Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the Special
Collection "Language Datasets Reuse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best
Practices" has been extended to March 1st, 2026.
The call for papers is still open! This Special Collection will be
featured in the _Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)_ and focuses on
the reuse of language data across the humanities. We invite
contributions that explore how existing mono- and multilingual language
datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research.
We are particularly interested in papers that:
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Present case studies on the reuse of deposited language datasets
(preferably those created by researchers other than the authors).
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Explore how dataset reuse has led to the creation of new datasets.
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Reflect on both successful and less successful experiences with language
data reuse, highlighting challenges encountered and lessons learned.
*
Offer position papers on strategies for data creators to maximize the
future reuse potential of language datasets.
Submission format: Discussion Paper (3,000-5,000 words).
Discussion papers should provide in-depth narratives illustrating the
reuse of existing language datasets or showcase approaches to dataset
design with reuse in mind. Submissions should adhere to the specific
template provided for this Special Collection.
New Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026
Information and submission link:
https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/language-datasets-reuse
Guest Editorial Team:
Darja Fišer (Executive Director of CLARIN; University of Ljubljana;
Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Pisa; CLARIN-IT, Italy)
Coordinating Editor:
Paola Marongiu (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
Thank you for considering this opportunity. We hope to hear from you
soon.
With best regards,
The Special Collection Editorial Team
[Apologies for multiple postings]
In 2004, the ELRA Board created a prize to honour the memory of its
first President, Professor Antonio Zampolli, a pioneer and visionary
scientist who was internationally recognized in the field of
Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (HLT).
He also contributed much through the establishment of ELRA and the LREC
conference.
To reflect Professor Zampolli's specific interest in our field, the ELRA
Antonio Zampolli Prize is awarded to individuals and small groups whose
work lies within the areas of Language Resources and Language Technology
Evaluation with acknowledged contributions to their advancements.
The Prize will be awarded for the 11th time in May 2026 at the LREC 2026
conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May, 2026).
Nominations should be sent to AntonioZampolli-Prize(a)elra.info no later
than March 6, 2026.
On behalf of ELRA Board
German Rigau, President
Please visit ELRA web site for:
* the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize Statutes
<https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/prize-st…>,
* the nomination procedure
<https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/case-for…>,
* the previous winners
<https://www.elra.info/elra-events/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/>
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LREC 2026 <http://lrec2026.info> in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11-16 May,
2025) - Palau de Congressos
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*New submission deadline: 20 February 2026*
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*Call for papers*
NLDB 2026: 31st Annual International Conference on Natural Language &
Information Systems
17-19 June 2026 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Trondheim, Norway
*Website:*https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/ <https://www.ntnu.edu/nldb2026/>
Objectives
Recent advances in AI have increased the expectations for users when it
comes to information access systems.
With powerful LLMs, users engage with information using natural language
instead of artificial query languages.
At the same time, this raises not only technical but also ethical
concerns, such as sustainability, reliability, and privacy.
NLDB has established itself as a venue to discuss precisely the
intersection of natural language and information systems.
We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 20 February 2026, Anywhere on Earth
Author Notification: 20 March 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: 2 April 2026
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
* Multimodality
* AI safety and ethics
* Interactivity and Natural Language Interfaces
* Social Media and Web Data
* eXplainable AI
* Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP
* Generative models, Large Language Models
* Information Retrieval and Text Mining
* Discourse and Pragmatics, Sentiment Analysis, Argument Mining
* Question Answering, Dialogue, and Interactive Systems
* NLP Applications
* Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
*
Big Data and Scalability
Paper Submission
Detailed instructions covering formatting, submission procedures, and
all relevant requirements are available on the conference website.
*
*Submission system*: Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via
Microsoft CMT:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NLDB2026/
*
*Author guidelines*: Authors should follow the LNCS format
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Submissions
that do not adhere to these requirements will be desk-rejected.
*
*Paper categories and length limits*:
o
Full papers: up to 15 pages, including references and appendices
o
Short papers: up to 11 pages, including references and appendices
o
Demo papers: up to 6 pages, including references
The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 36 month position for a Ph.D Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages, facilitating effective transfer to lower-resource or unseen languages.
The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/.
The application deadline is March 8, 2026, with a preferred start date of September 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications must be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=156319
Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de(a)di.ku.dk.
Hi all,
please consider joining me as a postdoc at Saarland University.
The position is paid on the German E13 100% payscale. It is initially limited to two years and can be extended. Preference will be given to applications received by February 22.
