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Third CfP: 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026
by Veronika Laippala 17 Jul '26

17 Jul '26

Third Call for Papers 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 29 Oct, 2026 https://wackyworkshop.org The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limited metadata, and the under-representation of many languages and domains. These challenges call for a shift toward Data-Centric AI, focusing on the curation, analysis, and responsible use of web-derived data. The 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for research addressing the full lifecycle of web data. We invite submissions on methods, resources, and applications related to web corpora, with special emphasis on multilingual data and less-resourced languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (e.g., data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification) * Use of web data in empirical linguistic research * Analysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insights * Ethical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data By bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, and the social sciences, WaC aims to advance best practices for one of the field’s most influential data sources. Important dates Direct paper submission deadline 7 August, 2026 Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline 1 September, 2026 Notification of acceptance 5 September, 2026 Camera-ready paper due 20 September, 2026 Workshop date 29 Oct, 2026 Submissions Submit your papers through https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13 (both archival and non-archival option available) or through ARR commitment https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WaC-13_ARR_Commitment. Workshop Organizers Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo, Norway Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl Foundation Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation Thom Vaughan, Common Crawl Foundation Vuk Dinić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

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[Second CFP] WASP 2026: 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications @AACL-IJCNLP 2026
by ACL Announcements 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

==================================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 9, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [1] Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] ==================================================================== OVERVIEW The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured, machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of the questions it raises remain open. WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure, and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized, this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing. WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction; citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining - Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification - Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review assistance - Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis - Scientific article summarisation and headline generation - Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature - Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora - Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding - AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation - Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual publication processing - Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification - Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific publications - Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing - Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific publications - Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring - Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship prediction - Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation - Scientific image and figure analysis in publications SUBMISSION Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus unlimited references. All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP 2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions. Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP [2] SHARED TASK WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo light peer review and appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) * Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026 * Registration deadline for shared task: [TBA] * System Run and Output Submission (shared task): [TBA] * System Paper Submission (shared task): [TBA] * Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026 * Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026 * Workshop: November 9, 2026 ORGANIZERS - Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA CONTACT For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan(a)cfa.harvard.edu We look forward to your contributions. Links: ------ [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ [2] https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP

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[CFP:Survey] Survey on Knowledge Graph enrichment
by Oğuzhan MENEMENCİOĞLU 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleague, We kindly invite you to share your experience on knowledge graph enrichment by completing this survey: <https://forms.gle/tyW9M42nQc8fciLV6> https://forms.gle/tyW9M42nQc8fciLV6 We are especially interested in the meaning and boundaries of the KG enrichment task, best practices and pitfalls, and suggested methods for KG enrichment. Form completion can take 5 to 10 minutes. Your insights will contribute to a public deliverable on best practices and practical guidelines for KG enrichment. We appreciate your time and input. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. Best regards, the Chairs of <https://goblin-cost.eu/working-group-1-knowledge-graphs-engineering/> GOBLIN Task 1.4<https://goblin-cost.eu/working-group-1-knowledge-graphs-engineering/> Dr. Oğuzhan MENEMENCİOĞLU ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://oguzhan.menemencioglu.info<http://oguzhan.menemencioglu.info/> Assistant Professor Karabük University, Department of Computer Engineering, Office 159, Iron and Steel Campus, 78050, Karabük, Turkey.

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July 2026 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

