted paper must complete a full registration for PROPOR 2026 by
the early registration deadline.
Ethics Policy
Authors are advised to follow the ACL Ethics Policy for submission, which
can be found at: https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy
Authors are also strongly advised to follow the ACL guidelines for
generative AI assistance in authorship, which can be found at:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policy_on_Publication_Ethics…
Kindest regards,
Diana Santos and Larissa Freitas
PROPOR 2026 Program Chairs
propor2026(a)ufba.br
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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission to
the International Online Conference 'Bringing together research on the
CEFR/CV and LCR: a focus on descriptors' has been extended until 18
December 2025.
Please notice that you can submit either research, a proposal to present
your project in process, your work in process, a round table or to present
a journal/association/etc. related to the Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages, the Companion Volume and/or Learner Corpus
Research.
Conference website: https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/
*LAST CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Description*
This international online conference (29–31 January 2026) aims to provide a
forum for researchers working on the implementation of the Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and its Companion Volume (CV)
(Council of Europe, 2001, 2020) as well as for scholars employing Learner
Corpus Res
earch (LCR) to describe learner language at different CEFR levels.
Colleagues working on the CEFR/CV and LCR are welcome to share their
findings at this international online conference and explore opportunities
for future collaboration.
The conference will be organized into five thematic panels:
a) Empirical research on the implementation of the CEFR/CV in the
learning, teaching and/or assessment of languages, with a special focus on
descriptor use, if possible.
b) The description of learner language by means of Learner Corpus Research
in CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora at different CEFR/CV levels.
c) The possibility of supplementing the CEFR/CV descriptors with
linguistic information, i.e., fine-tuned descriptors (Díez-Bedmar, 2018),
based on LCR results.
d) The design of learning/teaching/assessment materials for different
communicative language activities and CEFR/CV levels based on LCR results
e) The knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use of
descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages.
We invite contributions (either in English or Spanish) on the topics above
in the following formats.
a) Papers: 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for Q&A
b) Work in Progress (WiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A
c) Projects in Progress (PiP): 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A
d) Round tables: maximum three participants, 40 minutes followed by 15
minutes for Q&A
e) Presentations of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to the
CEFR/CV or LCR: 10 minutes (followed by 5 minutes for Q&A).
*Instructions for authors*
Contributions may be submitted either in *English or Spanish*.
· *Paper abstracts* should be 400 words maximum (excluding
references) and are expected to include a brief literature review, the
methodology of the study, and the main results obtained.
· *WiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and
include a brief literature review, the methodology employed, and the main
results expected
· *PiP* should be 300 words maximum (excluding references) and
should include the objectives of the project, the participants, the
methodology employed, and the main results expected.
· *Round-tables* should be 500 words maximum (excluding references)
and focus on the knowledge gained and/or challenges encountered in the use
of descriptors in the learning/teaching or assessment of languages. The
proposals should include the name of the three participants, the
contextualization of the research conducted/the institutional context and
the structure of the round table proposed. Directors and/or teachers in
University Language Centres/Language Centres/etc. are welcome to submit
proposals for round-tables.
· *Presentations* of associations, journals, fora, etc. related to
the CEFR/CV or LCR should be 200 words maximum.
*Pre-conference workshop*
Dr. Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) will offer a
pre-conference workshop entitled ‘Introducing CEFR-based text analysis
tools’ on January, 29, 2026. This workshop is free of charge, but
registration is required (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop).
*Conference format*
The conference will be online via Zoom.
*Submissions*
Proposals should be anonymized before submission via EasyChair. Further
information is available at
https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/conference-information/
The deadline for submission is *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025*
*Registration*
There is no registration fee for attendants and /or presenters, but
registration is required both for the International Online Conference (
https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/registration/) and/or the pre-conference
workshop (https://www.finedesc.naturalde.es/#workshop).
*Important dates*
Deadline for submission: *December, 8th, 2025 December 18th, 2025*
Notifications of acceptance: January 9, 2026
Pre-conference workshop: 29 January 2026
Conference: 29-31 January 2026
*Publication of a special issue*
A special issue in *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (
https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl) will be edited by Dr. Díez-Bedmar
on the topic “LCR meets the CEFR/CV” and published in 2027. We encourage
researchers analyzing learner language -including linguistic,
sociolinguistic, or pragmatic competences- at or across CEFR/CV levels in
CEFR/CV-aligned learner corpora to submit their research to the CFPs for
the special issue. Further information about the CFPs will be provided in
due course.
*Conference organization*
This international online conference is organized by the research project
‘Making the CEFR/CV more user-friendly: fine-tuning descriptors with
Learner Corpus Research (LCR) results’ (Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded
by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities,
MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), ((
https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php). The project has focused
on analysing the needs of CEFR/CV end-users and fine-tuning CEFR/CV
descriptors using the FineDesc Learner Corpus compiled during the project.