This position offers great flexibility in developing your own research and teaching agenda; postdocs from any area of computational linguistics will be considered. We are particularly interested in expanding the group’s expertise in dialogue systems by hiring a postdoc with experience in this field.
Please find all further details here: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/
Best,
Alexander.
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that the submission deadlines for the WebSci’26 PhD Symposium<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81> and Poster Session<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513> are approaching. Both deadlines are February 18, 2026.
The 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 (WebSci’26) will take place May 26–29, 2026, in Braunschweig, Germany, celebrating the theme “20 Years of Web Science.”
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WebSci PhD Symposium: Details HERE<https://websci26.org/?page_id=81>
The PhD Symposium provides doctoral researchers with the opportunity to present their work, receive feedback from senior researchers, and engage with peers in the Web Science community.
* PhD Symposium proposal submission: February 18, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2026
* Camera-ready version due: April 1, 2026
* PhD Symposium date: May 26, 2026
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WebSci Posters: Details HERE<https://websci26.org/?page_id=513>
The poster track welcomes work-in-progress, late-breaking results, and emerging ideas across the broad Web Science landscape.
* Poster submission deadline: February 18, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2026
* Final publication version due: April 1, 2026
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We encourage you to share this call with PhD students, early-career researchers, and colleagues who may be interested in contributing.
We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to WebSci’26.
Best regards,
The WebSci 2026 Organizing Committee
READIxTSAR 2026 Second Call for Papers
Website: https://readixtsar.github.io/
Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/user/
READIxTSAR is a joint initiative between two previous workshops of
mutual interest: Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI,
hosted at LREC 2020,22,24) and Text Simplification, Accessibility and
Readability (TSAR, EMNLP 2022,24,25, RANLP 2023). This year at LREC, the
committees of the two events have merged to deliver a joint event,
uniting accessibility research communities under a common umbrella. We
aim for READIxTSAR to be a focal point for communities of researchers
working on reading difficulties, accessibility and simplification to
network, share best practice and form new collaborations.
*Motivation and Context*
The growth of educational and assistive technologies for reading, aimed
at enhancing the performance of individuals with disabilities, provides
an important setting for Text Simplification research. The field of
special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the
potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities,
cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). This workshop aims to present
state-of-the-art applications and approaches in technology-enhanced
reading and innovations in text accessibility. The workshop will address
specialized technology, tools, and resources, their impact on learning
to read and comprehension, and innovative works spanning research to
fieldwork, particularly in light of recent AI advances.
Research in automatic text simplification has evolved from deep learning
methods (Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion,
2021) to leveraging foundational large language models (Kew et al. 2023;
Cripwell et al. 2023; Farajidizaji et al. 2024) through fine-tuning and
prompt-engineering. Despite these advancements, the Text Accessibility
and Text Simplification communities must address critical areas,
including: designing better evaluation metrics, developing context-aware
simplification solutions, creating appropriate language resources,
deploying simplification in real-world environments, studying discourse
factors, and identifying factors affecting readability. Addressing these
issues requires collaboration across CL/NLP, machine learning, UI/UX,
accessibility professionals, and public organizations, whom we invite to
participate through publication and attendance.
*Topics of Interest*
The event will accept submissions at the intersection of the research
areas of the two workshops, as well as submissions that are targeted to
the specific research interests of either workshop. An indicative list
of topics of interest are listed below.
- Lexical, syntactic and discourse adaptations or simplifications;
- ATS for sentences, paragraphs, or documents;
- Controllable text simplification and text generation of adapted
contents;
- Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity;
- LLMs and agentic LLMs for text simplification, text adaptation and
readability
- The role of LLMs in supporting reading
- Complex word identification (CWI) and lexical complexity prediction
(LCP);
- Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation and text assessment;
- Evaluation of text adaptation or ATS systems;
- Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation;
- Educational devices and/or smart technologies for supporting reading
and learning;
- Domain specific applications of the above topics (e.g. health, legal).
*Important Dates (All deadlines AoE/UTC-12).*
- Submission Deadline: 23rd February 2026
- Notification of Results: 16th March 2026
- Camera Ready: 30th March 2026
- READIxTSAR Workshop: 11th May 2026
*Submission Instructions*
We invite submissions on topics of interest between 4 and 8 pages of
content. The page limit of 8 pages does not include acknowledgements,
references, potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations in
line with the policy of the main LREC conference. All submissions must
follow the LREC stylesheet, available at
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. All submissions must be made via
START (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/READIxTSAR/).