In this newsletter: Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program New publications: 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S09> CALLHOME American English Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08> CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L05> ________________________________ Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2026 LDC data scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2026. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships> page. ________________________________ New publications: 2012 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S09> was developed by LDC and NIST and contains 10,321 hours of English conversational telephone speech and in-person recorded studio sessions for evaluation and modeling, along with answer keys, trial files, and documentation from the NIST-sponsored 2012 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE12)<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mltg/speaker-recognition-evaluation-2012>. SRE12 introduced a revised evaluation structure in which training data for target speakers was drawn from prior SRE corpora developed by LDC and was provided in advance of the evaluation period. Test data was drawn from Mixer 7 English Speech (LDC2025S08)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S08> and REMIX Telephone Collection (LDC2023S09)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S09>. Those datasets also provided segments for modeling data; other modeling segments were drawn from Mixer 3 Speech (LDC2023S02)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S02>, Mixer 4 and 5 Speech (LDC2020S03)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020S03>, and Mixer 6 Speech (LDC2013S03)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013S03>. The test data contains English speech only; some non-English speech is contained in modeling segments. This release is comprised of 130,844 test segments, specifically, 83,778 call segments and 47,066 interview segments. Modeling data consists of 46,948 segments. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME American English Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08> was developed by LDC and contains 56 hours of speech from 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native American English speakers. This publication is a re-release of the original CALLHOME American English collection, combining CALLHOME American English Speech (LDC97S42)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S42> and CALLHOME American English Transcripts (LDC97T14)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97T14>, with additional transcription and updated directory structure, file formats, and documentation. This release contains the 120 telephone conversations published in CALLHOME American English Speech which represented training and development data and a subset of evaluation data. Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes. Calls were manually audited for gender, language, recording quality, channel characteristics, dialect, and region. For this second edition, all audio was converted from SPHERE files to FLAC format, and the original training/development/evaluation partitioning was removed. This release also features revised transcripts conforming to updated LDC transcription guidelines that addressed normalization of annotation formats, standardization of speaker-produced and background noises, application of foreign-language marking, whitespace cleanup, and corrections and consistency fixes. The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification, and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L05> was developed by LDC and contains 90,988 English words with citation-form pronunciations. This second edition updates file formats, directory structure, and documentation. The first edition is available as CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) (LDC97L20)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97L20>. The words in the lexicon were derived from Wall Street Journal text used in the continuous speech recognition publication series CSR-1 WSJ0 Complete (LDC93S6A<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S6A>), transcripts<https://isip.piconepress.com/projects/switchboard/> from the Switchboard telephone collection (LDC97S62)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S62>, and transcripts representing unscripted telephone conversations between native American English speakers contained in CALLHOME American English Second Edition (LDC2026S08)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S08>. PRONLEX transcription is a phonemic transcription system designed to support speech recognition by providing a consistent and simplified representation of how words are pronounced in standard American English that allows variation to be generated later to avoid listing many pronunciation variations for each word. This single systematic base form can be expanded through rules or modeling. The transcription was created using a modified ARPABET phoneme set<https://learnius.com/slp/3+Speech+Production%2C+Perception+and+Phonetics/4+…>. The lexicon contains three tab-separated information fields: (1) word: orthographic representation of word; (2) pron: transcribed citation-form pronunciations using modified ARPABET phoneme set; and (3) comments: (OPTIONAL) comment on the entry. It is presented as a tab-delimited TSV file encoded in UTF-8 format and includes a pronunciation dictionary derived from the lexicon in UTF-8 encoded CMUdict<https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/datasets/cmudict> format. 2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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[CfP] Deadline Reminder - NL4AI @ AIxIA 2026 - 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence | 6-9 October 2026, Perugia, Italy
by Elisa Leonardelli 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

[Apologies for Cross Posting] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ NL4AI 2026 – 9th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, at the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026) 6–9 October 2026 | Perugia, Italy ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ Contact Email: nl4ai2026(a)gmail.com ── IMPORTANT DATES ────────────────── [EXTENDED] Paper Submission deadline: 24 July 2026, 23:59 AoE (Firm Deadline)🚨 Notification to authors: 19 August 2026 Camera-ready due: 26 August 2026 Workshop Dates: 6–9 October 2026 ──────────────────────────────────── We invite submissions to NL4AI 2026, the Ninth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Perugia from the 6th to the 9th of October 2026, within the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), and supported by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/). The goal of NL4AI is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. TOPICS OF INTEREST - Topics include but are not limited to: - NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) - Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction - Resources, Benchmarks, and Evaluation - Discourse and Pragmatics - Semantics - Natural Language Generation - Creativity, Style, and Narrative Generation - Summarization - Information Extraction in AI Applications - Machine Learning for NLP - LLMs, Foundation Models and Applications - Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Natural Language Inference - Question Answering and Reading Comprehension - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Argumentation - Abusive Language Detection and Analysis - NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis - Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction - Speech and Spoken Language Processing - Language and other Multimodality - Multimodal (text-image) data sources - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - Low-Resource NLP and Linguistic Diversity - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computational Historical Linguistics, Social Science, and Cultural Analytics - Ethics, Fairness, and Societal Impacts of NLP - NLP and Industrial Challenges - Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. SUBMISSIONS We encourage original submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are welcome as well. We invite two kinds of submissions: - Short/Demo Paper. Maximum length of 6 pages + up to 2 pages of Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References - Regular Papers. Maximum length of 12 pages + up to 2 pages of references Acknowledgements/Declaration on Generative AI/References. Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions Evaluation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Note that reviewers will not be required to evaluate appendices providing a review of the papers. Appendices are intended for including details for reproducibility and/or additional results. How to Submit. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org <http://ceur-ws.org/> for online publication and all papers must follow the 2022 CEUR-ART - 1 Column paper style. The LaTeX template can be downloaded as source file from the NL4AI website <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CEURART-NL4AI-2…> or accessed as a Template in Overleaf <https://it.overleaf.com/read/cfvwgnqpvpys%23a7a014>. All the papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2026 Note: All submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) and include the CEUR Declaration on Generative AI section ( https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html). Papers missing this section will be desk rejected. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) Giovanni Bonetta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Elisa Leonardelli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) We look forward to seeing you in Perugia! The NL4AI 2026 Workshop Organizers -- -- 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. 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🚀 2nd Workshop on Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs, Language Models and Agents (SESAME) at JCDL 2026
by Ansgar Scherp 14 Jul '26