*Organizing committee*
Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén)
Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén)
Arturo Montejo Ráez (Universidad de Jaén)
*Scientific committee*
Isabel Alonso Belmonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Marisa Carrió Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Paola Celentin (Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy)
Raquel Criado Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia)
María Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Miguel Fernández Álvarez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Stefania Ferrari (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Neus Figueras Casanovas (EALTA CEFR SIG Chair)
María del Carmen Fonseca Mora (Universidad de Huelva)
Dana Gablasova (Lancaster University, UK)
Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
Natalia Judith Laso Martín (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén)
Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Geraldine Mark
María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén)
Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham, UK)
Brian North (CEFR co-author)
Ignacio Palacios Martínez (Universidade Santiago de Compostela)
Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain)
Víctor Pavón Vázquez (Universidad de Córdoba)
Pascual Pérez Paredes (Universidad de Murcia)
Enrica Piccardo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ariadna Sánchez Hernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado (Universidad de Granada)
Juana R. Sanmartín Vélez (Presidenta de la Asociación de Centros de Lenguas
en la Enseñanza Superior (ACLES))
Yukio Tono (Tokio University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Project PID2020-117041GA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
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Dear all,
This is the third CfP for VarDial 2026 - The Thirteenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (apologies for cross-posting):
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VarDial 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools applied to non-dominant language varieties;
- Cross-lingual transfer and adaptation of models to similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Machine translation between closely-related languages, language varieties and dialects;
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., cognate detection, semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Studies focusing on related creole languages and their lexifier languages;
- Studies focusing on diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL Rolling Review template and submitted as a PDF. The review process will be double-blind. More information is on the website (https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/).
Important Dates
- 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
- Workshop at EACL (hybrid): March 24-29, 2026 (exact date TBD)
Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent (AMIYA)
VarDial 2026 will have a shared task on language modelling for dialectal Arabic (DA), where participants can contribute LLMs trained or adapted for DA. These will be evaluated using the AL-QASIDA benchmark (Robinson et al., 2025), an evaluation suite that comprehensively measures an LLM’s dialectal fidelity, understanding, generation quality, and MSA-DA diglossia in DA. More information: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2026/shared-tasks
- Training data release: November 30, 2025
- Registration deadline, eval data finalized: December 15, 2025
- System submission deadline: January 10, 2025
- System description paper deadline: January 20, 2025
Workshop Organizers
Yves Scherrer – University of Oslo (Norway)
Noëmi Aepli – University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Verena Blaschke – LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning (Germany)
Tommi Jauhiainen – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić – Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Preslav Nakov – Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE)
Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri – George Mason University (USA)
Contact: yves.scherrer(a)ifi.uio.no or verena.blaschke(a)cis.lmu.de
18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026
Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics
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8-12 June 2026
Venice, Italy
http://unive.it/avi2026
In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB
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IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025
- Notification: December 21, 2025
- Workshop website online: January 12, 2026
(all deadlines are 23:59, AoE)
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WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction.
We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held either on June 8 or 9, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue in Venice.
Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form, which also contains relevant information for the workshop organisers:
https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8
Workshop Chairs
- Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
- Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
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DESCRIPTION
Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics.
AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality.
The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026!
Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
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MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS
Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
/ Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities /
Brain-Computer Interaction
Embodied and Tangible Interaction
Material-Centric Interaction
Information Visualization
Screen-based Interaction
Interfaces for Sound and Music
Multi-sensory Interaction
Multimodal Interaction
/ Theme: Interaction Spaces /
Augmented Reality
Cross Reality
Virtual Reality
Interaction between Black-Boxes
Dynamic Physical Environments
Natural Environments
Urban Places
/ Theme: Human-System Interaction /
Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces
Affective Interfaces
Human-Robot Interaction
Intelligent Interfaces
Interfaces and Recommender Systems
/ Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies /
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Learning Ecosystems
Game and Play Ecosystems
Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems
/ Theme: Values and Moral Principles /
Beyond Human Interaction
Critical Computing
Critical Data Science
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Responsible Design
/ Theme: Applications /
Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
End User Development
AI and Creativity
Human Factors in Security Systems
Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization
Training and Learning Systems
Industry 5.0
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AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it)
Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de)
Program Chairs
Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it)
Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it)
Long Papers Chairs
Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es)
Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it)
Short Papers Chairs
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it)
María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it)
Proceedings Chairs
Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it)
Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de)
Workshops Chairs
Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs
Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it)
Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at)
Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it)
Posters Chairs
Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it)
Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it)
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no)
Industry Chairs
Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com)
Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it)
Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs
Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it)
Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it)
Web Chair
Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it)
Publicity & Social Networks Chairs
Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it)
Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk)
Student Volunteers Chairs
Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it)
Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it)
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AVI STEERING COMMITTEE
Paolo Bottoni,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Cristina Conati
University of British Columbia, Canada
Emanuele Panizzi,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ilaria Torre
University of Genoa, Italy
Genny Tortora
University of Salerno, Italy
Giuliana Vitiello
University of Salerno, Italy
Gualtiero Volpe
University of Genoa, Italy
Marco Winckler
Université Côte d'Azur, France
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Applications are invited for a *postdoctoral researcher (Research Support
Officer III)* to work full-time on the project *“3M-XL – Maltese-centric
Multilingual Model using Cross-lingual Transfer”* at the Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta.