All submissions are double-blind. Any submissions which are
not-anonymised, over-length, poorly formatted, out-of-scope or make
excessive use of appendices to circumvent page limits are liable to
desk-rejection.
At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share
related language resources with the community. All repository entries
are linked to the LRE Map, which provides metadata for the resource.
*“Share your LRs!” Initiative*
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used
for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research.
Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs
(data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of
experiments (including evaluation ones).
As in previous editions for Camera Ready a Plain Summary will be requested.
*Organisers*
Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Thomas François, UCLouvain, Belgium
Raquel Amaro, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Eugénio Ribeiro, Iscte-IUL & INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Regina Stodden, University Bielefeld, Germany
Rodrigo Wilkens, University of Exeter, UK
Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France
*Programme Committee*
Akio Hayakawa, Pompeu Fabra University
Anna Dmitrieva, University of East Anglia
Arne Jonsson, Linköping University
Christina Niklaus, University of St.Gallen
Daniele Schicchi, CNR-ITD
David Kauchak, Pomona College
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University
Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli"
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Jan Bakker, University of Amsterdam
Jasper Degraeuwe, University of Ghent
Kai North, Cambium Assessment
Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Lourdes Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University
Martina Miliani, Università di Pisa
Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Michael Gille, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Mounica Maddela, Bloomberg
Natalia Grabar, CNRS, University of Lille
Nouran Khallaf, University of Leeds
Raquel Hervas, University Complutense of Madrid
Regina Stodden, University of Bielefeld
Rémi Cardon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Reno Kriz, Johns Hopkins
Sandaru Seneviratne, The Australian National University
Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada
Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Tannon Kew, University of Zurich
Thomas François, UCLouvain
Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Ehime University
Yannick Parmentier, LORIA
Yingqiang Gao, University of Zurich
Zihao LI, University of Manchester
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*3rd CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026*
[image: 📍]*Location:* Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
(Spain)
[image: 🌐] Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/
We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day *SPEAKABLE 2026* Workshop
on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance,
Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de
Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and
industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced
languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and
opportunities in this space.
*Workshop Topics of Interest*
We encourage submissions on (but not limited to):
- Performance of speech language models in low-resource and
underrepresented languages
- Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for
low-resource speech
- Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech
technologies
- Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies
- Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual
and cross-lingual approaches
- Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for
low-resource speech communities
- Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation
for speech models
- Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in
low-resource settings
*--> SPEAKABLE* will only accept direct submissions through the given
Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/
<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout>
*Invited Speaker*
*Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research):
**https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/
<https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/>*
Further details will be posted on the workshop website.
*Info for Papers*
We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and
language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8
pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should
follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The
maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion
on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code
availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not
permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be
self-contained and reviewable on their own.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the
attendees. Papers
must be of original, previously *unpublished* work.
All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers
will undergo a *double-blind peer review* process, with final acceptance
decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the
requirements above will be rejected without review.
Accepted papers will be presented as *oral or poster* presentations. The
mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not
reflect the quality of the submission.
*SPEAKABLE 2026* will primarily be an in-person event, but online
participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to
the conference.
*Important Dates*
Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026
Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026
Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026)
All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE).
*Workshop Organizers*
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
[image: 📄] Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/
For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy
mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591
HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi
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Call for Papers
StyGenAI: Workshop on Style in GenAI Translated Content
We are excited to announce the StyGenAI workshop, which will take place in conjunction with EAMT 2026 (European Association for Machine Translation) from 15–18 June 2026 at the Schaumburg Concertzaal in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The workshop will be part of a vibrant international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners at the forefront of machine translation and language technologies. More information about the main conference is available at https://eamt2026.org/
About the workshop:
The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence has profoundly reshaped the landscape of translation. Moving beyond traditional machine translation paradigms, large language models (LLMs) now operate as translation agents capable of producing linguistically fluent and stylistically complex texts. As a result, translation is no longer only a matter of accuracy or adequacy, but increasingly one of style.
As LLMs are adopted for translation tasks, their outputs reveal distinctive linguistic and stylistic patterns. These patterns differ in subtle but consequential ways from those found in both human translation and conventional MT systems. While such differences are often perceived intuitively by readers and practitioners, they remain underexplored from a systematic, research-driven perspective.
This evolving scenario raises a set of pressing questions:
What are the stylistic features of GenAI-produced translations?
How do they differ from those generated by traditional MT systems?
And how do they compare to human translations across genres, languages, and contexts?