14 Jul '26

📍 /Co-located with JCDL 2026, October 13-26, 2026, Texas, USA/ 🌐 Website: https://sesame-workshop.github.io/SESAME/ *Topics of interest include: * * 📚 Research Artifacts Metadata Modeling and Granularity * 🤖 Large Language Models (LLMs), NLP, and *Agents* for Metadata * 🕸️ Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data * 🏛️ Digital Libraries and Infrastructure * 🌍 Societal, Ethical Impact, and Future Policy Directions We invite original research contributions addressing the above topics in three categories: * *Long Papers:* 6–8 pages (excluding references) * *Short or Position Papers:* 2–4 pages (excluding references) * *Demo, Dataset, or Benchmark Papers*: 2–4 pages (excluding references) 📅 *Important Dates* * 📝 Paper submission: 15.08.2026 * 📩 Author notification: 01.09.2026 * 📄 Camera-ready submission: 10.09.2026 * 📍 Workshop date: *To be announced*

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Call for papers: Workshop on Collective States in Multimodal Interaction, at ICMI 2026
by Gualtiero Volpe 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear colleagues, We invite you to our workshop: Collective States in Multimodal Interaction 9 October 2026 at ICMI 2026, Napoli, Italy https://honda-research-institute.github.io/Collective_States_in_Multimodal_… Call for Papers We invite you to submit your unpublished work to the Workshop on Collective States in Multimodal Interaction, to be held in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) in Napoli, Italy. The workshop will take place on one of the conference workshop days, 9 October 2026. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. See the workshop website for updates and submission details. Understanding collective states in group interaction is an emerging challenge at the intersection of multimodal AI, communication science, and social signal processing. While a large body of prior work has focused on individuals or dyads, many real-world settings, from meetings and brainstorming sessions to collaborative human-AI teams, depend on group-level phenomena such as collective engagement, shared attention, group affects, rapport, cohesion, and coordination. Recent progress in multimodal sensing and agentic AI creates new opportunities to model how these collective states arise, evolve, and influence individual behavior within groups. This workshop focuses on multi-party interaction settings in which AI systems must not only sense individuals, but also understand emergent group dynamics and, potentially, support them as peers or facilitators. The goal is to bring together researchers across artificial intelligence, multimodal interaction, and organization and communication science to advance methods, benchmarks, and applications for sensing and reasoning about collective states. The workshop will feature invited talks by Prof. Carlos Busso (Carnegie Mellon University) and Prof. Kazuhiro Otsuka (Yokohama National University). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multimodal sensing and modeling of collective states in group interaction * Group-level phenomena such as collective engagement, shared attention, group affect, rapport, cohesion, and coordination * Links between individual participant states and emergent group dynamics * Audio, video, language, physiological, and behavioral cues for multiparty interaction analysis * Multimodal fusion and temporal modeling for group behavior understanding * Annotation schemes, datasets, and benchmarks for collective states * AI agents as peers or facilitators in human-AI hybrid teams * Adaptive systems for improving participation, coordination, brainstorming, and collaboration * Explainability, robustness, fairness, privacy, and ethics in group sensing * Applications in meetings, education, healthcare, robotics, organizational settings, and other collaborative environments Submission Information We invite authors to submit papers in accordance with the ICMI formats via the PCS. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop committee. The review process will be double-blind. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 17 July 2026 Notification to authors: 27 July 2026 Camera-ready deadline: 2 August 2026 Workshop day: 9 October 2026 Best, Giovanna Varni