The post focuses on multilingual language modelling and transfer learning
for low-resource languages, with a particular emphasis on Maltese,
including corpus preparation, model development, and
benchmarking/evaluation. The position is funded for up to 18 months,
starting 1st February 2026. The successful candidate will be required to
reside in Malta for the duration of the contract.
Full details of the post (duties, requirements, salary, and application
procedure) are available in the call text:
https://www.um.edu.mt/media/um/docs/directorates/hrmd/workatum/projects/FTR…
While the call formally allows appointments at RSO I/II level, our primary
aim is to recruit at postdoctoral (RSO III) level.
The application deadline is *Friday, 19 December 2025*.
Informal enquiries are welcome at claudia.borg(a)um.edu.mt.
Tislijiet,
Claudia
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*Claudia Borg **(she/her)*
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A PostDoc position
There is an open PostDoc position in NLP for Bulgarian. Please see the details below.
RESEARCH AREAS
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Natural Language Processing for Bulgarian
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LLM training and evaluation of Bulgarian academic texts
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AI and Natural Language Processing
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AI and epistemological development
REQUIREMENTS
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PhD in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Informatics or related areas
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Excellent knowledge of Bulgarian
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Excellent programming and LLM-related skills
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Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team, including early stage and experienced linguists as well as pedagogical specialists
OPTIONAL
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Previous experience with Digital Humanities tasks is an advantage
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Previous experience with combining SOTA methods in NLP with LLMs is an advantage
SELECTION
The selection will be performed on the basis of:
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Matching applicant’s education and skills to the position requirements
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Scholarly excellence of the applicant
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The relation of the previous applicant’s experience to the position requirements
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
The position falls within the project “Exploring the Triad of Academic Writing, Critical thinking and AI Literacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Undergraduate Thesis Writing (TRAI)”, a Multilateral Academic Projects Programme (MAPS), financed by Swiss National Science Foundation and co-financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.
The partners are from Switzerland, Romania and Bulgaria.
A full-time commitment is expected, starting in 2026. The contract is envisaged for approximately 3 years with year-by-year assessment.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
The project is in the AI and Language Technology division of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-BAS), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. IICT-BAS is a leader in a variety of contemporary technologies, among which are NLP for Bulgarian, large-scale computer models, supercomputer applications, big data, intelligent interfaces, optimization and intelligent management. More about the activities in IICT-BAS can be found here: https://www.iict.bas.bg/EN/
APPLICATION DOCUMENTS
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a CV
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Motivation Letter (max. 1 page)
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List of Publications (especially in the last 2 years)
HOW TO APPLY
If you are interested, please send an email with your questions and/or all the required application documents to Petya Osenova: petya(a)bultreebank.org<mailto:petya@bultreebank.org>
Deadline: ongoing until fulfilled
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics.
Important: please refer to https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=… for the official version in French and application submission.
Job Description
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an assistant professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics.
DUTIES: Integrated into the new Department of Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Humanities, this full-time position is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Evolving Language” (https://evolvinglanguage.ch). The successful candidate will be expected to develop national and international research in computational linguistics and will contribute, through active participation in the NCCR team, to the achievement of its scientific objectives. The candidate will also take part in the development of the Department of Digital Humanities by creating cross-disciplinary links among the various fields within the Faculty of Humanities and by contributing to the establishment of the Department’s study programs, within which they will teach at the bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate levels. They will supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. They will also be required to take on administrative and organizational duties within the Department of Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities, and the University of Geneva.
Subject to a positive evaluation, the position is converted to a tenured associate or full professorship after six years.
DESIRED PROFILE: The ideal candidate will have a recognized expertise in computational linguistics and computational modelling of language, based on rigorous analytical and quantitative approach to modelling language, from speech production and comprehension, to sentence processing, to language impairments. The selected candidate will lead a strong computational research programme on language in tight connection with theoretical linguistics research, and interfacing with cognitive neuroscience of language and/or psycholinguistics. Of special interest are the research areas of parsing and of modelling of real-time language processing as applied to sentence production or comprehension, with an interest into past, present or future evolution of such processes.
Required Degree and Skills
• Doctorate in the humanities or an equivalent qualification.
• A record of high-quality publications.
• Experience in university-level teaching.
• Basic knowledge of the French language is desirable (teaching in French is required no later than two years after appointment).
Start Date 01.08.2026 or to be agreed upon
Contact Faculty Staff Office: monika.starouch(a)unige.ch
Additional Information
Applications must be submitted exclusively online before 15 January 2026 (11:59 p.m. Geneva time) by clicking the “Apply now” button in the official site (https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=…). NO PAPER APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS SENT BY E-MAIL WILL BE ACCEPTED.
The University of Geneva offers attractive employment conditions within a stimulating work environment. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills and personality and to contribute actively to the reputation of an institution founded in 1559. In the interest of gender balance, the University encourages applications from the underrepresented sex.