StyGenAI is the first workshop dedicated specifically to the study of style in GenAI-translated content. The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in AI translation stylistics, including recurrent stylistic patterns, departures from human translation style, and the linguistic, technical, and contextual factors that modulate AI-generated output. Particular attention is given to the role of text genre, language pair, and prompt design or prompting strategies in shaping the stylistic profile of GenAI translations.
The workshop provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and AI evaluation. Contributions are welcomed from both empirical and conceptual perspectives, as well as from research that bridges academic inquiry and professional practice.
The workshop welcomes empirical, methodological, and conceptual contributions from translation studies, computational linguistics, stylistics, and related fields.
We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
Stylistic fingerprints of LLM-based translation in comparison with conventional MT systems and professional human translation
The influence of prompting strategies (for example, role prompting, constraints, zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot approaches) on stylistic outcomes
Cross-genre analyses of AI translation style in literary, academic, journalistic, technical, and social media texts
Authorial voice and style preservation across languages in GenAI-mediated translation
Language-specific manifestations of machine-like or synthetic stylistic patterns
Methodologies for evaluating stylistic adequacy and stylistic variation in AI-generated translations
Cognitive effort and decision-making in post-editing LLM output for stylistic quality as opposed to content accuracy
Cultural, pragmatic, or discourse-level mismatches introduced by AI translation choices
The handling of irony, humour, voice, and other stylistically marked devices in GenAI translation
Human–AI hybrid workflows for style-sensitive translation tasks
Pedagogical approaches to training translators to identify, assess, and correct AI-generated stylistic patterns
Diachronic or longitudinal analyses of stylistic change as LLMs and prompting practices evolve
Submission Information
The workshop invites research papers reporting original work. Papers should be 4–10 pages in length, excluding references. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and made available online via the ACL Anthology. Submissions must follow the EAMT 2026 formatting guidelines and templates and be submitted via the EasyChair system. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshopstygenai?usp=sharing
Important Dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: 27 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2026
Camera-ready papers due: 20 May 2026
Event: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2026)
Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
Workshop date: 16 May 2026
Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/
Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event.
During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language technologies are maturing and are promising to support the time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing approaches.
As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system established, use of video as data source) and works with a different modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods on both visual and linguistic data.
We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion), as posters (with or without demonstrations) or remotely (poster PDF plus text chat) on the following topics:
2026 SPECIAL TOPIC: LANGUAGE IN MOTION
Motion is at the core of sign languages, both literally, through their existence in the visual-gestural modality, and figuratively, in how their communities drive language change. Equally, sign language research must stay in motion, adapting to new insights and technological possibilities, advancing how we create and use resources, evolving the capabilities of tools, and pushing the boundaries of what can be expected from the field, both technologically and ethically. We especially invite contributions relating to the representation and processing of sign languages that address these various facets of language in motion, but also welcome papers on other general issues relating to sign language resources and technologies.
GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS
• Evaluation of sign language resources
• Experiences in building sign language corpora
• Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection
• Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions
• Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
• Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies and machine translation
• Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding into advances in avatar technology
• Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data
• Annotation and visualization tools
• Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents
• “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages
• Sign language corpus mining
• Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work
• Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language resources to language resources for spoken languages
• Language change and how it relates to resource creation, corpus-driven linguistic research, and language technologies
We are pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event. Similar to the 2022 and 2024 workshops, all participants will be given access to an online text chat before and during the event to allow remote participants to present their work as well as for discussion of all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with opportunity for questions from remote and on-site participants. The live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be made available online for discussion via text chat.
In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations, poster presentations (with or without demonstrations) and remote presentations have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers (4–8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website – independent of whether you have a poster, remote or oral/signed presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short, or position papers.
Please submit your paper through the LREC START system (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/) not later than 14 February 2026 (any time zone), indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation, a poster presentation with demo, or a remote poster. Unlike the main conference, the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE ANONYMOUS. In all other respects, submissions should follow the LREC 2026 style guide (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/).
ATTENTION Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper, not an extended abstract as in previous years!
IMPORTANT DATES
• Deadline for submissions: 14 February 2026 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”)
• Notification of acceptance: 16 March, 2026
• Early bird registration ends: tbd
• Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and posters): 27 March 2026
• Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations only): 6 May 2026
• Submission of all slides/posters for the conference platform: 6 May 2026
• Submission of additional material, including demo videos, to be made available alongside with the posters/slides on the conference platform: 6 May 2026
• This workshop: 16 May 2026
• LREC main conference: 13–15 May 2026
• LREC workshops 11, 12 & 16 May 2026