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INLG 2026 final call for papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE
by Emiel van Miltenburg 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Dear Corpora List members, We hereby issue the final Call for Papers for INLG 2026, to be held in Utrecht. Program chairs will be Laura Perez, Guanyi Chen, and myself. We have a great team of local organizers, chaired by Albert Gatt. NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE * The new submission deadline for direct submissions is July 18, AoE. * The ARR commitment to INLG deadline remains August 5, 2026. SUBMISSION We have two submission venues: * Direct submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_Direct_Subm… * ARR commitments: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/INLG/2026/Conference_ARR_Commitm… Please also note that we have a NON-ARCHIVAL track as well this year, for work-in-progress and papers published elsewhere. Hopefully this will help authors develop and publicise their important work. Direct link to the website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ FULL CFP —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2026 We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17 to October 21, 2026. INLG 2026 will be hosted by Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference will be taking place before EMNLP (in Budapest, Hungary, from October 24th to October 29th, 2026). IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) Regular paper submission deadline: July 18, 2026. System demo paper submission deadline: July 15, 2026. ARR commitment to INLG deadline: August 5, 2026. Notification: August 15, 2026 Non-archival submission deadline: August 22, 2026. Camera ready: September 7, 2026 Conference: October 17 - October 21, 2026 Topics INLG 2026 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG - Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems - Explainability in and Trustworthiness of NLG systems - Generalizability of NLG systems - Bias and fairness in NLG systems - Reasoning models for NLG - Affect/emotion generation - Analysis and detection of automatically generated text - Cognitive modeling of language production - Computational efficiency of NLG models - Corpora and resources for NLG - Ethical considerations of NLG - Multimedia, multimodality and grounding in generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models - NLG in dialogue systems and chatbots - NLG for human-robot interaction - NLG for low-resourced languages - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing, summarization and translation - Personalisation and variation in text - Storytelling and narrative generation - Sub-tasks of the classic NLG pipeline - NLG architectures SUBMISSIONS This year’s INLG will have two tracks: an archival track where papers will be published in the ACL Anthology, and a non-archival track for works in progress and papers published elsewhere. Three kinds of papers can be submitted for the archival track: Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2026. Next to the standard paper types (surveys, experiments, resource papers, position papers), we also welcome squibs: papers that present an empirical or theoretical issue without necessarily providing a solution. NON-ARCHIVAL TRACK Through the non-archival track, we hope to foster more discussion on current trends in NLG, and to offer a space for researchers to obtain feedback on their current projects. For this track, we welcome two kinds of submissions: - Papers published elsewhere. These may be published either in a journal or at another conference, and should be relevant to the INLG audience. - Work in progress. These may be papers about completed work that has not yet been published or preliminary results that merit discussion at the conference. Submissions should consist of a title and a short abstract (max. 300 words). Submissions for the non-archival track will undergo a light review process (assessing the relevance of the submission for INLG), and accepted works will be presented as posters. FORMAT Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics. If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find this checklist of use. Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist. Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2026 website. To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2026, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR. For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth). If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2026 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is August 5, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2026 is May 25, 2026. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2026 paper submission site by July 15, 2026, 11:59:59 PM AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2026 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2026 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Submitted papers for review at INLG 2026 must not be published elsewhere until after the notification of acceptance. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. AWARDS INLG 2026 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: - Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. - Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. - Best Evaluation Award: The award was introduced at INLG 2024. This award is designed to honour authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings. COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Website: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siggen/ Mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@siggen_acl X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/inlgmeeting —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Best wishes, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg Groeten, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Werkdagen: Maandag, Woensdag, Donderdag, Vrijdag. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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CFP: 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47)
by Amal Haddad 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Call for Presentations and papers 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) Luxembourg, 8 to 10 December 2026 https://asling.org/tc47/ [1] AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language services between promise and pressure AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation - particularly AI - is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sustainable practices in the language services sector. Conference theme _AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure_ _ _ From Machine Translation and LLMs applied to translation, language professionals face unprecedented change. TC47 invites reflection on how to navigate this evolving landscape - to ensure that technology empowers rather than eclipses, and that multilingual communication remains inclusive, trusted and professionally grounded. We especially welcome contributions exploring: * Synergy between human expertise and AI-powered tools * The role of AI in promoting or undermining inclusion and equity * Strategies for sustainable and ethical language services * Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and institutions Submissions not focused on AI are equally welcome, particularly those addressing broader trends in multilingual communication, training, translation workflows, and evolving professional practices. We also welcome critical reviews and discussions on: * The broader impact of AI and automation on the language industry * Implications for training, education and career development of language professionals * Coexistence of AI and traditional practices * Impact of AI on language professionals * Adoption barriers and risks for LSPs new to AI * Future trends in translation, interpreting, and localisation - with or without AI * Responsible and sustainable development in language technologies (environmental, social, professional) Key areas of interest Include, but are not limited to: * Multilingual NLP and large language models * Human-in-control systems vs. human-in-the-loop AI * Terminology management and controlled language * AI readiness and digital transformation in LSPs * NLP, semantic technologies and linked data * Collaborative translation tools and environments * Quality assurance, benchmarking and evaluation * Training, professional development and digital upskilling * Inclusive and culturally aware AI systems * Sustainable practices across the language lifecycle * Language policy and digital language equality * FAIR data, corpora and infrastructure * Ethical implications and human oversight * Empowering language professionals to shape - not just use - AI tools * Non-AI innovations and evolutions in translation, interpreting, localisation or terminology work We invite: * Innovative research: studies that expand the boundaries of language technologies, multilingual NLP, or AI ethics. * Practical applications: case studies from public or private sector stakeholders showcasing language technology use and development. * Workshops and panels: interactive formats encouraging dialogue on timely, challenging or divisive issues in AI and language work. * Critical reflections: well-argued contributions questioning current uses of AI and proposing alternative, human-centred approaches. * Posters and short talks: snapshots of emerging projects, tools, or preliminary research. Submission tracks All submissions are for talks, within the following categories: * Research track (Academic) * 20-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 5,000 words) presenting original, unpublished research * User experience track (Non-academic) * 20-minute talk * Optional post-facto paper (max. 5,000 words) detailing workflows, tools or implementation cases * Posters / Short talks * 7-8-minute talk * Followed by a paper (max. 2,000 words) outlining a project, experiment, or tool * Workshops and panels * Interactive sessions with multiple speakers * Moderators may submit an optional post-facto paper summarising key takeaways Submission instructions Submissions must be made via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/p/tc2026 [2] Important dates * Deadline for research/user experience talks: 15 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2026 * Deadline for workshops and panels: 31 July 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026 * Deadline for posters and short talks: 15 September 2026 ➤ Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026 * Final paper submission (except post facto workshop and panel papers): 31 October 2026 * Conference dates: 8-10 December 2026 Submission guidelines Detailed submission guidelines, including templates and formatting instructions, will be available on the TC47 conference website. We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of language services through innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. Why submit to TC47? TC47 offers a unique opportunity to engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that bridges research, practice and policy. It is a space for shared reflection on what language professionals need, what tools actually deliver and how we co-create a future where humans and AI work better together. For any questions, reporting of problems concerning submissions or the Conference at least, please email tc47-info(a)asling.org. Let's explore, challenge and shape the future of multilingual communication together! -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. Si no es Ud. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado de que la utilización, divulgación o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, se ruega lo comunique inmediatamente por esta misma vía y proceda a su destrucción. 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Deadline extension: LM Playschool Workshop at EMNLP 2026
by Sabrina McCallum 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

We have received several requests for a little more time to prepare submissions. To allow authors to further polish their papers, we are extending the LM Playschool Workshop paper submission deadline. ⚠️ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 17, 2026 This extension applies to: * Paper-only submissions on topics relevant to the workshop, such as those listed below * Technical reports accompanying submitted models for the LM Playschool Challenge 🎯 PAPER-ONLY TRACK: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals, including RL from game-state success * Benchmarking and evaluation via dialogue games * Data efficiency, social interaction, and Theory of Mind * Human-agent collaboration, coordination, and communicative grounding 📅 IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED!) 🟠 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 17, 2026 (extended!) ⚪ Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 2, 2026 ⚪ Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2026 ⚪ Camera-ready due: August 23, 2026 ⚪ Workshop at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest: October 28, 2026 You can find more information on our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/ We look forward to your submissions! Organisers: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia

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